Posted on 05/18/2010 9:43:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Do you know the amount of the bill? If so, please post it.
I, and friends, at different times all felt very pressured to just eat and get out,rather than enjoying our meals. But don't forget the tip.Half the time the service is poor,occasionally it is fine.The best service is NOT some syrupy silly woman asking every 5 minutes"are you done with that plate,honey/"
I would prefer ALL eateries have to pay the same minimum wages as other businesses.
I set up facebook for a bit but then dropped it. Why would anyone put their life out there like that?
You said a mouthful!
Regards,
Five bucks is a good tip on THAT lunch, but since they cost her two other sets of lunch customers, it’s really not enough. I’d be ticked too, but putting it on Facebook is dumb.
I do not. I also don’t know if any beer was consumed, or the number of people in the party. All that would make a difference. I’m thinking 2 people, 1 large pizza, 1 pitcher of beer. $5 would be a generous tip. OTOH, if it were a party of 10 with 5 pizzas and 5 pitchers of beer, not so much.
*Because she is a dumbass
It said she had to work an hour past her quitting time. It didn't say if she was paid by the restaurant for the extra hour (2.43 an hour in 2009 in NC).
Many restaurants include tip income in your W2 - based on 15% of your total checks.
I meant to add that whatever the size of the bill, it was bad form for her to complain about her tip in public and name her employer.
I calculate my tip entirely on how cute the waitress is.
A large group of acquaintances often visit a local pub. One of us arranged it so the waitress (yes, she actually likes our group) does not add the large group gratuity to our bills. We each tip her seperately and doing so, she makes more money charging us individually, than as a group. They went to a different restaurant once, where the waiter not only lost that extra amount by that addition, but also lost repeat business.
“OK, but look. This is a pizza joint, right? Who cares how long they stayed. Do you think two people ran up a bill over $30.00? At lunch?
Assume lunch was $20.00 or $25.00. Five bucks is a damn good tip.”
Assumption leads to errors. The waitress states that a party of 6 ran up a tab of over 100 bucks and tipped 5 dollars. What are you talking about?
Ha ha, I thought we were the only ones to use the mashed potato / floor space x napkins provided tipping formula!
My point is that if 2 people went there to eat and booze it up, the bill could have been substantial. Especially since they stayed there 3 hours!
Usually, though, when your shift is over you give the table to someone else and they split the tip with you. Not sure why this didn't happen here.
But yes, she should not have done what she did.
Not here in the original Socialist Republic of Washington State. Waitstaff are covered by minimum wage, and our minimum wage - at $8.55 per hour - is the highest in the nation. As a result, my tips went from a consistent 20% (and what I tip in most places around the US) to 10% if it's good service, 5% if it's OK, and I have no problem at all leaving zero tip.
They kept her an hour past her shift and then only tipped her $5.
She probably wasn’t waiting other tables during that time so that tip may be all she got for that hour.
For servers table turnover is key.
I know an HR Manager for a fairly sizeable firm who told me that their corporate legal counsel called a meeting and instructed them that they should NOT EVER LOOK at an EMPLOYEE or APPLICANT’S Facebook page for ANY REASON!
Budding fear of liability...guess this will be the Asbestos of the 21st. Century?
“It’s actually worse than that at my wife’s restaurant. They pay taxes on total food sales. In other words, if you buy a meal and pay less than the normal 10% rate, you have just cost my wife to pay taxes on tips she never earned.”
Not only that, if you have to tip out on support staff (i.e., bar, busboys, etc.) they look at total sales and they don’t care what you were tipped.
Not the smartest thing to do, but I feel for the kid. We’ve all had jobs and/or days at jobs where we need to blow off steam (or stick pins in a voodoo doll of the regional manager, in my case).
Hope she finds a new gig soon.
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