Might just have done my last bit of business with an otherwise excellent sushi joint yesterday when, after paying cash for my bill, my waitress asks if I would like any change back.
I said “What? Yes I want my change back,” and gave her an appropriately weird look.
It’s passive aggressive shit like that that makes your tip even smaller, honey. —Tuna
This article appears in Apr 19-25, 2012.
Asking if you want change is standard procedure. Get the stick out of your ass, OP.
Asking if you want change isn’t standard procedure at all.
They might as well say, “Can I have your change?”.
It would rub me the wrong way too, OB but I’d probably still go there if the food was worth it.
*shrug* I’ve encountered it plenty of times and never had a problem with it.
Orgasmatron so… you don’t think this is seriously rude shit?? I find that seriously rude shit?? I once went into a retard hipster cafe and they actually had a pot by the cash that said “Tipping isn’t a city in china”
When i took my change i said “btw, fuckyou isn’t a city in Thailand either.” and strolled out, never to return.
and why those extra ??s wound up in there i’ll never know.
I really don’t. It makes things easier for both of us, so why not? The “Tipping isn’t a city in China” is some rude bullshit, though.
Perhaps you should have asked her if she wanted the food back. Sounds like a low life joint. May they fold quickly if they are that chintzy. Then again may be the wait staff and not the owners pushing this, so you may wish to mention it to the owners, as it may hurt their business. To give them a chance to reign in the staff. But if it is resto policy, well fuck ’em. Plenty of other places in town.
brend… a waitress or counter attendant shouldn’t feel entitled to your change.
It says the price on the menu and that’s what you pay.
any more is my choice to give… not your request to take.
some places have different charity competitions going on. and a few fucking cents won’t kill you , you cheap bastards.
life sucks. Fuck that man! I won’t be snaked out of my money and i won’t be guilted out of my money either. I choose when i give tips or make donations and when i don’t. It’s really that fucking simple.
I find something inherently obscene about the idea that there is some social convention that say you must tip a certain percent (niceties say 30%), expected to a point where it’s almost treated like part of the bill. I am doing my part to change that system.
Q: What’s the difference between a Canuck and a Canoe?
A: A canoe tips
You don’t know how many times I heard this when I was in the restaurant business. I would gently explain to my co workers (s’right-ima always carry the water for youse guys!) that servers in Canada are paid a better hourly wage (in the US, tipped employees earn 40-60% of state minimum wage) so 10% is ample.
“May I bring you some change?” when picking up the folder is not an inappropriate thing to say. The server can’t see inside the checque folder so she doesn’t know what’s in there.
Crayons, as long as you don’t trumpet those sentiments around the places you eat, then coo coo. Otherwise, whatch yer plate real careful like. Not hating, just saying.
Sometimes I ask if people want their change back if it’s, like, 1-3 cents, and they don’t really look like they want it. No one wants pennies any more, and more often then not they’ll say “no.” That’s the only reason I ask, not because I want it or something. If their change is 4 cents I just give them a nickel.
I wonder if she didn’t mean: do you want any of your change to BE change, as in, loonies and toonies instead of a 5 dollar bill, so you can leave a tip – and she just worded it ambiguously. I don’t mind servers asking me that, essentially they’re just saying can I make change for you now while I have the till open, instead of waiting for you to remember later that you need change for the tip. If you don’t need change or you don’t tip as a matter of course, then you can just say no.
Then again, I wasn’t there, so I don’t know.
I don’t think it’s a cashier’s right to ask a customer if they want change back. If the customer doesn’t want it they can simply say, “keep it.”
It all depends on how much the change is as mole rat touched on. If I get a coffee for $1.93 and I give them $2.00, the server looks at me as if to say “Do you want the change?” However, if I get that same $1.93 coffee and give the server a $5.00 bill, there are no questions asked. What we’re missing from OP is how much the change was.
Uh no. That’s just like a panhandler asking for spare change.
biscuit, ah no, and crayons, nope. if you aren’tbe hard sold to give a few cents, why make a big fucking deal out of it. moreso, if there is a jar on counter for a real good thing, like a charity, and it asks you for change, why the fuck not. it’s not like you can get anything today for even 25 cents, except maybe some penny candy for that amount now.
there have been hundreds of times, i have been asked for spare change on the street, but after i got wise to the scam, and followed one of them home. well they make more than most of us in year, in a week working the corners. bruce has a half million dollar home, paid for, a brand new lexus, paid for. credit cards out the ying yang, and all are paid in full before they come due.
i have followed that guys for awhile, shadowing him, and that’s what i really found out.that and a couple of buddies, raiding his trash one night. yep, there is that guy, renting spaces out downtown, and teaching others how to look like they need that few cents you have to give.
to bad the gubment can’t crack down on these guys, or make them pay taxes on their huge fucking earnings. then there are the ones that really need it, and get fuck all. so, how can you tell them apart? look at their fingers and nais. nice and clean, they are conning you, dirty, then they are the real bums. sometimes the shoes give them away too. that’s how i first noticed bruce, (real name).
(from the New World Almanac, vol 7, chapter 4, p563)
“Fuckyu, Thailand is an agricultural centre located 200km from Phuket. It’s primary exports are “The Bird”, and “GoFukYaSelf Soup”.”
Wp
Maybe she mistook you for a regular customer who usually doesn’t want their change back (but she asks everytime because it would be presumptuous not to) and not a cunt person?
I love how they look at you with that dumb look on your face and assume you’re gonna say “oh don’t worry about it” … Yeah give it over asshat
I was a waitress for years , And watching the younger waitress ask customers if they want their change back would irritated the fuck out of me, No fucking couth at all and piss poor waitresses, I would always take the bill and say just one moment and i will get your change for you, then it up to them to say no thank you keep the change,,,,Simple as that
Do I want my change?? Maybe I didn’t, but I sure as fuck do now that you had the audacity to ask! Seriously though…pressuring for tips is ballsy and tacky.
haha, eww tacky balls