Uh... 'Render unto ceaser that which is ceasers...?'
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Ah damnit. Youre right, of course. Ill take the humiliating L
Call me a godless skeptic but I'm going to take this with a grain of salt.
The tip thing is a well known one and while I doubt anyone would be as brazen as the situation in OP, I've known some very brazen people.
Yeah, these things are notoriously faked.
"not that the server got stiffed on a tip"....
it's only when the owners get robbed that they'll say something about it
Yeah, if owners were required to cover the difference when waiters get stiffed or under-tipped, I bet things would change pretty quickly.
They are? Unless you mean to an arbitrary tip amount like 20%. Businesses are required to pay servers minimum wage if tips don’t make it. It’s still super scummy and they should pay living wages by default, but they can’t just not pay people.
A specific tip amount, yeah. Minimum wage is pretty low compared to 20% tips. Fully agree that just having a living wage across the board would be the best solution, though.
Sir, this isn't a Wendys
I'm sorry, we only accept cash, Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
I'm sorry but THEFT OF SERVICE???
America needs to pay its fucking staff already. That is not the customers responsibility. The customer should have already paid the wages, the taxes, the food cost, and the profit as part of the bill. That's how every other business and every other country runs.
"Theft of service" is wild, and is putting the blame back on the customer as the employee, who is now not getting paid for their labour, complains to his manager about it (the one who should be paying the wages).
It says theft of services. Food is a service, that's why they serve it to you. They stole the whole meal.
You're ranting about tipping culture and tipping wages... Which isn't the issue here.
Did you miss the part saying the customer walked out on the check? They didn't pay for anything. That is textbook theft of services.
That's even worse lol
Don't get me wrong, I grew up in a southern baptist family and I agree, Christians are self important, entitled, cunts that use religion as an excuse to be horrible.
But I moved to Australia as a teen and have worked in hospitality for over 15 years and the entire time I have been paid a reasonable wage. Before I went salaried in management positions (over ten years ago now), my minimum wage as a bartender was $37 per hour. And the customers got some of the best service they've ever had because I loved the job and didn't need to beg them to be paid.