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(#9) Start Throwing Bottles
From Chihuahua_enthusiast:
My sister works at an upscale small plate eatery and wine bar and someone put a $5 tip on a $300 bill that included bottle service.
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(#7) Mennonite Moments
From Redditor/u/Dydarian:
I work as a server at a somewhat higher-end restaurant and frequently there are EW horse shows down the street. During these shows, we will get many customers coming in smelling like horse poo and covered in mud. They're some of the nicest people we wait on and they always buy a lot and tip very well. Mennonites sometimes come in with them, and generally they don't tip. Not like 'Hey they only tipped 10%,' but literally zero.
One time there was a party of 10 of the horse people that came in (our lovely name for people from horse shows) and I was the only closing server left. They came in 15 minutes to close and told our manager that a few more would be in very soon. 10 minutes after we closed eight more people for the party came in. Now there were some Mennonites with them, but since there were so many people, I figured a few bad tips wouldn't hurt anything. This party had everything they could get their hands on. Desserts, apps, expensive add-ons, so I thought it was going to be great.
Here was the bad news. My restaurant had recently stopped doing gratuities on parties since the change in the tax code. I came out with a $634 tab after one of the guys whom I had been talking to all night said that just one person was picking up the tab... You can all see where this is going. One of the three Mennonites picked up the tab and literally left a zero with a line through it as their tip. My manager ended up buying me a meal and taking me out for several beers afterwards as some sort of recompense, but it was still awful.
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(#13) A Spicy Situation
From a deleted user:
A woman at this table decided she wanted to put some pepper on her salmon. But unlike a normal person, she unscrewed the cap of the pepper shaker to sprinkle it on. Long story short, she spilled almost the entirety of the pepper on her meal. But it was somehow my fault for how full the shaker was. She demanded that her salmon be remade and expected it to be comped. I talked to my manager and he said that it was her own damn fault for spilling the pepper and they weren't going to comp it. I made him explain that to the guests to avoid any conflict. The tip wasn't 0, but the woman was part of a party of 12, almost a $200 check, and the tips from their separate checks added up to a whopping $11. I had to split that with another server who also took care of the table. Sometimes I really hate people.
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(#2) A Saucy Exit
From Redditor/u/N546RV:
I was a cook, but I can still chime in. We had a large party that came to eat on a Saturday night. They were quite unhappy at having to wait for a table - apparently they were unable to comprehend that weekends are, like, busy and stuff. So of course they were b*tchy throughout the entire evening, and when they were finished eating, they left some loose change on the table and poured bbq sauce on top of it.
The impressive thing about this was that their waitress was the most calm, meek person in the entire store, and she was emitting curses that would have had a sailor cowering in fear. Never before or since did I see her that g*ddamn furious.
Our store owner promptly went to the table, retrieved the sauce-covered change, intercepted the a**holes in the parking lot, slapped the money in one guy's hand, and told them not to ever f*cking come back.
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(#4) Someone Needs To Stop Drinking
From Redditor/u/electricshock88:
As a bartender I had some a**hats sit at the bar and drink all day. I took pretty good care of them and when it came to paying, one guy pulled out his wallet and put his credit card down and a £20 note and put it on the bar. As I went to grab it he said 'Actually nah, you'll just spend it on beer. I'd rather buy you a drink' and put the £20 in his pocket. I replied' Thank you, that's kind of you (hiding my anger) but I cant drink whilst I work.' He replied 'Okay, well I'll drink it for you.' Laughing, he drank a beer and waved a £20 note in my face. F*cking assh*le.
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(#8) Party Monsters
From a deleted user:
My worst story comes from the Rotary club of my county. It was during our slowest time of the day, so I was the only waiter on duty. It was me, the bartender, and the head chef; that was it.
So 26 people came in at one time and were upset that we didn't have a large table ready for them. They hadn't called and asked for a reservation, let us know that they'd need a large setting, nothing. They ordered a bunch of drinks and appetizers, and the treasurer told me to make sure I put everything on one ticket to make things easier.
After the three of us struggled to get all the drinks and appetizers out in a timely fashion, it came time to collect the main course orders. Of course every damn one of those b*stards wanted things customized.
Got it taken care of, got everyone their food. Got refills for drinks.
Dessert comes around, and we get that out.
By this point everyone is mingling around and talking. I bring the check to the treasurer, and he tells me that they decided everyone was paying for their own meal.
I ended up having to split that ticket 26 different ways; even though ticket software makes things simple, that's still a pain in the ass to do. I start collecting money, running cards, etc. For the 26 people, it ended up being almost $500.
As I'm cashing everything out I realize two of them (one of which was the treasurer) ditched on their bills. The total for my tips after they all left came out to about $10. The bartender didn't get a single tip.
After that, we implemented a policy that a group larger than eight had to call ahead at least 30 minutes, implemented an automatic 18% gratuity for any party larger than eight, and implemented a policy where a single group couldn't split their ticket more than six ways.
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