I would like to educate the masses so it is perfectly clear, if you don’t tip properly you are taking money out of the servers pocket! Most people don’t realize that when you go out to eat at any restaurant, when the server drops the check they are getting taxed on what you eat no matter if you tip or not. 8-10% of your bill I am getting taxed on so when you leave less then that, I’m basically paying to serve you! I’ve been doing this for a long time and give the best service you will ever get, I do it with a smile, and I treat everyone like they’re royalty no matter who they are. A $5 tip on a $100 check is a fucking insult. This is my profession and I take pride in my work. If you go out to eat and get great service, then show your appreciation for it! Otherwise stay at home and cook your own shit! And just because your at a restaurant doesn’t mean it’s ok for your shitty kid to throw food all over the floor. Do you let them do it at home? No, so don’t do it elsewhere!
If you can’t afford to tip, don’t go out to eat!
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Not to worry, I’ve many pennies from this one jackhole who doesn’t like me running my red lights.
Purely my opinion – there are far more shitty customers than there are servers – so tip your server or stay home and make your own damn food. I agree with the OP (though it’s you’re as in you are, not your…please!!!).
I agree that if people are going out to eat and be served by someone else, leaving a tip is required. You don’t go out for a $100 meal and not have $20 to tip. That being said, tipping is for service. I have only done it a few times, but I have left a minimal tip for shitty service (10% is for getting the food I ordered to me) and I have twice left no tip for servers that really should have been stiffed on the bill as well as the tip.
I have never worked in the restaurant business as an adult. I scooped ice cream at a Friendly’s (east coast) when I was in high school and I had to work in the dining hall when I was a freshman in college. Oh and I bused tables at a Hilton hotel restaurant during college, too. None of those jobs involved tips, but they sure involved being treated like shit by asshole customers (and the dining hall at college was the worst).
My mom was a waitress when my sister and I were in grade school and my sister has worked in the food industry her entire life (currently a manager for an independent restaurant and craft brewery which is also an Irish pub, again on the east coast). I know how hard people who work in restaurants work. As a customer I also know that some people work as servers and they suck. They are all attitude and shitty service and then get pissed when they aren’t tipped. Those people do not deserve to be tipped. Those people need new jobs not in the service industry.
PS If you work somewhere where all you do is take my order and I have to seat myself, get all of my cutlery and condiments, and then I have to bus my own table, you do not deserve a 20% tip for taking my order.
I’ve never been a server but I totally feel for the OP. I can’t imagine having to depend on the decency of random people for my money because people are terrible.
Tips?
Can we talk about shitty customers bringing their damned infants out to a restaurant instead? Your shit machine screaming makes other paying customers miserable and has to annoy the hell out of staff because miserable customers just want to get away from your whiney ass sex trophy.
If you can’t afford a baby sitter you can’t afford to go out to eat.
@10 hiding behind anonymity is the act of a coward.
@10/@12
Read my post. Infants are children, but not all children are infants. It’s one thing to bring an unruly child to a restaurant that may misbehave, but children have to learn. It’s quite another thing to bring an infant with no language skills or coping mechanisms to a strange environment filled with uncontrolled and unexpected noises. It is cruel to the infant and mind-blowingly inconsiderate to the other paying customers.
Anything else bother you so much you feel a need to find me on facebook and literally post a threatening “I know where you live” post???? You’re a fucking psychopath.
Are you a moron or unable to read, both? – look at post #1 on the Ikea thread.
I repeat infants are children, but children are not all infants.
Not taking your sex trophy infant to a restaurant in no way even implies house arrest. You are just a troll trying to twist opposing opinions to fit your ideological fantasies. You ascribe “threatened” to a common sense observation that a crying baby in a restaurant is bullshit.
@15 – sanity? You surprise me.
Yeah, tip your server, but don’t get all uppity about your taxes. Those of us who have worked in the industry know you don’t declare all you tips as income. Don’t pretend you do. And if you are an asshole, I may not stiff you, but I might leave you one dollar.
The server is right. We tip 20% for ordinary service. Once in a while if the service is god awful 10%- but that is less than once a year.
Kelli Beth- calling babies “sex trophies” is just weird. I rarely see kids misbehave in restaurants. Sorry no one wants to be with you. Rather than project your lack of self-worth on kids and parents, maybe see a therapist.
Congratulations Someguy267! Know your kid’s limits, come with some toys or a book and yes you can go out. If you have a cup of coffee and the kid makes a mess, throw 5 bucks in the tip jar. The only time I got stink eye with my kids was SanFran, where people gave her stink eye for napping and cooing. Kid haters are the lamest. .