Shut your mouth and keep subsidizing these businesses with 'gratuity' which translates in 90% of restaurant visits as paying for the bare minimum. I can count on my fingers the number of times I've been a place serving food and said to myself "holy ***, this waiter/waitress is amazing." and when it happens, it's noteworthy.
I feel for wait staff but essentially gratuity/tip is just codespeak for a tax on the meal because the aforementioned shithole can't pay staff proper compensation.
Waffle House Makes Waitress Return $1,000 Tip
Waffle House makes waitress return $1,000 tip
Odin.Minefield said: »
I'd tip you hefty proth, no homo.
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Lakshmi.Sparthosx said: »
Shut your mouth and keep subsidizing these businesses with 'gratuity' which translates in 90% of restaurant visits as paying for the bare minimum. I can count on my fingers the number of times I've been a place serving food and said to myself "holy ***, this waiter/waitress is amazing." and when it happens, it's noteworthy.
I feel for wait staff but essentially gratuity/tip is just codespeak for a tax on the meal because the aforementioned shithole can't pay staff proper compensation.
I feel for wait staff but essentially gratuity/tip is just codespeak for a tax on the meal because the aforementioned shithole can't pay staff proper compensation.
Valefor.Prothescar said: »
I hate the whole "tip based on cost of the meal" thing. Why should I tip more just 'cause the meal was more expensive? I tip based on how much the waiter/waitress had to do to deliver the food/drinks/etc. and how good they were at performing their job and improving the atmosphere, not how much I paid for my steak.
From my experience the more you pay for a meal, the better the service.
I go to Chili's with the wife and spend like $30 bucks, then I'm not expecting anything beyond hot food and (hopefully) a refill shortly after my drink is empty. If I have to flag a waiter/tress down, then yeah... don't expect anything more than like $5.
I go to Ruth's Chris with the wife and drop $250, and they seem to coordinate drinks, alcohol, appetizers, and food to a greater extent. When you're sliding my steak under me as soon as the appetizer is done, I never have an empty cup, and you ask if I want another scotch the moment I'm thinking I want another glass... then yeah, I got no beef giving you a $50+ tip.
Where this rule gets bent is with large groups where you're picking up the tab. But yeah, *** that noise everyone should be prepared to pay for themselves in that scenario.
If I'm alone or with one other person:
a ***waiter/waitress who obviously doesn't even care at all about making the experience moderately enjoyable and who almost drops the food or something gets a $2 tip at most.
one who actually gives half a *** and delivers everything with moderate grace gets a $5-$7 tip.
one who makes my experience truly enjoyable and doesn't miss a single beat gets up to a $20 tip.
If it's a ritzy place with expensive *** food I may add more depending on the quality of the service, but I'm not willing to reward mediocrity, incompetency, etc.; I don't care how shitty the job is, perform it properly or I'm not rewarding you for ***.
The third type is extremely rare.
There was this one guy at a small local restaurant that matched the criteria, always checking to see if things were going alright and if we needed refills or something, got everything out to us without incident despite the order being for 8 people, and was overall a great guy that honestly improved the atmosphere of the entire restaurant for us. He ended up getting a $250 tip since he was so good to us. Next time we went we got some chick who obviously gave no ***, nearly fumbled some drinks and a plate of food, and was pretty rude and overall made the experience much worse; we had a lot less fun that time than previously. She got $20 just because there were 8 of us there. Perform better, get a better reward.
a ***waiter/waitress who obviously doesn't even care at all about making the experience moderately enjoyable and who almost drops the food or something gets a $2 tip at most.
one who actually gives half a *** and delivers everything with moderate grace gets a $5-$7 tip.
one who makes my experience truly enjoyable and doesn't miss a single beat gets up to a $20 tip.
If it's a ritzy place with expensive *** food I may add more depending on the quality of the service, but I'm not willing to reward mediocrity, incompetency, etc.; I don't care how shitty the job is, perform it properly or I'm not rewarding you for ***.
The third type is extremely rare.
There was this one guy at a small local restaurant that matched the criteria, always checking to see if things were going alright and if we needed refills or something, got everything out to us without incident despite the order being for 8 people, and was overall a great guy that honestly improved the atmosphere of the entire restaurant for us. He ended up getting a $250 tip since he was so good to us. Next time we went we got some chick who obviously gave no ***, nearly fumbled some drinks and a plate of food, and was pretty rude and overall made the experience much worse; we had a lot less fun that time than previously. She got $20 just because there were 8 of us there. Perform better, get a better reward.
Valefor.Prothescar said: »
There was this one guy at a small local restaurant that matched the criteria, always checking to see if things were going alright and if we needed refills or something, got everything out to us without incident despite the order being for 8 people, and was overall a great guy that honestly improved the atmosphere of the entire restaurant for us. He ended up getting a $250 tip since he was so good to us. Next time we went we got some chick who obviously gave no ***, nearly fumbled some drinks and a plate of food, and was pretty rude and overall made the experience much worse; we had a lot less fun that time than previously. She got $20 just because there were 8 of us there. Perform better, get a better reward.
I go with the 110% rule on people who just make my day.
Last Black Friday I swung by IHOP on my way home from work (was working nights, so was like 8 AM), and it was crowded as *** for some reason. Was just me, not even in my work shirt, which usually spells out getting treated like ***by waiters.
But this chick rocked it, even though she was obviously having a bad day. She was spread very thin across her tables, the table behind me I just wanted to smack a ***, but the waitress always had a smile. Was only like a $20 total, so I left her $22 in cash for the tip on the table. Left a note that said "You get 110% when you give 110%" just to be quirky. She chased me down and gave me a hug. I thought it was awkward, but apparently I made her day as well.
Valefor.Prothescar said: »
If I'm alone or with one other person:
a ***waiter/waitress who obviously doesn't even care at all about making the experience moderately enjoyable and who almost drops the food or something gets a $2 tip at most.
one who actually gives half a *** and delivers everything with moderate grace gets a $5-$7 tip.
one who makes my experience truly enjoyable and doesn't miss a single beat gets up to a $20 tip.
If it's a ritzy place with expensive *** food I may add more depending on the quality of the service, but I'm not willing to reward mediocrity, incompetency, etc.; I don't care how shitty the job is, perform it properly or I'm not rewarding you for ***.
The third type is extremely rare.
There was this one guy at a small local restaurant that matched the criteria, always checking to see if things were going alright and if we needed refills or something, got everything out to us without incident despite the order being for 8 people, and was overall a great guy that honestly improved the atmosphere of the entire restaurant for us. He ended up getting a $250 tip since he was so good to us. Next time we went we got some chick who obviously gave no ***, nearly fumbled some drinks and a plate of food, and was pretty rude and overall made the experience much worse; we had a lot less fun that time than previously. She got $20 just because there were 8 of us there. Perform better, get a better reward.
a ***waiter/waitress who obviously doesn't even care at all about making the experience moderately enjoyable and who almost drops the food or something gets a $2 tip at most.
one who actually gives half a *** and delivers everything with moderate grace gets a $5-$7 tip.
one who makes my experience truly enjoyable and doesn't miss a single beat gets up to a $20 tip.
If it's a ritzy place with expensive *** food I may add more depending on the quality of the service, but I'm not willing to reward mediocrity, incompetency, etc.; I don't care how shitty the job is, perform it properly or I'm not rewarding you for ***.
The third type is extremely rare.
There was this one guy at a small local restaurant that matched the criteria, always checking to see if things were going alright and if we needed refills or something, got everything out to us without incident despite the order being for 8 people, and was overall a great guy that honestly improved the atmosphere of the entire restaurant for us. He ended up getting a $250 tip since he was so good to us. Next time we went we got some chick who obviously gave no ***, nearly fumbled some drinks and a plate of food, and was pretty rude and overall made the experience much worse; we had a lot less fun that time than previously. She got $20 just because there were 8 of us there. Perform better, get a better reward.
That said, I've had customers write little notes after their meal, expressing their wish to send the tip added to the check, go directly to the back of house staff instead of the waitress. (A lot of the waitresses I've seen couldn't give a ***, even if they were paid additional money on top of their minimum wage paycheck, which was 8.90/hour at the time)
Granted, I've also teamed up with some of the more dynamic servers, like the one you mentioned as the latter in your experience, and have seen on guy consistently pull anywhere from an additional 150-250 dollars every day (including dead days) regardless of the size of the meal ordered, and after paying out 30% of totaled tips to the kitchen.
Fenrir.Weakness said: »
From my experience the more you pay for a meal, the better the service.
If you go to one restaurant and get the $15 entree vs the $22 entree, there really is no logical reason why you should be tipping based on the price of the meal
Fenrir.Weakness said: »
Valefor.Prothescar said: »
There was this one guy at a small local restaurant that matched the criteria, always checking to see if things were going alright and if we needed refills or something, got everything out to us without incident despite the order being for 8 people, and was overall a great guy that honestly improved the atmosphere of the entire restaurant for us. He ended up getting a $250 tip since he was so good to us. Next time we went we got some chick who obviously gave no ***, nearly fumbled some drinks and a plate of food, and was pretty rude and overall made the experience much worse; we had a lot less fun that time than previously. She got $20 just because there were 8 of us there. Perform better, get a better reward.
I go with the 110% rule on people who just make my day.
Last Black Friday I swung by IHOP on my way home from work (was working nights, so was like 8 AM), and it was crowded as *** for some reason. Was just me, not even in my work shirt, which usually spells out getting treated like ***by waiters.
But this chick rocked it, even though she was obviously having a bad day. She was spread very thin across her tables, the table behind me I just wanted to smack a ***, but the waitress always had a smile. Was only like a $20 total, so I left her $22 in cash for the tip on the table. Left a note that said "You get 110% when you give 110%" just to be quirky. She chased me down and gave me a hug. I thought it was awkward, but apparently I made her day as well.
inb4 get a better job
A lot of servers work these jobs because it's one of the few mass industry standard jobs where the market can meet the demand of employment, and money can be lucrative from tips, or minimum wage if tips fail to cover the necessary amount. Going to school costs more money than they can afford, and those that can afford it, find the market for their career education, folding by the day, due to an influx of other applicants flooding the market for limited positions. So they do something else in the mean time.
Whiney babies, sexual harassment from customers, drunken patrons, over-worked, understaffed, screwed by management, etc.
There are places that make it mandatory to tip, then add on additional gratuities. Which is wrong, since those business owners screw their employees every which way twice.
Good service deserves to be rewarded. I've met shitty servers who expect the same kind of tips their exceptionally better colleagues get, simply because they work in the same place.
I leave them the paper from fortune cookies.
Here in TX they recently made it to where you cannot forcibly charge gratuity, which I for one think is a very good thing. When I went on vacation to Florida (Orlando/Miami) everywhere there the tip is already included, and it showed. The waiters/waitresses there didn't give two shits about you or your meal since they were getting a tip no matter what, I had never seen such horrid service. Hell at one restaurant we didn't even get our drinks until our meal had arrived. Needless to say I crossed out the tip they tried to charged us and wrote 0.00$, they never tried to charge it surprisingly.
Asura.Melbufrauma said: »
Here in TX they recently made it to where you cannot forcibly charge gratuity, which I for one think is a very good thing. When I went on vacation to Florida (Orlando/Miami) everywhere there the tip is already included, and it showed. The waiters/waitresses there didn't give two shits about you or your meal since they were getting a tip no matter what, I had never seen such horrid service. Hell at one restaurant we didn't even get our drinks until our meal had arrived. Needless to say I crossed out the tip they tried to charged us and wrote 0.00$, they never tried to charge it surprisingly.
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