Are tips based on meal plus

[lighteningqueen]

What I am saying is If we are on Free dining and we order say steak and shrimp from Teppon Edo, then it comes with rice and noodles or veggies then has a dessert. Are all those charged out seperatly for the meat the veggies and the drink the dessert and then calculated on that?? I cannot remember and am trying to make sure we have enough cash to pay out the tips. its hard to remember what they charge on. all individual or a set meal price when on the plan. Thanks for any info. Even childs meal.Plus their drink?

 

[erstwo]

You tip based on the purchase price of the meal you eat. Prices will be listed on the menu.

For example, if you order the steak and shrimp meal - $24.99
and dessert - $8.99
and your drink - $2.99

Then you would tip based on a price of $ 36.97.

Same for kids - if their meal is $8.99 you tip based on that (I believe most kids meal include the drink in their price.)

When you get your receipt, it will also list the price of each persons meal, dessert, drink and a total for your entire part, so you will know how much to tip.

(You may already know this part, but just in case You hand your Key to the World card to the waiter and they will deduct the appropriate amount of Table Service credits from your meal plan. They'll have no way of knowing if you got your dining for free or not.

If you want to know prices for your meals in advance (so you know how much to bring for tips) allears.net has an extensive list of every WDW restaurant and the prices for each meal/ entree/ dessert, etc. You'll be able to figure it out pretty quickly that way! Hope that helps! :wave:

 

[lighteningqueen]

Ok thanks. I know about the card and taking the meals off. But on one ticket it will be hubby and me and the other is daughter her DH, son 8 daughter 2. This will come off their cards but how are they getting our tips? Its a table of 6 even with the little one and we each have separate rooms and cards? Is there a third ticket they have to get the 18% or what? The last time we all went together we had Music suite and all stayed in same suite. This time 2 separate ressies and rooms at POP..??Thanks

 

[mom2of2]

let the server know that you are on the dining plan and have seperate rooms so they can split the checks. Since you are a party of 6 there is an auto grat of 18%. This will be a balance due. It will be printed on your receipt. You can tell the server to charge it to your room or put the cash in the book with your KTTW card. You will each get a bill with your amount on it. Your tip will be from the total of your room and her tip will be from the total of her room

 

[lighteningqueen]

Ok then I just wanted separate receipts to keep and keep up with..That's alot of cash shelled out each day. Thanks and I do not want to charge it

 

[lighteningqueen]

Sorry did not finish reading I guess. so 18% on mine and 18% on hers got it thanks a bunch

 

[mom2of2]

If you arent comfortable with carrying cash for tips may I suggest getting a Disney Gift Card? You can put however much you want on it and then charge the tips to that

 

[lighteningqueen]

Great idea.. Makes m,e sick though to think about having to spend 120 dollars on tips alone.. For the 7 meals..The prices are so outrageous.. In Texas rarely do you find any place that charges over 11 dollars for a steak and a really really good one at that. Breakfast buffets maybe 11.00 each. Best burger in a steak house is about 5.00 I know its what we get for Disney but honestly it is a little high for the quality we get there. It all about atmosphere and I get that. The portions have gone way way down as well and the price has gone up. I guess its all those who would get on here and say its so much food. Well now they can"t say that!!

 

[mom2of2]

well you could look at it this way...the cost of the tips is no where near what it would have cost you to pay for your meals AND tip. Granted you could eat way cheaper pretty much anywhere else but in a theme park you pay theme park prices. The DDP to me is just enough food whereas I think the DXDP is food overload unless you eat breakfast and do signatures.

 

[The Mom]

Great idea.. Makes m,e sick though to think about having to spend 120 dollars on tips alone.. For the 7 meals..The prices are so outrageous.. In Texas rarely do you find any place that charges over 11 dollars for a steak and a really really good one at that. Breakfast buffets maybe 11.00 each. Best burger in a steak house is about 5.00 I know its what we get for Disney but honestly it is a little high for the quality we get there. It all about atmosphere and I get that. The portions have gone way way down as well and the price has gone up. I guess its all those who would get on here and say its so much food. Well now they can"t say that!!

Wow! I'm not sure where you live in Texas, but those prices are far, far less than what I pay for meals in a nice restaurant here in NE Florida. I'm not even talking Ruth Crist, but places nicer than Golden Corral or other chain restaurants.

And they would be unheard of in major US cities, or outside of the US - unless you were to avoid any popular tourist spots.

 

[lighteningqueen]

I know so that is why we frown on steaks in the world. There is no better a steak than one in Texas and cooked to our liking. We have a steak house called Road House privately owned and he gets top awards in the state for making a great steak. NO matter what type. It is really hard to think about paying those prices there when we have it here for half that much. These are top notch places. But I guess in Dallas you could pay up the nose for a steak if its in the right area of Dallas. People think the more they pay the better the steak and thats just not so. We don't eat at Golden Corrals. But a plate of breakfast fare here runs about 7.99 thats eggs bacon sausage, hash browns biscuit and sometimes gravy depending on the plate. We live smack dab in the very center of Texas, officially but have to travel to eat out which we do not often 60 miles one way.. But flavor is number one priority around here or else they close down. In that case half of WDW would be closed by now. But we try and overlook it. We will only go during free dining and when that is no longer then its only a counter service a day. Rent a car and go elsewhere.. Prices are too high for the quality you get there and the quantity.. JOHO Our opinions but we LOVE Disney

 

[buseegal]

from our trip 2 years ago, had tip added to each card. we had 3 cards and tip was based on numbers on each card. parties of 6 or more tip is added to bill even if split.

 

[mom2of2]

This is actually easy....

If you LIKE your meal, and what your server did? Give him/her 20% (or more) of the check.
If this did not happen? Consider anything between 0 and 19%.

Tip well for proper service and a good meal - but don't feel obligated if this is not what you receive. This is why its a tip - not a price.

If your server did his/her job to the best of his/her ability then they deserve their rightful tip regardless of what the kitchen sent out. Don't make the server pay because of something that was out of their control. This doesn't pertain to the OP anyway because they are a party of 6

 

[Eldon_Brasche]

Wow! I'm not sure where you live in Texas, but those prices are far, far less than what I pay for meals in a nice restaurant here in NE Florida. I'm not even talking Ruth Crist, but places nicer than Golden Corral or other chain restaurants.

And they would be unheard of in major US cities, or outside of the US - unless you were to avoid any popular tourist spots.

Here in Central Illinois we are hard pressed to find a decent steak for less than $30 and we have cows everywhere. :slurp:

 

[Eldon_Brasche]

If your server did his/her job to the best of his/her ability then they deserve their rightful tip regardless of what the kitchen sent out. Don't make the server pay because of something that was out of their control. This doesn't pertain to the OP anyway because they are a party of 6

To add to your comment, I believe the server can make or break a good dining experience, even if the food is bad. If the food simply is not prepared as ordered and I inform the server, they have to take it up with the kitchen to get it resolved. It's not so much whether a problem with the food exists that counts, it what the server is able to do to resolve the issue. That is what I tip based on.

 

[Phonedave]

If your server did his/her job to the best of his/her ability then they deserve their rightful tip regardless of what the kitchen sent out. Don't make the server pay because of something that was out of their control. This doesn't pertain to the OP anyway because they are a party of 6

Exactly - Tips to the front of the house (Wait staff, bartenders, busboys) have nothing to do with back of the house (kitchen staff)

Sometimes it is hard to tell where a problem originated (did the kitchen fire the order wrong, or did the wait person put it in incorrectly)

As for food prices - A strip steak at TGI Fridays, Applebee's, or Chili's is going to run you $16 - $22 around here. Going to a better place is going to cost you even more.

-dave

 

[lighteningqueen]

WOW but ya'll make way more money in your states on wages than Texas. PLUS your cost of living is higher. Real Estate where you both live is stupidly priced.. One bedroom home for half a million.. No way out here and those they show are like dog town here. So huge difference in pay. If steaks cost us that much here there would be no steak houses or maybe one mighty fine one for the few mighty paid. LOL Seriously even fine mexican food places and I mean Mexican food not Tex Mex (yuck) can only be about 13.00 a plate. Gas is outrageous here and we have refinerys all over the coast. 3.30 gallon and has stayed that way for most of last part of the year.

 

[Phonedave]

ummm - did I ever mention the kitchen? I said a good meal. If an issue exists with the kitchen, that too is something a server can resolve (within reason). We aren't so stupid that we think the server actually cooks the meal, controls the heat, or sets tax rates in any particular state .

And no - a tip is not RIGHTFUL. It's an expression of thanks for a job well done. Exactly TWICE, in 27 years, have I ever found it necessary to leave nothing - the precise amount that the server at that time desearved in the way of thanks. Neither of these was at Disney.

You said a good meal.

Lets say you order chicken and your wife orders the fish. You get your plates and your chicken is pink inside. Meanwhile the fish is a dry as can be. You send it back. Now your chicken comes back and it tastes like carboard. The fish is spiced with flavors that are just horrible. So now you hope dessert can save you. You order the berry cobbler and instead of fresh berries, it is clearly a frozen mess (Sorry, had to throw that in there ). Now through all of this your waiter was excellent. Refilled beverages, brought your orders back without question, apologized, explained everything, etc.

I would not call that a good meal by any stretch. However I would NOT blame the waiter. I would in fact let him know that his service was wonderful and suggest that he seek employment elsewhere (get while the getting is good).

I think that is what the person who responded to you was talking about. You can have a meal that is not good, and is still no fault of the wait staff.

-dave

 

[wellsdisney]

The main reason my family go to WDW when free dining is on is because it's the only way we can afford it. To add 20% tip to every counter service meal would add around 40-70 dollars a day for the 6 of us on the standard plan that's a lot when traveling from the UK. I think that all plans should inc tips.

 

[Phonedave]

The main reason my family go to WDW when free dining is on is because it's the only way we can afford it. To add 20% tip to every counter service meal would add around 40-70 dollars a day for the 6 of us on the standard plan that's a lot when traveling from the UK. I think that all plans should inc tips.

You don't tip at counter service places. Only places with servers.

-dave