NJ Diner Leaves Anti-Gay 'Tip' for Lesbian Waitress

[RM918]

I leave a couple of these with my tips.

Can they actually do that? One thing I've heard works is that you can leave a 1 cent tip on a card and then leave cash for the actual tip and they only have to report the card tip.

 

[angelatc]

In the past few weeks there was the person who allegedly wrote "******" on a receipt, a person who allegedly put a fake $10 bill with Christian evangelizing on it, and now a person who allegedly hates gays.

Did anyone say "stop me if you've heard this one before"? At this point I can only assume ALL of these incidents are manufactured propaganda.

Yeah, I was going to post pretty much this.

 

[Schifference]

If Nancy Pelosi was waiting/serving your table would you tip her?

 

[Ender]

If you have a personal issue with a waitstaff then you should request another or go to a different restaurant. Allowing someone to serve your meals and top your drinks then breaking out the "I'm not leaving a tip because <insert personal baggage >" is nothing more then being a cheapskate and an asshole.

Agreed.

Stuff it or go somewhere else.

 

[dannno]

If Nancy Pelosi was waiting/serving your table would you tip her?

I'd probably ask to be re-seated.

 

[Ender]

If Nancy Pelosi was waiting/serving your table would you tip her?

If she did a good job- yes. And she'd only be waiting table if she was broke and out of politics, which would be a good thing.

 

[Cowlesy]

In the past few weeks there was the person who allegedly wrote "******" on a receipt, a person who allegedly put a fake $10 bill with Christian evangelizing on it, and now a person who allegedly hates gays.

Did anyone say "stop me if you've heard this one before"? At this point I can only assume ALL of these incidents are manufactured propaganda.

I thought the exact same thing. Make up a victim/aggrieved event, contact news organization, garner sympathy, setup chip-in, PROFIT!!!

 

[phill4paul]

See what I mean?

I worked in restaurants for years, and if one my staff said that publicly, let alone privately to the other staff, I'd fire her ass like yesterday.

In a heartbeat.

 

[phill4paul]

Yes, indeed. But then the owner would be sued because they fired a (un)happy person.

What ever happened to 'the customer is always right' attitude?

I've never subscribed to that adage. I did work in a restaurant that did. We always had this one asshole that would berate his wife and make other customers unhappy. He had some real woman issues. One day he cussed out a new girl on the register. I almost went over the counter on his ass. But, he was friends with the owner and it wasn't my restaurant. I got together with some other managers and we had a talk with the boss. Didn't see much of his friend after that particular episode.

I prefer the adage: We reserve the right to refuse service.

 

[angelatc]

How long before progs are demanding tips be included in the total bill to avoid this sort of "discrimination?"

The IRS already paved the way for that, by changing the way that mandatory gratuities are treated, taxwise. More taxes, more paperwork: http://consumerist.com/2013/09/05/are-these-the-final-days-of-automatic-18-tips-at-restaurants/

 

[donnay]

I've never subscribed to that adage. I did work in a restaurant that did. We always had this one asshole that would berate his wife and make other customers unhappy. He had some real woman issues. One day he cussed out a new girl on the register. I almost went over the counter on his ass. But, he was friends with the owner and it wasn't my restaurant. I got together with some other managers and we had a talk with the boss. Didn't see much of his friend after that particular episode.

I prefer the adage: We reserve the right to refuse service.

I was being a bit sarcastic. But I do remember a time when businesses would jump through hoops to please the customer.

 

[acptulsa]

+rep. And personally I find the whole "tip" system silly. Sure I tip when I'm at a restuarant with a waiter/waitress because said person is likely underpaid based on the theory that the "tips" will make up for it. Why not just charge me up front enough money to pay the wait staff?

Ostensibly it's a free market thing. The better job the server does, the more the server makes. No begging for raises--do your job better and your pay is better.

Of course, if the progressives keep making ugly noises about incidents like this, and restaurants expand their policies of 'mandatory tips (20% tacked on the bill) for large parties' or for whatever (which makes their posted prices false advertising), and the IRS keeps getting pissier about undeclared income, this is where it must end up eventually.

 

[angelatc]

If you have a personal issue with a waitstaff then you should request another or go to a different restaurant. Allowing someone to serve your meals and top your drinks then breaking out the "I'm not leaving a tip because <insert personal baggage >" is nothing more then being a cheapskate and an asshole.

Heh - in my misspent youth one of my friends dragged me to a restaurant, and asked the hostess for a seat near the window. Turns out that she wanted to sit there because the waitress serving that area was her boyfriend's other girlfriend.

The waitress walked up, took one look at her and said, "I'll get you another server." I thought that was so classy!

If these people were really that obnoxious and/or uncomfortable, the really professional thing to do would be to offer to get them a different server, not sulk while secretly fantasizing about spitting in their food.

 

[Christian Liberty]

If Nancy Pelosi was waiting/serving your table would you tip her?

No. There's a difference between sinners and criminals

 

[thoughtomator]

By the way, the fact that a waitress would even consider spitting in someone's food for any reason at all is why I pretty much never eat at any restaurant ever, anymore. In a zero-trust environment the last thing you want to trust people with is your food.

 

[klamath]

I personally am absolutely tired of hearing every time a gay person gets insulted in the national news. How many fing people that are NOT gay get insulted every freaking day. I can't count the times I have seen a poor watress get treated like crap yet they deal with it and don't run to the national news. Damned I am tired of the GAY agenda.

 

[phill4paul]

I was being a bit sarcastic. But I do remember a time when businesses would jump through hoops to please the customer.

Oh, I will always jump through hoops to please a customer/client. As long as they are respectful they get my full "satisfaction guaranteed."

Heh - in my misspent youth one of my friends dragged me to a restaurant, and asked the hostess for a seat near the window. Turns out that she wanted to sit there because the waitress serving that area was her boyfriend's other girlfriend.

The waitress walked up, took one look at her and said, "I'll get you another server." I thought that was so classy!

If these people were really that obnoxious and/or uncomfortable, the really professional thing to do would be to offer to get them a different server, not sulk while secretly fantasizing about spitting in their food.

I agree that the waitstaff should have taken some initiative. When I managed I told all of mine that if they ever had an issue that letting someone else serve would not be an problem.

I'm tending to agree with many here that this is a set-up incident. Which is a whole issue in itself. If she's received $10k I wonder if she will "tip-share" with her co-workers. I'm guessing not.

 

[pcosmar]

. Damned I am tired of the GAY agenda.

And I am tired of Bigotry. Bid deal.

Most of the "gay agenda" is blow-back for years of Anti-Gay laws and bigotry.

But much like racism,, that bigotry is not going away either.

 

[thoughtomator]

And I am tired of Bigotry. Bid deal.

Most of the "gay agenda" is blow-back for years of Anti-Gay laws and bigotry.

But much like racism,, that bigotry is not going away either.

"Bigotry" is just another way to say "racist", and a way of abandoning reasoned discourse by way of emotional string-pulling. If someone doesn't like gays or blacks or men or midgets or Muslims or whatever, that's not a news item, that's a personal opinion anyone is entitled to hold regardless of how you feel about it.

These factional agendas are nothing more than as assault on the freedom to think, and all libertarians ought to reject them as offensive to human liberty.

 

[angelatc]

I personally am absolutely tired of hearing every time a gay person gets insulted in the national news. How many fing people that are NOT gay get insulted every freaking day. I can't count the times I have seen a poor watress get treated like crap yet they deal with it and don't run to the national news. Damned I am tired of the GAY agenda.

Yeah, me too. I went from totally not caring about who was gay to adamantly insisting they should STFU already.