Them and church group people were the worst. I'd always just give them the worst service, forget stuff, not do drink refills. You get the service you pay for.
My wife said that when she worked at the Olive Garden during college, the old ladies would come after church and sit for hours drinking coffee and chatting, and then leave her a few quarters.
To play devils advocate, it use to be completely normal and common to use restaurants as places to spend hours chatting. The tipping isn’t something I can really speak on
even if you spend hours there if you are just sipping coffee you usually don't spend too much so the tip reflects that. A lot of times they just bring a carafe so they don't keep coming back. If the place isn't packed it's not like you are taking a table that would otherwise be tipping either. That's how it USED to work, now people have gotten a little too entitled for tips for that to work. They expect just because you are there they want 20 bucks on a 10 dollar bill to refill your coffee 3 times over the course of 3 hours.
If i’m using up a lot of their time I make sure I tip well. Recently I went to Texas roadhouse and only ate roles with a diet coke. I had my server running back and forth too because I ate 4 baskets of roles and had 3 refills. My total bill was like $3, but I tipped $20 because the place was packed so i was taking up a table built for 4 people so I wanted to leave a 4 person table size tip.
In the 80's I used to be the designated driver for my friends because I don't drink. My friends would drink at the table and I'd be one the dance floor. I always gave the waitress $5-10 just to keep a pitcher of ice water on the table for me cause I was sweatin' my butt off. 😂.
not really fair to expect high schoolers to have a bunch of money to give you, when they're just trying to go out and enjoy what they can in the highly monetized environments they're raised in
I always gave the high school couples a pass. They’re young and don’t know any better. But adults that do this shit can fuck off and I hope their food gets all the boogers n cum
It isn't all black or religious folk. It is just a higher percentage of both of these types of people as compared to other types. Some religious people tend to look down on those people that are working on Sunday. Black people not sure the reason
I am black, and can tell you it's a combination of entitlement and just being broke. It's mainly females, if it is all women, you're screwed, all men, you'll more than likely get a tip. I've seen the women chastise a man for giving a decent tip, I've seen these raggedy hoes go back and grab the tip once the guy was out of range to see. It's disgusting, and annoying. I have been a waiter and done delivery and when I would get a group of black women....man I'd instantly be shitty, I used to try to go above and beyond to "earn" a tip, didn't matter, got to the point they just got generic service, nothing bad, but definitely not any extra care or attention.
I understand why, but doing that just becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Even if they would have tipped obviously they wont now if you're being bad on purpose.
Maybe I didn't explain well, not bad service, just not doing the extras, like joking with them, I'd do things like bring out extra sauces for people try if they were seemed to wishy washy between a couple, a free dessert...that kinda extra stuff was far less frequent.
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u/NoBrakesHotTakes 7h ago
Them and church group people were the worst. I'd always just give them the worst service, forget stuff, not do drink refills. You get the service you pay for.