Posted on 02/27/2012 12:04:08 PM PST by Repeat Offender
Just when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and the 1% was dying down, it may have been reignited. A wealthy banker left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch at the True Food Kitchen restaurant in Newport Beach, California.
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Particularly since the "employee" had the time to take a picture of the credit card slip supposedly written by his boss. Not something most people do when they are out to lunch with their boss.
"To add insult to injury the word "tip" was circled on the receipt, and the banker wrote "get a real job" on the bill. The picture of the receipt was taken and uploaded to the blog Future Ex-Banker by a person who was dining with the anonymous banker. As expected, the blog received a lot of attention and has now been taken down."
Also, since the person who took the photo ate lunch and got served by the same waitperson they could and should have tipped the waitperson themselves if they felt the waitperson was getting mistreated. But they didn't.
They felt it was better to have the story than to tip the waitperson. So much for their integrity. They pretend to care about the waitperson, but really don't either. Or the paltry tip was justified in their mind too.
I have two close friends who bartend. The hourly wage is $2.50 an hour, tips are expected to make up the difference between that and minimum wage. One, a very good bartender makes over 3K a month.
If I get good service I tip. Down at my favorite watering hole I walk in and my beer is waiting for me at my favorite bar stool. I pay $2 for the beer and leave a $5 tip.
"If you are being paid $2.13 an hour, get a new job or go on unemployment... your better off on welfare-money wise.Wow! You're on a conservative forum and that's your response? What a class act you are.
Who would take a job that paid that?"
Because with tips you can make a lot more.
I read the first few comments and no one seemed to think that she gave bad service but that was the first thing that came to my mind. If the banker was just an a...hole he would have just left the $1.33 tip and left. He would not have written the suggestions on the bill. She did something or failed to do something for him to respond this way.
“IMHO, I’d rather eat at a BBQ joint, run by a guy who’s been perfecting his art for the past 20 years (and who likely learned it from his Dad, who learned it from his, and so on) than some Olive Garden or Applebee’s. Or a ripoff lookalike of them.”
We refer to these “clone” restaurants as “O’Chilibee’s Roadhouse.” Their menus are all the same and the processed food is all the same, as it is delivered by Sysco Food Services. It’s kind of like the old multi-purpose stadiums of the 1970’s; if you went to a game in Riverfront Stadium, you might as well say you had also been to Busch, Three Rivers & the Vet. They were the same bland stadiums, they now are the same bland restaurants.
I used to work for an absolute clod who tipped poorly when the service was fantastic, and didn't tip at all for anything less than exemplary. Unfortunately, I traveled and ate out with him often. And, since he was the boss, he'd get the check.
Many was the time I picked up the tip. Occasionally he'd catch me and chew on me for it. I said, "screw him", no need to punish the server for my boss' shortcomings.
Same guy used to look forward to my reviews (I'm in a position where I rarely get any feedback, I'll go years with just getting raises and a 'keep up the good work'). Where most managers would look at a review as a formality, or a give and take session....this clown looked at it as an opportunity to discuss my shortcomings - both real and perceived - in exquisite detail. In fact, where most companies do them yearly (if ever) this clown saw fit to review his staff on a quarterly basis.
My theory is the waitress was running off at the lip about “The 1%,” spewing talking points, so the guy just decided to show her what 1% means.
“In 2010, the 1 percent income level was $380,354 and up. It’s entirely possible the banker is in the top 1 percent.”
Ah, so. I thought America was wealthier than that.
Not exactly - tipping didn’t get into vogue until just after the Civil War. At a time during the Depression there were signs in some establishments that stated: “No Tipping. Keep Your Change” - my feelings are if someone has a classy restaurant that makes big bucks, drive their Beemers, they can jolly well pay their waitstaff a decent wage. Why expect the public to make up what the employers won’t pay? Just saying.
Looks like the behavior of a gay Bank of America executive.
Well actually it's only the high end restaurants where tipping is done. You go to places like Sizzler or California Cafe, or Johnny Rockets you don't tip.
Indeed. Perhaps the greatest irony is a bunch of people sitting around on their bosses' time, day after day, posting on FR, then saying food service is not "real work".
I can see that and I have no problem with tipping. My contention is these high priced Fern and Fan places where the owner is making a killing that won’t pay a decent wage and depends on the public basically paying his staff.
Thanks for the details, I very much appreciate them.
I myself tip quite, well, liberally, usually 20% unless the service is poor. I’ve worked as a waiter and know what it’s like. I would assume you have been in that position also and know what it’s like.
You do realize that their pay is ratcheted down so that if they get the tip level the social mavens insist upon they will then achieve minimum wage?
Take it a step further. If they don’t get tips, the employer is required to make up the difference to meet the federal minimum wage standard. It is in the best interest of the establishment to have employees that receive tips that result in their income meeting or exceeding the minimum wage. When it exceeds it, the employer is only required to pay the $2.13 per hour.
You can be charged for assault in many jurisdictions if you adulterate the product. I don't think exceptions are made if the vic is a moron or deserves it.
Nothing will be bad. Nothing will be good, either.
I eat at a lot of those kind of places with work. Where you have 5 normal people, 4 women on diets, 3 people that grill their waiter about every last detail of their food preparation (you know the type, I always want to yell "RELAX! IT'S JUST A @#$%@ SANDWICH!!" at them), 2 people that talk nonstop about their food allergies, and one fruitcake who says she's "A Vegan, but will eat fish. Sometimes pork. And hamburgers occasionally" ..... And all of them will find something to order on the menu.
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