It's fine if you think that five minutes spent parking and retrieving a car calls for $30 in tips. Personally, I don't see parking cars as a job that deserves a $360 an hour salary, on top of whatever the valet gets from the garage, which I'm also paying for. Do you recommend we give waiters a 150% tip, instead of the standard 18 to 20%?

 

If I valet my bike, they get the valet fee + $5. Cars... depends on how they treated the car, how long they take to retrieve it ect.

Nobody is getting more than $5 for me parking my own bike and leaving it the **** alone. Remember I have a paging alarm.

 

People that have been a server/bartender/valet understand the struggle and frustrations of working for tips.

I think you are failing to understand something. 9 times out of 10, the valet attendant is letting you park on the valet drive/sidewalk. Just because you ride a bike, doesn't give you a right to park close to the door. If you tip good, the valet will most likely watch the bike for you. No one is twisting your arm to park in valet, if you don't want to tip, then park your bike in the parking lot or in most cases, the street and hope it's still there when you come out.
Case in point: Casino valet, big harley rider came in and demanded to park on the front patio drive where the valet operate. He didn't tip in at all. Manager denied it and made him move it. While inside playing, some younger kids came out and decided to pose on the bike. The valet on duty noticed but didn't intervene. The individuals "posing" knocked the bike over while getting off it. Bent the bars on the harley and scratched the tank/exhaust.

In summary, if you want to valet your bike, then do so. But don't be stingy. If you don't want to tip, then park your bike elsewhere. It's not going to hurt the valets feelings.

 

Damn $30, valet people love you...I have a friend that works in valet for a local restaurant, he said his average tip is about $2-3...My wife's boss use to take us all out at her old company(they had 3 employees at her office), and he always took us their...He paid for the whole thing and told us not to tip, he left my friend a $200 tip to park the 3 cars....but the guy is rich as hell, we went their every quarter for their quarterly bonus and everytime he had a different car, and the one time he rolled up in a Lamborghini...he was an awesome guy too, real down to earth and loved cars.

As far as valet a bike, some places will not, others will most likely have you park it.

 

yuppp see brveagle is just talking from personal experience

i stand by brveagle about his tipping posts because i am a waiter/bartender...

and yes, you try your hardest working for those tips, and when you dont get what you feel you deserved, it sucks lol

so stop being "tightwads" tip us!!! lol


(before I bartended/waitered, I would never tip that well. now that I do and know how its like, I tip well because I know what the waiter/waitress is dealing with)

 

my parents both waited table and brought me up to tip well so thats what ive done ever since.... now $30 bucks seems a bit steep (mostly depends on where you live) but i tyipcally tip 10 bucks on a 35-40ish dollar meal tab (assuming they were total ace's)

 

Exactly. Anyone who expects to get $30 on average to park a car is dreaming and needs to wake up to reality. They'll get $2 from me, if I feel like it. If they don't like that they can go flip burgers at McDonalds where they don't have to worry about being tipped.

 

I have also worked in the hospitality industry for tips, and I will never ever tip a valet $30 for me to park my own bike. I understand what working for tips is, but I also live in the real world where that is an outlandish expense for one to park their own vehicle but have an extra set of eyes on it only when said valet is around (read: not parking another car)

And who's to say that all valets give a **** about you and your bike? I'm sure they are just like anyone else with a job they mostly dislike. So what happens when you tip some unappreciative ***** an excessive amount and that gives him the idea that you have tons of money to blow so he ooo's and ahh's over your bike while your not there and possibly sit on it or whatever else he felt like doing? Cause, well, you can fix it if something happens right? And its easy to blame it on someone else, "I was out parking another car and...."

2cents? Sorry for the short story haha

 

After so many post ive come to a sensible conclusion:








Hitch a ride with a co-worker......

If you dont want to tip accordingly or are concerned with the care you bike will be given leave it at home/work....

With a motorcycle, there is a time and place. If you associate that sentence when questioning a decision you will chose the most wise answer.....

 

o yea guys i was joking about the tightwad thing i just thought it was funny...


and yea i never agreed on tipping thirty bucks, that is alot!

although i dont have experience in valet service so... who knows

pimpin gave some good advice. next topic lol