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It blows my mind how many more cheap assholes show up when my restaurant advertises our unlimited soup salad and bread stick meal….I get it, you are going to run me all over the restaurant for an hour while you slurp down 4 bowls of soup and demand more salty bread sticks to soak up all that extra ranch your fupa is demanding you consume….but do you really have to tip me $1????
-Chad
I work at a national chain restaurant. A woman came in with her three small, unruly children. I greet the table with a smile but before I am able to get anything out of my mouth she says: “I have 30 dollars. That’s all. You need to make sure that the bill isn’t over 30 dollars and we all need to eat and have ice cream.”
Ummm are you kidding me? How the hell is that MY responsibility?! Great, so I am clearly not getting a tip and now I have to do math on top of it. It ended up being one of the most difficult dinner/dessert service of my life (complete with MANY substitutions, send backs, and my manager having to comp due to her dissatisfaction) the bill came to $29.84…AND SHE HAD THE NERVE TO LEAVE THE CHANGE ON THE TABLE.
-Raleigh
While I worked in an all you can eat restaurant we frequently got customers who would eat say, three or four plates of food, then go and fill up another five, leave them all full on the table and claim the food was all disgusting and refuse to pay. There was one time in particular when a couple tried to do this, the managers got involved and were refusing to let the customers leave whilst they called the police. The woman in the couple tried to push past one of my managers and he took hold of her arm to stop her leaving. Cue shouts of assault and harassment, and male partner suddenly going ape shit shouting, “don’t you fucking touch my woman” etc. Luckily there was a full restaurant of people who were watching the show so they couldn’t get away with it. Douchebags…
-Mark
Yes……. if you have coupons for free everything you still tip the waiter. A genuine question I was asked today by a grown man.
-Troy
I used to work for Bennigan’s and it was fun at first until I got stuck on the swing shift nearly every week. This lady and her husband would come in right after the lunch rush and sit at the same table everyday. She would order the seafood platter for the both of them even though he DIDN’T want it. She would eat most his plate leaving him with one piece and a hushpuppie and when it came time for the check, she would try to negotiate the bill and NEVER left a tip!
Not only did they never tip one day they stole my tip off another table! These teenagers only purchased fries and drinks and left a $20 for their tab that was only $7 at the most. I saw their generous tip sitting on the table and i was stoked! I looked away for a minute to greet another table and looked back and the money was gone and the “seafood” couple had also left leaving only one dollar on the table!
The only way I knew they stole the money off the other table is because there was no one else in that part of the dining area except the new table that just seated. The teens didn’t return and my manager was on one of his many coffee breaks! Lesson learned: grab your tickets as soon as they depart the table! Now when I go out, I personally hand my payment to the waitstaff because I don’t want the same happening to me!
- Karen
Two women come in for a power lunch at Buzzard Billy’s, not the place I would have chosen for a business lunch, but whatever.
I greet them and they’re both very nice. Over the course of 2 hours, they order appetizers, entrees, drinks, desserts, and a more drinks. Their bill came up to about $250 for the two of them.
At the end of the meal they asked me to split their enormous check, which I did graciously since it was a large bill and was expecting a good tip. I hand them them bills and walk back to the kitchen expecting them to whip out corporate cards and pay. I come back to the table to discover them 1) gone, 2) they’d both paid by check (which we didn’t accept) 3) they had both rounded up to the next dollar for the tip.
I took my apron off, handed my boss all the cash and totaled out, and left.
- Michael
My last table last night? A 9 top, split between a co-worker and myself
-Very backwoodsy, but polite during the whole meal.
-Except this one kid who asked me for another orange creme soda at least 5 times after I’d told him I’d get him another (when I hadn’t left the table yet and could not have produced said soda)
-Complimented my co-worker heavily and didn’t say anything to me, though I was doing my fair share of work.
-Tip? $4. Split between the two of us leaves $2 bucks.
-Oh, and a little “come to Jesus” card.
Thanks guys.
- John
Every time I watch my manager give something away for free because some cheap prick complained I die a little inside.
- Travis
I’m not serving you because I think it’s a great way to pass the time.. This is my job. I depend on tips to make it so I’m getting at least minimum wage. If you come please for the love of a roof over my head, tip 15%.
- Nikki
Servers and Tipping, Today I had a table of servers that work at the restaurant next to mine. I know that because they came in in their uniforms. I did an awesome job for them and they tipped 10%….
I hate when servers don’t have respect to leave a decent tip at another restaurant. The service industry should be like a community of workers who through similar experiences can respect each other for the hard work each of us does night in and night out. Its as if we should all be apart of an unspoken union. Plus its just bad karma to treat a good server like shit and leave them a bad tip. Tips come around and they go around. As a server I and my other server friends usually Sincerely,
- Graham
