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beevod · 02-20-2018, 02:21 PM

Try waiting on tables -- you will never lack for loutish customers.

grtrx · 02-20-2018, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by beevod

Try waiting on tables -- you will never lack for loutish customers.

sadly true. I try very hard to be a good customer with the waitstaff.

Briandg · 02-21-2018, 03:14 PM

Same here. I have made it a point to tip a whole lot better. I started seeing what people leave on the table, and hell, some of the places we visit, I see people leaving two bucks on the table after a full, sixty or more dollar meal. I don't care if your old, have three kids, work at walmart, whatever, that old woman is actually working for less than minimum wage, and would appreciate a little gratitude for running that coffee pot past your table every five minutes.

A few years back I realized that I was being a bit chintzy. We were giving a full fifteen, but there we are both buying from the discount menu and drinking water, walking out of a place for $25, and it would have been nice to give a tip more in line with $40. So we started doing twenty percent, and usually rounding up.

BigO · 02-21-2018, 03:39 PM

I tip proportional to the quality of service. I'll go as high as 25 or as low as 10. Only one time did I leave a penny tip. The waitress used foul language in front of my kids. While I have been guilty of the same, I wasn't doing it gratuitously and I certainly wasn't looking for a gratuity.

grtrx · 02-22-2018, 07:36 AM

it is more than tipping, it is engaging with servers as if they are humans not galley slaves. The stuff I see people do and the things I hear are frightening... it isn't common but wow

BigO · 02-22-2018, 01:31 PM

It's not only waitrons, it applies to all tradespeople. Getting to know them and treat them nicely and they will remember you and can pay enormous dividends through the years.

beevod · 02-22-2018, 02:23 PM

Generally amazing how far people will go for you if you're decent to them.

Briandg · 03-02-2018, 01:11 PM

Being who I am, I go to extreme measures to be nice to those poor creatures who are out there ringing up sales and taking orders. I've been there. I've had people make me so angry that it sent my blood pressure so high that my vision started to swim, but I don't recall ever throwing my professionalism away. On the other hand, there have been times that I have been on the other side, someone who would be serving me at some level would learn the meaning of outrage.

Once I took my wife to a breakfast. Jesus, the woman poured my coffee and put it on the table, there was lipstick on the cup. I pointed it out, she wiped it off and set it back down. Wife's cup had stained rings.

The gloves came off and we left.

There was the time my wife ordered cape cod fish and got Cajun. So many shoe leather steaks. You can't expect much at a chain, and the one with the notebook isn't usually at fault. It's better, imo, to take that up with the manager, I usually do that in an email.

Truthfully, our service people around here are AMAZING.

Briandg · 03-02-2018, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by beevod

After seeing her in "Monster," I dumped Charlize for Scarlett Johansson.

Charlie aged a whole lot better. Scarlett is about five years away from a terrible shock. She's going to use two million dollars of surgery as a tax deduction and it won't be allowed.

02-20-2018, 02:21 PM	#41
beevod Herf God Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 20,927	Try waiting on tables -- you will never lack for loutish customers. __________________ "Moderation in all things. Excess in everything else."

02-21-2018, 03:39 PM	#44
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,779	I tip proportional to the quality of service. I'll go as high as 25 or as low as 10. Only one time did I leave a penny tip. The waitress used foul language in front of my kids. While I have been guilty of the same, I wasn't doing it gratuitously and I certainly wasn't looking for a gratuity. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

02-22-2018, 07:36 AM	#45
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	it is more than tipping, it is engaging with servers as if they are humans not galley slaves. The stuff I see people do and the things I hear are frightening... it isn't common but wow __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

02-22-2018, 01:31 PM	#46
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,779	It's not only waitrons, it applies to all tradespeople. Getting to know them and treat them nicely and they will remember you and can pay enormous dividends through the years. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

02-22-2018, 02:23 PM	#47
beevod Herf God Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 20,927	Generally amazing how far people will go for you if you're decent to them. __________________ "Moderation in all things. Excess in everything else."

02-21-2018, 03:14 PM	#43
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	Same here. I have made it a point to tip a whole lot better. I started seeing what people leave on the table, and hell, some of the places we visit, I see people leaving two bucks on the table after a full, sixty or more dollar meal. I don't care if your old, have three kids, work at walmart, whatever, that old woman is actually working for less than minimum wage, and would appreciate a little gratitude for running that coffee pot past your table every five minutes. A few years back I realized that I was being a bit chintzy. We were giving a full fifteen, but there we are both buying from the discount menu and drinking water, walking out of a place for $25, and it would have been nice to give a tip more in line with $40. So we started doing twenty percent, and usually rounding up.

03-02-2018, 01:11 PM	#48
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	Being who I am, I go to extreme measures to be nice to those poor creatures who are out there ringing up sales and taking orders. I've been there. I've had people make me so angry that it sent my blood pressure so high that my vision started to swim, but I don't recall ever throwing my professionalism away. On the other hand, there have been times that I have been on the other side, someone who would be serving me at some level would learn the meaning of outrage. Once I took my wife to a breakfast. Jesus, the woman poured my coffee and put it on the table, there was lipstick on the cup. I pointed it out, she wiped it off and set it back down. Wife's cup had stained rings. The gloves came off and we left. There was the time my wife ordered cape cod fish and got Cajun. So many shoe leather steaks. You can't expect much at a chain, and the one with the notebook isn't usually at fault. It's better, imo, to take that up with the manager, I usually do that in an email. Truthfully, our service people around here are AMAZING.

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