refused service because of bad tipping

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Here's a new tactic that's been used by delivery guys around my place for the last couple of years; say that you can't make change. There you are with a $20 bill, for a $12 pizza, and he can't make change.

I'll wait.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Apoc

Did you really think I come here to agree with people?

You're sounding more & more like me all the time

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

I'll wait.

Last guy had to wait for 10 minutes while I dug up funds close enough to give him a big $1 tip. Usually I would have taken only a couple of bucks back from a $20, on a $12 charge. Among other things, his job is to make change.

[shmike]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

I'll wait.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Last guy had to wait for 10 minutes while I dug up funds close enough to give him a big $1 tip. Usually I would have taken only a couple of bucks back from a $20, on a $12 charge. Among other things, his job is to make change.

Agreed on the last part.

That is his job, not yours.

Don't have change? I'll enjoy my pizza while you run to the nearest corner store and get change. Then you can have my twenty.

[OTB]

I owned my own place for years, and in all that time, there were only two instances where I told someone I wouldn't serve them without mandatory gratuity add tothe check; ussually, if a notorious "non-tipper" showed up, I made the girls draw straws...short straw "lost".

The two folks I made tipping mandatory for were so unpleasant and demanding (they would demand instant service for everything, all the time and expected a server to stand by the table "waiting" for someone to "need" something for the three hours they were there) ; then tell them that the prime rib wasn't rare enough, and that if they wanted a tip, "they'd have to do better next time"......

Then they would tell the server they needed to see the manager, and complain about portion sizes, lack of service, that theyhad to wait to get more water......expecting me to comp the check. Did it once or twice when they first started coming then realized we were NEVER going to see any money from these people. One came in on a Friday night with a large group18-20 ppl, no reservation, natch, and they bitched because they were going to have to wait an hour...(40 seat dining room, used to do 4 "turns" on a Friday night.

I finally told them that if they wanted private service, that they would have to pay that servers for the whole shift, as that person would lose out on 6-8 (between $150-$200) tables during the busy part of the dinner period.
Both times they were "shocked" that I would suggest such a thing, and how dare I!

Imagine that...we actually wanted to get paid.............

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Here's a new tactic that's been used by delivery guys around my place for the last couple of years; say that you can't make change. There you are with a $20 bill, for a $12 pizza, and he can't make change.

How many times would you have to send him on his way without buying that pizza before he catches on?

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Tmall

How many times would you have to send him on his way without buying that pizza before he catches on?

the first time it happened I'd be ordering from a different pizza place. So just one.

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by OTB

I owned my own place for years, and in all that time, there were only two instances where I told someone I wouldn't serve them without mandatory gratuity add tothe check; ussually, if a notorious "non-tipper" showed up, I made the girls draw straws...short straw "lost".

The two folks I made tipping mandatory for were so unpleasant and demanding (they would demand instant service for everything, all the time and expected a server to stand by the table "waiting" for someone to "need" something for the three hours they were there) ; then tell them that the prime rib wasn't rare enough, and that if they wanted a tip, "they'd have to do better next time"......

Then they would tell the server they needed to see the manager, and complain about portion sizes, lack of service, that theyhad to wait to get more water......expecting me to comp the check. Did it once or twice when they first started coming then realized we were NEVER going to see any money from these people. One came in on a Friday night with a large group18-20 ppl, no reservation, natch, and they bitched because they were going to have to wait an hour...(40 seat dining room, used to do 4 "turns" on a Friday night.

I finally told them that if they wanted private service, that they would have to pay that servers for the whole shift, as that person would lose out on 6-8 (between $150-$200) tables during the busy part of the dinner period.
Both times they were "shocked" that I would suggest such a thing, and how dare I!

Imagine that...we actually wanted to get paid.............

Imagine somebody wanting to make 150-200 under the table and then complaining because one table didn't give them 5 bucks. You're really not helping your argument.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Tmall

How many times would you have to send him on his way without buying that pizza before he catches on?

debit card. Everytime

[t-homo]

Originally Posted by Tmall

Imagine somebody wanting to make 150-200 under the table and then complaining because one table didn't give them 5 bucks. You're really not helping your argument.

Stop being such a stingy fuck. 5 bucks a person x 4-5 people is 20-25 bucks. You would be alright for working for free one time out of the night?