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Dedicated January 2018

What to Tip your Vendors

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Almost Richardson<3, on January 9, 2018 at 3:40 PM

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I'm using the WW tippng guide to determine what I should tip for most of my vendors. However, my venue is all inclusive (a set price per person which is inclusive of food and alcohol.) There is a 20% service charge on the bill, which the catering manager said 'goes to the paycheck of the waiters and...

The 'Catering' section in the WW tipping guide seems to be more for someone who brings in outside catering as opposed to an all inclusive venue.

Thanks for the help!

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Devoted April 2018
Jennifer M · on January 10, 2018 at 11:58 AM
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Ask the venue owner/coordinator. I was in the same boat with an inclusive venue and didn't know what to tip. So I just simply asked the coordinator. She told me that tips are not expected because that is calculated into the inclusive price and all vendors are well compensated for service. This makes my job even easier!
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JSull · on January 10, 2018 at 12:52 PM
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My catering had a service charge AND gratuity on top of it. I had envelopes written out for extra tip but at the end of the night, didn't hand them out. I didn't feel like the service given warranted an extra tip.
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Master September 2018
Jennifer · on January 10, 2018 at 1:16 PM
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I responded to the comment that i was referring to.
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Super December 2018
futurmrslowe · on January 10, 2018 at 1:19 PM
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I want to clarify that I haven't said I wasn't going to tip vendors. But bear with me as a I take a devil's advocate position:
I understand where you're coming from - but "put so much extra into your day" ---- that's not necessarily going to be the case. What you might see is "extra", I see as their job and what they are contracted to do. I work in a professional services / client service industry. Clients pay us tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of dollars to provide our services. We work very hard to ensure that we make sure that our clients (and their personnel's) experience is great and that we complete what is agreed upon in the contract up front. Our clients (businesses) don't EVER decided we do a good job merely meeting the baseline expectations and then give us extra money, a subjective amount at that. We only get extra money when they ask us to do extra (i.e above and beyond) things outside the contracted scope and we can prove that it actually cost us X amount + profit markup to complete the extra things. Additionally, if we don't meet our profit goals, or heck we don't even break even or make money -- that's on us and how we price the project/contract from the beginning.
I think an informed consumer of wedding related services needs to keep in mind that it's in wedding vendors' best interest that the expectations of tip/gratuity are out there. More money for them, less for you.
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