Top Ten Cheapest Celebrity Tippers

It's always those that have the most that give the least !!!!!!!

I just ran across this site, some good comments. I'm not sure but aren't wait staff in CA taxed on their yearly sales?So if a waitperson say has a, 200$ tab, the IRS assumes that he or she has received an appropriate tip, and then is taxed upon that assumption. So in theory it could actually end up costing the wait person more(out of that persons own pocket!?) to wait upon the "cheap"and famous. I'm just curious because if they are being taxed for total yearly sales, then things like orders to go, or getting stiffed on a tip come back to bite them in the ass more than once. Just curious if anyone knows more about this?

Isn't tip already included in large groups? Thats an additional tip and its not necessary at all to do that

why are we supporting these trash so called celebrities?

blaks are cheap

 Also got that first part from another article on Tiger Woods tipping, why should celebs tip more? http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/alan.katz/2006/03/07/is_tiger_woods_a_celebrity_cheapskate

Oops, forgot to add that comment was from another article on celebrity tippers, i agree with it, where's the proof?

Combat tours from.Vietnam to Iraq? If you're going to be a lying piece of $hit..at least make it somewhat believable? Idiot.

One more stereotype: I'll wait on gays and lesbians any time. They are notoriously GREAT tippers.

I think anybody in the food service industry knows that blacks are notoriously bad tippers, so the celebs referenced in the article come as no surprise! (Even Oprah said she's embarrassed by what bad tippers "her people" are.) FYI: I've also received terrific tips from black diners, but that is an infrequent occurrence.

Big surprise? Those that made it, don't want to share it? Big as their butt's, their Ego's. Always have a lot of advice on how to get there but not willing to help other's along the way.

  I know this is long and detailed but it clearly spells out the law in California regarding tips and service charges, the latter of which are referred to as "autograts."  As you can see per Question 6, a service charge (autograt) is not a tip. California Labor Code Section 351 prohibits employers and their agents from sharing in or keeping any portion of a gratuity left for or given to one or more employees by a patron. Furthermore it is illegal for employers to make wage deductions from gratuities, or from using gratuities as direct or indirect credits against an employee’s wages. The law further states that gratuities are the sole property of the employee or employees to whom they are given. "Gratuity" is defined in the Labor Code as a tip, gratuity, or money that has been paid or given to or left for an employee by a patron of a business over and above the actual amount due for services rendered or for goods, food, drink, articles sold or served to patrons. It also includes any amount paid directly by a patron to a dancer covered by IWC Wage Order 5 or 10. 1.Q.What is a tip? A.A tip is money a customer leaves for an employee over the amount due for the goods sold or services rendered. Tips belong to the employee, not to the employer. 2.Q.When a customer pays their bill with a credit card and the payment includes a tip, when can the employee expect to receive the money from the employer? A.Payment of a gratuity made by a patron using a credit card must be paid to the employee not later than the next regular payday following the date the patron authorized the credit card payment. Labor Code Section 351 3.Q.My employer is deducting the credit card processing fees from my tips. Is this legal? A.No. Labor Code Section 351 provides that the employer must pay the employee the full amount of the tip that is indicated on the credit card. The employer may not make any deduction for credit card processing fees or costs that are charged to the employer by the credit card company from gratuities paid to the employee. 4.Q.I work in a large restaurant as a waiter. My employer told me that I am required to share my tips with the busboy and the bartender. Am I obligated to do this? A. Yes. According to a California court, Labor Code Section 351 allows involuntary tip pooling. Therefore, your employer can require that you share your tips with other staff that provide service in the restaurant. In this regard, it’s DLSE’s position that when a tip pooling arrangement is in effect, the tips are to be distributed among the employees who provide "direct table service." Such employees could conceivably include waiters and waitresses, busboys, bartenders, host/hostesses and maitre d’s. Employees who do not provide direct table service and who do not share in the tip pool include dishwashers, cooks, and chefs, except in restaurants where the chefs prepare the food at the patron’s table, in which case the chef may participate in the tip pool. Additionally, tip pooling cannot be used to compensate the owner(s), manager(s), or supervisor(s) of the business, even if these individuals should provide direct table service to a patron. 5.Q.Are the tips I receive considered part of my "regular rate of pay" for overtime calculations? A.No. Since tips are voluntarily left for you by the customer of the business and are not being provided by the employer, they are not considered as part of your regular rate of pay when calculating overtime. 6.Q.Is a mandatory service charge considered to be the same as a tip or gratuity? A.No, a tip is a voluntary amount left by a patron for an employee. A mandatory service charge is an amount that a patron is required to pay based on a contractual agreement or a specified required service amount listed on the menu of an establishment. An example of a mandatory service charge that is a contractual agreement would be a 10 or 15 percent charge added to the cost of a banquet. Such charges are considered as amounts owed by the patron to the establishment and are not gratuities voluntarily left for the employees. Therefore, when an employer distributes all or part of a service charge to its employees, the distribution may be at the discretion of the employer and the service charge, which would be in the nature of a bonus, would be included in the regular rate of pay when calculating overtime payments. 7.Q.My employer deducts my tips from my paycheck. Is this legal? A.No. Your employer can neither take your tips (or any part of them), nor deduct money from your wages because of the tips you earn. Furthermore, your employer cannot credit your tips against the money the employer owes you. Labor Code Section 351 8.Q.My employer pays me less than the minimum wage because he includes my tips in my hourly pay. Is this legal? A.No. Unlike under federal regulations, in California an employer cannot use an employee’s tips as a credit towards its obligation to pay the minimum wage. California law requires that employees receive the minimum wage plus any tips left for them by patrons of the employer’s business. Labor Code Section 351 9.Q.What can I do if my employer credits my tips against my wages? A.You can either file a wage claim with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (the Labor Commissioner’s Office), or you can file a lawsuit in court against your employer in to recover the lost wages.  Additionally, if your employer is crediting your tips against your wages, you are being underpaid your wages and thus, if you no longer work for this employer, you can make a claim for the waiting time penalty. 10.Q.What is the procedure that is followed after I file a wage claim? A.After your claim is completed and filed with a local office of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE), it will be assigned to a Deputy Labor Commissioner who will determine, based upon the circumstances of the claim and information presented, how best to proceed. Initial action taken regarding the claim can be (i) referral to a conference, (ii) referral to a hearing, or (iii) dismissal of the claim. If the decision is to hold a conference, the parties will be notified by mail of the date, time and place of the conference. The purpose of the conference is to determine the validity of the claim, and to see if the claim can be resolved without a hearing. If the claim is not resolved at the conference, the next step usually is to refer the matter to a hearing or dismiss it for lack of evidence. At the hearing the parties and witnesses testify under oath, and the proceeding is recorded. After the hearing, an Order, Decision, or Award (ODA) of the Labor Commissioner will be served on the parties. Either party may appeal the ODA to a civil

maybe if they had ever had to work hard in their lives they would appreciate how hard it is to be a good waiter/waitress.  Shame on them.  my opionion of them has drastically changed.

TIger doesn't tip, because he doesn't carry cash?  B.S.!!!  Hey Tiger, can't you tip when you sign the credit card slip!!!!

Ha! How funny is it that black people are disproportionately represented in this list. It really confirms the stereotype!

WOW, so many cheap  asses in this thread! I'm on a fixed income (disability due to MS) and I go out to dinner as a rare treat. I know beforehand I'll be adding at least 20% no matter what. I understand the value of a dollar and the value of hard work. I am consistently generous to servers, have never been in the service industry because I would choke a bitch within 20 seconds and go to jail. The work they do would drive anyone batshit so based on that alone, I tip them well for having to deal with horrid people. I know when I go out, my server can at least go home at the end of the shift knowing one person was kind and understanding.

     Unless the service was truly lacking, there is no excuse to be so arrogant and plain stingy!!!

Tiger knows he can leave tips on credit cards, right?

Simple, when service sucks pay by card, no tip. When it's good, show them you appreciated the service. Sometimes we don't know the whole story.

so technically, we can choose not to pay tips and the waiter/waitress don't have to serve us, we can grab the food our selves? 

 Why can't the restaurant owners pay their workers a decent wage instead of making us pay their tip? They are suppose to serve us, its their job, they supposed to get paid by their bosses, not by us.

Fact is we don't know what these people tip every time.  We only hear about the bad tips left.

You got a bad tip?  Guess what?  Your service most likely sucked.  You failed at your job.  Don't blame the customer.

know who else is a shitty tipper ? Stephen King,waited on him at my restaurant,he left a measley 2 bucks!wtf is it with these celebrities,they are loaded and stingy!Share the wealth if you are that blessed,you cant take it with you,ya know......

These A$$HOLES should all be EMBARASSED of themselves. You waiters and waitresses out there serving the CHEAPSKATE CELEBRITIES you should al refuse to serve them! Piss on them and their millions!

I acknowledge about Scotty no tippin Pippen! I was a journey worker for him in, and it was a very well known reality around Chicago, illinois dining establishments and such

I work for tips, and i make AWESOME money.  And just because i do well, doesn't justify a person stiffing me.  They can suck my dick, and if they are locals they will be ignored by me from then on.

Proof or it never happened!

Why must celebs be expected 2 tip more?--Why should Tiger leave a bigger tip then me?--You think they should all be like johnny depp?--Why?-Why should celebs tip more if they didn't use the server more or do more work than they would have serving you or i?--Cause they have more money!?--We don't tip in accordance 2 how much money we have(poor people would then pay nothing!)-We tip with how much the bill was & i think that is a cruddy way 2 tip--You should tip with how much service used not the bill--That seems fairer 2 me!

Proof?

A celeb like Tiger Woods who makes the excuse of not tipping because he/she doesn't carry cash if full of crap.Did they ever hear of adding the tip on their credit cards?

Shame on these celebs. I always tip 20%, even at Denny's. Waitstaff must claim tips and pay taxes even when they don't receive tips. If you can't afford to properly tip, then don't eat at restaurants. These people work their %&$s off and deserve to be properly tipped. 

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I don't believe that Tiger Woods is the No.1 Worst Tipper. My boyfriend served him once at his restaurant and Tiger left him a $150 tip on his $400 bill. 

For instance, Morton's Steakouse doesn't have autograt. I always give 20% because the staff is awesome. Funny how stingy people don't care paying all kinds of fees for airlines, brokers, you name it, for under-par service. But tipping a waitress, who earns much less and works harder, is a chore. Does your stock broker deserve the fee he gets for making you lose money? He charges up front. Plus, you should realize that most of the workforce in the US, dependable on tips, are trying to move up the ladder, so one day they can help the lower income classes to move up to. I know because it happened to me. According to my experience, the worst tippers are celebs, a certain minority group, and soccer moms. Now, if you get a soccer mom celeb who happens to fit in that minority group, you're getting nothing but a long face and demands of being treated all night like the Queen.

I'm so sick of people giving their money and attention to these Hollywood celebs. Long time ago, to pay college tuition, I worked as a valet at a fancy sushi restaurant in Beverly Hills. It was a celebrity spot. One day came Mr. almost-billionaire  David Bowie and his overrated wife. So I parked their convertible black Mercedes right in front, privileged parking. My friends working inside the restaurant said the couple spent $1k on dinner. On the way out they gave me $1 tip and still treated like I was invisible, not even a bye. Heck, the parking meters in front would have cost them $10. Now I'm better financially and ALWAYS tip well, usually dropping $300 tip on VIP rooms. The problem is that waiters/waitresses in places like South Beach, for instance, still treat us badly, and treat these Hollywood cheapos like royalty. Worst yet, people vote influenced by these spoiled and ungrateful freaks.

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The US may have a de facto system where servers have a fixed percentage on which to tip-out or pay taxes, but that doesn't mean that the system is right or that it deserves to be vehemently defended. Menu prices would increase if the entire waitstaff were paid better wages, but the increase would likely be less than a 20% increase for expensive items since the employee overhead would be a smaller percentage of the overall cost.

Customers have a point for not wanting to tip an equal percentage on top-shelf products because it takes the same amount of work as cheaper goods. If the service is improves with more expensive goods, the tip may be justified, but it's really the system that requires the large tip, not the service. Ideally, I'd rather tip the vineyard for my expensive bottle of wine.

I wish that this article gave some insight as to whether the waiters in these scenarios deserved tips.