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.
lol please don’t have children.
I wish I met the person who wrote this garbage, so I can squeeze his throat as tight as I can and punching him in the face until I can’t pick up my fist anymore. Because I can. And I will ?
In reply to Jay
People like you make me happy I don’t tip. I also have a permit to carry concealed.
Stupid people such as yourself do not live long lives. Only poor uneducated people threaten violence.
In reply to $Bill
And only uneducated people need to carry a firearm. Congratulations on being a shill for the NRA.
In reply to Frank Foti
Exercising your constitutional rights is as important as voting you moron.
In reply to $Bill
You also have the right of freedom of speech but are you going to walk down the street saying “n*gger”?
Also there’s a guy called The Bitchy Waiter who has his own blog (http://thebitchywaiter.com) and I really think you should check it out.
In reply to JJ
Freedom of speech just means the government can’t prosecute you for what you say, and even that has exceptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions
In reply to What a joke
Sorry, did you just provide Wikipedia, the site editing by anyone from professors to seventh graders, as a source of your argument. I literally don’t even know why people try to argue with you because your ignorance is far too great to be reckoned with.
In reply to Wow
Actually, a friend of mine is actually an administrator there and they tend to keep the BS cleaned out.
However, the point of the link was simply a broad list of the limitations. A fun fact about Wikipedia is that they require credible sources, and edits lacking such sources are removed reasonably soon after. If you find anything there questionable, you can certainly check their sources.
In reply to JJ
I briefly looked at the site. It sounds like a child having a temper tantrum. The funny thing is nobody cares if the waitress has feelings, just bring me my food. Most importantly don’t speak unless spoken to.
In reply to JJ
I say nigga on the street everyday, but I’m half back so I can legally say it.
In reply to Maurice
Why not say it properly. The word is nigger. The funniest thing I ever hear is blacks calling each other Niggers. Welfare and food stamps from one generation to the next.
In reply to $Bill
Bill-
You and this idiot that made this articlr are mornons. Tell your waiter your not going to tip them next time you go out too eat and see how your service is. Or you can just stay at home and microwave your own food since you clearly dont cook. And maybe you and this guys should do some research as too what a waiters responsibilities are because you gave no idea what you are talking about.
In reply to Ej
Your grammar skills and spelling is atrocious. I only speak to the hired help to place my order. If I stay home you won’t have a job.
The only responsibility a waitress has is as follows:
Take the order and bring it to the kitchen. When the order is completed bring it to the table. Pick up the drink order from bar. Then you simply repeat as necessary during the course of the meal. It is not rocket science you simpleton.
In reply to Ej
I think it’s funny you imagine a server would keep their job if they treated a customer poorly based on tipping habits. Do you realize how many servers have been fired for refusing to serve customers they know don’t tip, or for whining about not being tipped?
A server is easy to replace, but without customers there is no restaurant, and when the service is poor a lost customer is not just themselves, but everyone they know. A restaurant’s success depends on reputation.
In reply to $Bill
And only ignorant people write articles like this.. Servers live off of their tips, common knowledge.. People like you are the number 1 reason so many believe we need our government to pass laws and force us to be good people..
In reply to Lease
It’s a minimum wage job, it’s not the kind of job people are supposed to try to live off of. THAT is ignorance.
Expecting a job that requires no education to pay more than minimum wage is ignorant.
Believing that servers are special snowflakes of the service world who should get paid extra for a job they are already being paid to do is ignorance.
Believing their situation is at all the customer’s problem or responsibility is ignorance.
Even the Huffington Post (one of the most liberal sites in existence) has an article about how tipping hurts pretty much everyone involved, including (and especially) servers (even if they’re mistaken in saying servers make less than minimum wage).
Perpetuating tipping culture is ignorance.
In reply to What a joke
Just an FYI, in the majority for US cities, serving is an UNDERWAGE job. Paying for the salaries for the people working, as the gentleman kindly obliges to pay, includes paying gratuity in most restaurants.
I agree that waiting is not a job one should stay on the entirety of their lives and make a comfortable living, but I work in the industry in order to pay my way through school so that one day, maybe one day, I’ll have a degree that will offer me a much higher paying career option.
It’s a gateway, and for some a career. If you’re too tight with money, don’t go to a restaurant where gratuity is expected. Gratuity is commonplace. People need to grow accustomed or move to an area where this isn’t so.
In reply to Katy
Gratuity shouldn’t be expected…it is optional. There is a big difference between the two.
In reply to Zeus
To add, even “mandatory service fees” aren’t legally enforceable, with precedent. A couple refused to pay a service fee due to poor service and the restaurant tried to have them charged with theft. The judge threw it out and said it wasn’t a criminal act.
In reply to Katy
Federal law says with or without tips they must be paid minimum wage, so if they earn less than minimum wage with tips their employer must make up the difference.
http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm
There is no reason to pay extra for a job they are already being paid to do.
In reply to Jay
What a fucking idiot. Most waiters get paid a bs 2.00 an hour that doesnt even go on a check because of tips declared. If this guy is so set in his ways and proud that he doesnt tip his waiter he should have a picture right next to his name for us to see. Then the next time he goes out to eat he can see how his experiance is with a waiter that knows he/she is not going to get tipped. UGHHH YOURE THE WORST.
In reply to Ej
Tips count as pay, “fucking idiot.” By law servers get minimum wage with or without them. If servers don’t get enough in tips to make up the difference, their employer legally must.
http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm
In reply to What a joke
No shit and if youre tipping people THEYRE NOT GETTING PAID “you fucking idiot”
In reply to Ej
Are… Are you mentally handicapped?
Tipping them IS PAYING THEM. So if you tip them THEY ARE BEING PAID.
The entire point being they don’t NEED to be tipped because it is their employer’s responsibility to pay them, and if you don’t tip them they will still get the minimum wage the job is worth FROM THEIR EMPLOYER.
In reply to What a joke
What a joke he is clearly retarded. Don’t waste anymore time with him. The lights are on but nobody’s home.
In reply to Ej
It is a good thing you really are a waiter. You are so fucking stupid, you’re not capable of doing anything else. You don’t even know how much you get paid. I really wish you only did get paid two dollars an hour.
In reply to $Bill
I used to be a waiter and that is litterally how much i was paid by the the CHEESECAKE Factory. 2 dollars and hour that we dont see. Fuck the governent. Most waiters end up owing money during tax season. But like i said youre clearly IGNORANT to this topic and need to do research before you type nonsense. Good day sir.
In reply to Ej
Are you blind as well as being fucking stupid?
http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm
This link is been posted at least 1000 times
You really should only be paid two hours and hour. You are not worth federal minimum wage which is $7.25 an hour. If the state minimum wage is more you get that instead. Seriously did your mother drop you on your head several times his child? That would explain a lot with you.
In reply to $Bill
Two dollars an hour typo
Woooooow. The ignorance is unreal. I’m not even a server and I’m astounded by this post. you would have had the same effect by writing “I’m an asshole” 100 times over. I know you probably don’t want it but here’s a TIP for you… Just stay at home. Win win… Wow… Just wow
In reply to Woooooooow
If I stay at home you won’t have a job.
In reply to $Bill
I’m all for tipping but that was a good one lol
In reply to $Bill
Yes, because whether or not servers have a job depends on whether YOU specifically go out to eat.
By not tipping you provide no incentive to receive good service. Serving you no longer is a priority. At best, the most you can expect is for the server to to the very bare minimum to keep their job. I hop the places you visit regularly keep a record of who you are so that you would get the bare minimal service.
In reply to Jeremy
Without customers there’s no need for servers. A particular customer isn’t just themselves, it’s also their family, their friends. You lose one customer, you lose everyone they know.
If you think a server can get by half-assing their job, especially for a high-paying customer, and keep that job, you’re delusional. It is their job to represent the restaurant to the best of their ability, regardless of whether they’re going to get a tip or not. The restaurant doesn’t care about the server keeping their job if they make the restaurant look bad, and many, many servers have been fired for failing to provide GOOD service. Just like many have been fired for the presumption that they’re entitled to a tip.
there’s nothing wrong with not tipping when correctly justified but your reasons are just stupid.
You’re mad because waiters try and give you a pleasant dining experience? Thats just strange and cruel.
You also realize that employers aren’t being “cheap” with the wages they offer, do you have any idea how the restaurant industry works?
and yes money doesn’t grow on trees…so why are you eating out??? If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it.
Clearly you put yourself on some deranged higher pedestal than everyone else. Your superior attitude is probably due to deeply routed insecurities. It makes sense that you don’t tip, I bet you can’t handle the idea that you are no better than the person serving your food and are so threatened by that fact that you feel the need to establish power by not tipping.
Do you Boo Boo, but remember, your insecurities are showing.
In reply to not a waiter but i like food
Being a waiter or waitress is not a real job that an adult should have I can only imagine their parents shame they must feel for their son or daughter. I don’t tip because you are already paid to do the job.
There is no need for me to establish my social and financial hierarchy over the waitress. Her job is an unskilled joke. I can easily afford to eat out regularly. I choose not to pay a person extra money for doing their simple job.
My biggest pet peeve is service workers that don’t understand they should only speak when spoken to, or describing the evening menu.
In reply to $Bill
if you order take out, you should tip the person who puts your order together $5. I also tip the person at Starbucks $2 every morning and I only get one iced coffee.
In reply to Hannah
You are a fool.
In reply to $Bill
What you might not understand, is that depending on the place you visit the servers have to tip out. This means that they have to give portions of it away to the bussers, food runners and bartenders. If you don’t leave a tip the server is still required to give that money to the others, so they have to take it out of their pockets. There are so many people who serve to keep their families afloat. I much rather tip them than have our taxes be increased even more to pay for them on welfare. These people don’t want to talk to you but put on the happy face just to Make sure you enjoy your stay.
In reply to College student
http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm
Apparently you do not understand federal minimum-wage.
Doesn’t matter who tips out who or who tips out what. At the end of the day you have to make federal minimum-wage.
Also you can’t tip out what you don’t have, and you can’t be taxed on what you didn’t earn. That is the law plain and simple. So the truth is no money comes out of their pockets ever, if someone doesn’t tip. You are just a confused simple waitress.
In reply to $Bill
To add, though, legally a tip pool (or ‘tipping out’) can only include people who actually earn tips.
“The requirement that an employee must retain all tips does not preclude a valid tip pooling or sharing arrangement among employees who customarily and regularly receive tips, such as waiters, waitresses, bellhops, counter personnel (who serve customers), bussers, and service bartenders. A valid tip pool may not include employees who do not customarily and regularly received tips, such as dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and janitors.”
https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.pdf&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiulqbM_9nLAhWBOiYKHS3yBVwQFggNMAE&sig2=8v-vyAeeAvq3CUkrsvyC-A&usg=AFQjCNFenWUOTa6y7IOmmolbhbdYYUo2RQ
However, if your employer is enforcing an illegal tip pool, it’s up to you to do something about it and isn’t the customer’s problem.
In reply to Hannah
Even the servers here say takeaway is tip free, and less than 80% of Americans tip anything for it
http://priceonomics.com/should-you-tip-on-takeout/
In reply to What a joke
Woah I think we’ve found two more Trump support guys! I’ll give you 3 guesses but you’ll only need one????
In reply to Facepalm
Trump supporters? You mean the racist servers who are afraid undocumented immigrants are going to take their jobs and hate anyone with brown skin?
In reply to $Bill
Being a waitress isn’t a real job? It was the only job I could justify having while putting myself through school getting my MBA. Where else can I work 3 shifts and make what a normal person makes when putting in a 40 hour work week. All while keeping my clothes on. And you’re obviously stupid. You tip at the end of your meal so how the hell can someone spit in your food if you’ve already eaten it. Do everyone a favor. Stay home. Or do take out. No one wants to wait on your ingnorant ass.
In reply to Waitress with an MBA.
Read through the hundreds of pages of comments and see all the times servers mentioned spitting in food or worse to people they know don’t tip.
And the entire point is the job isn’t WORTH the money people make in tips. That’s part of the problem: it’s unskilled (by definition) labor. Servers shouldn’t be getting more than the minimum wage the job pays on its own because there is no justifiable reason for them to get more than that – especially from the customers.
Simply wanting more than that, or thinking it’s somehow worth more, are not justifiable. The job takes no more skill or effort than other jobs of the same level that do not get tips. You don’t have to go to school for it, you don’t have to stand on your feet/walk any more than most jobs that pay minimum wage, you don’t have to memorize more than you do at most jobs (in general!). The fact that so many have come here, page after page, stating the same incorrect comments that have been disproven again and again is not only an insult to others who do the same amount of work for minimum wage without whining, but an insult to people who actually do the work to EARN the extra money instead of expecting people to give them more money for a job they’re already getting paid to do.
If you don’t think the job is worth it without tips, somebody else certainly will. There are plenty of minimum wage jobs out there that have no problem filling their slots.
In reply to $Bill
Who are you to say being a server isn’t a real job? Have you ever seen studies on being a server it was proven being a server is more stressful than a doctor. It might be an easy job but dealing with guests with all different personalities such as you, an asshole Isn’t something we enjoy. My family owns a well known business where I was employees for 7 years. I left so I could go to nursing school and decided to become a server, not because I’m am not educated, because it is the only job where I can work whenever I want. I can be home with my two kids more than I was with a Monday-Friday job 8-4. I make over 1000 in a 20 hour work week servering. I see people I graduated with that have a degree and are well educated that can’t even find a job and try selling stupid shit online to people to afford their lifestyle. Then you have others who have a degree who I still make more money than. It’s not about an education, not everyone can be a server it’s not meant for some people because it can bring a lot of stress to the table. It’s also funny that YOU keep commenting on everyone’s posts who comment. Get a life. Do you think you’re tough talking about how you your LTC? Because I do too and I’m a 26 ur old female. You sound ridiculous. ??
In reply to Michaela
I can find studies that say pretty much anything, but that doesn’t make it true.
The anti-vaxxer movement still goes on about a study that was discredited and whose author was barred from practicing.
You really imagine being a server is more stressful than a job where a minor screw up costs hundreds of dollars, and a major screw up can kill somebody?
The fact that servers get so much is part of the problem. Read through the comments and you will see server after server playing the “poor me” card. That they NEED tips at a job that is not intended for people to try to survive on. The entire reason the tip credit exists is because they decided it simply wasn’t right for an unskilled job to earn more than a minimum. It’s why the tip credit has gotten larger and larger throughout the years since it was conceived.
In reply to $Bill
That’s just not a rule in america.
learn and adapt to our customs.
In reply to not a waiter but i like food
A fool and their money are soon parted. I was born in America, tipping is not a custom. Tipping was brought over here from aristocratic Europeans as a show of wealth. They made waiters grovel and beg for a few extra pennies. They also used it to bribe the kitchen to serve them immediately.
You are a stupid ignorant piece of shit. How do you like your custom now?
YOU enter a business with the expectation of a service. For an employee to provide you with their name and hospitality is a sign of respect. As you pointed out, gratuities are expected so why would someone put on a show if there is already an expectation.
Restaurants have to be accountable to the IRS. 20% of yearly sales have to be taxed. If at least 20% is not claimed, the employees get the remainder of that percentage divvied up onto their salaries. Also, most people use credit cards to pay and tip which leaves a paper trail.
Who are you to judge anyone else’s choice of career or insult their skill? Is it not enough for one to perform their job to the best of their ability and with dignity. Who’s really the cheap one, their boss, or is it you sir? Maybe you shouldn’t enter an establishment that provides a “service” if you don’t believe in tipping. In my book, a simple “thank you” would suffice if somebody truly couldn’t afford a tip.
Most often a server doesn’t know ahead of time that you’re not going to tip them so how are they going to spit in your food…after the fact? Were you trying to be clever?
You’ve been a shop floor worker, so have you ever been a waiter? Have you ever worked in a restaurant? Minimum wage in the state I live in is different for servers than it is for others because the state recognizes gratuity as additional income. Tipping is not customary in Europe, that is why servers are not paid $3 an hour. Maybe you should go to the supermarket to get “your” food and make it and clean it up yourself.
“Learn to remember that when people give you something they don’t need to, it’s a favor. ” Do you work for free sir? Is it your employers kindness or “favor ” that pays your bills? What about the waitress who is paying a babysitter or daycare so she can go to work at a minimum wage job, were she depends on small tips to add up to make an honest days pay, or so she or he can attend school and further their education, but mom and dad can’t support them, or the bus boy who gets tipped by the servers…
It’s not necessarily the fact that you don’t believe in tipping that throws me over the edge, but your disrespect to anyone who read this blog and felt insulted and for absolutely no reason deserved to be. Shame on you.
You are a disgrace and you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself. You are ignorant and demeaning and I hope someone spits directly in your face.
You deserve it.
Sincerely,
The American woman you know absolutely nothing about who may or may not serve your next meal
Bill is so rich and important, yet he feels the need to reply to each and every of the hundreds of comments.
More like bill is unimportant. Likely obese, and living in mom’s basement, he youtubes monkey restaurateurs to troll people with. This thread is the most significant this person has ever felt. It’s quite disheartening. In my medical opinion this person needs mental health evaluation.
In reply to Kevin cournoyer
People who have spare time tend to entertain themselves. Personally, I enjoy educating people with facts and logic.
Funny you should criticize Bill for his commenting when you have nothing valuable to add to the discussion, and are commenting only to attempt to insult a stranger on the internet on a blog that his statements agree with.
That’s certainly not mentally sound behavior, and directly fits the definition of trolling far better than Bill simply reinforcing the original post.
In reply to What a joke
Yes, defend Bill who is publicly shaming people that work in the service industry. Bill is mean. Bill is ignorant. And you provided zero logic. Good for you!
In my medical opinion, I have to agree with Kevin
In reply to stupidwaitress
Only doctors have valid medical opinions, and publicly begging for unearned money is shameful of its own accord.
Somebody being “mean” is something children whine about, not adults.
And just because you don’t like what he has to say doesn’t make him ignorant.
In reply to stupidwaitress
Shaming people that believe they are entitled to extra money for doing their job. Simple unskilled work no adult should do.. Stupid waitress is a good name for you , I never met a smart one.
I bet the most elegant place he’s ever “dined” at is IHOP.
In reply to Frank Foti
http://www.waldorfnewyork.com/dining/waldorf-brunch.html
The Waldorf Astoria is my favorite Sunday brunch. $125 per person.
I eat here quite often. How is the greasy spoon working out for you?
In reply to $Bill
Hey $Bill, don’t you love the fact that these ones don’t even try to come up with arguments on the subject (regardless how incorrect), and are left trying to make character insults instead.
It’s like watching my son argue with people when he was 6! “Yeah? Well… you still stink!” XD
In reply to What a joke
I feel like I am addressing a group of children. They are really whiny, and want their milk and cookies without washing their hands first. Just gimmmmmy my tip or I will threaten you, call you names, and stamp my feet.
What a joke, it is always a pleasure sir.
1. We’re nice to you because that’s how a basic human being is supposed to be brought up to act toward other people. Something your cheapskate family obviously hasn’t taught you.
2. We get paid what we get paid because it is a law that employers may assign these wages to employees that earn tips as part of their work. Also we are required to report all of our tips for tax purposes, something that most employers enforce as they do not want to face the consequences of their employees actions. Funny how the man who refuses to tip and who’s point number 5 is that money doesn’t grow on trees would refer to anyone other than themselves as cheap.
3. If any wait staff has ever told you that they are going to spit in your food if you refuse to tip them then it puts my mind at ease that you eat in establishments that fit you’re inconsiderate personality. Enjoy that saliva on your steak.
4. Stick to buffets if your so adamant about the fact that “bringing food” to over 20 tables at a time while also prepping sides and appetizers as well as bussing cleaning and resetting tables “isn’t worth any money”. Try one shift as a waiter, I give you about 3 minutes before your mental breakdown ensues because you just can’t handle it.
5. Please refer to the last few lines of #2
In reply to YourOpinionIsWrong
1. Read through the comments and you’ll find that most servers commenting here are not decent human beings, but entitled, vindictive, and/or hateful people. Even your comment shows this to be true.
2. The law also requires restaurants to ensure that servers get paid the full minimum wage with or without tips. The entire reason the tip credit exists is because restaurant owners didn’t believe it appropriate for servers to get paid twice for the job, and the government agreed. It is a result of tipping, not the cause of it. As for taxes, yes, you are SUPPOSED to, but many servers have commented how their tips are underreported (some realized this, some did not), so, again, other servers have invalidated your statement.
3. You were doing so well, but it would be “your inconsiderate…”
That being said, first off (again) read through the comments of all the servers talking about spitting (or worse) in people’s food.
Also, if refusing to give people money to do something they are already paid to do is inconsiderate, I’d like to see your bank account from all the tips you give out to every cashier who rings up your groceries, every store greeter, every bank teller, every customer service rep…
4. Many of us have done waiting either as volunteer work, or as a job, and still don’t believe tips are deserved. Serving tables takes no skills that aren’t necessary at most other jobs, or some equivalent. You think it’s hard? Try any other minimum wage job, or another unskilled (by definition, as always) job. We’ve had several people state waiting was the easiest job they had.
5. It isn’t the customer’s responsibility to pay the staff. This is true of any business. A person paying hundreds of dollars as a patron is not cheap by any means, simply for refusing to take on the responsibility of your employer.
In reply to YourOpinionIsWrong
You get paid what you get paid because your job is unskilled and simple. You did not receive extensive training or education to do it. You go to the kitchen pick up plates and put them on the table. Then walk to the bar and get a drink order. If you don’t like the pay then do something about it, improve yourself.
In reply to YourOpinionIsWrong
I’m going to respond to number 4 of your rant. When I was 14 years old I wanted a very expensive titanium golf club. My dad was kidding and said get a job. So I secured a waiter position at the country club.
Being a waiter was so super easy, in two weeks time I was promoted to maître d’. That job was so super simple I was promoted to management a week later. Then my dad offered me a job in his precious metals refinery.
If a 14-year-old can be promoted that fast in the restaurant business, only mentally incompetent adults should even consider waiting tables. Waiting tables was the easiest simplest job I ever had in my entire life. For you to make it sound so difficult is laughable.
Relax!!!,if you don’t want to tip your server then you don’t have to go to dine in experience,that’s all.If I were you I will find something else I can enjoy that saves my money.
No matter how educated,rich,talented,skillful,right or cool you
believe you are,how you treat people ultimately tells all.
Intregity is everything.
In reply to Fruity don’t tip
Tipping your server is not a requirement of dining-in under any circumstances.
In reply to Fruity don’t tip
I am not your employer, paying you (tip) is not my responsibility. I don’t tip because I want to save money. I don’t tip because you don’t deserve extra money for doing your job. Speaking of integrity you have none.
In reply to $Bill
For some reason,I start to feel like you two must have really unplesant character to your surrounding . Maybe that’s why
nobody dare to serve you even your server!!
In reply to Fruity don’t tip
I’m actually a pretty well liked person, honestly. Just because I believe in learning to fish instead of begging for them doesn’t make me unpleasant.
I am a server and I actually really enjoy it… I love getting to know people from different walks of life… I’ve met so many amazing people and learn so much everyday. Yes, it is mentally stressful when I don’t get a 20% tip when I know that I’ve given great service and make only 2.13/hr. People are who they are and I don’t let a person who doesn’t tip much or at all affect me personally… I’ve learned that it is the people that dont tip that always justify themselves, always make excuses, and continue to be the type of person I would never want to be. I feel sorry for them. So, to all the wait staff that takes you’re job seriously as I do…. walk away with a smile, because at least you aren’t them.
In reply to Anni
Federal law ensures you make minimum wage. http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm
You talk about justification for not tipping, but there’s no justification for tipping.