AudaciousAudrey wrote:Yes, because no one ever gets distracted while doing ANYTHING, right?
ChasevidWrightley wrote:She forgot? Was it her first time going to a restaurant?
Batoutofheck wrote:well first of all, i wasn't the one paying--my friend was. hence the waitress following my friend. sorry if that wasn't clear and as far as i remember (it was several years ago), my friend honestly forgot. it happens. HOWEVER as far as i'm concerned, following someone out of a restaurant and asking why you didn't get a tip is sorta a tip dealbreaker.
ChasevidWrightley wrote:Well, why didn't you leave a tip?
Reminds me of the time a waitress FOLLOWED my friend and me OUT of Ruby Tuesday and said "excuse me, you didn't leave me a tip, did i do something wrong?"
My mom undertipped the waiter and got called out on it
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Posts: 25895 (05/18/2009 11:07 PM) Biggest Know It All '09
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Did she forget to pay the bill, too? Aren't the two tasks kind of related?
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Posts: 116 (05/18/2009 11:10 PM) |
I think they are raising the minimum wage for servers. It's $2.83 here, I think it's supposed to go up to $5 something. A friend of mine still works at
the restaurant I used to work at - she's super excited.
I NEVER and I would advise JJB TO NEVER use a credit card when going out to eat. I know some people live by plastic (I know I do, I never have cash on me and usually depend solely on my debit card) but you can't trust people anymore. I've seen somebody carried out of the restaurant in handcuffs because of this shit. The horror stories are all over the place. The girl that used to work where I worked would change the tip. You know how they have a line for you to write in the tip? She would change the numbers on the tip line and then on the total. She would change it to be a dollar or two difference - sometimes even 50 cents. Over the course of the night - say she had like 20 tables. Times that by working a few days a week. When it came down to it they found that she had stolen over $3000 in a few months. The only reason they caught her is because 2 separate people called in and said they were overcharged which in turn made them look into things because it was the same server. The other day my mom's friend CAUGHT HER WAITER TAKING A PICTURE OF HER CARD WITH HIS CELL PHONE. He was hunched in the corner with her card and his cell phone out. He was fired immediately but in this day and age you can't trust people anymore. I never let the card out of my sight - and at restaurants they just take it - you don't know what they're doing with it. In any case, that's my story. Love you JJB. |
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Posts: 2169 (05/18/2009 11:13 PM) |
AudaciousAudrey wrote:Are you being intentionally obtuse? I'm not going to go back and forth with you on this but YES, she paid the fucking bill and YES, she got distracted (we had a bunch of other stuff going on) and forgot to leave a tip. I'm sorry if that's such a foreign concept to you. |
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Posts: 2057 (05/18/2009 11:15 PM) |
Sham99 wrote: Well that explains his end of the situation. Your mom was still cheap, though. |
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Posts: 25896 (05/18/2009 11:19 PM) Biggest Know It All '09
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ChasevidWrightley wrote:I'm not really sure how you are able to act so blase about stiffing a waitress because you're too self-absorbed in your own lives to even notice that you weren't paying someone for their service and then act like she was completely out of line for asking if she did something wrong. I'm sure she doesn't have that job for funsies. |
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DoesThatSparkle wrote:LMFAO |
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Posts: 15178 (05/18/2009 11:23 PM) |
AudaciousAudrey wrote: Speaking as someone who is a big tipper (tips at least 20% for bad service) I personally find it tacky and unprofessional to ask for a tip. I can also see forgetting to leave a tip. I've had a couple times where I'm busy getting my kids ready to leave the restaurant and maybe my phone will ring or something and I almost forgot to not only tip but almost forgot to pay for the meal. Shit happens and it's not like it's regular occurance. |
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Posts: 12740 (05/18/2009 11:26 PM) |
ChasevidWrightley wrote: You sound a little defensive. 
You said followed your friend and you out of the restaurant, so *hence* nothing.
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Posts: 2172 (05/18/2009 11:27 PM) |
AudaciousAudrey wrote:LMAO. ok. clearly you've never had a single problem in your life that left you distracted in just about EVERYTHING, right? you are being absolutely ridiculous. i don't really feel the need to defend myself to you in any way, and i think it's fucking ridiculous that you're jumping down MY throat for this when to be honest, i wasn't even the one paying the bill (and if i had, i WOULDN'T have forgotten to leave a tip, and i generally leave 20 percent MINIMUM [on the tax too, since that's been a source of drama in this post as well] if the service calls for it, but that's besides the point...). i've also found that servers who have been bad enough to not get a tip at all (they've been few and far between, i assure you) generally don't give a SHIT if they did something wrong in my personal experience. i admit, my friend made a mistake in not leaving a tip. it sucks, especially since the waitress was pretty good. but i don't understand you getting all sanctimonious and acting like i'm some kind of scum because my friend (juuuust in case you missed it the first several times i said it) made an innocent mistake. have you ever made a mistake? |
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Posts: 2173 (05/18/2009 11:30 PM) |
Batoutofheck wrote:oh, i did, didn't i? oops.
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Posts: 904 (05/18/2009 11:31 PM) |
That's a SUPER shitty tip, but the waiter should be used to it. It happens all the time. He should have just walked in the back and called you trash and
wished bad things upon you. That's what I would have done.
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ChasevidWrightley wrote:I think it's kind of funny that you are asking me how it's possible that I've never been too busy/distracted to forget to leave a tip but then you admit that if you had been paying the bill yourself you would not have forgotten either. I don't think I'm acting like you're scum, I just think people need to pay more attention to what they're doing. It's really not fair that the waitress didn't get a tip when she deserved one just because your friend was too flighty to remember to leave one. I'm not blaming you for your friend forgetting to leave a tip, I just don't understand why you think the waitress was so out of line asking if she did something wrong when she obviously deserved a tip. |
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Posts: 10919 (05/18/2009 11:33 PM) |
We generally take the tax and triple it and that's the tip...usually works out to a good amount.
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Posts: 2175 (05/18/2009 11:37 PM) |
AudaciousAudrey wrote:okay, i think i misunderstood your intentions, then. sorry! it's really hard to read tone over the internet, you know? i think my biggest problem with the situation was the fact that she followed us out of the restaurant and into the mall and started the question with "you didn't leave me a tip. did i do something wrong?" i guess i'm just being picky, but it would have been a little easier to take if she had started off by asking if she had done something wrong. as far as asking straight up for a tip though? always tacky in my opinion. eh, i don't know. i'm tired.
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Posts: 911 (05/18/2009 11:43 PM) |
You know you do it, Audrey. LOL.
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Posts: 2574 (05/18/2009 11:55 PM) |
Wait, I was always taught the tip is 10%. You mean I've been looking like an asshole every time I eat out?
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Posts: 8815 (05/18/2009 11:57 PM) |
10 pages? JJB is serious about tipping yo.
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Posts: 915 (05/18/2009 11:59 PM) |
starlightperfume wrote: Yes.
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