Message 14483 of 22774 in Behind the Bar

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> I do agree with the majority of your post. Mine isnt a perfect
> system. And I'm still trying to work out the perfect 'recipe'.
> 
> I should probably have added, 
> do not do it all day every day.
> 
> This is something that should be done AFTER the tender has
> made enough to cover for it. Spending $4 every two hours or
> so isnt going to hurt that much. 
> 
> You are right though, there is always the possibility that
> the cash will never be seen again. However, to get the
> rewards sometimes there is risk. 
> 
> The way I see things, is that there is a CHANCE the small 
> tipper will come around. But as I said, you really never
> know what'll happen. I still feel its worth the try. 

I agree, it's worth a shot...and I would give it a shot on the ones that I 
think are likely to come around, but I would sooner take the approach that I 
would try a new customer every 2 weeks or so.  Just one, since there's little 
spent, and this way it doesn't appear that you just hand out drinks from your 
tip jar all the time.  If that customer doesn't get it after two properly 
timed drinks, then wait until that 2 weeks is up, and move on to the next.

If you've got it working for you, I suspect that you've got it tuned to the 
attitudes and mentality of the area, which is exactly the right way to go 
about it.  Where I worked, a free drink will NEVER change a low/non-tipper 
into a good tipper...just doesn't happen.  I say this because I've tried 
buying drinks for people before.  Usually they would thank me, and typically 
show up the very next week (exactly like they normally would), tipped exactly 
the same that they normally did, and proceeded to buy the same number of 
drinks.  I'd tried it with about 10-12 fairly random picks, and it changed 
absolutely none of them sadly.  All of my tips either came from making better 
drinks than the other tenders (not an ego thing, I really did have restaurant 
regulars who were there just for my drinks), for the personality (either 
flirting or guy-chatter), or because I could turn out drinks faster than a lot 
of other tenders and I remembered who tipped (which meant fast drinks for 
those that took care of me when the crowd got deep).

-- 
Cody