Hilarious!
I worked as a waitress for years and years and I understand completely.
Thank you for this public service announcement.
What you ultimately want to do is wait on a bunch of current and former waiters/waitresses and bartenders, that's where the REAL money is.
Wanna give me a good rec when I apply there next week? One crappy diner job isn't cutting it. Maybe two crappy diner jobs will help the ends meet. You owe me, btw. 
the best is when you work in a pricey restaurant and a group of 8 comes in. 8 prom kids. they will leave you exact change and no tip. i did better when i worked at davinci's.
a-fucking-men
> It is what defines me lately
Work doesn't define you. Any of us, really.. unless it's something you chose to do irregardless of pay. What you do to pay the bills doesn't define anything, really. Though I'm sure you didn't mean it like that anyway.
I think a lot of people just don't Get It with resturants and what they're supposed to tip, how they're supposed to behave etc. There should be a manual, and if you break the rules all the other patrons get to throw dead chickens or salt shakers at you, or something.
This is amusing - on topic; http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/20...5/28/12313/
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Anyhow - people should just think of what they have to do for work vs what service industry people have to put up with. I wouldn't last a day without physically beating someone down, so I always tip big
Well, Athens is special in that it floats on the cash of spoiled trogs who've never worked service jobs themselves. If you and Rick want to make a go of it in Chicago, let me know - we can carry boxes and donate plasma together.
I think a job does define you, to an extent. I became a different person when I worked at American Express, a person who was miserable but able to ease the pain with $15 catfish platters for four good pals (and tip and even $50, just for the look on her face). As soon as I left, that person left my body for Bora Bora and hasn't returned. We're both much happier now.
has anyone made their own lemonade yet from the free lemons and sugar?
or have guys hit on you and then they leave at 15% tip? we dont smile back for free.
or have someone try and handfeed you. that's my favorite. yes, please let me try the fries, (i've probably neve rhad them before) from your dirty, drunk hand as to entice me into your dirty, drunk arms.
Ridiculous!
So, if a 20% tip is $4.50, you would rather have $4. Okay. If you don't want the extra fucking 50 cents, give it to the kitchen staff or a cashier at Wendy's or they guy who makes your burrito. Maybe your overpriced "diner" shares tips with the kitchen, but how many servers hook up the kitchen in this town? I empathize with having to deal with douchebags, but so do a lot of other workers who make a lot less under much more uncomfortable conditions.
yeah maybe i read it wrong, but i was getting the same jist from the post. i've worked service industry and had to rely soley on tips and/or been prepper and had to rely on the generosity of shared tips.
if someone leaves a "proper" tip and it just happens to have change...la dee da. actually my scale for tipping is generally 20% plus i round up. it gives me a nice neat number and a little extra for the waiter/ress.
i guess i could have summed this up with "ditto". give the change to the shlumps in the back. a fistful of change makes for a handy accessory when you need to ass whip some sandle bums, or if you need to add to your "get the fuck out of dishwashing" collection jar.
ill keep my 2 cents if change is not appreciated. (i was really hopin someone would have said that already so i wouldnt have to use it...apologies all around)
bunny, please do tell. what is a good tip and what is a respectable tip. i
ve never worked service and really have no idea.
in my home town everyone tipped 15% but i try and tip closer to 20% in ATL.
also. is there a different rule for delivery? one for minimal order, like coffee or something. late night (3am) things?
this post is not sarcastic, i swear.
I do work in the kitchen. We all work everywhere, and we all share tips.
you make me laugh bunny.
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?
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I was unaware that tipping was such a sensitive subject for all you net-hooked lameoids. She made a joke. Let it go, Sanchez.
the reason I leave coins is because I've secretly licked them
never take me seriously.
I make a mean grilled cheese. And coffee. I make good coffee. No spit or anything. Would that and an ok from you get me a job at said diner?
Bunny, I regret my comment if you were not serious. no hard feelings. I enjoyed my dining experience the one time I was in your diner.
dogboy, thanks for coming to the defense. your blog is kinda gay.
I used to hate it when people left coin change on the table when I waited tables. Or when they made small talk to me and kept referencing my potential tip. Oh hell, I could go on and on about the things I hated about people when I waited tables. The weirdest part is that overall I loved the job. There was a lot to bitch about, but it was somehow fun. Maybe it was just fun because I got to mock people.
yes, it is kinda gay. Although this would be the perfect time for a "takes on to know one" jibe, but i honestly don't care. I never expect anyone to read it. Welcome to my 1.6% club, blacky.
Also, I'd like to say congratulations to UGA for admitting yet another bunch of real top notch retards THIS semester. Today three ball capped, be-sandled boys with too many pockets on their pants left exactly three dollars in tip on a 30 dollar check (which they had a hard time splitting up three ways, so I had to do the math for them) AND THEN THEY APPLIED FOR JOBS.
This is a valid complaint.
The other stuff? Not really.
I mean, it's a credit card slip! It's not like there's actual change to clog up your pockets. Why are you complaining about extra money that someone feels they should tip you? That's both presumptuous and ungrateful. The kind of attitude that puts a server above the customer is nothing but counterproductive.
And maybe it's the split tips that prevent Clocked's entire staff from giving it 100% all the time. If people were working for their own money, maybe the customers would be better served. I love Clocked's food A LOT, but it's pretty consistently near the bottom of the list when it comes to overall service.
I've never dined there when you've worked there, so I'm not commenting on your work ethic, Bunny, but I agree with Chris about the service. Clocked is barely a wait-staff type restaurant to me because I usually get one, maybe two, visits from a wait-staff person beyond the initial drinks, order, delivery, and checks. We waited for an hour there the other day, and the place wasn't busy.
I mean, I still tipped my usual 20%, but I didn't want to. Can we talk about the whole "tip-guilt" thing? I tip people even if they give me shitty service because of the training wage, etc. Can't we pay people a decent salary in this country like they do, well, in every other Western country?
And I love bartenders and tip them, but why do we do that again?
I get a little beefed when there are people who are crap servers waiting tables when I'm in the kitchen. I don't like the tip share thing much either, but I like the restruant, I like the owner, I like the staff for the most part. I don't know-- some times it is impossibly understaffed to give top notch service, but I really try hard to attend to everyone well. always always.
Chris-- it really isn't that I'm being terribly serious about credit card slips. it just makes me roll my eyes some that someone is planning that fifty cents so carefully. Twenty five cents confuses me even more. Oh god. i don't know why, but it is probably because i am a neurotic, specific, obsessive weirdo.
It's like when people leave some weird tip amount to have an even dollar amount. is their bank account always even? i don't understand. I will never understand.
Yeah, I'm with Big Gray on the whole tip-guilt thing. Having been part of the service industry, I'll generally still leave a decent tip.
The main problem is that when you leave a crap tip there's not really a good way to let someone know exactly why. Honestly, few servers who aren't good enough to merit a good tip won't take any complaints constructively as it is. And sometimes it seems a little extreme to talk to a manager... of course, that's even if the restaurant has a manager on duty, which Clocked doesn't seem to that often.
Hell yeah! I love this post.
I also waited tables (who hasn't) and to pick up some loose change from the table after running like crazy and pushing my orders to the front of the line is frustrating.
If that extra dollar or 50 cents is really going to send their bank account into the red, why don't they just frigging cook at home?! Bastards.
If you think the UGA morons are bad, just check out what's going on in England's educational system:
Liz Beattie, a retired teacher, will call on the association's annual gathering in Buxton, Derbyshire, to "delete the word 'fail' from the educational vocabulary to be replaced with the concept of 'deferred success'".
She argues that repeated failure, such as in exams, can damage pupils' interest in learning.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/educa...ion/
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if you had trackback, i'd ping this post.
love your wit.
Ii is difficult for me to believe that people are so cheap. And who wants to give a hot looking waiter only .50 anyway.
asswipes
You're an even better writer when you're pissed off. Keep this job.
Important disclaimer: this comment will ramble.
As a recovering wannabe hipster and someone who worked briefly as a taxi driver about ten years ago, as well as an experienced public consumer of alcohol, I too understad the importance of the tip.
Having said that: in response to your lament I say 'WHAT THE FUCK EVER.'
For every disgruntled service workers valid complaint there is a valid flip side belong to the consumer. Or something like that. Let me cut to the chase. I'm not a frat boy (a fat boy definitely though, it's just an orthographic coincidence. I hate frats just as much as the next "hip" or "cool" or whatever the kids are saying to describe the people they admire these days guy. Although I've belonged to many secret clubs. I guess it's not that different than a frat. Except we were cool and had good taste. And we didn't do community service. And we never got the hang of that date rape thing. And we never killed anyone during initiation.... but that's neither here nor there) So uh yeah, I understand your obvious contempt for the mediocre masses. No problem with that. I endorse it. I want you to endorse my generalized contempt as well. We can understand each other on this issue, I would assume.
Where I disagree, is the assertion that one is a cheapskate by tipping 3.50 instead of 4.
And I am offended! Yes offended. Because I use my visa check card as much as possible. It's the wave of the future you know. So convient. To cop a competitor's ad: priceless. My mama taught me to tip 10%. When I went to college I learned that WASN'T enough and 15% was the level. Now I've learned since then is even 20% is sometimes appropriate. And hell, if the service is up to it I will leave at least 15%.
What you have to understand, is that to arrive at that 15% you have busted your sweet ass to earn, is that I, the consumer, must perform a crucial arithmetic operation based on the total of my check. This is often stressful and would be impossible were it not for our nation's mediocre public education system. So a lot of things are at play here besides your obsessive need to get an even dollar amount back from the drawer on your credit card tickets and your perceived notions about what the customer is going to do with that "extra" fitty cent. The fact is, sometimes the math just works out such that the proper tip amount is say 4.50 or 5.50 instead of 6. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that in such cases the customer is rounding up to the nearest fitty cent instead of giving you say, 5.37, or what have you.
And we are real people too. Just because we pay with our credit or debit cards doesn't mean we are frat boys or construction workers or republicans (god forbid!) or what have you. those fitty cents add up. They will for you two . Just two of those x dollars and fitty cent tickets and you'll have an extra dollar in your pocket. Just like that. think about it
So to sum up. Get over it. Or quit
Pennies never get any respect no mo.
Something hit a raw nerve PM? Sure getting stiffed on tips sucks, but so does being black, and thats besides the point. Bunny, you just keep up the good good. PM, dog, you gotta realize paying with the card is a luxury, and it pisses me off when I gotta wait in line so all the white people can use their plastic when God knows they coulda just pulled out a hundred dollars from the ATM and paid in cash. You know how long it take to run those fucking things!
I generally tip around 20%, but I am a tad on the obsessive side, so I also typically tip such that my tip ends in what I consider an even dollar amount. This often means that I round up from say 12.78 to 13.00, but occasionally it means I may round to the nearest .50 mark.
What surprises me is that, given the level of service provided by your fine establishment, anyone there is ever in a position to get a tip. Its the sort of place where you should write "Don't drink and drive" or "Never wear black socks with brown pants" on the tip line.
black people can use plastic too. (do you know me? do you know my skin color? do you know my ethnicity for that matter? does it matter?) the gods of finance respect no man or woman. SNARK RESPECTS NO PERSON EITHER!
Forgive my erratic punctuation and sometimes erroneous orthography and scattershot typing. Forgive me world for I am a user of my bank's free VISA FUCKING check card. that's right folks, get behind me in line and be prepared to wait. I don't care. I have to wait for your sorry ass counting out change and deciding which flavor of sugar water you want at the self serve soda jerk bar. It all kind of evens out.
Do to a technical glitch, last night whhen I made my rambling post, I was (falsely) led to believe that my comment was not actually posted. I am so relieved to see it was.
Forgive my agressive tone. I have nothing but mad love for this blog. Just wanted to make a fine point.
And to illustrate the same in a slightly different way: (note: I do not personally know the author of this blog nor do I pretend to know where she works and as such all snide commments regarding menu items are purely fictional, and ditto for snide comments regarding fictional waitress. And prices are arbitrary, selected using math to illustrate the aformentioned point):
Greasy burger - $6.00
Undercooked fries - $1.50
The “doesn’t totally suck”
Chicken sandwich - $5.50
More undercooked fries - $1.50
2 glasses of soda - $3.50
Fries, dessert and coffee for
Your loser mooch of a friend - $7.00
18 % tip - $4.50
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Total $29.50
LATER LEARNING THAT YOU LIKE TOTALLY ANNOYED YOUR PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE HIPPER-THAN-
THOU WAITRESS - priceless
christ, you people are more sensitive and neurotic than I am.
I am, by the way, in no way passive agressive. I am regular agressive.
So go wait in the trunk of my car, I'll be right there.
it's a joke. just a joke. In response to what I thought was at least in part, a joke. I don't know where yr car is.
also see my disclaimer before the unauthorized mastercard parody
for the record I AM passive agressive so I was probably just projecting
Bunny, baby, I'm waiting, it's getting really hot, and my wireless keeps going out on me.
PM. I know your white because I visited your myspace page and saw your pictures.
By the way, you don't have to use orthography in every post. Oh, and don't think for one minute you hold a candle to Chuck Palahniuk, Mr. Model Consumer.
fair enough. the skin color comment still ain't got to do nothin with using the plastic to pay. More importantly the assumption that because I use my visa check card (NOT a credit card) to pay means that I could have just as easily used an ATM to withdraw hundereds in cash is just stupid. And that's the whole fucking point. I don't want to have to carry around cash. And in today's world I don't have to. No rocket packs or flying cars yet, but paying with a card is pretty cool.
Chuck P.... ahhh well fight club was fun I guess, and that's all I've ever read by him... but I mean... he's not all that, is he? I certainly don't claim to be anything as far as writing is concerned so go ahead and dis me all ya want.
Yeah I def. was overusing the O word.
to the owner of this blog: sorry for being so obnoxious and long-winded. I def. stand by my opinions, for the proverbial two cents that they are worth...
and relax.
thus people will toss and turn in their beds pondering about tipping and on a fervent mission to develop well-fundamented ethics on them.
finally, life has a purpose.
What the fuck does race have to do with any of this?
yes, and why do you cheap bastards keep going on and on?
tee hee he. i'm lying, I love it when you rant at me.
man, people who comment on blogs are dumb. anyway, if you think you've got it bad you should scope room service, which is beset by various problems: 1) half of my customers don't really understand that room service is even a tipping position, 2) of those who do, half end up confused by the obnoxious 18% gratuity management puts on each bill (hint: this doesn't go to me), and not at all last but i'm tired of writing, 3) they're charging everything "to the company." you'd think this would free somebody up to tip really well - shit, if i got to eat a $25 meal "on the company" i would tip ten bucks every time - but strangely, people will, to your face, explain "sorry i'm not tipping...it's being charged to the company." this is really only the tip of the bitching about room service iceberg, but i should really make a whole separate website for this or something.
I was seriously stiffed on the tips this summer. If I had counted my last one I would have just given it back.
I do agree with general criticisms of the whole tipping practice that we have. It is hard to figure out who to tip, and it is weird that employers can't pay their employees what they're worth. I wouldn't have even hoped for tips this summer if I was paid decently and my employer wans't expecting me to be tipped.
I always wish I could tip more, but being underemployed for a while and now unemployed for school, I'm just not in a position to tip well.
...Seriously, I haven't heard of banks denying non-white people debit or credit cards. That comment was uncalled for.
I always wish I could tip more, but being underemployed for a while and now unemployed for school, I'm just not in a position to tip well.
So don't eat out. It's a luxury, not a right. Same concept that applies to downloading movies and music without paying for 'em.
Chris, I do often avoid restaurants with table service. And when I am tipping, it's at least 15%, which is reasonable but not "well." If servers don't like it, they can serve someone else. It's better than not having my patronage at all. But anyway.
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