In my younger days long long ago, I worked for many years as a cocktail bartender and bar manager. The school teachers and school administrators liked to use their Friday teachers’ conferences to come over to our very large steakhouse restaurant and spend the lunch hour and entire afternoon in our bar lounge. They were typically rude, demanding, obnoxious, loudmouthed, opinionated, and ignorant. They left everyone around them with no doubts whatsoever about their political affiliations with the Democrats, socialists, unions, and endless entitlements. Theey pushed their way in front of other customers waiting for service. They treated the cocktail waitresses and bartenders with impatient contempt. If they left a tip at all, it was typically small change and a bad joke. Eveen the owner finally lost patience with them in the end, despite their dozens of dinners, and suggested they find another restaurant to hold their Friday teachers’ meetings.
“And you can tell their political affiliation just by looking at them.”
Yes, it is surprising how often we do just that. My wife and I kind of fell into playing an unspoken game by seeing if we can guess whether or not a given person is a Liberal and/or identifies with the Democrats, socialists, or communists. We look at each other and grin when we’ve guessed correctly and ask a leading question to confirm our suspicions.
We typically tip almost no matter what, but their have been a few of those people who got nothing after their Liberal attitude for work led to nearly total neglect or surliness.
Veritas advocating leaving NO tip ever. If I recieve poor service I agree about leaving little or no tip. But you can't have a complete zero tip policy. as you said you used to work in the food service business.