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Agitated Customer Leaves Note Expressing Feelings Against Tipping Servers
Opposing Views ^
| 06/04/2014
| By Dominic Kelly
Posted on 06/05/2014 9:39:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A picture circulating online shows what appears to be a note left for a server at a restaurant in which the customer rants about why they decided not to leave a tip.
Although the source of the letter has not been confirmed or reported, the picture has angered people all over, with many saying that a liberal-minded person had to be responsible for writing it.
“I do not tip anywhere because the law governing tipping causes pay inequality between servers and kitchen staff,” wrote the anonymous tipper. “My meal was made possible by an entire team of kitchen staff, servers, managers, and the establishment itself. Therefore, everyone involved should be paid appropriately out of the cost of the product I purchase. I find it unreasonable that only servers have legal rights to earn tips. Therefore, I do not tip and ask that the establishment raises the cost of food and drinks to pay everyone appropriately for their work. Tipping also encourages both customers and servers to stereotype and discriminate. Appropriate salary for servers should be the responsibility of the establishment and not the mood, or habit, or any random decisions of the customers.”
Sites like Tell Me Now have started to speculate who the letter could be from, and, according to them, it has to have been written by a liberal.
“It’s one thing to have certain beliefs when it comes to equality and what not, but to punish someone who did a good job for you because you think someone else is getting screwed is ridiculous,” writes the website. “However it falls right in line with the liberal/progressive mentality, which is bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator so that nobody feels like they’ve been treated unfairly. These people are going to be the death of this nation.”
The picture has now gone viral, and even though nobody seems to know for sure if it’s even real, it has undeniably sparked a heated debate on income inequality and wages in America.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: restaurants; tipping
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To: Steve_Seattle
Why should the cook who prepares the food earn less than the person who takes the food to the table? They don't. Cooks are paid more.
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:51:52 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Responsibility2nd
Am I the only one who thinks “tipping” is out of control?? Taxi drivers, waiters, bartenders, hair stylists, hotel staff, baristas,....
I guess it wasn’t so bad when 10% was the norm, but now 15-20% seems to be the expected range. I understand it gives workers extra incentive to provide good service, but they’re already expected to provide good service as a condition of employment, aren’t they?
To: Responsibility2nd
The obligatory Mr. Pink
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:52:42 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: CodeToad
I used to work in a restaurant that did not pool tips, but I never minded. I made more money hourly as a cook than the waitresses and I did not have to personally deal with all the A-holes sitting at the tables.
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:52:51 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: dfwgator
Beat me to that one, lol
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:53:09 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: liege
In college I worked in a VERY large bar. Sometimes I was a cook and sometimes I was a “bouncer”. The waitresses shared tips “at their discretion”. The “bouncers” helped clear bottles and tables for certain waitresses “at their discretion”. And the cooks filled orders for waitresses in the order received “at their discretion”. Nobody was forced to pool and share tips.
I observed micro capitalism in practice. It seemed the best waitresses (most in tips) usually had the most crowded sections of this mega bar. Their sections always seemed the cleanest. And they seemed to be the most generous with their support staff.
There were a couple waitresses that refused to share their tips. They still got the support of the cooks and bouncers as everyone did what their jobs required. But they were also the biggest complainers about how unfair the tip disparity between waitresses working the same shifts were.
The customers that were treated the best, tipped the most. As such, staff made sure to take care of them from the kitchen to the door. Those customers requested certain staff to serve them.
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:53:43 AM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(Tagline deleted at the request of an offended FReeper.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Servers are paid differently than cooks, dishwashers etc.
Most tips are pooled these days...which is why you get crappy service in most places.
I have occasionally sent my compliments to the chef...but never money. It's not how it works.
To: lowbridge
Watch the wait staff run when a table of black teachers or government workers arrive for a lunch.
Here is my key to a good dining experience.
Ask the waiter or waitress to order for you what they like best. Ask the waiter or waitress to ask the chef to prepare you something off the menu which he or she would enjoy making. You could say something with chicken, beef, veal, vegan, or pasta, etc...
I promise you you will not be disappointed.
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:54:59 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: miele man
Hmmm. Is this letter part of an organized plan to push for raising the minimum wage?
_____________________________________________
Yeppers. That phrase “pay inequality” sets off suspicions.
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:55:04 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: rollo tomasi
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:56:31 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Responsibility2nd
Tipping encourages quick, polite service.
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:56:43 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Responsibility2nd
So, he doesn't tip on principle?
I guess it's just a coincidence that the cheap A-Hole keeps his money at the expense of the wait staff.
If this REALLY was on principle, he would tell the server up front that she/he should expect no tip. He would then get the service he was paying for - as a matter of principle.
To: Sacajaweau
A decent chef makes over $100K per year. A decent line worker makes $30 to $50K per year. We’re not talking about the kid who chops the salad fixins or the dishwasher. Those people are usually out on some sort of work release program from the state or county jail.
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:57:34 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Responsibility2nd
the idiot that started the tipping crap should have been executed and tipping made a felony.
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posted on
06/05/2014 9:59:18 AM PDT
by
dalereed
To: Responsibility2nd
Bigger places share tips with the bus boys and the hostesses.
I was a cook at a sit down Pizza Hut, and we always rooted for the waitresses, who bore the brunt of patrons problems, even when we made them.
Whoever wrote this ... Cheapskates! Go to the McDonald’s for your meals.
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posted on
06/05/2014 10:00:51 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: Steve_Seattle
Why should the cook who prepares the food earn less than the person who takes the food to the table? Depending on the restaurant the cook is probably earning as much or more than the waiter. And he isn't dependent on people leaving a tip instead of a snarky note.
To: Responsibility2nd
This is a hoax. What patron would carry this letter into a restaurant without having folded it into a manageable size? This sheet has never been folded.
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posted on
06/05/2014 10:04:55 AM PDT
by
pabianice
(LINE)
To: Responsibility2nd
I assume you mean cows....
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posted on
06/05/2014 10:05:19 AM PDT
by
Nifster
To: GeronL
ooooh no maybe you to can tell us about ‘income inequality’ like the stupid note leaver
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posted on
06/05/2014 10:05:55 AM PDT
by
Nifster
To: Tenacious 1
I observed micro capitalism in practice. It seemed the best waitresses (most in tips) usually had the most crowded sections of this mega bar. Their sections always seemed the cleanest. And they seemed to be the most generous with their support staff.
Thank you for a great story.
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posted on
06/05/2014 10:06:18 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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