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Tips = to insure professional service. 1 hour wait time is no insuring professional service.
They failed to serve. The diner failed to tip. Seems fair |
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Thank a democrat. And if you don't like the tips you're getting, Go find a minimum wage job. Plenty to be had. No one is forcing you to work in the food industry and I'm sure as fuck at the end of the week you're making more than minimum wage. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
"Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make," she wrote. "I need tips to pay my bills. All waiters do. Thank a democrat. And if you don't like the tips you're getting, Go find a minimum wage job. Plenty to be had. No one is forcing you to work in the food industry and I'm sure as fuck at the end of the week you're making more than minimum wage. Tipped staff make minimum wage. They like to pretend the FLSA isn't a thing when looking for sympathy, as in the article. Next they'll claim that many restaurants ignore the FLSA. This is true, but of course a person can file a complaint with the DOL and get damages (which can eventually lead to a company being told they can't utilize the tip credit). Of course, to open a complaint the DOL is going to want to see proof and documentation. Which requires you to keep documentation. Which will often with tipped staff show that what you really made in tips is different than what you told the IRS. |
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Quoted: Whats with people taking their shit tips to the media lately? View Quote Do you comprehend that base pay for a waiter is only $2-3/hr so you can have your $15 steak dinner? This is so the staff will pay attention to you and care about the service they provide. Or Would you rather pay $30-40 for your dinner and have the staff care about as much as the McD's cashier? |
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One did it, it got attention, so others followed suit because they want attention too. "Restaraunt tip/receipt notes" is bundled in with "I experienced horrible racism!" and shit to me. Take them with a pound of Kosher salt. People fabricate shit all the time for attention. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Whats with people taking their shit tips to the media lately? One did it, it got attention, so others followed suit because they want attention too. "Restaraunt tip/receipt notes" is bundled in with "I experienced horrible racism!" and shit to me. Take them with a pound of Kosher salt. People fabricate shit all the time for attention. This. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out this was faked. Most of the other "bad tip" stories that made it into the media have turned out to be. |
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She claims she gave good service on the things she was able. She can't help the kitchen being slow. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? She claims she gave good service on the things she was able. She can't help the kitchen being slow. Three sides to every story, we've read one of those sides. Maybe these people waited an hour for their food because she forgot to put it in, maybe the kitchen was really busy. Maybe she put in the order wrong, or maybe she was a stuck up bitch. Who knows. As a former server, I've seen it all regarding good tips, bad tips, an no tips. In my experience 90% of your tips reflect not only the service of the restaurant but your ability to read and accommodate the client. Sure you'll get the occasional cheap ass, but those are typically balanced out with the overly generous. Most people will give 15-20% if you can keep their drink filled, and service prompt. |
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Unless she screwed up getting their order to the kitchen she doesn't deserve to be stiffed. She has no control over the kitchen. View Quote She has control of where she works - if she is constantly being screwed out of tips by a crappy kitchen staff then she should get a waitressing job somewhere else. If it only happened this once then there really was no reason to complain about it publicly - she certainly doesn't rely on just that one tables bad tip due to their bad experience to pay her way through college. If it happens a lot and the kitchen staff really isn't bad then it's really her and she isn't telling the full story. |
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Don't like it? Get another job that doesn't require someone giving you money out of generosity. View Quote it isn't generosity. For what ever reason, servers are the one class of job that are allowed to be underpaid because of the social norm that you tip them a certain percentage. What we need to do is get rid of that retarded system, raise prices, pay an increased, static wage. |
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Cue the Mr. Pink meme....
Yeah, maybe its unfair, but, fuck her...crying about it on the internet... "I need my tips to pay my bills...." Well, then find a job that doesn't "rely" on tips... I wonder if she bitches and moans when she is OVER tipped? She can always fall back on sucking dicks for cash...under the table (no pun intended), no taxes, lots of win there for an enterprising lass... |
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Oh my goodness, I hope that someone starts a go fund me page for this so that I can express my sympathy and demonstrate my egalitarianism by giving her a whole bunch of money!!!
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This is why I hate tipping
Do a good job and I will tip you If the kitchen or bar fucks it up for you, take it up with them |
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So you're saying it's her fault the place was busy? It's her fault the kitchen was backed up? She can keep them apprised of the situation, and keep the drinks/snacks coming... but that's about all that's within her sphere of control. Anything else, you should take up with the manager. Taking it out on the wait staff isn't a great way to register your displeasure, and being a snarky wise-ass about it is just gratuitous. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? So you're saying it's her fault the place was busy? It's her fault the kitchen was backed up? She can keep them apprised of the situation, and keep the drinks/snacks coming... but that's about all that's within her sphere of control. Anything else, you should take up with the manager. Taking it out on the wait staff isn't a great way to register your displeasure, and being a snarky wise-ass about it is just gratuitous. I explained my position a little better in subsequent posts. Ultimately though, if the manager didn't give the meal for free/deeply discounted, I wouldn't leave a tip, because I wouldn't pay full price + tip for 1hr+ wait. |
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So you're saying it's her fault the place was busy? It's her fault the kitchen was backed up? She can keep them apprised of the situation, and keep the drinks/snacks coming... but that's about all that's within her sphere of control. Anything else, you should take up with the manager. Taking it out on the wait staff isn't a great way to register your displeasure, and being a snarky wise-ass about it is just gratuitous. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? So you're saying it's her fault the place was busy? It's her fault the kitchen was backed up? She can keep them apprised of the situation, and keep the drinks/snacks coming... but that's about all that's within her sphere of control. Anything else, you should take up with the manager. Taking it out on the wait staff isn't a great way to register your displeasure, and being a snarky wise-ass about it is just gratuitous. You are also making assumptions based off of one, arguably very one sided recollection of the events that happened |
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Quoted: What I did in a similar situation: Complained to the manager about the long wait, while making it clear that the waitress was very nice. When the manager gave my family the meal for free, I gave the waitress $20 (would have been ~$100 bill). I've also gotten up and left. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? She claims she gave good service on the things she was able. She can't help the kitchen being slow. What I did in a similar situation: Complained to the manager about the long wait, while making it clear that the waitress was very nice. When the manager gave my family the meal for free, I gave the waitress $20 (would have been ~$100 bill). I've also gotten up and left. This is what I've done, too. |
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She has control of where she works - if she is constantly being screwed out of tips by a crappy kitchen staff then she should get a waitressing job somewhere else. If it only happened this once then there really was no reason to complain about it publicly - she certainly doesn't rely on just that one tables bad tip due to their bad experience to pay her way through college. If it happens a lot and the kitchen staff really isn't bad then it's really her and she isn't telling the full story. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Unless she screwed up getting their order to the kitchen she doesn't deserve to be stiffed. She has no control over the kitchen. She has control of where she works - if she is constantly being screwed out of tips by a crappy kitchen staff then she should get a waitressing job somewhere else. If it only happened this once then there really was no reason to complain about it publicly - she certainly doesn't rely on just that one tables bad tip due to their bad experience to pay her way through college. If it happens a lot and the kitchen staff really isn't bad then it's really her and she isn't telling the full story. If it happens a lot, the place won't be open for long. |
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Do you comprehend that base pay for a waiter is only $2-3/hr so you can have your $15 steak dinner? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Whats with people taking their shit tips to the media lately? Do you comprehend that base pay for a waiter is only $2-3/hr so you can have your $15 steak dinner? http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.pdf |
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This guy's article on how he made one of his restaurants with tips and the other tip free and the difference it made is a very good one.
http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-1-overview/ |
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Something I always wondered... If you leave a tip with a credit card, couldn't the waiter change the tip amount and total amount. I think it would be a pain in the ass for the person who paid to dispute. She could have written over that lol and made it look like the guy was leave $10 or something and scratch out the second 'l'. The restaurant manager is the one who tips out at the end of the night?
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Bad kitchen service isn't the waitress' fault. Complain to the restaurant manager, not the waitress.
Options besides screwing the waitress over are: - Complain to the manager - Leave. (tip for drinks.) - Wait. Unfortunately, it seems to happen with me a lot. Especially at conventions and the like. This past year at the mid America Truck Show we went to Eddie Merlot's, took 3 hours from seating, to the bill. We got a 25% discount because they forgot to staff up for the truck show. However, when I went to dinner with my Lansing Michigan division once, the waitress: A. Forgot about us. (No drinks / etc. for over 30 minutes.) B. Messed up all our orders. C. Forgot about us again. For 8 people, she got a shitty tip. As, it was her fault. And, we will not be back to that restaurant. |
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Bitching about customers is a sure way to get more tips. I can understand tipping at a place where they pretty much run back and forth but even the country buffet style places are bitching about tips. How hard is it to carry around a pitcher of coke and bring a ticket out.
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it isn't generosity. For what ever reason, servers are the one class of job that are allowed to be underpaid because of the social norm that you tip them a certain percentage. What we need to do is get rid of that retarded system, raise prices, pay an increased, static wage. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Don't like it? Get another job that doesn't require someone giving you money out of generosity. it isn't generosity. For what ever reason, servers are the one class of job that are allowed to be underpaid because of the social norm that you tip them a certain percentage. What we need to do is get rid of that retarded system, raise prices, pay an increased, static wage. http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.pdf They do make a static wage, and a minimum wage. They are not underpaid. The tip system exists so that servers, if they're good, can make more than minimum wage without impacting the very tight bottom line of the restaurant industry. And many servers I know, especially in DC, do not want what you call for as (1)it'll heavily reduce their income (a bartender in Georgetown on a good Saturday can make bank) and (2)it decreases the amount of tax fraud they can engage in. |
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Quoted: This guy's article on how he made one of his restaurants with tips and the other tip free and the difference it made is a very good one. http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-1-overview/ View Quote |
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Would you suggest that to your daughter if she didn't get good tips one night? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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She can always fall back on sucking dicks for cash...under the table (no pun intended), no taxes, lots of win there for an enterprising lass... Would you suggest that to your daughter if she didn't get good tips one night? A. Luckily don't have a daughter. B. If I did, I would hope I would have raised her well enough not to cry in public over being stiffed on a tip... Sorry, but if she is classless enough to bitch and moan in public about not getting a tip, then I don't have much respect for her. She probably is a Bernie Sanders supporter.... |
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Concur, but do you determine your tip based on the quality of the waitstaff or the restaurant as a whole? I skew towards waitstaff. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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A tip isn't mandatory. I say this as a high tipper. Concur, but do you determine your tip based on the quality of the waitstaff or the restaurant as a whole? I skew towards waitstaff. I typically base it on quality of the waitstaff. Some things are beyond their control, and everyone knows that. How they handle it can make a huge difference. In this instance, it sounds like a case of assholes colliding. |
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For all those who seem to be siding with the waitress, have you forgotten the waitress who said a family stiffed her and wrote a homophobic response in the tip section last year? Youre assuming shes being truthful about the circumstances. Not to mention tips arent mandatory. Does she complain about the tips that are under 15% as well?
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Something I always wondered... If you leave a tip with a credit card, couldn't the waiter change the tip amount and total amount. I think it would be a pain in the ass for the person who paid to dispute. She could have written over that lol and made it look like the guy was leave $10 or something and scratch out the second 'l'. The restaurant manager is the one who tips out at the end of the night? View Quote They could...but if the customer catches it, and disputes it, the waiter/waitress is out of a job. I always save the customer copy of restaurant receipts until the transaction posts online as a safeguard. |
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That's how it's done, but what you did and what you posted first don't exactly coincide. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? She claims she gave good service on the things she was able. She can't help the kitchen being slow. What I did in a similar situation: Complained to the manager about the long wait, while making it clear that the waitress was very nice. When the manager gave my family the meal for free, I gave the waitress $20 (would have been ~$100 bill). LOL! I've also gotten up and left. That's how it's done, but what you did and what you posted first don't exactly coincide. |
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Quoted: What kind of fool tips for poor service? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? |
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For all those who seem to be siding with the waitress, have you forgotten the waitress who said a family stiffed her and wrote a homophobic response in the tip section last year? Youre assuming shes being truthful about the circumstances. Not to mention tips arent mandatory. Does she complain about the tips that are under 15% as well? View Quote Or as I rhetorically asked, does she bitch about being tipped OVER 15%...or does she give the extra to her co-workers who might have been stiffed on a bill, that's how a true socialist would operate... I bet she smiles and takes the extra money..... |
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She claims she gave good service on the things she was able. She can't help the kitchen being slow. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? She claims she gave good service on the things she was able. She can't help the kitchen being slow. Waitress usually tip out. That means a greeter and the cooks get a portion of the tips. Not leaving a tip made the point if the kitchen staff had their heads up their ass. I usually speak with a manager if service is lacking. Not leaving a tip won't fix the problem, but management must be aware if you want appropriate changes made. Publicly bitching about it is just lack of maturity. |
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Quoted: Thank a democrat. And if you don't like the tips you're getting, Go find a minimum wage job. Plenty to be had. No one is forcing you to work in the food industry and I'm sure as fuck at the end of the week you're making more than minimum wage. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: "Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make," she wrote. "I need tips to pay my bills. All waiters do. Thank a democrat. And if you don't like the tips you're getting, Go find a minimum wage job. Plenty to be had. No one is forcing you to work in the food industry and I'm sure as fuck at the end of the week you're making more than minimum wage. Just sayin. |
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interesting article. I think I would be put off by the required tip v if he had just increased prices a certain percentage without saying anything View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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This guy's article on how he made one of his restaurants with tips and the other tip free and the difference it made is a very good one. http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-1-overview/ His restaurant closed before the DOL made changes to how mandatory service charges were treated under the FLSA. It used to be, under the law, that the mandatory service charge was considered a "tip" legally. The DOL in 2014 decided that, nope, since the customer had no say that it didn't count as a tip but as part of the employer's gross receipts. |
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People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? Was the poor service the fault of the server? Did they hold the party up and not seat them for an hour or did the party arrive at rush hour on a weekend and expect to be seated immediately? |
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Why should the customer have to ask for the manager to complain?
Wait staff is part of a team right? She seen it was taking WAY too long, why didn't she get the manager involved early? Get him to offer up some free pie or something? She knows her tips are effected by this doesn't she? Why didn't the manager come out on his own to fix the problems? They are the team leader right? |
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Something I always wondered... If you leave a tip with a credit card, couldn't the waiter change the tip amount and total amount. I think it would be a pain in the ass for the person who paid to dispute. She could have written over that lol and made it look like the guy was leave $10 or something and scratch out the second 'l'. The restaurant manager is the one who tips out at the end of the night? View Quote All of the receipts I have seen, that had a line for tip? I always zeroed them out. I've always handed the tip directly to the waiter/waitress, or, left it on the table. |
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Take it up with management, not the waitress.
The diners were dicks to the wrong person. |
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Waitress usually tip out. That means a greeter and the cooks get a portion of the tips. Not leaving a tip made the point if the kitchen staff had their heads up their ass. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. What kind of fool tips for poor service? She claims she gave good service on the things she was able. She can't help the kitchen being slow. Waitress usually tip out. That means a greeter and the cooks get a portion of the tips. Not leaving a tip made the point if the kitchen staff had their heads up their ass. Cooks are legally not allowed to be a part of any tip pool. Tip Pool: The requirement that an employee must retain all tips does not preclude a valid tip pooling or sharing arrangement among employees who customarily and regularly receive tips, such as waiters, waitresses, bellhops, counter personnel (who serve customers), bussers, and service bartenders. A valid tip pool may not include employees who do not customarily and regularly received tips, such as dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and janitors. |
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People who don't tip are the worst kind of scum. Period. Eat at McDonalds you cheap trash. When did tips become mandatory? If you have to ask you wouldn't understand the answer--or accept it, as the case may be. |
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