Tipping Room Service?

[LoveWDW]

This has probably been asked already, and if so would someone please lead me to it?

I have always wondered about tipping the person who delivers room service food. The menu says **% will be added to the bill total for service charge. Am I correct that I still tip the person who delivers the food? How much?

 

[AprilLizbeth]

I also am curious about this question. My husband and I on our last trip tipped in addition to the service charge. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[bigmac5]

Thanks for asking that. I was also wondering about mousekeeping--we are in ASSp and wondering approx. how much a day?

 

[LoveWDW]

There are a few threads about that, bigmac5. I read them with attention, because it was something I wanted to know also. From what I remember, many are tipping a dollar per person per day, given each day (instead of at the end of the visit.) Others are not tipping, because mousekeeping is not a tipping position. We'll tip.

 

[chamonix]

This question (about tipping room service, not housekeepers) fascinates me. There are threads about it somewhere if you look.

Actually the 18 % is not a "service charge" it is specifically called "gratuity". There is an additional and separate $3.00 service charge. Reading that, I think you do not need to give an additional tip. Of course, we always do though, because it would just seem weird not too, LOL!! (and apparently, people worry that Disney does not pay the servers the gratuity--I am sure they do, since otherwise would be illegal, and because servers in restaurants there DO get their included gratuities.)

Here's what it says on the room service menu:
"18% gratuity, 6% sales tax and $3.00 delivery charge will be added to all orders."

 

[bigmac5]

Thanks. I believe in tipping also.

 

[LoveWDW]

This question (about tipping room service, not housekeepers) fascinates me. There are threads about it somewhere if you look.

Actually the 18 % is not a "service charge" it is specifically called "gratuity". There is an additional and separate $3.00 service charge. Reading that, I think you do not need to give an additional tip. Of course, we always do though, because it would just seem weird not too, LOL!! (and apparently, people worry that Disney does not pay the servers the gratuity--I am sure they do, since otherwise would be illegal, and because servers in restaurants there DO get their included gratuities.)

Here's what it says on the room service menu:
"18% gratuity, 6% sales tax and $3.00 delivery charge will be added to all orders."

Thank you! Hmmm...now I am thinking a tip isn't needed after all. Hmmm. Although, does the gratuity mean to the person who delivers the food or for the person who prepares and arranges it.... [Yoda voice] Confused am I. [/Yoda] Um... delivery charge- this sounds as if it means to the person who delivers it, right?

 

[Nolcrest]

I was just at POR last week and I wondered the same thing. What I read there did refer to a "service charge" (it did not say gratuity) because I asked my husband if he thought the service charge meant gratuity. Well, I guess I'm still confused.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

If the bill reads 18% gratuity included, I don't tip...period. Why should you?!?! Although I'm sure some DISer, sent straight from heaven, not only pays the 18% gratutiy...they pay an additional 20% on top of that...guess I'm not going to heaven!!!

 

[bicker]

You'll see it listed as a service charge at some hotels, but it doesn't matter. In the end, there is about 15%-20% worth of cost-of-service involved, so regardless of what they call it, if you're paying at least that much more than menu prices, then you can safely consider that you've tipped appropriately.

 

[kaceyisme]

I agree - there is absolutely no need to add anything if it specifically states that they are adding an 18% gratuity and $3.00 delivery or service charge.

 

[DeirdreTours]

Not only are you paying the 18% gratiuty and the $3 "service charge", but the prices are usually significantly higher than the exact same item ordered in the hotel restaurant.......

 

[skiwee1]

At the Poly it has a gratuity and a service charge. At first I didn't realize this and tried to tip the CM. He refused to take it saying the tip is included. So I do not tip extra anymore.

 

[bicker]

...prices are usually significantly higher than the exact same item ordered in the hotel restaurant.......

I'm seeing this less-and-less.

 

[LoveWDW]

At the Poly it has a gratuity and a service charge. At first I didn't realize this and tried to tip the CM. He refused to take it saying the tip is included. So I do not tip extra anymore.

This does help to clarify. And good for him for being honest about it.

 

[Tinkerbelles]

I am always a great tipper. but on my last trip I did not tip for room service, being it had the 18% added. I did ask who ever was on the other phone line, if that IS the tip(just to be sure) and they said yes. so being I paid like 25 bucks for breakfast! I did not tip

 

[Densgirl]

I would tip if they did something over and above just delivering the food. At BWI once we had a GREAT guy who not only set us all up, double checked that everyone had any type of sauce they needed and even went on a hunt for ranch sauce for my DS. He also showed DS how to get started painting his chocolate puzzle. I definitely tipped a little extra for this. General service however is included in the gratuity/service charge.