How often do you get bad service? I can’t remember the last time we got bad service, twenty years ago perhaps. Except at places where you don’t tip, like McDonald’s.
We used to eat at tipping places maybe six times a year, now it’s probably about twice.
I truly think customers will stiff the waiters far more often than the waiters give bad service. When the tip is automatically included, and the service is bad, you ought to speak to the manager before the meal is over, and ask for another waiter to be assigned to you.
You have obviously been blessed to not eat at any restaurants here in Montgomery, AL.
I have traveled the world thanks to Uncle Sam, and while I love Alabama and will never leave -- This city has the absolute rudest and most incompetent servers in the entire world.
“I truly think customers will stiff the waiters far more often than the waiters give bad service.”
Yes, you are exactly right. Just read some Yelp reviews, a lot of people go into restaurants with unrealistic expectations, or looking for any little detail to gripe about, so they can rationalize to themselves why they don’t need to leave a fair tip. I can count on one hand the times I’ve actually received bad service in recent memory.
“How often do you get bad service? “
Well for starters every time I am stupid enough to eat at Shoney’s. (don’t know if you have that where you live)
Mostly the problem is bad management and young people who don’t know how to work if you get my drift.
Shoney’s used to be a swell place to eat and sometimes still is but if one gets the wrong store it is hell. The service was so lousy I had to go get my own coffee only to find all the staff chatting in the back room with the manager. They were having a good ol’ time. That would have never happened when I worked there!
Call me old fashioned but I was brought up to believe that one tips ONLY if and when you received service above and beyond the customary level of which the owner/proprietor is already paying the wait staff in the first place for. Never have I believed it was designed for doing what they were already paid to do.
If wait staff is going to be guaranteed a tip no matter the level of service they render then it is not a tip but more of an unjustified ransom by the owner who refuses to pay a livable wage to their hired help in the first place.