When you only make $4.95 an hour waiting on tables, money doesn’t end up adding up to much at the end of your shift.  Tips can make a glorious difference in the amount of money one makes when tipped well. Understanding that in order to get tipped well one must do their job correctly, which means meeting customers’ standards that they have for their waitress or waiter when they go out eat. Also when servers are in the job of waiting on tables, there are obvious requirements they must have such as a positive attitude towards customers, get what the table asks for, obviously take the customer’s order and serve it to them, and check in on them.  One would think that if he or she did everything perfectly and had a smile on his or her face the whole time, he or she would get a good tip every time, right? Wrong.   With personal experience in waiting tables, I know how frustrating it is to walk up to a table after customers have left, knowing that I  did everything correctly, not messing one thing up and got everything they needed and see change, a dollar or even nothing. There truly are people that go out to eat and think they don’t need to tip their waitress. Are you kidding me? I wait on customers hand and foot, and they don’t have the decency to leave a little money.  Waitresses do not get paid much at all and to those people who leave two to five dollar tips, I just want to take a minute to personally thank you because my checks are no more than fifty dollars. I get paid every two weeks, and the tips that are left are going to get me by from paycheck to paycheck. There are some restaurants where all of the waitress and waiters have to put their money together at the end of the night and spit it up between everyone, and if there is a bar in the restaurant they have to share their tips with the bartenders too.  On a slow night, I make anywhere from ten to thirty dollars. If I don’t work for another two days after that then I’m stuck with thirty dollars for the next two days.  On a busy night I could make anywhere from seventeen to one hundred dollars and that’s more than I make on any paycheck. I’m not excusing those servers that do their job poorly because I’m a waitress and I will tip someone poorly if they don’t do their job correctly, but I never leave just a dollar or change or no money at all because I know the difference two dollars can make. Everyone, take a minute and think about how much you usually tip your servers and the fact that they only make $4.95. an hour. If they do a good job, are you going to tip more next time? Tips mean so much to waiters and waitresses.