Posted on 02/02/2013 6:16:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The waitress said that there was nothing in Applebees handbooks against what she did.
I would think someone else would love to hire her though. She will not be unemployed long IMO.
Maybe I don’t eat at the right places, but the only times where I encounter mandatory tips are when there’s a group of maybe 8 or more.
I don’t like them either since I tend to tip more than 18% anyway, but I don’t see them very often.
Well have the stupid Restuarant lower their prices a lot or have them do the work themselves, if they feel they don’t have to pay the employee!!!
I’m on the waiter’s side here. You don’t wanna tip, fine. But the remark was absurd.
I’ve only not tipped twice in my life and it had to do with the service, not the fact tat I tithe.
You go to a restaurant, you know that’s how waiters make their money. You don’t like it, don’t go.
by chance was this a table full of women?
it is well known that men, on average, tip more generously than women.
The issue is not that the server is entitled to a minimum wage, set by the government; it serves here only as a reference point for how obscenely low the wage is.
yes, the server and the customer get screwed under this underpaid/mandatory tip setup, and each gets angry at the other, instead of the owner. the guy’s pulling an obama, a deflection, a divide and conquer setup.
I don’t know the color of the people who served her, but she wrote the stupid statement without IMO reference to people’s color.
Tipping was the reason while my visiting millionaire moonbat in-laws stopped speaking to me.
We took them to a Vietnamese Pho soup restaurant, the best in the area, a busy family run joint with minimal, negligent and quick service by family members (while Mexicans worked in the kitchen, and often brought out your bowls to the table instead of your hustling order taker.) With such service, a family run restaurant, you don’t tip, or tip the absolute minimum.
My sister-in-law had just finished reading a non-fiction tearjerker by a woman named Barbara Ehrenreich, a Lefty elitist snob, who decided to go slumming, pretend to be a regular person and hire herself out as a waitress in order to write a heartbreaking bestselling book about it, which she did. My sister-in-law, a stay at home mom, husband mismanaging inherited wealth, wanted to leave a 25%+ tip at this restaurant, feeling sorry for the poor waitresses (who, by the way, drove BMWs), and I couldn’t explain to her the situation, and the negative effect such tipping would have on my future visits there, long after she left town with her bleeding heart.
People who don’t want to tip in higher classed places should stick to Burger King and Paco’s Tacos.
TTIUWOP of the subject perps.
It seems archaic now that only restaurants are allowed to pay less than minimum wage. Maybe it's time to change that?
Look, waitstaff KNOW that their very livelihood depends on giving good service. So in general most are pretty nice, and attentive.
There's no rule that you HAVE to tip, but unless the service truly sucks, you should always do so.
And for those Mr. Pinks who think that the waitress is some slave who should get a "real job", if you're a great waiter/waitress you can actually make a decent living, based on tips.
In fine dining establishments, you'll notice that the waitstaff is often older people.
Why would a 60 year old man wait tables at 4 Queens in Vegas? Because they are the best in the business. Probably paid off their houses and sent their kids to college because they have been waiting on people like Elvis and Sinatra for 40 years.
Those guys wanted great service, and the waiters provided it to them.
I've never enjoyed a meal as much when I went there. In fact I think I tipped around 50%. Those guys are PROS at making you feel like a king.
Worth every penny.
Well, you’re a self serving prig and I’m not surprised you were fired.
Tips are feedback for the quality of service you provide.
I usually tip 20% but, for the 1st time I can remember I tipped a guy 5% at A well known Chinese restraunt chain, on bill for just about $100.
This guy was terrible. kept bringing stuff we didn’t order, plates were graveyard cold, wrong wine.
This guy had issues and I meant cancel my subscription.
I was so irritated my friend called the manager and the manager promptly,.
as in right then, loaded an envelope with 4 gift cars totalling $100
An unrelated story, but sweet.
Near the end of the night, a party of 14 deaf people came in. Of course, I wanted the money, so I took them. The server at that section just got off so, sure I’ll take them. I’d work as much as possible.
They were so fun, one of them could read lips, which was extremely helpful. I wrote down all their choices, potato, veggie, salad dressing, etc. When they pointed to their entree, I had my list for all the extras. It worked out nicely.
I had fun with them, I even joked that they were being ‘too noisy’ and to had to settle down, they all rolled over laughing at that.
The head of that party sent a letter to the president saying what a great experience they had and they loved the service. I didn’t treat them as different, but realized they had different needs. I’ll never forget those people and how fun they were.
Speaking of apartments, I had to lie. Moving back to Wisconsin, I told my prospective landlord, my husband was coming, I was just getting an apartment for us to relocate and wanted to get the kids in school before September. I had my sister in law in tow, and had the relocation lie down pat since we’ve done that 3 time previously. They’d never taken a divorced mom with 3 kids under 8 who waitressed and was going to engineering school. I did what I did to survive. I never missed a payment.
Underpaying is the law. If restaurants were required to pay minimum, your dinner would be at least $30. I hear you, but it’s again, it’s more government intrusion.
IMHO as a believer, she reflects poorly as a witness. I usually do 20% unless service is bad and depending on if the bad service is the server’s fault or something to do more behind the scenes.
> It was a female Pastor who enjoys getting 10% of the wages from her flock who thought it was wrong to give an 18% tip to a waitress for serving her LARGE table full of people.
Applebees, higher class, HAHA!! Tell me why then they should charge 20 or more dollar a plate that only costs less than 5 to make? They hogging all the money to themselves? IF they don’t want to pay for good help, then let them work all the customers themselves and see how hard that is!!!!!!!!!!
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