Hypothetical Management Decision re: non-tipping patron of restaurant

[stinkypete]

i'd tell the waiter to suck it up or get a new job. tipping is not mandatory in my establishment.

[The Dude]

As someone who has waited tables for a living and owned a restaurant:

Tips are optional. Some people leave great tips irregard of service quality, and some people leave bad/no tip. The correct attitude for a server to have is that they are "owed" a tip by the guests, they are "given" them. Be grateful for the tips that you get, and don't begrudge the tips that you don't.

The hostess rotating a regular through the different servers' sections is certainly appropriate.

[Claunchy]

To all those denouncing the autograt: Yeah, it sucks in principle and probably shouldn't exist, BUT. As a former waiter, nothing sucked more than waiting on some redneck's entire extended family for 3 hours only to get like 5 bucks. And it was pretty common, cuz from the perspective of a retard, why should someone get $30 (or whatever) just for waiting on one table?

[bobman0330]

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To all those denouncing the autograt: Yeah, it sucks in principle and probably shouldn't exist, BUT. As a former waiter, nothing sucked more than waiting on some redneck's entire extended family for 3 hours only to get like 5 bucks.

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Paying a bunch of money so a restaurant can try to steal from you would probably be worse. It's never happened to me, but if some restaurant did try to autograt me outside of a posted policy, I'm not paying it and I'm not tipping.