I think its for their charities.
Yea, and those people serving your food go "home" to lean-to's and eat rice.
Ask Tall Bill if he's laughing all the way to the bank.
They should be able to post the pictures of people like this on the wall of restaurants like they used to do with those who passed bad cheques, so then you can turn them away at the door. Damn deadbeat cheapskates.
KT
Approx 30 years ago as a teenager I bussed tables in a restaurant for a summer. I would say nearly every single weekend when the families of non-tippers came in to eat I saw the waiters telling the kitchen which orders were the non-tippers, and I ROUTINELY watched the waiters spit in the food, wipe it on the floor, and blow snot into it. I am sure it got even worse than that but I didn't want to know about it.
Children, wives, grandparents, all ate that shit (literally I am sure) because one mofo was too cheap to leave a couple bucks for the waiter.
For this reason I almost never eat food that I did not observe being prepared and when social circumstances dictate that I do visit a tipping type of establishment I pay the ransom. Fuck that.
Approx 30 years ago as a teenager I bussed tables in a restaurant for a summer. I would say nearly every single weekend when the families of non-tippers came in to eat I saw the waiters telling the kitchen which orders were the non-tippers, and I ROUTINELY watched the waiters spit in the food, wipe it on the floor, and blow snot into it. I am sure it got even worse than that but I didn't want to know about it.
Children, wives, grandparents, all ate that shit (literally I am sure) because one mofo was too cheap to leave a couple bucks for the waiter.
For this reason I almost never eat food that I did not observe being prepared and when social circumstances dictate that I do visit a tipping type of establishment I pay the ransom. Fuck that.
This right here pretty much sums up the problem (although much more drastic then most places).
Really, management just needs to grow a backbone. I don't buy into the whole "better tip = better service" bit. Every other service based operation (I should know, I run a $45M big box) sets a standard for service, and holds accountable for performance. If I witnessed the above mentioned behavior, I'd be terminating or having charges pressed... and guess what? Given a few months, suddenly either everyone would be providing great customer service, or be unemployed.
Also, people in the industry need to understand that being "hard" doesn't mean you should be bringing home $40k+ a year. As mentioned several times in this post, waitresses/waiters make well above minimum wage and yet still complain about it. I really don't understand this mentality at all.
Yeah thats my beef. It used to be a tip was earned for special service otherwise you got nothing.
Now people expect a good tip just to do their minimum effort at a job. Then they dont understand why all the good work is being sent to India and Korea.
exactly, that's the difference in this country, while being a server or similar job you can make a living wage! not in Scandinavia.
The jobs you are talking about are manufacturing and data /call services for the most part, some coding too but nothing involving tipping. Some might argue that it's the restaurant owners who should compensate staff adequately without tipping but that extra cost would then be added to the price of a meal anyway. As it is now try and tip something, $138 is not a cheap meal and cheap bitch should have the ability to add a tip..
This right here pretty much sums up the problem (although much more drastic then most places).
Really, management just needs to grow a backbone. I don't buy into the whole "better tip = better service" bit. Every other service based operation (I should know, I run a $45M big box) sets a standard for service, and holds accountable for performance. If I witnessed the above mentioned behavior, I'd be terminating or having charges pressed... and guess what? Given a few months, suddenly either everyone would be providing great customer service, or be unemployed.
Also, people in the industry need to understand that being "hard" doesn't mean you should be bringing home $40k+ a year. As mentioned several times in this post, waitresses/waiters make well above minimum wage and yet still complain about it. I really don't understand this mentality at all.
These complaints are from low end servers or establishments. I work in a neighborhood full of six digit servers and bartenders. I got $7 on $93 last night and it didn't affect me one bit mentally. 15 minutes later I got $20 on $75, it all evens out.
These complaints are from low end servers or establishments. I work in a neighborhood full of six digit servers and bartenders. I got $7 on $93 last night and it didn't affect me one bit mentally. 15 minutes later I got $20 on $75, it all evens out.
I believe there is a skill in waiting on people whether it be drinks or food. A lot of these atot geeks that think wait staff are below them couldn't last one day doing your jobs. A pretty girl would ask for a drink and they'd freeze up and probably jizz their pants while stuttering. I know for a fact I couldn't do it. Im an antisocial type and would probably get removed after an hour.
Yur supposed to work your way up from tipping to a good job. If tipping jobs suck so much why do people half ass them? Do they really think that kind of work ethic nabs good jobs?
And I agree 100 percent the lady was a bitch. If she is a struggling mother why the fuck is she getting expensive restaurant meals? and if she can afford a nice restaurant meal why the fuck cant she tip?
What you are basically looking at is a way for resaurant/bar owners to advertise one price on a menu that bears no reality to the actual price you will pay. Pay ALL staff a minimum wage set by the government and tip for excellent service/good food/because you are drunk and the server has awesome boobs/any other reason. It works all over the world, is fair and stops all these stupid arguements about whether servers actually make minimum wage or not.
Morraly compulsory tipping is the stupidest idea ever created and the fact that some places expect you to tip while others don't would be confusing as hell for a foreigner like me.