Posted on 02/11/2018 6:18:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
A Florida Outback Steakhouse worker says she filled a local megachurch’s $735 takeout order and then was fired when she ranted on social media about not getting a tip.
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Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens was holding a conference and called in an order to the local Outback Wednesday for 25 steak dinners, 25 chicken dinners and 25 side orders of potatoes that Yoder said she had to prepare, costing her other tips.
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A friend read her post and called the church to complain and was told that the person who picked up the food didn’t know to leave a tip.
“Coming in to eat or takeout, you should automatically be wanting to tip 15 percent,” Yoder said. “From there, you either go up or go down based on service.”
A church representative called the restaurant Thursday to make it up to Yoder.
Nevertheless, she was shown the door.
... Outback has a strict policy forbidding workers from posting about customers on social media, WSVN reported.
Outback even reimbursed the church for its big order.
“We did not call the restaurant to have her fired, we wanted to get the situation resolved,” church official David Lonsberry told the Palm Beach Post.
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That’s just it. The restaurant business is brutal. I only know about it because my son worked it while he was in high school. He started as a dishwasher after school and worked up to sous chef on weekends.
He’s in college now, but the kitchen was an education.
A new owner came in and now the restaurant is closed for good. Sad. They had been open since 1978.
I don’t tip for takeout, in the sense that if I have 3 beers and get a sandwich to go...I’m tipping on the beer price and service - not the sandwich.
If I just order a sandwich to go - I might tip a buck, just to be a good sport - but I don’t think it’s expected.
You know very well there are no multi-tiered price schedules for dining and takeout. To have such would likely run afoul of some rules or laws.
What YOU should do is go to the restaurant, box and bag your own meals and then cash out. THAT would be appropriate for a cheapskate like you.
I agree it’s a tough business, and (as they say) tougher when you’re stupid, as this former waitress seems to have been.
I’ve never left a tip on takeout before.
I wonder how many people realize that you’re supposed to leave a tip for the maids when you check out of a hotel.
Maybe the manager would prefer the waitress in the kitchen filling orders than have her large-and-in-charge among the dining patrons.
I am no expert but it seems normal for one to tip for a delivery but not if you pick it up yourself.
Probably not many. It’s perfectly reasonable to believe that since you’re paying for a room you’re paying for a clean room, and part of the per-night fee goes to the cleaning staff.
Blobbering bloobles salute, with tattoos included.
How is one supposed to know the restaurant uses waitresses to pack take-out orders? Don’t they have someone available who works the take-out counter exclusively?
Understood. I can be quite generous for good service. But I refuse to be ripped off for crappy service And take out has never been a tipping scene. Since as you point out it just doesn’t include most of the service to begin with.
Sorry, but you don’t tip for takeout orders. This is the case in every restaurant I’ve ever seen.
Then you know how long a 25 to 50 meal order would take to box and bag. It it were one or two meals, no problem. Make it a tremendous order and you enter new territory. A food runner usually is paid a very low wage and is “tipped out” by getting a percentage of each servers total tips. Usually a hostess does the cashing out, and they are paid a higher wage than a server. Usually minimum or better. To have a server take the time to box and bag a $700+ order certainly does keep them from serving two or three seated tables. The loss may be $10 or more.
Concur. I am a 25% or more tipper and NEVER tip for to go.
For a standard order, I’d agree. For a huge order, likely you’ve never experienced or dealt with. Again, each restaurant has different procedures. Many restaurants add a gratuity to large orders. Apparently Outback did not, yet expected a $2.85 server to do what a manager SHOULD have done. That is their duty, not the server.
That's what the basic wage is for. They're not being paid to stand around.
Tipping is for the "above and beyond" service.
-PJ
LOL! TC being funny.
I have tipped then waitress for to go if they do something special, like include extra items because I am so cute.
I don't know what restaurants YOU go to, but servers that I am familiar with don't just stand around. In this area, servers are run ragged. It is nothing for one server to have 4 to 8 tables to take care of at all times. High end establishments may have a better server to client ratio.
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