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Few things in this world make me scratch my head and grit my teeth as hard as I do as whenever I hear people complaining about <20% tips while serving. At a fundamental level and with a cost vs. reward perspective, thinking you’re entitled to $20+ of every 100 makes ZERO sense
Nothing you’ve done is worth anywhere even remotely close to that. The only thing you’ve done that almost no one else there can do is operate the POS system with accuracy and 95% of those people who can’t could learn to with great ease and probably in less than 20 minutes.
Honestly, like I cannot wrap my head around this shit. That walk from the kitchen window to our table with a few plates of food?absolute cakewalk. Virtually that same walk with 2-10 cups full of liquid? slightly more difficult, but again, another cakewalk. Splitting the bill?
Jesus Christ, I mean THANK Jesus fucking Christ that POS system will calculate that for you correctly, should you be able to operate it correctly, in order for you to do so. I’d be mortified FOR MOST of you if it didn’t and that math was something you had to do on your own..
All you’ve really done that is sometimes difficult is put on a smile and not be a cunt to people you want money from. The “service” you’ve provided was hardly a service at all. The alcoholics in the back cooking the food have done more for each individual customer than you have.
Serving tables, unless it’s at a $40-50 a plate restaurant, is minimum wage work and should be treated as such. It requires minimum skill and that’s at a very elementary adult level. Please, convince me otherwise by explaining to me why you deserve more than that as a server.
Like, I’d gladly pay the restaurant $1-4 more per plate of food, tip the cook(s), or just go fill my fucking cup up myself if it meant not dealing with these unskilled, annoying ass servers looking for a handout and me getting to still eat the food fresh out of the kitchen.
For perspective— Billy Bob the plumber and Larry the Comcast guy are 1000x more deserving of a tip than most servers are based on how much easier they make our lives and yet, no one really ever gives them one. Please, someone who enjoys a real challenge, try and change my mind.
