It never fails to shock me how a tip is demanded in the US. People simply refuse to listen to reason when we (yes, there are others!) tell them that leaving a tip isn’t necessary. Well, I’m hoping for too much here, but if you’re a waiter, here are 5 reasons why I will try my best not to give any money to you and why the reasons for tipping are crappy.
1. You act as if you’re my best friend
Just leave me alone ok? I don’t want to bloody chit chat with you. I want food. FOOD! Get it? It’s a restaurant. I go there to eat. I go because I want either Italian food, Chinese Food or something else which I can’t get in a McDonald’s. So I come to a restaurant to fulfill my cravings for it. I will pay for what I value – food. Not you.
Christ, you offend me – kneeling down next to my table, pretending to like me and chatting as if you’re my best friend when it’s obvious that all you’re after is the tip! I’m not a bloody money bag you know. I will pay the bill which includes the cost of the food, the environment and the salaries of the people involved – nothing more.
The only way to get money out of me that I don’t have to legally pay is by prying it out of my cold dead hands…
Bottom line: I don’t want to know your name, or interact with you for any longer than I have to in order to place my order. As far as I’m concerned, you’re the equivalent of a conveyor belt that brings me my food and a computer into which I input my order. Of course, I won’t be rude. But don’t expect me to interact with you any more than I would with some stranger.
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2. You don’t get paid enough
And this is my problem how exactly? It’s astonishing that customers are expected to make up for your employer’s cheapness in not paying you a decent wage. Please include the full cost in everyone’s bill thank you very much. I’ll pay it because I have to and the charge is there for me to see.
What’s really funny here is that no one seems to criticize the employers! All criticism is reserved for non tipping customers instead of the owners of the restaurant for not paying a decent wage. Wtf! Could it possibly be because you guys know you can make much more by tips and under report your income to the IRS?
3. You’ll spit in my food if I don’t tip you?
And I’ll shoot your kid if you don’t give me a million dollars. Seriously, am I even hearing this right? You’re actually using the threat of blackmail to make me pay you? Well as long as you’re openly claiming to be a criminal it’s all right I guess.
Fortunately that’s why I prefer buffets. Listen apart from it being illegal, this shows your poor integrity. But if you spit in someone’s food because they didn’t give you money you didn’t earn, then you’re a loser and deserve to be a waiter for the rest of your life.
4. Bringing me my food isn’t worthy of being paid extra
Did you cook it? Did you invent it? No. You picked it up and brought it to me. While it might not be easy, there are plenty of jobs which are much worse – shop floor workers for example. And I’ve been a shop floor manager, so I know. Face it – compared to other jobs, being a waiter is unskilled. You get paid what the market will think your services are worth. You don’t deserve more for your work over and above what your employer should pay you.
5. Money doesn’t grow on trees
I expect you to be grateful and pray for me at night if I tip you 10%. Be happy I gave you anything at all. I worked for the money in my wallet and by giving you some I didn’t have to, I’m doing you a favor. Learn to remember that when people give you something they don’t need to, it’s a favor. You don’t complain that they didn’t give you more!
By the way, the same thing above applies to all professions that demand tips including those on cruise liners.
So now that you understand why I won’t give you money you don’t deserve, stop with the “oh how could you?” attitude. I can. And I will.
Update: Here’s a rebuttal of the many silly justifications for tipping that people have given in the comments section.
I have 5 reasons why I don’t want to smell your body odor because you don’t wear deodorant. It’s your custom to smell like shit, we let you be. It’s OUR custom to tip. See the logic? Probably not because you’re a coward, selfentitled, & very ignorant.
@BawgDog — 4 years+ on here ! NEED I SAY MORE ??
No one will spit in your food if you didn’t tip…as generally you pay for your meal AFTER you eat…
”Bringing me my food isn’t worthy of being paid extra” Go get it yourself then. If you think a service is not worth it, then stop using it. Or does serving tens of tables and having them at tip top condition seem so insignificant to you?
Could not agree more. Leave it to the backwards yanks to come up with a system whereby restaurant owners stiff their workers and then expect their customers to make up the short fall…
….bloody Americans… not a brain amongst the lot of them…
In reply to Batman
Don’t get me started on the spineless English either…If you clowns are so smart why don’t you ever realize you’ve passed the airport three times on your way there?Thanks for the 15$ tip limey.
In reply to Batman
you’re clearly living off food stamps and struggling with your finances, if you can’t afford a 20% tip. it’s been this way for years & it’s not going to change.
also, for the love of God. I hate the way you guys talk, “bloody, yanks, etc” you sound ignorant.
In reply to Daniel
I can afford the 20% tip. I just don’t want to pay the unskilled waitress more money to do her simple job. She is already paid unskilled wages for her unskilled job. If you want more money get a better job. Oh wait you can’t.
In reply to Fran
I doubt you can afford to tip sweetheart. Most people who can afford to tip do it because its the right thing to do.Sure you get your Occasional Scumbag (like yourself) but most people are cool. I’ll tell you something though baby. if you’re a known stiff who frequents a restaurant you are likely getting some extra special sauce on your food. If you’re a known stiff at a restaurant you deserve to have some waiter rub his sweaty ball sack on your silverware which is exactly what they do and I know it for a fact… Eat hearty
In reply to Brian
Sounds like threats, blackmail, and coercion to demand tips you do not deserve.
As a district attorney, I have prosecuted restaurant workers for tampering with food. This is prosecuted as a felony minimum three years state prison. When you get out of prison you need to defend yourself against a civil lawsuit.
Those range from half a million dollars to over 5 million. Another words you will never own a car, boat, or house for the rest of your life. You are nothing special how dare you tamper with a person’s food!
In reply to Matt
Never said i did it smart guy…just said i know it happens
In reply to Matt
omg! you are definitely not any of those things. lmfao!
In reply to Matt
alright mister big bad DA, which was an easy pun anyways, in order to prosecute a server you would, as you know, need to have evidence. the only evidence i would see as being even potential is a DNA test which we both know is a reach, or a witness either in the form of human or via camera. every restaurant i’ve worked at, servers are like a union within themselves. theyre not going to rat, especially if its over someone who doesnt tip. 2nd, even with cameras, 99 times out of 100 there are plenty of blind spots. the people you claim to have persecuted were hot headed idiots. the 99 other servers who get their revenge on the skimpy assholes get away with it every day and you’ll never know
In reply to Brian
I never tip the waitress she really is nothing but a conveyor belt. $100 meal leaving a 20% tip is $20 Walking 20 feet to the table and putting my breakfast down no tip for you bitch.
In reply to Fran
An “unskilled” waitress. You have got to be kidding me! How does busting my ass to pay off my tuition and student loans make me unskilled?! The Masters Degree hanging on my wall at home would challenge your insulting opinion. You’re uneducated and ignorant.
In reply to Elizabeth
The Department of Labor classifies service and serving jobs as unskilled labor. It says no training or formal education is required.
Your masters degree must’ve been for something worthless like underwater basket weaving. Because if you got it for something worthwhile you wouldn’t have loans and you wouldn’t be waiting tables.
In reply to Ken
I don’t understand the Mindset of of a person who uses service workers and doesn’t tip. it’s the strangest thing to me. maybe it’s because I live in Las Vegas and non tippers are treated like Nazi war criminals… You people are weird
In reply to Fran
I live on Long Island, New York – which is one of the most expensive places to live in the United States. I am 24 years old and come from an extremely wealthy family. I do not pay for anything including my cars, car insurance, cell phone, credit cards, private college (50,000/year), etc. Now that we have established that I am better than you, we can move onto my career.
As of right now, going to school full-time and work as a server part-time so you’re right. I can not get a better job. However in a year, I will graduate with my bachelors and start my career path. I also inherited my parents house at the age of 24, so thats another reason why I’m better than you.
Trust me. I wish all I had to do was take your drink order, drop food and bill. However thats not the case. I have to balance numerous tables at a time while listening to your demands. I get 5 dollars an hour and usually work five hours a day. If I worked 4 days that week, that’d equal to $100/week. I am fortunate enough to come from money, but most people do not have what I do. I would love for you to live off $100/week. Instead, I can make up to $500/week thanks to people who tip because they take into consideration everything I have to balance at work.
So you can go choke on your fathers c**k, while he busts a nut in your a**
In reply to Dan
Now that I have calmed down and read what I wrote. I realize I sound like a stuck up brat, which I am. Even before I was a server, I was raised to always tip 25%. All those things I have in my life and I treat everyone with respect, especially jobs that deal with the public. I ALWAYS tell customer service, servers, cashiers, etc to take their time and that I’m not in a rush. Even though sometimes I am. Most of the time they appreciate it and will reward me with waving a fee or giving me a complement which make my day. A simple “thank-you I really appreciate it” makes me feel great. However us servers do not want to hear that instead of a tip! hahahaha!
In reply to Dan
There are plenty of other part time jobs out there and alot of even minimum wage jobs are respectable, but being a server is not one of them. A server should be honored to wait on me. You won’t get a tip from me even if i ask for 5 refills. It is such an unskilled job. A waitress should get no more than $2 an hour. The chef does alot more work than you.
In reply to Walter
I never sad the chef didn’t do more work than me. Their job does seem a lot more stressful, however they make a lot more hourly. I should be honored to wait on someone like yourself? You’re out of your mind! Please. You should be honored if you had me as a server. I’ve had inconsiderate assholes like yourself & embarrassed them to the point where they left the restaurant. You show no respect to me, I show no respect to you. I do not know where you’re from or raised, but I am so glad that 90% of the people are the complete opposite of you and tip me accordingly. You are such garbage, probably from low class town/state.
In reply to Batman
I’m an american and I completely agree. SOME of us are morons, but not all.
In reply to Kailey
You’re right some of us are morons…the ones who think they can use service people and not tip like 95% of the people who do…GFY sweetie
In reply to Brian
A waiter is even more pathetic than a waitress.
In reply to NonTipper
Nothing’s more pathetic than a douchebag who thinks he’s better than everyone
In reply to Brian
I am better than waiters and waitresses because I have a real job. I went to college and earned an MBA degree. I am also an important person that makes a lot of money. A waiter and waitress is just a modern-day slave. It is an honor for them to serve me with no tip. Get a real job if you want more money. Tipping you is never going to happen. Give me poor service and you will need another job after I contact the executive board and corporate office.
In reply to Stevie
First of all I doubt you’re all that important a person.If you were you wouldn’t be on a blog arguing about tips with service workers.I really doubt you have a job at all .I’m sure you’re just some snot nosed brat playing on his computer in his parents basement…If you ever did an honest days work in your life you would know how to respect people and not to insult their livelihood…get back to your video games kido.
In reply to Stevie
You might be the most ignorant person that has commented. Your an important person that makes lots of money. I’m laughing so hard I can hardly type. Jesus what is wrong with you? What did you invent? Create? Give me an example of how your more important? You were born then learned a language that someone else created at schools and insistutions that other people created. You took transportation that someone else invented and sat in buildings other people designed and built. You are a pawn in the game. There are countless numbers of people who can do whatever it is you do. People with your mentality do rise to the top for the most part. It’s simple psychology. The truly gifted people in this world are so smart they always humble themselves with the thought of “there’s no way I should be in charge, there has to be someone smarter or more qualified” and that leaves the door open for people of your mentality to swoop in and take the corner office. The higher up the latter people are, the more ignorant they are. If you don’t want to tip just don’t patronize establishments that tipping is expected. I suppose you don’t make enough to employ a personal chef or enough to have a stay at home wife/husband that could concentrate on preparing and serving meals for her master. Lmao, your a pawn in the game of life.
In reply to Stevie
I wait tables in a resort area Somewhere in the South. Boy oh boy do I rake it in! Fortunately for me most people are decent human beings. Which you clearly are not. I hope someday you lose everything you have and end up working in some shitty little diner where people treat you like crap and decide they don’t need to pay you for the service you provided to them. I am sure you will die alone.
In reply to Stevie
Wow I’m disgusted by your post. People who say shit like this have obviously never waited tables because trust me it is not easy! Way more to it then anyone, esp. You would understand. Do everyone a favor and don’t go out to eat… Ever! Thanks
In reply to KT
If you had skills and an education, you would not have to be a waiter or waitress. Waiting tables is a job for losers. Don’t expect a tip for doing your unskilled job.
In reply to Stevie
GET THROUGH YOUR FUCKIN’ HEAD THAT MOST SERVERS HAVE THIS JOB TO PUT THEMSELVES THROUGH COLLEGE SO THEY CAN EVENTUALLY START A CAREER. YOU’RE SO IGNORANT. STFU. IF YOU REALLY HAD YOUR MBA YOU WOULD REALIZE THIS.
In reply to Dan
I think Dan is gay. A server is a lowlife girl’s job. They usually have several kids who never know who their father is and live in a trailer off of food stamps and government assistance. They only work as a waitress part-time and dont claim most of their tips so they can still get government assistance to help pay for their crack babbies. Also most waitresseses are on drugs and choose waitressing because no other job will
hire them if they can’t pass a pee test. Go back to sucking pole Danny boy and make sure you wash your hands before you get my food. I always get a kick out of male servers. They are the lowest life forms around.
In reply to Frankie
I am not gay, but even if I was would that be such a bad thing? You’re from the dirty south aren’t you? hahaha. If you’re so disgusted by servers, why do you go out to eat?
In reply to Brian
It takes a skilled person to deal with the likes of a moron like you!! being a waiter or server does not mean they have no skills apparently you are the one who is uneducated because you assume and place judgement on those who have this job. You don’t even know the reason why they are employed there or if I t is a second job your a
Douch bag who knows nothing
In reply to Erin
You should read the names of the people making the comments…I’m defending the service worker.
In reply to NonTipper
What do you do for a living?
I just wanted to let you all know that you can keep being assholes and I’ll keep giving 50% tips to cover for your worthlessness. I may only make $9 an hour but I get a lot of overtime in, so I know a little about hard work, unlike all you lazy wealthy people who claim to work so hard. Poor babies, tell me something, do you guys even remember how to wipe your own ass, or do you have somebody for that? You’re all as worthless as infants and yet if money didn’t exist tomorrow do you think you would survive a whole day? Could you even feed yourselves if you had to actually cook your own meals? You are worthless, useless and pathetic and deep down you know it, that’s why you treat other people like they are beneath you, because it is literally the only way you can feel good about yourselves.
Just remember, it was lovely being rich in 1788 France too, but treat the peasants like garbage long enough and your suffering will start to look better than their survival.
In reply to Megan
I know how to cook, clean, and wipe my butt. Since I am wealthy, I pay people to do these things because I don’t want to ruin my manicure or get dirty. I don’t tip because it is an honor for the waitress to be graced with my presence. Tipping is stupid any ways. Paying a person more money for doing a job they are are all ready paid for is moronic.
In reply to Money rocks
Who the fuck are you? The First Lady, duchess of Cambridge or, Angelina Jolie?
You sound autistic and I’m pretty sure you’re going to be alone for the rest of your life.
OMG!!!! Still getting comments. THis is probably the most sucessful blog post ever.
Maybe you should go settle on Wendy’s then you dick face. If you’re not willing to tip, then make your own food. THAT’S Just How It is. You not Tipping isn’t going to change the food industry. People have to rely on tips to raise themselves, famoly, and many other things. Why don’t you quit your job, be a server, and tthen repost.
In reply to corey
The waitress didn’t make the food so I’m not going to tip her. Just being able to have me in your fine establishment should be an honor. Tonight is date night fir me and the wife. We will go to an expensive steakhouse and have two expensive bottles of wine with our meal. Our tab will be around $200. I will not leave a penny for tip. The whole 20% thing is retarded. If the waitress complains than i will have her fired.
In reply to NonTipper
management will likely side with their server douchebag
In reply to Brian
You are so wrong. I’ve personally got at least 3 waitresses fired for complaining about me not tipping them. Just last week i was out with my girlfriend and ordered an expensive meal. The waitress confronted us when we were leaving and was quite upset that she didn’t get a tip. I went directly to her boss (who also golfs at the same country club I belong to). I told him that his waitress Jenn told me to fuck off. Next thing you know she was fired and i got two $50 gift cards to come back.
In reply to Frankie
You sir are proof that there are bad people in the world. It takes a special breed of lowlife to pull something like you did… I’ll bet you actually felt good about it. Boy what a scumbag
In reply to Brian
So let me get this straight:
A couple goes out to eat, pays for what they wanted, gets verbally abused by some self-centred and greedy cunt waitress over the petty reason of not being tipped, reports the bitch to her boss, fires the waitress, AND THE CUSTOMER IS THE LOWLIFE BAD GUY?
Really think about what you just wrote.
In reply to Brent
Yes Brent he is a scumbag and a lowlife…If he had just done what most people do and left a proper tip for her service she wouldn’t have had a reason to let him know what a scumbag he is…If the poor girl provided good service and wasn’t telling the man to fuck off throughout the meal.If she was polite and curious the whole time fetching his drinks extra silverware and god knows what else then he stiffed her in the end then the server had the right to let the man know what a Jerkoff he is
In reply to Brian
Your wrong. The customer was in the right. Tipping is optional, not mandatory. If a waitress told me to fuck off for not tipping I would tell her boss too. If her boss doesn’t fire her then i would tell everyone I know not to visit that establishment.
In reply to Doug M
And this is where you miss the point.that poor server shouldn’t have had to tell the customer to fuck off in the first place.if she provided good service which I she did the customer should have tipped her,plain and simple ,and it would have ended right there.shes not his servant and slavery ended a long time ago…IMO there is NO EXCUSE for not tipping people who provide good service.To stiff a hard working girl like that is a douchebag thing to do pure and simple… tipping is optional being a piece of shit is optional to.
In reply to Brian
Maybe the waitress gave horrible service. I’m glad he didn’t tip. It’s the employer’s job to pay for their workers. Regardless If he tipped or not, that waitress is a bitch for confronting him about it. I never tip and i used to be a waitress.
In reply to Sarah
As for you sugar tits I’m sure you provide the best service in town
In reply to Brian
Uh huh. Just as I thought, and I’m not surprised.
Aside from the wage you agreed upon when being hired, doing the job you were hired to do doesn’t entitle you to shit, regardless of the job.
My very first job in high school was a banquet porter, so yes, a job can be stressful. But I know for a fact that if I did what that pathetic excuse for a human being did to the customer, I would be fired before I could a “sorry”, and rightfully so. But I never had to worry about that because I always have enough respect for the customer to make a choice and not get all pissy about not getting something extra. That goes with any job.
So please, quit making mountains out of molehills and cut the holier than thou attitude.
In reply to Brent
She is not a pathetic excuse for a human being. She’s somebody’s daughter. She’s somebody’s sister. She’s trying to earn a living to support her family. Everyone with common sense knows that you tip servers. It’s just the way it is. it’s the way it’s always been. Granted there are a few people like you and whatever clown started this blog in the first place who think otherwise but you people are in the vast minority. most people would look down on you as scumbags and I think you know it… we can agree to disagree I’ll go on treating people with humanity and respect you go on being a jerk off
In reply to Brian
I feel good about what he did. It’s good to know there are others out there that are just like me I would never tolerate disrespect from servers. They need to learn their place. The waitress is shit under my shoe. Serving me is a great honor for those
losers of life.
In reply to Money is good
O.f course you feel good about what he did. bad people always like seeing other bad people do bad things. thankfully you are in the vast minority. most people are not scumbags like yourself. the server is not Shit under your shoe in fact I’m sure she is an infinitely better person than you are… personally I think you’re compensating for some shortcomings that you have a hard time dealing with by telling yourself you’re better than others when in fact you’re just a piece of shit
In reply to Brian
I am better than any waiter or waitress. I come from a wealthy educated cultured family. The waitress is simply a servant to fetch my food and wine.
In fact most people are better than servers. It is a simple unskilled job with no training. No responsibilities or respect is attached to it. Any adult that waits tables for a living is just one step above a bum.
The family meal today came to $458.70. I left zero tip. Only a fool would tip 20% extra. I didn’t get wealthy by wasting money. If the waitress does not like it I don’t care. I wrote get a better job on the tip line.
In reply to Biff
I doubt you make more than minimum wage.most wealthy people save for the spoiled brats who inherited their money are good tippers…those who scratched and clawed their way up know what it’s like to be poor….another wannabe aristocrat . you’re not fooling anyone.
In reply to Biff
I’m sorry, you come
from a wealthy, cultured family you say? Wow! Look at you! Do you want a cookie? People like you disgust me. You say you’re wealthy and cultured, yet you don’t have the decency to tip. A lot of waitresses are in college trying to make extra cash to pay for student loans and classes, SO THEY CAN GET OUT OF WORKING AN UNSKILLED JOB. A lot of servers are not planning on staying there for the rest of their lives. Yet they continue to serve people like you, with a good attitude. I’d like to see you serve tables for ONE night, and know that it’s not just “bringing food to a table”. It’s so much more to that, but I’m sure your spoiled ass wouldn’t try it. Have fun living your hateful, greedy, disgusting life. Karma will come to you soon.
In reply to Biff
The fact that you know the exact price of the meal to the cent is ridiculous. I don’t even look at the bill. I will literally give them my black card, have them run it & then leave them an italian leather suitcase filled with a million dollars. I like to flaunt my money, not hide it. “Don’t hide it, divide it!” A $500 check even for one person, is ridiculously POOR.
In reply to Dan
I dine and dash everyday for over 10 years and have never been caught. That way the worthless server has to pay my tab. So go ahead and tip. It just pays for my meal.
In reply to Todd
TODD. STOP LIYING. YOU’RE NOT COOL ENOUGH TO DO THAT. ONLY COOL PEOPLE CAN DO THAT.
In reply to Frankie
Just remember karma!
In reply to Frankie
Okay, that definitely didn’t happen… I just want you to know that Applebees doesn’t count as an expensive meal and your neighborhood park doesn’t count as a country club. Where are you from where your morals are so backwards.
In reply to NonTipper
the chefs made your foods, did you tip them at all?
In reply to NonTipper
Most places require tips be spread evenly to the cooks, bus boys, etc. So when you don’t tip, they’re basically paying for your food.
You forgot reason #6 you’re a complete douchebag.
In reply to Brian
My meal last night was over $300 and 2 hours long. I made the waitress work her ass off and left no tip. It felt so good watching her look so disappointed when she saw no money on the table. Me and my party laughed all night thinking about it.
In reply to Dino
I couldn’t stop laughing when I read how you made the waitress bust her ass and run around for no tip. I will be doing the same thing this Friday evening at an expensive restaurant.
We probably spend more at our dinner time meal then the waitress makes in an entire week. I like making losers bust their ass. I enjoy it so much you can call it a hobby.
In reply to Fredric
I thought your hobby was smoking polls
In reply to Dino
If you’re trying to prove what a piece of shit you are you’re doing a good job…I’m sure she got a good tip from a decent human being sometime that night to cancel out your Stiff.
In reply to Brian
I’m so glad I’m not a food server to have to deal with people like you would be very difficult