Hypothetical Management Decision re: non-tipping patron of restaurant

[mbillie1]

If it were my restaurant I'd ask the non-tipping patrons (if they were frequent/regular non-tippers) not to come back any more. Then I'd probably take the hottest waitress into the back room and bang her. Then I'd go out to the ugliest, laziest redneck customer I had and smack him across the face with my [censored].

Then I'd open a specifically online-poker-player-themed restaurant full of super hot waitresses and fantastic food, lure all of you nits in, then when you didn't tip, just splooge all over your faces from a perch above the door while you left.

[Klompy]

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People who come in parties of 3-6 take up a table for an entire service, then ring up a 300-500 dollar tab and tip 15% are scumbags.



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I don't know who said this first but

There's no way that one group of 3-6 takes your full attention, which either means you can slack off like crazy and still make 3 times minimum wage, or you can work at more tables and make a redic amount of money for the amount of skill and labor involved.

Whoever made this comment has obviously taken for granted that they're working the most overpaid/skill and labor job available in america.

[mattnxtc]

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Golden Rhino: While $75 may seem like a lot on the surface, imagine if the same table of 6 people with a $500 tab who took all night was replaced by table of 4 people with a $300 tab that turns 3 times.


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I can appreciate that as a waiter, a hight turnover table is ideal, but my point is that $75 is not too bad, especially if it can be considered a bad night.

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You do realize that the waiter doesnt get all of that 75 right? Theres tip sharing involved where they give a percentage of it out to the hostess and to other parts...they maybe end up with $50 by the end...which would be right at about $10/hr at most.

[RunDownHouse]

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And speaking of doucebags who travel overseas, why is it that Americans who come into our restaurants don't tip?

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And I never got a single tip. Because that's not how it works in Australia

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Well, which is it?

[Repsychler]

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People who are cheap are [censored].

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You mean like the people that pay servers a slave wage?

[adsman]

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And speaking of doucebags who travel overseas, why is it that Americans who come into our restaurants don't tip?

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And I never got a single tip. Because that's not how it works in Australia

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Well, which is it?

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I'm trying to have it both ways, like the guy I was replying to. You know like, pay my employees crap money / get high and mighty with my customer base and preach down to them and call them cheap.

[tuq]

There is nothing that the frothing restaurant owners/managers/waiters in this thread have written that has convinced me that six is an acceptable size for an auto-gratuity. It's not. It should be 8+. And it shouldn't be >15%.

[Swiitch]

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You do realize that the waiter doesnt get all of that 75 right? Theres tip sharing involved where they give a percentage of it out to the hostess and to other parts...they maybe end up with $50 by the end...which would be right at about $10/hr at most.

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Why do people insist on trying to use $10 as a crap wage?

Even if it were the waiter/waitresses only table (which is certainly isn't), he/she would be getting paid $10/hr by a table of 6. At the same time managment is throwing them an astounding $2.13/hour.

Who's the cheapskate, again?

[tuq]

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Why do people insist on trying to use $10 as a crap wage?

Even if it were the waiter/waitresses only table (which is certainly isn't), he/she would be getting paid $10/hr by a table of 6. At the same time managment is throwing them an astounding $2.13/hour.

Who's the cheapskate, again?

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Exactly.

What's fairly depressing is the sense of entitlement that a lot of the wait staff in this thread seem to have. Even if they're only clearing $10/hr after tipping everyone out that's still $10/hr that they're not likely to report so it's free and clear (to be fair I have no idea how much or often servers report taxes). So that's what, like $13/hr that the normal tax-paying sucker would have to make to be equivalent? That's a pretty good wage.

[chesspain]

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I am blown away by the number of people who will walk into a restuarant and purchase a $30+ piece of beef or fish and end up tipping 15% or less.



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Just because you're overcharging them on entrees doesn't obligate them to overspend even more on tips.