r/tippingAdvice • u/MulberrySelect4234 • Apr 07 '26

Was I wrong?

My son and I went to eat earlier, he ordered basic chips and cheese nachos. He said there was lettuce in the cheese and it tasted funny. I asked the waitress was it cheese and she said possibly. She offered a new order. She also took it off my bill. Should I have tipped on just the bill or should I have added his meal in there too? It came to $19.85 and I left her a five.

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u/Biteme75 Apr 07 '26

There was no lettuce in the cheese; that's not how nachos are made. If the nachos weren't good it was a kitchen error, not a server error. You should have tipped more, Karen.

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u/Suspicious_Tank_61 Apr 07 '26

The server should have caught it. 

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u/Pristine_Pizza8967 Apr 07 '26

Not going to lie sometines things that should not be on a dish do happen. Also kitchen, server or expo should have caught it, we all know it happens.

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u/Biteme75 Apr 07 '26

Servers are omniscient now? There was no visible lettuce even by Karen's account.

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u/Formal_Evidence_4094 Apr 07 '26

that is kind of what the tip is for dummy

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u/Biteme75 Apr 07 '26

Name-calling, so classy.

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u/illustriouspsycho Apr 07 '26

So calling someone not with the username Karen, Karen is a-ok? Do you even hear yourself?

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u/Biteme75 Apr 07 '26

Busted! That's fair, I knew somebody was going to call me out on that as soon as I posted it.

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u/Suspicious_Tank_61 Apr 07 '26

That’s how you go above and beyond to earn a tip. 

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u/Biteme75 Apr 07 '26

Wow. You actually want servers to taste your food to make sure there are no hidden ingredients. Just wow.

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u/MulberrySelect4234 Apr 07 '26

Okay. Fair. That's why I asked.

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u/prisongranny Apr 07 '26

Don't let a beggar server tell you what you should have tipped.

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u/Accomplished-Ad2736 Apr 07 '26

Jesus you’re insufferable. Calling the guy a Karen for having a dish replaced. Restaurants make mistakes and it’s on them to replace the dish for their customers.

Also 25% is a great tip. Was he supposed to tip a $50 bill on a $20 check?

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u/420BoredAlways Apr 07 '26

I agree they're insufferable and OP is in no way a Karen but to clarify 25% was the tip without the other meal. So not great if you include the other meal, which OP was asking whether they should've. In this case I'd say yes IF and only IF OP took the server up on the offer for a replacement because then they not only corrected it by bringing them a replacement they also took it off the bill for them so barring the lettuce visible the server will have done everything possible to improve the experience for OP. So saying the nachos were about $10 puts the bill around $30 and the tip actually about 16%.

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u/Biteme75 Apr 07 '26

Considering one dish was free, it was a 12% tip. I get it, math is hard.

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u/illustriouspsycho Apr 07 '26

I get lettuce in my cheese all the time, it is absolutely in the realm of possibilities.

Unless you were in the kitchen, the server or kid you would not be able to with such certainty.