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I Didn't Loudly Announce I Was Tipping, Does That Make Me A Bad Consumer?
We’ve all done the Conspicuous Tip — you wait until the barista or employee behind the counter is looking before you stuff the dollar in the tip jar, lest you be thought a non-tipper. But should that...
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How Far Would You Go To Tip Your Server?
Many, many pixels have been on this site over the subject of tipping in restaurants, but how far out of your way would you go to give a tip? -Joe and his wife had dinner at Red Robin, paid for with a...
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Am I Supposed To Tip At An Event With An Open Bar?
When most people go to a bar, they take care to tip the bartender and/or the wait staff. But for many people, that courtesy seems to go out the window when someone else is picking up the tab, as guests...
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Who The &^#* Does This Restaurant Customer Think He Is?
There are many ways to encourage, or even demand, quality service while out for a nice meal. Telling your waiter in advance that you’re going to be a dick about the tip is most certainly not a good...
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Chili's Helpfully Suggests 18% Tip On My Tab
Bryan went out for a lovely meal at Chili’s, which is not an oxymoron, with his family. When the bill came, he noticed something he hadn’t seen before: a “suggested gratuity” and suggested total line...
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Automatically Adding Gratuity Only To The Bills Of Foreigners Is Pretty Much...
If you’ve ever traveled abroad, surely you’ve been told things like, “You don’t have to tip at restaurants in Europe” or other local customs you can expect to encounter. But servers at restaurants in...
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Starbucks To Add Tipping Function To Mobile Payment App
(shivpics)One of the knocks against Starbucks’ mobile payment app is that it doesn’t have a way for the customer to add a tip if they want to. But the coffee colossus has apparently realized the error...
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TGI Friday’s Has A Very High Opinion Of Their Waitstaff
Fun with anchoring. Mike has no complaints about his recent visit to TGI Friday’s. Really, he doesn’t. The only thing that prompted him to write to Consumerist was one little blurb at the bottom of his...
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Is It Ever Acceptable For Waiters To Be Unpleasant?
(Michelle Rick)The “snooty waiter” who looks down his nose with disdain at his customers is a character that has been trotted out on film and TV too many times to count. But while we may not blink when...
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Pizza Deliverer: If You Live In A $650K House And Don’t Tip, There’s...
(jeknee)Tipping waiters at a restaurant is relatively easy — so long as you know how to calculate the standard 15-20% — but tipping for delivery is always a topic of much debate, as there are factors...
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Do You Still Tip Your Cab Driver When He Gets Lost?
(kevindean)If your waiter accidentally brings you someone else’s food, you’re probably still going to tip him, provided that he takes it back and eventually gives you the correct dish. But when your...
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Diner Thinks That Saying He’s A Pastor Allows Him To Stiff Waiter On Tip
(Reddit)Another week, another person making headlines for scribbling on a restaurant receipt. This time, it’s a customer who seems to think that claiming he’s a pastor absolves him of having to leave a...
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Waitress Who Posted No-Tip Receipt From “Pastor” Customer Fired From Job
(Reddit)Earlier this week, we posted a story about a restaurant customer who not only chose to deny the waitress a tip, but also wrote “I Give God 10% Why do you Get 18?” on the receipt. Now we’ve...
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‘Bitter Barista’ Blogger Fired; No Longer A Barista
Matt says his next project will be Bittersweet Barista. ” It’ll be the same as before, but with a plethora of kitten pictures.”When you run a blog that anonymously posts poison-pen critiques of the...
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Is This 25% Tip A Come-On Or Just A Generous Bit Of Rounding Up?
(imgur) Despite the fact that we are adults and quite mature and even wear real pants when we work from home (sometimes), that doesn’t mean we don’t chuckle at suggestive things. Like, well, the total...
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Waiters Sue Employer For Taking Wages To Cover Walk-Outs
(MY PINK SOAPBOX)Earlier this week, we wrote about the legality (or lack thereof) of employers docking tipped workers’ wages to cover walk-outs and bad orders. Little did we know that the same day,...
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Restaurant Learns Instagram Isn’t Intended For Hurling Racial Slurs At Bad...
Someone at a restaurant in Delaware missed the class where they explain that the usual place to vent racially biased frustration at a customer is on the receipt, as the eatery is now having to do a...
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Amy’s Baking Company To Re-Open May 21, Hires Damage-Control Publicist
The saga of previously anonymous Amy’s Baking Company of Scottsdale, AZ, continues, with the eatery — which came out of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares looking like a heretofore undocumented circle...
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Steak ‘n Shake Waitress Scores $446 Tip On $6 Check
It’s nice to ride toward the end of the week with a happy tipping-related story for a change. A waitress at a Steak ‘n Shake eatery in Indianapolis got the biggest bonus of her life when a diner left...
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Papa John’s CEO Apologizes For Driver’s Impromptu Racist Opera Singing
Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter has had to step up and publicly apologize after a delivery driver in Florida was caught dropping the N-word numerous times on a customer’s voicemail, even going so far as...
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