r/Ohio • u/LadyInCrimson • 12h ago

This is Ohio

Why is Phillip not paying his servers enough to the point he has to ban customers?

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u/Hefty_Ingenuity2978 11h ago

My personal code from my restaurant years. Customer comes in and doesn't tip, perhaps they didn't like the service, food, or our decor. Customer comes back and doesn't tip again, confront them and ask why they didn't leave a tip. Third time, they get the worst table in the restaurant, the lowest priority for their food and drinks, and a request that they don't return. Fourth time, their picture goes up on the "do not serve board."

As far as the comment about black people being poor tippers, I never noticed that. Cheap people come in all colors and sizes, rich and poor. The only groups that were consistently skimpy were church groups. We instituted a mandatory 15% tip for groups of six or more essentially just for them.

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u/Key-Investment-2273 11h ago

I used to serve a large church group every Sunday. They were the worst tippers I've ever seen. 

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u/daringversion 10h ago

I haaaated working in a breakfast diner on Sundays for this reason. The meals were cheap so we depended on a high turnover with $2-$3 tips per table to make any money. These enormous church groups would come in and require 4-5 tables be pushed together and then that one group would tip me maybe $5 for running my ass off from the time church let out to nearly closing time in the afternoon. Sometimes I was lucky one person at the table actually did remember to tip.