I'm on the restaurant's side, but this reminds me of Mr. Pink, who would soon be joining Covington on the restaurant's ban list.
A woman I knew, who waited tables at a very nice, very expensive restaurant in Washington D.C., told me that she regularly spat in the cappuccinos of diners who were rude or who had under-tipped on previous visits. This practice brought her great joy.
She said she wasn’t the only server who did such a thing.
It’s always a good idea to treat the waitstaff politely and to tip at least 15%.
That place is just down the road from my office. My kids have eaten there, but I never have. You’d think if this lady really liked the food, and she must, going there often enough to be singled out as a bad tipper, that she’d “give some props” to the staff, as they say.
Ironically, they kept coming.
I have two big problems -
1. I am flat-out against mandatory tips. If that is necessary, then just raise your prices and pay your darned employees instead of expecting me to make up for their $1.50 per hour wage you cheat them with...
I have been known to be a cheapskate when tipping, but have also been extremely generous by any standards. When service meets minimum requirements (I don’t have to ask for refills of my tea, and food is brought out still hot, etc.), then I usually stick around the traditional 15%. If I have to constantly ask for my tea to be refilled and/or have to wait for a very long time to even place an order, etc., then the tip goes down from there based on just how bad the service was (I don’t penalize the wait staff for kitchen problems). On the other hand, I have given 25%+ tip when staff went so very far above-and-beyond any expectations I might have had.
If the service would have been better had I served myself, should I give an 18% “tip”? I will say this - the few times I have found myself with a mandatory tip added to my check, I pretty much have a rule that I don’t give anything extra beyond that, no matter how good the service was. So the staff is actually penalized by the management charing a mandatory tip. As well - if you are going to charge me an 18% premium, the service had better be better than average!
2. What ever happened to a business being able to serve whoever they want? If I open a mechanics garage and just flat don’t want to service a particular brand (for whatever reason I choose), then can I be made to service them anyway? And whatever happened to consumer’s ability to choose who THEY do business with? If a restaurant doesn’t want your money, then move on down the road. There are many others who would be more than glad to have it.
Foot- what would be any different if one opened a buffet restaurant but had a strict limit - no-one over 300lbs could eat... or you charged people by their starting weight? Don’t like it and enough people agree - then I go out of business. What the heck happened to our freedom to do business?
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Professional victim.
Less than expected tips? Probably habitually stiffs them.
When I worked in the restaurant business the wait staff would flinch when certain people entered. Then they’d try to negotiate whose turn it was to serve them.
There was one particular couple who came in several times a week and spent a lot of money in the place. They always had their particular table, and woe to the server of the prior diner who had not pushed their people to finish before those folks’ reservation!
The staff called her “The Queen”. They were unpleasant, extremely demanding and cheap with the tips. But good for the house, so they always got good service.
I used to play a little game on them (or more particularly, her). They could see the bar from their table, and I’d pretend to adjust the heat or AC. Within minutes their waitress would come running over and say “Mrs. ******* says it’s too hot (or too cold), please change it.” I’d then pretend to adjust it.
It was the same thing with the lighting, or the background music. Dim or brighten the lights, raise or lower the volume and you got an instant complaint. Control freak, thy name is “The Queen”!
I'm on the restaurant's side, but this reminds me of Mr. Pink, who would soon be joining Covington on the restaurant's ban list.
Same thing happens in pizza delivery. If we have more than one delivery, and one is an address that never tips, guess which one’s going last.
Jerry: You’ve been the bad employee, the bad son, the bad friend...
George: Yes, yes...
Jerry: The bad fiancé‚ the bad dinner guest, the bad credit risk...
George: Okay, the point is made.
Jerry: The bad date, the bad sport, the bad citizen... The bad tipper!
this story has been going on for days now here with hundreds of post to WXII 12.com From post there we learn she is the Ministry Coordinator for her pastor brothers church and looks like a black Tammy Faye Baker from the PTL Club. Evidently the 300 that signed here petition are her church members and were told a complete different story by her brother that got them to sign. The petition for KanPai has something like 800 signatures in support and reservations are booked solid. Apparently this isn’t going to go down as Convinton had hoped. There’s her Change:)-o