The most awesome tipper EVAH!. Oh...wait...

[spookysonata]

Told by a coworker:

Guy was in yesterday and tipped $28 on an $80 check. Server was all "Wow, what a nice guy! Sweet!"

He called today: "Yeah...I only meant to leave $8. I'll need the other $20 back."

Coworker: "...you want to take back the tip you left?"

Awesome tipper: "Yeah. Hey, the food and service was great, but you know, $20 is $20."

If I were him? I would never ever ever come back to my establishment. Congrats, you just bought yourself a lifetime of (if you're lucky) apathy and mediocre service here.

For the low low price of $20!

I don't know...I would have just sucked it up when I realized my mistake.

[otakuneko]

"Sorry, gratuity is non-refundable."

[PepperElf]

Sorry, the server is working out of <some other state> now.


i've heard of cheapass stuff but that's ... freaking low and cheap.

[tropicsgoddess]

That SC hit an all-time low in douchebaggery and cheapness.

[jerkface11]

They didn't give it back to the asshat did they?

[Nashida]

That's really cheap. That's only a 10% tip.

If I had realized my mistake, I wouldn't have asked for the $20 back. I'd have assumed the server had been stiffed at least twice that day and left it for him/her. Then again, I'm not an SC.

[StanFlouride]

So, even though "the food and service was great" they only want to leave a 10% tip?!

*grabs crotch and in best NYC accent says* "Yeah, I'z gotcher twenny dollahs rightcheah!"

[Mordecai]

"Yeah...I only meant to leave $8. I'll need the other $20 back."

Coworker: "...you want to take back the tip you left?"

Awesome tipper: "Yeah. Hey, the food and service was great, but you know, $20 is $20."

I'm...speechless....

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

He keeps that up and he'll be ingesting an amazing variety of bodily fluids.

**And I am not for a second advocating that anybody do this. But the reality is some people in food service don't have the kinds of moral codes we here have.**

[lupo pazzesco]

Ok, that's just WRONG.

But then, I'm the kind of person who tips extremely well, being a former server. went out with the friend I'm staying with, my treat, since I'm kind of inconveniencing her a bit. Bill came out to $48.70 and I tipped $20 because the service was AWESOME. (and the server was hot, but that didn't factor in at ALL, naturally. )

People who tip around 10% are irritating to me, I only tip 10% if the service was mediocre to poor. And besides, HOW do you mistake $8 for $28? Seriously?!

what an ass.

[Eric the Grey]

Coworker: "...you want to take back the tip you left?"

Awesome tipper: "Yeah. Hey, the food and service was great, but you know, $20 is $20."

"Sorry, but all tips are deposited nightly into long-term certificates of deposits. I cannot return it to you before they mature in 12 months."

Seriously, that has to take some balls.


Eric the Grey

[shelliebelle]

o_O
He might make very low pay, and decided to reward himself. 20 bucks could easily be five hours of work, and food for a week.

As much as I believe that could honestly be the case, it comes down to this: if you cannot afford to leave an appropriate tip, you cannot afford to eat out.

That is seriously sucky.

I learned to tip from my dad, who frequently quotes Steve Martin - "I don't believe in tipping, I believe in over-tipping."

If I'm eating out, I typically tip between 25-30%. I also frequent the same restaurants routinely, so it ensures that the waitstaff remembers me and I receive excellent service whenever I go in.

Pretty much if I tip anything less than 20% it's because there was something seriously wrong with the service, and I make sure to let either the server or the management know what it was.

But that guy's behavior was inexcusable - he should have chalked it up to a lesson learned and counted more carefully.

[Bramblerose]

o_O

However, its a little sucky to call him a dick over it. Most of us wouldn't have called over it, but...

You don't call the next day and ask for your tip back. You put on you BIg Human panties and suck it up.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

You don't call the next day and ask for your tip back. You put on you BIg Human panties and suck it up.

In this instance, I prefer the phrase "Big Boy BVDs"

[Bobsentme]

I was at a bar with a buddy, and when cashing out with the waitress, handed her a $20 for a tip...

Or so I thought.

What I ACTUALLY handed the waitress was 2, yes TWO $20 bills.

I get out to the parking lot and only then realized how badly I screwed up.

Could I have used the $20 back? Maybe.
Was it worth me going back in and ruining a waitresses night? No.

I put the extra money down as a tip towards my Karma. Maybe she needed it more than I did.