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We ate at the Vanderbilt Estate Rest. and the electronic cash register was down. My husband paid with a $50.00. The waitress, a college junior,finally came over and apologized. She didn't know how to count back the change.I showed her, but she still wasn't sure she "got it".

Some people think it is funny to "stiff" the server--i.e. college frat and sorority people who are driving new "daddy-bought" sports cars and wearing the latest duds.Everything is for them.

As for adding the gratuity on tothe bill, when they do, additiional is expected by most servers.

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"We ate at the Vanderbilt Estate Rest. and the electronic cash register was down. My husband paid with a $50.00. The waitress, a college junior,finally came over and apologized. She didn't know how to count back the change.I showed her, but she still wasn't sure she "got it". "

That's pretty sad. I learned to do that when I was 15 at my first job. At my second job, I learned to count down the till(sp?) and make sure the right amount of money was in it at the end of the day. I was about 17 then I guess. A college junior really has no excuse not to know how to do that, especially one that works in a restaurant taking people's money. I guess that is one more reason for me to make my kids get an after school job when they get old enough for the state to allow them to. I get so annoyed seeing 16 yr old kids who don't have to work for anything and being given new $25k cars by mommy and daddy without having to earn anything on their own. My mom and dad bought me a new car when I turned 18 but I always had a job as a teen and paid my own gas, bought most of my own food, and usually bought my own clothes too. Before then I had an old crappy car to drive because it was cheap and they didn't want a teen driving a nice car before having enough experience behind the wheel to drive well and not wreck it. I totally agree with that. We probably will buy our kids cars when they can drive but only if they are willing to get after school jobs to buy their own gas, most clothing, and lunch at school (i'm not totally unrealistic about how little a teen makes at a part time job.) And the car will not be a brand new $25k car. It'll be a used car that's inexpensive and won't cause our insurance to go too high. If their grades are good enough to get the Hope scholarship to pay for college and they keep part time jobs atleast then as well then we'll think about the new car thing as a reward. But they have to earn something. It sounds like the college kid who waited on you that night hadn't had a job before. Also sounds like the public schools where ever she went didn't do a very good job teaching either. /rant