People who treat servers rudely

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hate that I have to tip the person that takes my order. All you did was write crap down. I want to tip the cook that actually made my food.

Often they don't write it down and get it wrong. I'd rather get my own drinks, order off an app so its correct and tip the cook too.

That sounds like a s**ty restaurant if they're staffed with people who can't write down orders properly. Don't come back there 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are not entitled to a tip.

A standard tip is 15% - less if you do a bad job, more if you do well or someone can afford it/chooses to.

Maybe your service is bad.

Standard tip has been 20% for years, Grandma.

[Anonymous]

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I completely agree. Thirty years ago I waitressed one summer during college at a local chain similar to Denny’s. It was by far the hardest job I’ve ever had and the sub-minimum wage didn’t help matters. Although the tips were low, I was fortunate that most of the customers were nice. There were only a few that demonstrated the kind of rudeness you describe. It gave me a whole new appreciation for those who work at restaurants and I always tip a little extra. I hope that someday they’ll raise the base pay to minimum. While higher pay wouldn’t justify mistreating waitstaff, it would at least be a start in compensating their hard work.

Most meals at Denny's are $6-10. You aren't going to get a high tip based off that.

You take an order, bring a drink, food, maybe if you are good, check and bring a drink refilled and bring a check.

Yep, I don't get Denny's. They better pay their servers higher if customers' bills are averaging that low

Restaurants should pay staff salaries and just get rid of tipping. Problem solved.

Cool story. Until that happens, tip 20%, cheapazz.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not entitled to a tip.

A standard tip is 15% - less if you do a bad job, more if you do well or someone can afford it/chooses to.

Maybe your service is bad.

Standard tip has been 20% for years, Grandma.

Yes. 20% is the norm, 15% for subpar service, and 25% for above-average.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I am not entitled to a tip. I tip 15% more or less under the same criteria, however I'm talking about the people that, despite me being ultra-friendly:

a) Give you a hard time from the start with their bratty family of 4 kids throwing food all over the table, leaving a gargantuan mess, and asking for copious amounts of food to later be wasted and uneaten.

b) Super nice to you from start to end; too suspiciously extra nice. Usually ladies over 40 that do this and tip around $2-$4 despite how large their bill is.

c) Have lived in America their whole life and still suck at tipping because they just never caught on!

I despise servers like you who give me horrible service because I'm over 40. The service is even worse if I'm with my teen kids. I'm a generous tipper but give me bad service and you might get $1.

Why do you think you’re entitled to (give or take) an hour of someone’s time for $1?

You aren't taking someone's time. They are there for a job. Their job is service. If the service is bad, don't expect a good tip. $1 is obnoxious, but if its a $10 meal, its 10% which is perfectly fine.

A good server comes quickly to take an order. A good server brings drinks right away and makes sure you have silverware and extra napkins. A good server comes to tell you your food is coming out if its taking a long time. A good server gets the order right and puts it properly into the computer. A good server comes back to make sure your meal is correct, see if you need drink refills or anything else.

If you just take the order, a runner brings out food, no drink refllls and I have to hunt you down to pay, why do you deserve a large tip?

LOLOLOL. Congratulations on being Exhibit A of *exactly* what OP is talking about.

Enjoy McDonalds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate that I have to tip the person that takes my order. All you did was write crap down. I want to tip the cook that actually made my food.

Pp ex-waitress from Denny’s style restaurant here

This post reminds me of the large groups that would come by for dessert after church. They didn’t realize that the wait staff had to assemble the desserts. After I “wrote crap down”, if I had ten brownie sundae orders I had to warm ten brownies, warm ten hot fudge toppings, dish up ten ice creams, top with whipped cream and ten cherries, while getting your drink orders and tending to other customers who also wanted me to “write crap down”, refill their drinks, deliver their food, bus tables, make coffee, get one table extra napkins and another extra syrup for their pancakes, and get your ten sundaes to your table at the same time with warm brownies, unmelted ice cream and a smile while you complain that you don’t know why it takes so long when all you ordered was dessert. Keep in mind that I knew since all you ordered was dessert and coffee or tea, I wouldn’t be expecting much of a tip, but I would still keep your refills coming while you chatted leisurely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:30’s families, 20s and 30’s couples tip the best. Most older women do not tip well. Most but not all older men do. The after church crowd is both notoriously needy, rude, and poor at tipping and that generalization is 100% true.

They are THE WORST. I’ve posted on here before about the “tip” I got from a group of fundie nuts - three or so families, around 10-15 kids and the attendant mess and running, splitting plates, endless refills - and, despite what the old timer servers warned me about, a twenty dollar bill poking out of the…. Oh, wait. It was a Bible verse. And, no, I don’t remember what the Bible verse was. I still wish that pack of jags evil every time I think of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I am not entitled to a tip. I tip 15% more or less under the same criteria, however I'm talking about the people that, despite me being ultra-friendly:

a) Give you a hard time from the start with their bratty family of 4 kids throwing food all over the table, leaving a gargantuan mess, and asking for copious amounts of food to later be wasted and uneaten.

b) Super nice to you from start to end; too suspiciously extra nice. Usually ladies over 40 that do this and tip around $2-$4 despite how large their bill is.

c) Have lived in America their whole life and still suck at tipping because they just never caught on!

I despise servers like you who give me horrible service because I'm over 40. The service is even worse if I'm with my teen kids. I'm a generous tipper but give me bad service and you might get $1.

Why do you think you’re entitled to (give or take) an hour of someone’s time for $1?

You aren't taking someone's time. They are there for a job. Their job is service. If the service is bad, don't expect a good tip. $1 is obnoxious, but if its a $10 meal, its 10% which is perfectly fine.

A good server comes quickly to take an order. A good server brings drinks right away and makes sure you have silverware and extra napkins. A good server comes to tell you your food is coming out if its taking a long time. A good server gets the order right and puts it properly into the computer. A good server comes back to make sure your meal is correct, see if you need drink refills or anything else.

If you just take the order, a runner brings out food, no drink refllls and I have to hunt you down to pay, why do you deserve a large tip?

LOLOLOL. Congratulations on being Exhibit A of *exactly* what OP is talking about.

Enjoy McDonalds.

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“A good server…” PP: go get a serving job for the holiday season. See how you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate that I have to tip the person that takes my order. All you did was write crap down. I want to tip the cook that actually made my food.

Pp ex-waitress from Denny’s style restaurant here

This post reminds me of the large groups that would come by for dessert after church. They didn’t realize that the wait staff had to assemble the desserts. After I “wrote crap down”, if I had ten brownie sundae orders I had to warm ten brownies, warm ten hot fudge toppings, dish up ten ice creams, top with whipped cream and ten cherries, while getting your drink orders and tending to other customers who also wanted me to “write crap down”, refill their drinks, deliver their food, bus tables, make coffee, get one table extra napkins and another extra syrup for their pancakes, and get your ten sundaes to your table at the same time with warm brownies, unmelted ice cream and a smile while you complain that you don’t know why it takes so long when all you ordered was dessert. Keep in mind that I knew since all you ordered was dessert and coffee or tea, I wouldn’t be expecting much of a tip, but I would still keep your refills coming while you chatted leisurely.

all the misfit customers get talked about here https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate that I have to tip the person that takes my order. All you did was write crap down. I want to tip the cook that actually made my food.

Pp ex-waitress from Denny’s style restaurant here

This post reminds me of the large groups that would come by for dessert after church. They didn’t realize that the wait staff had to assemble the desserts. After I “wrote crap down”, if I had ten brownie sundae orders I had to warm ten brownies, warm ten hot fudge toppings, dish up ten ice creams, top with whipped cream and ten cherries, while getting your drink orders and tending to other customers who also wanted me to “write crap down”, refill their drinks, deliver their food, bus tables, make coffee, get one table extra napkins and another extra syrup for their pancakes, and get your ten sundaes to your table at the same time with warm brownies, unmelted ice cream and a smile while you complain that you don’t know why it takes so long when all you ordered was dessert. Keep in mind that I knew since all you ordered was dessert and coffee or tea, I wouldn’t be expecting much of a tip, but I would still keep your refills coming while you chatted leisurely.

all the misfit customers get talked about here https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/

naughty ones won't be getting presents this year lmfao

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I am not entitled to a tip. I tip 15% more or less under the same criteria, however I'm talking about the people that, despite me being ultra-friendly:

a) Give you a hard time from the start with their bratty family of 4 kids throwing food all over the table, leaving a gargantuan mess, and asking for copious amounts of food to later be wasted and uneaten.

b) Super nice to you from start to end; too suspiciously extra nice. Usually ladies over 40 that do this and tip around $2-$4 despite how large their bill is.

c) Have lived in America their whole life and still suck at tipping because they just never caught on!

I despise servers like you who give me horrible service because I'm over 40. The service is even worse if I'm with my teen kids. I'm a generous tipper but give me bad service and you might get $1.

Why do you think you’re entitled to (give or take) an hour of someone’s time for $1?

You aren't taking someone's time. They are there for a job. Their job is service. If the service is bad, don't expect a good tip. $1 is obnoxious, but if its a $10 meal, its 10% which is perfectly fine.

A good server comes quickly to take an order. A good server brings drinks right away and makes sure you have silverware and extra napkins. A good server comes to tell you your food is coming out if its taking a long time. A good server gets the order right and puts it properly into the computer. A good server comes back to make sure your meal is correct, see if you need drink refills or anything else.

If you just take the order, a runner brings out food, no drink refllls and I have to hunt you down to pay, why do you deserve a large tip?

LOLOLOL. Congratulations on being Exhibit A of *exactly* what OP is talking about.

Enjoy McDonalds.

+1
“A good server…” PP: go get a serving job for the holiday season. See how you do.

Yep. That poster is ridiculous. $1 tip???? I love the “10% which is perfectly fine” No it’s not. Standard tip is 20%. But I would at least tip $3 on a $10 meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:30’s families, 20s and 30’s couples tip the best. Most older women do not tip well. Most but not all older men do. The after church crowd is both notoriously needy, rude, and poor at tipping and that generalization is 100% true.

That may be because all women over forty are typically not provided as good customer service. So they’re less inclined to tip well when they haven’t been treated as well. Waiters etc. provide better customer service to men. This is true even in circumstances where they aren’t tipped, like flight attendants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:30’s families, 20s and 30’s couples tip the best. Most older women do not tip well. Most but not all older men do. The after church crowd is both notoriously needy, rude, and poor at tipping and that generalization is 100% true.

That may be because all women over forty are typically not provided as good customer service. So they’re less inclined to tip well when they haven’t been treated as well. Waiters etc. provide better customer service to men. This is true even in circumstances where they aren’t tipped, like flight attendants.

How do they still manage to tip you badly even after they've been nice to you and you have been nice to you(vice versa)?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I am not entitled to a tip. I tip 15% more or less under the same criteria, however I'm talking about the people that, despite me being ultra-friendly:

a) Give you a hard time from the start with their bratty family of 4 kids throwing food all over the table, leaving a gargantuan mess, and asking for copious amounts of food to later be wasted and uneaten.

b) Super nice to you from start to end; too suspiciously extra nice. Usually ladies over 40 that do this and tip around $2-$4 despite how large their bill is.

c) Have lived in America their whole life and still suck at tipping because they just never caught on!

Most people clean up after themselves and if not, its your job.

And, $2-4 may be appropriate if they don't have a large bill. If they go out for lunch and the bill is $12 for one meal, that is appropriate.

You are not entitled to a tip. If you want a salary, then you need to pick another job. You work for tips. Tips are voluntary.

OP: "Sometimes people pay $2-4 despite how large their bill is!"

You: "Well, maybe their bill was $12! You are probably complaining about people who tip $2 on $12, which is why you said 'large bill,' because we all know $12 is a large bill at a full-service restaurant. I am very smart."

[Anonymous]

Honey, you need a blog. You're not the first and won't be the last of waitstaff to be frustrated with customer service. Some people suck. Some people are great. That's life.