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Except the business owner did not keep it professional by keeping it out of the public's view so the intention was not really to make things right for the employee, which the business owner could have done themselves. The intention was/is to disparage an entire group/church because of the actions of one or two members and bring attention to the business.
There is no reason for doing that, it could have been handled privately and professionally without bringing the entire social media audience into it.
Never let a free shot at advertising your restaurant go to waste....
Most do -- unless the service is exceptionally bad. Wait staff in the US get paid far below minimum wage ... something like $2.50 an hour or so. They work for tips. Most people know this and tip accordingly. Even with the higher tipping rates (20 percent is customary) a restaurant meal in the US costs less than in England or the more prosperous parts of Europe.
Then the religious crowd wonders why some people don't go to church. Why was the church passing out those flyers with a phony $20.00 bill attached to it? It is as much the churches fault. I don't know what the church was trying to prove.... At least they did the right thing in the end....
How bad does service have to be for you to consider not leaving a tip?
If I had bad service I would ask to speak to the manager and I would try to resolve the issue. I wouldn't keep silent and then exercise my ire at the end of the meal when I was on my way out the door. That seems cowardly to me.
I had dinner at a restaurant tonight, not my choice of a place since I knew NOTHING about it and needed a GPS to find it. But it was a family get-together and I needed to be there to keep the peace. I'm on a tight budget, so to find myself in a restaurant where there were no entrees under $25 is a rarity for me. But I sucked it up and ordered the cheapest pasta dish on the menu and prepared to enjoy a rare treat.
The food was TERRIBLE. The pasta was overcooked and tasted as if it was boiled in dishwater instead of salted water. There was a big broccoli stalk on the plate that was also so overcooked it squished into soup when I tried to cut it up. It didn't even come with a salad and I didn't take any bread because I was having pasta. When I was paying the bill, did I take it out on the server? She didn't cook the food. Since I ordered nothing except the pasta dish, not even a beverage, I tipped 20% since I had sat there as long as the others who were paying far higher bills. Had I been alone, I would have sent the dish back, but I wasn't in a position to do that tonight, But again, I didn't pass my bad experience along to my server who did nothing but her job.
OMG on both of them (the server and the 'tippers').
A server who has a mortgage has a huge advantage on all the servers who struggle to pay the (too damn high) rent. She and her manager should be grateful that she can own a house.
What on earth? What advantage exactly? I have no clue how someone with a mortgage has an automatic advantage over those who pay rent.
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Originally Posted by WestCobb
How bad does service have to be for you to consider not leaving a tip?
I only consider not leaving a top if the poor service is the direct cause of the server. She doesn't take orders quickly, never makes it back to ask how we're doing, never checked drinks etc... Those are the things that influence my tip.
If the service was so horrible I wasn't going to leave a tip, I'd have talked to manager long before the bill came.
Then the religious crowd wonders why some people don't go to church. Why was the church passing out those flyers with a phony $20.00 bill attached to it? It is as much the churches fault. I don't know what the church was trying to prove.... At least they did the right thing in the end....
I wonder if the person who left the phony tip puts Monopoly money in the collection plate at church when they don't think the preacher's sermon is up to par. LOL
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Fair game.
What on earth? What advantage exactly? I have no clue how someone with a mortgage has an automatic advantage over those who pay rent. 