Friends of the owner, beer and wine reps alike… I know you are entitled to everything free that you can get your hands on, but not only are you taking advantage, stealing up free time I could be spending with paying customers…you also don’t tip? On top of that you think you deserve the best service. Give me a break, you are stealing my time, and ability to make money off of other clientele. —Forever, Service With A Smile
This article appears in May 23-29, 2013.
You are paid to serve, period. Whether or not the owner wants to give anything away, it is their business. So tell me where in law or anywhere else that you have to be tipped.
Regardless if there is a law for tipping or not, good service deserves a tip, especially if your meal is free. If you can walk away and feel good about not leaving the server a small tip, you deserve eating a meal the server farted on. Cheap ass motherfuckers!!!
50% of all customers in the service industry are SETs. By that I mean they do not give a shit if you are busy and have other people to serve, they think they are the only people there worth your time. Better get used to it.
Ahhh, the classic bitches never die.
I’ve yet to but really want to tip like this…
http://everythingfunny.org/wp-content/uplo…
it’d be much easier with toonies and loonies.
Friends of the Owner are the worst kind of patron. I will give you extra sympathy to compensate for any derision foisted upon you from the regulars here who don’t get it.
Not all friends of the owner suck. I know a few owners and I: a) never expect free food and b) tip way more than I should like a schmuck.
Also: I’ve had beer rep connections where I’ve worked before and ain’t nuthin’ wrong with some complimentary samples!
Of course, and not all waitstaff bitch and moan about their tips. Its the ones who do who deserve our derision.
I agree with Tim but i also agree with you op.
See.. i have an interesting personal story of my own. To paraphrase, I am a spouse of airline crew. We get free flights. Other crew are STILL required to treat us like any other paying passenger.
Truth be told, they treat us better. They are fucking awesome people and.. just a note to please treat airline crew (pilots and FA and gate agents) with respect because their jobs are fucking hard…
ANYway…
But… we also insightfully treat THEM with an added respect too. We appreciate the work they do and we know it’s hard and stressful. We give them the space they have to have to manage the needs of paying passengers.
So while you DO have to treat them like any other customer, they should appreciate that you have more important customers that require your attention in order to stay in business.
Agreed, Crayons.
If the owner treats, then it is the responsibility of the owner to tip. If someone takes me out to dinner and treats me, then I leave all financial endeavors to the treater.
Maybe these clowns using a tipping method that involves a percentage of the cost of the meal (15% of zero is zero). I don’t know but it takes a “friend” of the owner to feel so entitled and yet be so cheap as not to tip after a free meal.