re: Waitress stiffed on $735 takeout order, then fired for calling out customer on FB

I agree with a few posters in here. There are a lot of friggin poors on tOT. shite, I even tip a few bucks to Sonic folks.

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Because restaurant prices would jump 20% and we'd have to listen to all the OT ballers bitch about paying $14 for their fried cheese sticks at Applebee's.


They don’t tip in Europe and the price of a meal there is much cheaper than in the US.

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Apples and oranges there

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frick that. Even marginally good servers make way more than they would get paid if it was an hourly wage. It's honestly a great system that benefits everyone except two groups: 1) Bad servers 2) Poor, trashy customers

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Actually poor trashy customers benefit. They have their meals subsidized by people who actually tip.

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Then why does anybody salaried do more than the bare minimum? We are all expected to perform our jobs well.

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And usually in keeping with your pay is what you will receive. What you’re asking is for a person making barely above minimum wage to give you service above that which to be expected from such a person, and maintain the attraction to that service industry. You’re going to lose an arse load of people, and replace them with order takes from McDonalds who also do their jobs, but that’s exactly the kind of service industry you’re going to be left with. Or, let’s say you average what they make and raise the prices to pay for them. Now, you’re still paying the same amount with no incentive to go that extra mile for the general public who if you’ve ever worked with them in this industry you’ll soon realize are not the easiest son of a guns to please, and are often quite unreasonable. Turnover will kill that part of the food industry.

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They don’t tip in Europe and the price of a meal there is much cheaper than in the US.

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That's false. Typical meals are more expensive and seating take a lot longer because the waitstaff handles 3-4 times the amount of tables. It's a cool system but wouldn't fly here because most Americans don't want to be in the restaurant for over three hours.

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And usually in keeping with your pay is what you will receive. What you’re asking is for a person making barely above minimum wage to give you service above that which to be expected from such a person, and maintain the attraction to that service industry. You’re going to lose an arse load of people, and replace them with order takes from McDonalds who also do their jobs, but that’s exactly the kind of service industry you’re going to be left with. Or, let’s say you average what they make and raise the prices to pay for them. Now, you’re still paying the same amount with no infinitive to go that extra mile for the general public who if you’ve ever worked with them in this industry you’ll soon realize are not the easiest son of a guns to please, and are often quite unreasonable. Turnover will kill that part of the food industry.

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Exactly. The same people who disagree with this will go to the chik fil a threads and compliment the quality of employees they have.

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but will never tip a carry-out order. That's like tipping a Walmart, Macy's or Best Buy employee.

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No, it isn't. But keep believing that.

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her actual service time was probably 1 minute

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1 minute to put together a $735 to go order?

You are incredibly ignorant

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Or an excuse to pass off employee salaries to the customer. It makes it super easy for the employer to say, "You didnt get a tip? Tough shite." Even when the employee did absolutely nothing wrong.

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And fight the tight wads out there who want top shelf, but don’t think they should have to pay for top shelf. That’s a lot of people in my experience. I’d rather let the customer pay for service rendered than fight raising food prices.

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Charge me more for my meal and not make me pay your staff

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You'd be here in three days bitching about how high food prices are and how shitty the customer service is.