re: I hate self-righteous waiters who act like they're entitled to a tip

i spent approx 6500 on massages last year i know cause I did my taxes a few weeks ago and wrote that shite off like a boss


i don't tip to impress women now dummy i'm hitched. But while single by any means necessary I'm going to do what i can to get an in

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Competition. If a restaurant prices itself out of business that's their problem. Instead, the whole tip thing is just consumers subsidizing the restaurant's help. A tip should be for extraordinary service over and above what your job pays you to do. I don't tip the construction workers that built my deck, or the electricians that ran new lines for my pool equipment.

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You are one stupid frick!

Do you need a safe space for me calling you a bad name?

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No one tips, Your food cost goes up 15-20%. What am I missing?

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If we're *expected* to pay a 20% tip no matter how poor the service is, then why not just go ahead and increase food prices and eliminate the tip altogether?

I like to tip well

But if they give me any lip they get nothing.

This has happened once in my 33 years on this earth

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War zone= somewhere only those have worked or been in can understand.
You're acting like being a server is some terrible thing that no outsider could possibly have any perspective on.

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I still have nightmares to this day about waiting tables and its been 2 and a half years since I last had the job

I dont think you realize just how much has to be going right in order for you to get the service you feel you deserve.

Believe it or not waiting on you is not the only job a server has

Apart from waiting the tables a server generally has running duties in the back, such as refilling ice or restocking condiments, as well as running food - you don't just run the food of your tables, if there is a hot tray that is up its whoever is closest to the tray to run it to the table

So if its a busy night, you are assigned 4 tables, and there are lots of trays to be run, and you are assigned to the running duty of refilling the Iced Tea and its out, you probably aren't going to get the ultra snappy service you feel like you deserve. Oh shite my table wants Dr. Pepper and the syrup is out, better go to the back to change it, oh shite I can't find a box of Dr. Pepper syrup, oh there it is, now I have to install it, thats done, oh shite there are half a dozen trays that need to be run, better run one, get back to the kitchen, oh shite the Kitchen told me they are out of pasta and its going to be 30 minutes until the new batch is ready, need to go ask my table if they want something else, and while I am heading back to the table another table flags me down and asks for a new margarita because the one they have has the wrong tequila in it

Some of you cocksuckers need to realize that YOU ARENT THE ONLY TABLE THE SERVER HAS.

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I thought better of you. People like you go in looking for an excuse not to tip.

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THIS... I had an a-hole do the shite that they did on Cheers, with the 5 $1 bills laid out on the table and he told me he would take one away each time I made a mistake

I just kind of gave him a look, and he took one away because of that.

I actually gave him WORSE service because I didn't give a shite, if his bill was more than $30 it would have been a shitty tip anyway, I am not going to be manipulated like that for a whopping $5 tip

Idiots like that are looking for reasons not to tip you

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Why are servers the only people in the world that can frick up something for you royally and then still shame you into paying them for doing a job that involves filling your water?

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Ever have a an off day at work? Still get paid? Me too...

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So by that logic a waiter is the same as a McDonald's cashier, who makes minimum wage.

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I was not implying that at all. My point was correcting a poster who said he still tipped bad servers at least 5% so they would still make minimum wage. This notion is based on incorrect information as there are laws enforced by the Department of Labor that say if a server does not make enough tips for their hourly wage to meet the minimum, then the restaurant is responsible for making up the difference.

In no way was I implying that wait staff is on par with that of a McDonalds cashier. In fact, if you look at the post I made before that, I point out that you should always tip at least 10% with bad service because it unfairly penalizes bussers and more behind the scenes staff that get paid from the waiter's tips.

OP just saw you're in Mobile. What restaurant was this?