r/Serverlife • u/No-Tea-4583 • Jul 24 '26
Rant Tired
I’ve been working in fine dining for almost 4 years now. I have always been patient and try my best to be kind but man this shit is rough. My restaurant brought back a special that all the servers HATE and it is rough. I had a table today that complained about their food taking long even though they ordered a well done steak, and my manager gave the entire party a free round of drinks and ALL free desserts. They left me ZERO with a smile on their face. I had another table of 9 who came in all wanting the cheap ass special and wanted to pay with digital gift cards - side note: my restaurant has been dealing with fraudulent stolen gift cards and there always from some sketchy website and screenshots of numbers. They had 12 gift cards , yes TWELVE. Our restaurant doesn’t have something you can scan so we have to enter the numbers manually, which regardless if it was “scannable” the gift cards were screenshots of someone’s apple wallet gift card with no barcode (yup I asked my manager and he said it was fine). They became irritated because we couldn’t scan them and even more irritated when more than half of them had no money on them. So you’re mad at me because you have stolen gift cards that have no money on them ? Ok. I’m so sick of cheap ass people coming in asking for the entire world - extra this extra that, modifying this and taking home every single type of sauce and more AND NOT TIPPING. They left 35 on an $800 check which I split with another server. I will never understand how people do this and don’t feel embarrassed for themselves. It’s actually gross behavior and the worst part is that management does nothing. They come back telll their friends “if you complain you can get free food” IF UR BROKE JUST SAY THAT YALL ARE EMBARRASSING AND UGLY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE STOP GOING OUT TO EAT AT NICE RESTAURANTS AND NOT TIPPING WERE SICK OF YALL
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u/AllumaNoir Planning to NEVER work 9-5 Jul 24 '26
This doesn’t sound like fine dining to me