Waitstaff: is it annoying when guests ask for separate checks

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Or to split checks?

Yes, very annoying when it's busy and manager is nowhere to be found. No, it's not just a button POS like another person writes.
No, doesn't matter if you tell me before. I need to put everything on the same check for the kitchen's sake and then later try to figure out who had what. Really depends on a place and POS they have.
So, tell me, the check is $42.35 and after me going through the splitting, one pays $20.35 and the other pays $22. What was the reason for your split exactly? Why not just give me two credit cards and fix the amount with the tip if $2 is so important?
The people who split are also the hardest customers usually. I can tell you who is going to split and who is not before they ask for the check. Also, please tip the same amount on the split check if possible.

Maybe you should find another job

+ 1. Gotta to *something* to earn that tip.

What a jerk position. Don't kid yourself - - the 'tip' is their wage. They're otherwise getting $2/hour. Don't be a jerk.

Please that’s not true unless the restaurant stinks. If that’s the case, leave and find another job. Pay living wages and let the customer choose to eat there or not. Otherwise we are subsidizing their wages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or to split checks?

Yes, very annoying when it's busy and manager is nowhere to be found. No, it's not just a button POS like another person writes.
No, doesn't matter if you tell me before. I need to put everything on the same check for the kitchen's sake and then later try to figure out who had what. Really depends on a place and POS they have.
So, tell me, the check is $42.35 and after me going through the splitting, one pays $20.35 and the other pays $22. What was the reason for your split exactly? Why not just give me two credit cards and fix the amount with the tip if $2 is so important?
The people who split are also the hardest customers usually. I can tell you who is going to split and who is not before they ask for the check. Also, please tip the same amount on the split check if possible.

Maybe you should find another job

+ 1. Gotta to *something* to earn that tip.

What a jerk position. Don't kid yourself - - the 'tip' is their wage. They're otherwise getting $2/hour. Don't be a jerk.

Please that’s not true unless the restaurant stinks. If that’s the case, leave and find another job. Pay living wages and let the customer choose to eat there or not. Otherwise we are subsidizing their wages.

In what world do you live in?

[Anonymous]

If the "tipped minimum wage" plus tips does not equal "minimum wage," restaurants are required to make up the difference. So, waiters will always make at least federal minimum wage. In practice, tips plus "tipped minimum wage" usually exceed this by a large margin. No waiter is actually making $2.13/hour legally.

[Anonymous]

PP here. I should add that I believe that our tipping system is stupid and that restaurants should just raise prices by 15-20%, pay their waiters more, and institute a "no-tipping" policy. But, the current system actually works well for many, and a good waiter can make a nice middle-class income (source: one of my good friends is a waiter). He wouldn't be able to do this if restaurants paid more and tips were eliminated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the "tipped minimum wage" plus tips does not equal "minimum wage," restaurants are required to make up the difference. So, waiters will always make at least federal minimum wage. In practice, tips plus "tipped minimum wage" usually exceed this by a large margin. No waiter is actually making $2.13/hour legally.

Yeah, this doesn’t happen.

[Anonymous]

I'm a waiter and if I have enough time, it's not annoying, as long as everything is paid in the end. But when we are very busy it can be tedious.