Comments on: Treated Like Crap At The Bottom Of A Shoe

By: Jules

Jules — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:04:15 +0000

Hmmm… you make some good points Laura. I gave you a thumbs up!

By: gringo

gringo — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:30:31 +0000

I'm not sure the issue here is the tip (it was returned). Treating people disgracefully sometimes requires a succinct response. Certainly not the first time I've heard of or seen change thrown. Most likely not the first time for this degenerate either.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:45:54 +0000

People in other professions manage to do their jobs well without the incentive of a tip. Good service would be mandatory to keep their job. Maybe at nicer places, they could have a service charge like they do in some european countries, where its like a door charge, and that could be split among staff?

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:43:34 +0000

The problem with that Laura is that some servers wouldn't try to perform exceptional service since they'd know that they weren't going to receive anything more for their service anyway. Also, it would hurt some servers who perform so well that they receive more money with tips than they would with a living wage.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:12:22 +0000

I wish that they would do away with tips altogether and start paying servers a living wage, and then jack up the price of things on the menu to cover it. So then all the customers who say "well, they're already being paid to do their job, why should I tip?" can stop benefiting from the tipping situation without paying into it.

By: Darth Babaganoosh

Darth Babaganoosh — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:37:06 +0000

Why not do what restaurants in Asia do and not require tip or adding anything at all to the bill?

By: MM

MM — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:00:16 +0000

I don't know about all European countries, but none of the ones I have ever been to have added anything to my bill.

By: kobold

kobold — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:04:40 +0000

ALL restaurants in this country should as most European do: Ad 15 to 20% to the bill. Some restaurants in South Beach, Fl. do so because of all those international tourists.

By: KPinky

KPinky — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:41:59 +0000

Well that guy does seem like a dick.

At the same time tips are not compulsory to give.

You acted like a child by throwing change at him, what would happen if you hit someone or you scratched a car, the damage would outweigh the tip.

You have to deal with dicks like that guy in any job and you don't get paid extra for it either.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:11:45 +0000

I have never thrown change at anyone, but have seen it done a few times and I just cringe in fear the server is gonna get their ass beat. A former co worker of mine had a table one night, 12 top? and one man paid and assumed his guests would chip in for a tip. Well, no one chipped in. She's a petite little scorpio, she chased them out the door and asked what was wrong with the service? Why would you run up a tab that high and not tip? That's when he explained the confusion..

He returned a week or so later, brought the same party, asked for my friend to serve them and then tipped what he -should've- tipped last time on top of the tip for that evening alone. She made so much money she tipped out all the servers that helped her run food. I think that's good karma.