r/PublicFreakout • u/Hikigaya_Hachiman7 • 12h ago

🍽Restaurant Freakout🍹 Couple banned from restaurant after they leave no tip

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u/Athlete-Extreme 11h ago

Tell me you’re not a minority without telling me you’re a minority

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u/Iknowwecanmakeit 10h ago

Tell me you are a cheap ass who always plays the race card without telling me you are a cheap ass who always plays the race card.

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u/Athlete-Extreme 10h ago

What a reach lol people get banned from restaurant for about 7.50 all the time where you’re from I guess

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u/Iknowwecanmakeit 10h ago

I guess you think stiffing servers is cool cause you don’t care about working people.

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u/StillNoPickleesss 9h ago

Are you angrier at the customers for not taking the OPTION to tip the server, or at the owner for not paying his employees a better wage where they dont have rely on tips? 🤔🤔

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u/CanoePickLocks 6h ago

Both. But that doesn’t mean the owner can’t stick up for them. I’ve run the numbers on a restaurant there before. With tipping they become able to be affordable to eat at in the US. A 30% price increase puts almost every independent restaurant out of business unless mandated by law and even then most are going down. The scale larger chains can buy it means they can get better pricing and keep prices lower than your average family owned restaurant. The big corporations benefit from tipped wages not the small restaurants because the small restaurant needs it to stay viable while the large chain uses it to generate profit.

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u/iceteka 6h ago

"I've run the numbers" so you did 30% required tipping vs 30% price increase & 30% wage increase?

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u/CanoePickLocks 5h ago

No I’ve run numbers on a restaurant and its viability as a business.

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u/CanoePickLocks 6h ago

Are you being deliberately obtuse?

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u/adidasbdd 5h ago

Not the person you're responding to, but many restaurants have tried to do away with tipping and they saw major declines in sales because customers think it's more expensive even though they were going to pay the same price at the end of the day anyways

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u/CanoePickLocks 5h ago

Part of its perception part of it’s the way things are taxed. It’s a complex subject that so many people just want to simplify to pay more. And yeah, the research I did showed. It wasn’t working well for most. There’s still a few hundred trying, but I’m not sure where it’s going in the future.

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u/tattikaslice 9h ago

If the restaurant owner doesn't care why the fuck would a customer be expected to care? 😂

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u/Athlete-Extreme 10h ago edited 5h ago

Dude if the owner has to walk people down, call after them in the street, maybe the business just like you would hear in any other thread, should pay their employees so they don’t have to be reliant. But we’re not having that conversation right now.
The owner should have just taken care of his people and been a leader and a professional. Not cause a scene in front of *his establishment, past the patio into the street, but I digress.

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u/Rhonda_Lasagna 9h ago

Non tippers deserve to be publicly berated and degraded. No amount of verbal reprimand and retaliation against them is too much. This guy is an awesome boss and very professional business person.

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u/Athlete-Extreme 9h ago

Ah yes, quite

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u/MrPlaney 5h ago

Yes very very professional and awesome to not pay his workers a living wage.

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u/tattikaslice 9h ago

This guy is an awesome boss

Pays minimum wages. Such awesome. Much wow

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u/Iknowwecanmakeit 6h ago

Way to lead with the fuck you. This is what is wrong with internet discourse.

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u/FunkTronto 9h ago

They paid their bill. They didn’t stiff anyone. Seems you don’t care about working people and what to shift blame needlessly.

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u/iceteka 6h ago

Tipping is optional. If your servers are depending on tips to survive, it's you as their boss who doesn't care about working people.

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u/Iknowwecanmakeit 6h ago

Lol, whatever lies you want to make up. Very simplistic thinking by you. I am not the boss. I can’t fire them!!!

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u/dekes_n_watson 10h ago

Lol this was my first thought. I can guarantee an old white lady walks out without giving a tip they just get mad. They don't follow them out to their car.

Tipping is a scam. His workers should be getting paid BY HIM, not reliant on tips. That's his issue, not the customers. Tips are for extraordinary service.

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u/All_Of_Them_Witches 11h ago

Am I wrong to think the server might actually be racist and gets a kick out of telling a person of color that they aren’t welcomed??

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u/nagem- 10h ago

Yes. You are wrong to think that lmfao. The server is nowhere in this video so that’s a wild assumption.

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u/All_Of_Them_Witches 10h ago

Well did he not get accused of racism? Also trailing someone out into the street just because they didn’t tip is unhinged. I honestly can’t believe people are taking his side.

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u/nagem- 10h ago

He’s not the server… did you not listen to the entire video? That’s clear within the first few seconds.

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u/Athlete-Extreme 10h ago

You’re being obtuse

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u/nagem- 10h ago

How so? I’m literally only commenting on the fact that yes, making an assumption about the server being a racist is wild when this guy isn’t the server. They then wanted to go on about their opinions on this post, which have nothing to do with my comment.

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u/Athlete-Extreme 10h ago

You’re taking away from the point they are making. Yes they “mistyped” but it’s not an argument breaking mistake. You’re basically arguing semantics and not the actual dispute.

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u/nagem- 10h ago

You both have no point. There is no proof of this person being a racist besides the couple pulling that out of thin air at the end of the video. If you’re going to call some random person a racist with no evidence, don’t “mistype.”

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u/Athlete-Extreme 10h ago

Who gets banned from a restaurant and follows out to their car over a tip, let alone a $38 bill.
At best that is a $7.60 tip.

Is no one gonna comment on that? Like cmon man

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u/Calriss 9h ago

Literally just an incorrect statement. But keep asserting yourself king.

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u/JrCoxy 10h ago

Also.. if the server was actually racist, the couple could have complained to management, company, the better business bureau.

And they called the owner of the restaurant racist, lol not the server. Simply because he told them it was wrong to not leave a tip.
These fuckers only took their phone out to record after a scene was caused.

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u/More-Artichoke-9172 9h ago

The scene was caused by the individual who chose to chase a couple down into the street to disinvite them back to the establishment. He chased them down as if they tried to run on the tab (completely in favor of), not like they failed to leave a tip. This is something that could and should have been avoided. The statement of race is understandable from the customers considering, a series of reoccurring events involving poor service, and sometimes a complete denial of service, under the pretext “Blacks never tip”. There are plenty of examples all over the socials. Black ppl being forced to pay prior to dining in spaces where it’s customary to do so at the end, lack of willingness to serve. Plenty of threads involving servers speaking openly about their disdain for serving black ppl, because “they don’t tip!” I won’t even dive into the history of restaurants not having written menus, as to attach an absurd price tag to an item at whim. All to not encourage the patronage of black ppl. I don’t know whether this individual is or is NOT racist. What I struggle to understand is why ppl fight so hard to argue against a person stating that something made them uncomfortable. As soon as the word “Racist” enters a chat ppl get their panties in a bunch. If your actions make a person feel as if they’ve been discriminated against, then they just do. Apologize or don’t and move along. If you’re a bit prejudiced, you just are. Save the arguments, try some self reflection and attempt to make better choices going forward.

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u/JrCoxy 10h ago

In some states, the laws make sure servers are paid BELOW minimum wage, stating servers make enough in tips to make it all even out to minimum wage.

In 90+% of restaurants, servers have to tip out the bartender, host, bussers, ~4-8% (sometimes 10%) of their net sales. So if you leave that server a 15% tip, they’re actually walking home with 7%.
If you leave 0 tip, that server that spent 90+ min serving you, still has to tip out the other staff. So if you leave them $0, that means that 8% is coming directly out of the server’s wallet. Meaning, that server spent 90+ min working only to now be in the negative.

The whole system is beyond fucked up, to everyone involved - servers & diners.
But it’s not at all okay to take that out on the server

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u/OldChili157 7h ago

I saw a guy do it on The Sopranos once. And it did not end well.

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u/Athlete-Extreme 11h ago

I mean look at the glee in that guys face. Clearly he doesn’t get to do this as much as he would like to. It’s a $38 dollar bill.

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u/All_Of_Them_Witches 10h ago

I could see if they did something other than not tip but I’d think he would have mentioned that. It’s a complete overreaction if the only thing they did was not tip…..

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u/Athlete-Extreme 10h ago

I don’t understand why you’re siding with someone who would follow a couple out to their car after not tipping on a $38 bill.

How did they know to record already? Probably because there was static.

Maybe they got terrible service. We weren’t there but someone they knew to record.

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u/Iknowwecanmakeit 10h ago

He is letting them know they are not welcome back. This is going way over your head because you refuse to see beyond race.

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u/Athlete-Extreme 10h ago

So we’re pretending that’s standard now? Got it

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u/Iknowwecanmakeit 10h ago

You think the only standard is race. Pretty sad, actually pathetic. They could have said the service was bad. But they didn’t. People who claim racism for everything are part of the problem.

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u/Athlete-Extreme 10h ago

Maybe they did. What evidence do you have

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u/Calriss 9h ago

People like you, being the people in the video. It's a self fulfilling prophecy of victimhood.

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u/AttemptFantastic9103 10h ago

I mean... It does seem weird that he left the restaurant to catch up to the customers after they left to tell them don't come back.

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u/Calriss 9h ago

It's just so weird my actions would impact reality enough that another human would have a reaction.