Next time, if you want to make-up a story then print a phony receipt to go with it.

About 8 years ago we were stopping to eat at the Great American Steak and Buffet in Sevierville Tennessee. We were nearly done eating and my 2 year old son was DONE....he takes off through this huge restaurant and bolts out of the room and towards the lobby area. I take off after him but chose to simply walk through the dining area knowing I'd get to him before he decided to potentially leave the building. As I get to him in the lobby (out of sight of dinng area)....here comes my wife and we scold him a touch. During this 1 minute we are gone the waitress comes and finds us in the lobby and rudely tells us never to bother returning because they don't want our business??????? She thought we weren't going to leave a tip. (Wife's purse was still at the table)

I found the manager and we had a nice conversation. He said she had multiple instances of this type. Not real sure she didn't lose her job. Can't say that I care.

gut;1543700 wrote:It kind of looks like they left that first statement behind - that first bill you get before giving your credit card.

Normally you take that with you, but it's not going to have a tip/total/signature...which makes it an ideal candidate for a waitress to use to fake a story.

Most likely, typically there are three receipts if I recall correctly in the U.S. The bill, and when you pay by card the vendor's copy and the customer's copy. In the UK the vendor keeps the bill after you reviewed, and if you pay by card you have to punch in your PIN or ask for a signature copy - if by PIN you just get the receipt and the vendor's copy is in electronic land - if you want a signature it is a bit more effort.

In either case the bill is usually retained by the vendor, unless the customer really wants it.

Ironman92;1543737 wrote: I found the manager and we had a nice conversation. He said she had multiple instances of this type. Not real sure she didn't lose her job. Can't say that I care.

That's when you leave 18 cents as a tip - sends the message you put thought and effort into stiffing her.

gut;1543744 wrote:That's when you leave 18 cents as a tip - sends the message you put thought and effort into stiffing her.

Bill was around $38....I think we left $3

About 4 years ago I was coaching 3rd at our high school summer league game and in between innings this bitch-faced 80's hair mom (Chillicothe) got in my face and just went nuts on me saying the 3rd baseman said I was talking about her daughter (pitcher) and just was certifiably crazy....two days later my son and I went to BDubs in Chillicothe and low and behold 80's hair bitch face was our waitress. Lol She was nervous as fuck the whole time and was just miserable as can be. I took the high road and left her a $10 tip on a $26 bill. It felt good knowing how miserable/nervous she was and then letting her know that I wasn't an ass.

Ironman92;1543737 wrote:About 8 years ago we were stopping to eat at the Great American Steak and Buffet in Sevierville Tennessee. .

LOL

like_that;1543802 wrote:LOL

I'll bite. I have no idea why that's funny.

O-Trap;1543803 wrote:I'll bite. I have no idea why that's funny.

Not sure myself. He enjoys my proof of fatness...or maybe he believes all buffets are like Ponderosa or Golden Corral. Whatever, we liked it.

Ironman92;1543800 wrote:Bill was around $38....I think we left $3.

LOL....A few times I've wanted to, but I've never left less than 10%, and that only a few times (I've had bad service, but never rude). I guess I view the tip partially as an expected cost of the service. To leave virtually nothing is basically underpaying for the meal, since the restaurant has to make-up the difference vs. minimum wage. You can argue that's incentive for the waitress to quit, or the restaurant to fire her. In other words, a no tip should reflect more than just poor service (dirty dishes, bad food, etc..). If it's just a bad waiter maybe it's 5% or 10%.

O-Trap;1543803 wrote:I'll bite. I have no idea why that's funny.

chain restaurants are for poor people?

gut;1543851 wrote:chain restaurants are for poor people?

Is that a chain restaurant? I'd never heard of it before.

I worked at a server through college. When we printed receipts we printed two copies a store copy and customer copy. I also had the ability to go back in the system and print as many copies as I wanted.

i know one girl I worked with was fired because a guy left his credit card and bill behind without signing it or leaving a tip. She turned the credit card in. Well he came back later that day and asked for his card and wanted to leave her a tip. When the manager went back in the system he said oh you already left a tip. The man said he didn't even pick up the book once it was sit back down by the waitress. She ended up getting fired and he pressed charges against her for credit card fraud as well.

i worked there's for three years and have some really crazy stories about things people would do.

O-Trap;1543859 wrote:Is that a chain restaurant? I'd never heard of it before.

No idea, just wanted to make the joke before Sleeper

"I also had the ability to go back in the system and print as many copies as I wanted."

We could do that at our crappy truck stop in 1995. If anyone paid with a credit card we could print receipt after receipt after receipt. Almost all restaurants have computers that print out as many bills as they want and state merchant copy or customer copy at their whim.

The biggest issue with this story is how the media just ran with a story with no investigation and no vetting - its like the idiots on college campuses that planted "nooses" in their offices and called it a hate crime - yet no one thought about looking at the security cameras to see who planted them.

Also back to this story, no one thought it was weird that there is a 22 year old ex-Marine? Did she serve her full commitment?

Not a ton of facts in this article but does seem to point to someone prone to fabrications & outright lies..mentions the military service too.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/27/waitress-who-likely-lied-about-anti-gay-note-in-lieu-of-a-tip-is-accused-of-a-bigger-lie-this-one-will-really-tick-off-military-vets/

MB you called it she failed to complete her duties

jmog;1543595 wrote:That's a tid bit of information that people don't realize about servers.

Servers make $2.13/hr.
Servers are taxes on $2.13/hr plus their tips. Their tips are taxed based on what they claim, but they have to claim a minimum of 10% of their sales.

So, if they make less than 10% tips, they are taxed on money they didn't actually make.

Also, even if they have a short shift and/or they don't make anything, they have to claim enough tips that would make them equal to normal minimum wage, so again, they are taxed on money they didn't actually make.

Most night shifts these things aren't a problem, its day/lunch shifts and late night diners, etc they can run into these problems.

I waited for about 4 years (all 4 in college), and I am not complaining about the money, if you don't suck at it you can make $15/hr which is darn good for a college kid.

I worked in a restaurant for a bit too. Not all servers make $2.13...some make more. It really depends on the restaurant.

Many servers (I'd even go as far as, MOST) do not claim tips. It is suggested that they do, but they are not forced to. No one watches them claim tips either (for the most part). There's also a difference in where the tips go -- some restaurants require a pooling of tips, so it defeats the purpose of a server working hard if tips are just going to get split between other servers, bar, cooks, etc.

There are so many tables that go through in an hour (of course, depending on time of day, size of restaurant, number of tables, etc.) but it's not out of the question for a server to make some nice money. This whole 15-20% is out of hand, in my opinion. They know what they signed up for. There's no reason why a customer should be required to tip a certain amount. Tips are for how well the service is. If you don't think it's good, don't tip much. If you think it is good, tip what you want. Or, just tip whatever you please.

And...Reservoir Dogs...

I have never heard of a restaurant that pay their servers over minimum wage. I think it's almost $4 an hour now though for most servers. I also never heard of anywhere not making you claim tips. I actually believe you are flat out lieing on that part for a few reasons. One restaurants are audited every few years. Part of this audit is to make sure servers are claiming their tips if not the place can be fined by the IRS. They also have to make sure that employees are making over minimum wage (by average) or the restaurant has to pay the difference or can be sued. Also if a server is chosen for an audit and they haven't claimed their credit card tips (which are tracked) the goverment can enforce penalities for unpaid taxes. While most servers don't claim 100% of their tips they Atleast claim their charged tips or 10% of their sales whichever is more.

I worked at at a place for 4 years during college and the place was audited twice in that time period. There's like 2 computer systems used in 80% of restaurants and both keep track of your charged tips and sales. In our restaurant we had maybe 10% of servers claim 100% of their tips and then the rest of everyone claimed about 75% based on charged tips and sales. The only way to really get away from not reporting tip is cash tips which are fewer and fewer.

When I served, the computer claimed credit tips for me. I just made sure I claimed enough cash tips for a certain percentage so I wouldn't get bothered by anyone.