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RE: How much do you tip your waitress? - 6/13/2010 10:32:04 AM

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You may think that is appropriate conduct of wait staff, i mean this whole thread seems to advocate wait staff is given a whole slew of excuses because "they have a hard job," yeah they do, but so do many people in the world who deal with clients and customers and most other jobs don't allow or excuse the behavior of their staff because they have a hard job and yeah, accosting a customer tends to be a firing offense. And that isn't ill will, its called expectations of treating a client appropriately.

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Ah. I missed the last part of the story about the waitress running up to them. I don't see that as accosting, though. Accosting is more threatening and challenging than running to approach someone, but you might define it differently.

In any case, I'm not really sure where you get that I think it's appropriate behavior, when I said it was behavior that represented a bad attitude. I've made it pretty clear (or so I thought, but maybe not) that I tend to like to behave towards others in a way that feels right to me. I do not like to treat people poorly, even if they have treated me poorly. I do not like to wish ill intentions on others. I've been a food server and I've been stiffed for delivering poor service that was out of my control. I expected to be stiffed, and I accepted it. I personally would not be so insulting as to leave pennies or make rude comments, because it just isn't my style. I've received pennies before, in my day, and I thought "Wow, what an unhappy asshole" and went on my way.

I don't think rudeness is acceptable in either direction.

For those who say they should just get another job, if food service is too hard, many can not. When I was waiting tables, most of the servers were putting themselves through school, and an evening/weekend restaurant job afforded them the hours to be able to go to school, while making enough money to scrape rent together.

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RE: How much do you tip your waitress? - 6/13/2010 3:17:47 PM

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I generally tip 20% if the service was great, 15 if the service was standard and if I get terrible service I ask for a manager and tip a penny.

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RE: How much do you tip your waitress? - 6/13/2010 3:23:03 PM

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Any waiter or waitress that complains about the amount of tips and only making 3 bucks an hour should find a more reliable trade. I mean really you knew what the deal was when you took the job.

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RE: How much do you tip your waitress? - 6/13/2010 3:28:16 PM

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Last reply T.i.p.p. to insure proper service

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RE: How much do you tip your waitress? - 6/14/2010 6:15:15 AM

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I mean really you knew what the deal was when you took the job.

That was the same thing they told women when they complained about unequal pay for equal work. Hmmm... interesting, dontcha think?

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RE: How much do you tip your waitress? - 6/14/2010 6:20:27 AM

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The best thing that ever happened to me when I was a server and a new and poor one is that when the cutomers left 2 pennies, they left a note saying why. It was a long well thought out note. I took it to heart and became a great server after that. There are things beyond a servers control though and its sad when thats not recognized.

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