Want to hear a fun mandatory gratuity story? I once had a 40-top come in for a graduation party. I managed to take care of everyone, get their food out in reasonable time (in waves for the cooks) and SPLIT ALL THEIR FUCKING CHECKS. We also brought balloons and gave them free ice cream. At the end of the 4 hour ordeal, when I hadn't had another table my entire shift (because duh), they asked the manager to remove the mandatory gratuity and left me nothing.
I cried in the back and they let me go home. My fellow servers also took money from their own tips for the day so I wouldn't leave with nothing.
Splitting checks for more than 15 people was the fucking worst. Sigh, I also had large table tops fuck me over multiple times. I just got flashbacks and all sorts of ragey with this story!!! Sorry people are assholes Bunny!
Want to hear a fun mandatory gratuity story? I once had a 40-top come in for a graduation party. I managed to take care of everyone, get their food out in reasonable time (in waves for the cooks) and SPLIT ALL THEIR FUCKING CHECKS. We also brought balloons and gave them free ice cream. At the end of the 4 hour ordeal, when I hadn't had another table my entire shift (because duh), they asked the manager to remove the mandatory gratuity and left me nothing.
I cried in the back and they let me go home. My fellow servers also took money from their own tips for the day so I wouldn't leave with nothing.
They just didn't want to pay it. You see this happen with a lot of people who don't realize how expensive a meal is really going to be.
I'm pissed that the manager agreed to take it off and then didn't compensate you. This would be like discounting the labor on a job for one of my techs, they did the work, and then we said we weren't going to pay them because we didn't collect anything for the labor. That's fucking awful.
Are you reading this, butlerfan? This is coming from actual people who have been actual servers. Your "lesson" is bullshit.
The only lesson I would have learned is that you're an asshole.
Fine, call me an asshole. 99.9% of the time I tip at least 20% and it takes a lot for me to tip below that to even 15%. There was only that one time I tipped a penny and it was due to all the things I stated before and when even talking to the manager/owner didn't help and got attitude that was it. After we left I did report them to the health department and write bad reviews. Come to find out a lot of other people were having bad service there as well and business went downhill and they got fined for multiple health violations and they closed eventually.
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Want to hear a fun mandatory gratuity story? I once had a 40-top come in for a graduation party. I managed to take care of everyone, get their food out in reasonable time (in waves for the cooks) and SPLIT ALL THEIR FUCKING CHECKS. We also brought balloons and gave them free ice cream. At the end of the 4 hour ordeal, when I hadn't had another table my entire shift (because duh), they asked the manager to remove the mandatory gratuity and left me nothing.
I cried in the back and they let me go home. My fellow servers also took money from their own tips for the day so I wouldn't leave with nothing.
Dude. I hope you quit that job.
What the fuck manager removes an auto-grat for a party of FORTY?!
They don't really have a choice. It's not a law. It's just what's stated in the menu.
I used to work at Dunkin Donuts and like a lot of other coffee shops, there was a small tip cup in front of the register. Obviously, tip is not required or expected. I once had a guy give me the third-degree over, "Why should I even think of tipping you when you're doing something that I could've done at home for free? You're just pouring coffee into a cup."
Just smiled and said, "I appreciate your input. Have a nice day."
On the other side of the coin (pun totally intended) I had some fucking amazing tables come through my sections throughout the years. Once I was around $200 bucks short on rent, and on a Saturday made only like 90 bucks after tipping out (I had a 20 top & they blew). We were closing out and a young couple came in for coffee & dessert; no one wanted them, but I was desperate for money and could legit use the $5 tip. They ended up being delightful & turned my night around by just being a great table. By the time they left I was smiling. I went to clean up the table and they left me $120 cash on top of a 20% tip on the $15 credit card receipt.I collapsed to the floor & cried for like 20 minutes. I will never forget those two.
I used to work at Dunkin Donuts and like a lot of other coffee shops, there was a small tip cup in front of the register. Obviously, tip is not required or expected. I once had a guy give me the third-degree over, "Why should I even think of tipping you when you're doing something that I could've done at home for free? You're just pouring coffee into a cup."
Just smiled and said, "I appreciate your input. Have a nice day."
Then why the fuck is he there if it's so fucking easy.
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They don't really have a choice. It's not a law. It's just what's stated in the menu.
Hell yeah they have a choice.
"I'm sorry, it's restaurant policy."
It just doesn't work that way in a corporate owned restaurant chain. I get it. I've been a manager too. Like I said, everyone chipped in to send me home with something. Because your fellow server making $2.13 is a better human than the person that doesn't tip.
On the other side of the coin (pun totally intended) I had some fucking amazing tables come through my sections throughout the years. Once I was around $200 bucks short on rent, and on a Saturday made only like 90 bucks after topping out (I had a 20 top & they blew). We were closing out and a young couple came in for coffee & dessert; no one wanted them, but I was desperate for money and could legit use the $5 tip. They ended up being delightful & turned my night around by just being a great table. By the time they left I was smiling. I went to clean up the table and they left me $120 cash on top of a 20% tip on the 15 credit card tip.I collapsed to the floor & cried for like 20 minutes. I will never forget those two.
^^^^^ So much this. I remember more of my AMAZING tips far more than the assholes that left nothing.
And for the record - a penny tip is far worse than leaving nothing. There is no lesson learned except the diner is confused that it is there place to "teach me a lesson."
Back when I was still a server, I waited on Steven Tyler. American Idol was filming nearby and he came in for lunch. He was extremely nice and just in general awesome.
In San Diego, our waitress at breakfast accidently spilled coffee on my hash browns. She so badly wanted to replace them but I wouldn't let her. She looked like she was going to cry and I felt like she was thinking "Oh god, these people are going to leave me a shitty tip."
I asked my husband to leave 25%. Poor girl. It was an accident and I didn't care. But man, she clearly had had some bad experience prior to us.
On the other side of the coin (pun totally intended) I had some fucking amazing tables come through my sections throughout the years. Once I was around $200 bucks short on rent, and on a Saturday made only like 90 bucks after topping out (I had a 20 top & they blew). We were closing out and a young couple came in for coffee & dessert; no one wanted them, but I was desperate for money and could legit use the $5 tip. They ended up being delightful & turned my night around by just being a great table. By the time they left I was smiling. I went to clean up the table and they left me $120 cash on top of a 20% tip on the 15 credit card tip.I collapsed to the floor & cried for like 20 minutes. I will never forget those two.
In HS, my girl scout troop had a lot of money left over after completing our gold award. Normally, even though we raised the money, you give it to council. Well, we decided to go out to dinner first and our waitress happened to be about 8 months pregnant. We left her a $250 tip.
Post by kawaiikitsune on Jul 23, 2015 12:26:47 GMT -5
Short of someone hocking a loogie in our food or taking a shit on our table, I will be leaving a decent tip, period. That being said, we have always managed to get great servers so IDK where people are eating that the service is just oh so shitty that you have to tip a penny.
Post by bibliothecary on Jul 23, 2015 12:27:06 GMT -5
bunnyfungo, I feel like you and I have worked at the exact same places. I have been screwed out of the mandatory gratuity a few times. People are the WORST.
I was taught that by leaving a penny it shows you didn't forget to tip but that because the service was so bad was why. I've done it once and that was after horrible service that was due to the waitress messing up everything, not trying to fix it and giving me attitude in return, not checking in even though it was dead, trying to flag her down and couldn't get her attention, talking to management and getting crap responses and attitude from the manager as well.
So much fucking wrong on so many levels. Seriously? I feel like this is a joke, or sarcasm. Where is your sarcasm font?
I had heard of the "penny tip" before but never done it (and would NEVER do it). I have to say that with extremely rare exceptions I am lucky, get good service, and I am a 20% minimum tipper. Even when I go to Brazil where the norm is 10% and included in the bill I tend to leave an additional 10% to make the difference.
Now having that said my UO is that I believe the concept of tips should be abolished altogether and servers should be on salaries. Originally tips are supposed to encourage good service but we know that's not what it is anymore. It's become a "shared cost of labor" for the restaurant that quite frankly doesn't exist in any other service industry. I say up the prices by 25%, pass the difference to the service staff and call the tips what it actually is: overhead.
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Most of the opposition to "living wage" for service workers is based on false values and discrimination. Fast food workers may not have "worked their way" through high levels of education or whatever, but they probably work harder every day than most people making six-figure salaries. Don't kid yourself that just because you got a BA means that your work is more difficult day to day than someone who didn't graduate high school. Probably the inverse.
If I get "shitty" service I'm still tipping 15%.
It drives me crazy that I can't tip on my card at Starbucks or the like. I rarely carry cash but I believe in tipping baristas. (I was one.)
In case no one else has covered this - if you link your Starbucks card to your phone and use the app to pay, it gives you the option to add a tip after the transaction is complete.
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I used to work at Dunkin Donuts and like a lot of other coffee shops, there was a small tip cup in front of the register. Obviously, tip is not required or expected. I once had a guy give me the third-degree over, "Why should I even think of tipping you when you're doing something that I could've done at home for free? You're just pouring coffee into a cup."
Just smiled and said, "I appreciate your input. Have a nice day."
If he wanted to do it for free at home, why didn't he? Good for you for not giving him lip, but what a dick. I'm fantasizing about him saying that to the very tall and muscular Army sergeant who used to come in every morning to the cafe where I worked and tip a $5 for his large black coffee. I loved that guy.
I'm not saying you need to make it rain for a $2.50 cup of coffee, but you are being provided a product as well as a service, eye contact, conversation from a person making minimum wage on their feet all day to serve you. If you can't at least manage to drop your coin change in the cup as your hand passes over it, shut the fuck up about why someone else might.
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You know who's worse than the penny tippers? The people who lay out the few dollars they deem appropriate at the beginning of the meal and then subtract them every time you do something "wrong". DNW to serve that table.
I have a co-worker who doesn't lay the tip out on the table beforehand, but he does have a system where he subtracts percentage points for things that aren't done correctly.
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