• Xenforo Cloud is upgrading us to version 2.3.8 on Monday February 16th, 2026 at 12:00 AM PST. Expect a temporary downtime during this process. More info here

Had a waiter confront me outside over a tip

  • Thread starter Thread starter Almighty Angus
  • Start date Start date
If you only had 5$ cash why didn't you just include the tip on your card ? Obviously don't condone him putting his hands on you, but that's a fucked up tip and you deserve to be called a cheap fuck you cheap fuck
 
Kframe said:
I live near Ft Wayne. I know just about every restaurant in our town an all of the ones ranked 3stars or higher are not take outs.. The closest we have are the Unranked, with no stars Food trucks. I have not eaten any of them as I don't trust their cleanliness.
Click to expand...

In Indiana? Does that state have any restaurants in the 3 star range or higher?
 
ISIS in blackface said:
Went to a restaurant with a few of my friends last night, just to grab a few drinks and appetizers, a place called BJ's.

We end up staying for about 4 hours, from about 6-10, and for the 3 of us our total ended up being almost $200 (mainly alcohol).

We usually try and go out once a month and every month it's someone else's turn to cover the bill, and this time it was my turn.

So, figuring that even tho it was $200, I figured it's not that fucking hard to bring out 3 damn drinks at a time and we only had 2 small appetizers. I only had $5 cash on me and decided that would suffice considering it was just mainly alcohol purchased.

So after I pay with my card, I leave the $5 on the table, we walk out and sit on the bench while my friends smokes a cigarette and we continue to catch up. The waiter comes out side a minute later in a frenzy, screaming about this and that and how I'm a cheap fuck and how I shouldn't go out to eat if I can't afford to tip and shoves me to the ground.

He ends up saying "$5 on a $200 bill is unacceptable and I should go fuck myself", and then he goes back inside. My friends ask if $5 is really all I left? And I said yes, and they said why didn't you leave a tip on the receipt with your card? So I guess they took his side in the matter and they talked me out of going inside the restaurant and complaining.

How much do you goes tip for drinks? Was I in the wrong?


Cliffs : Went out with friends
Drank a lot
Tipped $5 on $200 bill because mainly alcohol
Waiter tries to fight me outside
Click to expand...

For just alcohol, the expectation is a dollar per drink. For a mix of alcohol and food, it's 15% to 20%. In either case, you still fell way short of the mark. You occupied a table where he could have been wracking up decent tips, and floated him only $5. Still, I am surprised he had the nerve to put his hands on you. He obviously doesn't really give a shit about his job.
 
KojiW said:
I love how you think they do it to people who don't leave $2.

When you do not leave money after getting a drink at the bar, the Bartender just skips you a few times and makes you wait longer. Which is their right. If you are a good tipper, they will skip other people to serve you drinks first.

When you don't leave a tip after ordering a ton and wasting hours of their time, and then get snarky with them when they call you out on not tipping is when you get smacked around as the bouncer hauls you out and bans you from the establishment.
Click to expand...

So, they are allowed to come and assault you even though you did absolutely nothing wrong? That's your case?
 
KojiW said:
Yeah I have seen that regularly.
its fun to see them get manhandled out thinking they are being coy by not tipping then getting their head "oopsed!" into the wall on the way out.

Cops take bouncers sides 100% of the time, so there is nothing they can do legally either when they get bounced. The bouncers always just say "they were making inappropriate comments", which does not show up on camera anyways, so cops have no way to verify even if they have camera's on property.
Click to expand...

This literally never happened.
 
fonzob1 said:
For just alcohol, the expectation is a dollar per drink. For a mix of alcohol and food, it's 15% to 20%. In either case, you still fell way short of the mark. You occupied a table where he could have been wracking up decent tips, and floated him only $5. Still, I am surprised he had the nerve to put his hands on you. He obviously doesn't really give a shit about his job.
Click to expand...
I'm thinking of going in there tonight and apologizing, but it seems that everyone in here agrees that he was in the wrong and I was in the right, so I probably won't.
 
Kframe said:
I live near Ft Wayne. I know just about every restaurant in our town an all of the ones ranked 3stars or higher are not take outs.. The closest we have are the Unranked, with no stars Food trucks. I have not eaten any of them as I don't trust their cleanliness.
Click to expand...
I went to Ft Wayne and was pleased to see they had a Ponderosa lmao so underrated

When they were in Chicagoland and I was a kid I watched some broad pick single leaves of lettuce for an hour out of a salad bar then put them back discriminately

That better be some good ass salad
 
KojiW said:
I love how you think they do it to people who don't leave $2.

When you do not leave money after getting a drink at the bar, the Bartender just skips you a few times and makes you wait longer. Which is their right. If you are a good tipper, they will skip other people to serve you drinks first.

When you don't leave a tip after ordering a ton and wasting hours of their time, and then get snarky with them when they call you out on not tipping is when you get smacked around as the bouncer hauls you out and bans you from the establishment.
Click to expand...

TBH I'm not familiar with this practice as I don't wait at a bar to get drinks. Will be at a table where drinks are brought to myself and whoever I am with. I couldn't care less who a servant, I mean tax cheat, I mean server, serves first.

Sounds like awful business practice(s). Lol'ing hard @ prioritizing some tax cheat's $5 over someone patronizing your establishment. Servant, I mean server, should have been fired on the spot.

Literally whining about $5 that he won't declare on taxes. Laughable morality on display. I speak for everyone when I say we would gladly pay 4-5x more for menu items if it meant servants, I mean tax cheats could be paid less therefore cheat less on their taxes.
 
ISIS in blackface said:
He's lucky I gave him any money at all, servers that are stick their hand out for a tip are almost the equivalent of guys outside of the convenience store taking cigarette butts out of the trash can.
Click to expand...
Sorry but no they're not. And here's why.

When I was a bouncer I earned $10 an hour. I only maybe got to work 20 hours a week AT BEST because I wasn't the lead bouncer who was the only one that got to work anything near 40 hours a week (he usually worked close to 60 as he was there at 8 before we'd open around 9). Keep that all in mind.

End of the night, door staff (bouncers), coat check, and the cash tip jars on the bar would all go into a pool to be divided up among all the staff that worked that night, the CC tips would get divied up on our paychecks and we'd get like 3% maybe of bar profits (bar tenders would get 5%).

So, I work maybe 40 hours a check.. That's about $400 but I'd only see maybe $300 depending on deductions (I can't remember but I think it was closer to $275).. however, my checks would routinely be around $450. Why? The CC tips and shit.

Staff also remembers good tippers and guess what happens in response? You get better service. In a bar situation your glass has less ice, and more booze. We're more likely to sling you an "on the house" top shelf cocktail every once in awhile.

Routinely bad tippers? Yeah, your glass is nothing BUT ice and you get less alcohol to mixer and are always getting well drinks unless you specifically ask for top shelf.
 
Breakitdown said:
I guess I'm supposed to pay everyone as if I was their employer LOL. Another server here, folks. This is the type of mind that is attracted to this line of "work".

If there was an option where I could pay 3-4x more than menu prices and every server lost their jobs I would gladly take it. We need less tax cheats out there and the service industry is a clear net-negative.
Click to expand...

Why would anyone working at a restaurant give a shit about you or your miserable attitude? Have fun experiencing shit service and having to go to a new restaurant for every outing so the servers don't recognize you.

I'm not poor so I find it much easier to go through life observing social etiquette and showing some goodwill.
 
LOL

Older interracial gay couple does nothing after waiter goes outside the restaurant and assaults one over the tip?

Yeah, that totally happened.

{<jordan}
 
Gregolian said:
Sorry but no they're not. And here's why.

When I was a bouncer I earned $10 an hour. I only maybe got to work 20 hours a week AT BEST because I wasn't the lead bouncer who was the only one that got to work anything near 40 hours a week (he usually worked close to 60 as he was there at 8 before we'd open around 9). Keep that all in mind.

End of the night, door staff (bouncers), coat check, and the cash tip jars on the bar would all go into a pool to be divided up among all the staff that worked that night, the CC tips would get divied up on our paychecks and we'd get like 3% maybe of bar profits (bar tenders would get 5%).

So, I work maybe 40 hours a check.. That's about $400 but I'd only see maybe $300 depending on deductions (I can't remember but I think it was closer to $275).. however, my checks would routinely be around $450. Why? The CC tips and shit.

Staff also remembers good tippers and guess what happens in response? You get better service. In a bar situation your glass has less ice, and more booze. We're more likely to sling you an "on the house" top shelf cocktail every once in awhile.

Routinely bad tippers? Yeah, your glass is nothing BUT ice and you get less alcohol to mixer and are always getting well drinks unless you specifically ask for top shelf.
Click to expand...
We're talking restaurant here, not a club, unless you were bouncing at a restaurant, which lol @ that notion.
 
blaseblah said:
Why would anyone working at a restaurant give a shit about you or your miserable attitude? Have fun experiencing shit service and having to go to a new restaurant for every outing so the servers don't recognize you.

I'm not poor so I find it much easier to go through life observing social etiquette and showing some goodwill.
Click to expand...

And this is the counter argument folks.

"Pay me additional income or I will not do the job I am literally being paid by my employer to do".

This is the level of intellect we are dealing with here. What a fascinating look inside the mind of a server this has been.
 
Tipping is an absolute ridiculous practice. If someone does an exceptional job then fair enough, give them a little extra as a thank you for making your evening pleasant, but just for doing your job, for doing literally what you're paid to do? Fuck that.

Why are Americans bitch made over wait staff?
 
Turtlejuice said:
Tipping is an absolute ridiculous practice. If someone does an exceptional job then fair enough, give them a little extra as a thank you for making your evening pleasant, but just for doing your job, for doing literally what you're paid to do? Fuck that.

Why are Americans bitch made over wait staff?
Click to expand...
It's sad really, I literally have people itt talking to me like I should have been beaten up even worse, or should have had my food spit in or shit on.
 
Breakitdown said:
And this is the counter argument folks.

"Pay me additional income or I will not do the job I am literally being paid by my employer to do".

This is the level of intellect we are dealing with here. What a fascinating look inside the mind of a server this has been.
Click to expand...

It's not a counter argument, it's reality. It's your choice to be the miserable person no one likes. You're the one who has to live it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
1,282,176
Messages
58,422,458
Members
176,033
Latest member
ManoFan

Share this page

Back
Top