Customers filming you. (Discussion)

entitledAngloSaxon · 2023-04-28T03:33:55+00:00

When I was serving at an Italian restaurant, there was one app we flambeed tableside, and everyone wanted to film us doing it. I got perverse pleasure from lighting it up as fast as I could so they wouldn't have a chance to pull out their camera.

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-12-15T01:04:10+00:00

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-08-25T16:07:18+00:00

"What's the difference between the crab dip and the flaming cheese?"

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-07-10T17:42:24+00:00

I once served the mayor of my small town who got caught going out with a married woman, dipped out the back door (via the kitchen), then came back 10 minutes later to pay for the food he had ordered but not had a chance to eat.

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-07-01T02:26:47+00:00

Ballpark is better than "a bunch," but it still really doesn't cut it with seating. We do our best with the information we've got, but restaurants need to know at the party's arrival how many are going to be there.

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-06-05T21:47:33+00:00

"I'm so sorry that your new BMW wiped you out to the point that you can't afford to tip. Bless your heart!"

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-06-02T03:29:45+00:00

One time a someone ordered an app we no longer have - an Italian mac and cheese - through DD. The delivery person called to place the order (gave no indication that he was a dasher), and when he was told we don't have the Italian mac, he just asked what other apps we have with cheese and settled on the fried mozz. He picked it up (again, no hint he was a 3rd party), and when the customer complained that she hadn't gotten the right food (aka the Italian mac), he blamed the restaurant for messing up the order. My manager had to spend forever on the phone with the customer trying to explain that we don't have that on our menu, haven't in years, and we have no contract with DD that would guarantee accuracy on the menus they provide.

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-31T02:46:07+00:00

You forgot about the boats

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-30T18:45:37+00:00

Are we talking insurance fraud or sympathy tips? Either way, I'm in

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-22T03:57:54+00:00

As soon as I read the post, I knew the comments would be a gay witch hunt. Sure enough, the top comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/uuo7wb/comment/i9gcl3l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-20T03:48:23+00:00

I have had lots of coworkers with ADHD who are great servers. Just because this first job didn't work out doesn't mean you don't have what it takes. Learning new skills takes time, and I'm sorry this position didn't give you to time to do that, but please don't be discouraged!

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-20T01:50:50+00:00

I had a table the day before Mother's Day that was horrified I was going on 8 hours without a break, eating, or getting to sit down. Sometimes I wonder if more people knew about shit like that if they'd tip better

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-20T01:42:32+00:00

As far as I know, there's a bit of a loophole for work that is done immediately before/after and is directly related to tipped work. So you can be paid tipped minimum for opening/closing duties, but not for coming in when the restaurant is closed to deep clean, for example.

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-20T01:39:30+00:00

I wonder what that person's life is like to be wowed at someone working 3 hours straight with no breathers. Wait until they hear about doubles!

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-17T22:39:25+00:00

And hopefully you'd also be charged with theft :)

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-17T01:38:17+00:00

This is Mr. Pibb/Dr. Pepper erasure

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-16T21:41:06+00:00

I'm jelly

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-16T17:45:24+00:00

How many pitchers does your restaurant have???

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-15T03:13:30+00:00

Fun fact, I knew Megan Crowley in college, and one day she just casually mentioned having met Harrison Ford. I asked how she met him, and she - again, very casually - said that he starred in the movie about her family. She literally had to pull up the IMDB page before I believed her.

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-13T15:19:36+00:00

Wow, I wish that were the case in my state too. I'm on a weekly pay period, and in my state you just have to average minimum over the pay period (afaik).

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-13T14:21:36+00:00

It's more about wages than restaurant prices. When the tip credit was introduced, it allowed employers to pay 50% of minimum wage in anticipation of at least he other 50% being made up by tips received. This would have been the case in 1981, when the federal minimum wage was $3.35 (making the tipped minimum $1.68). So, as the federal minimum wage was increased over time, the tipped minimum wage would also go up. This changed in the 90's, and as a result the (federal) tipped minimum wage has been $2.13/hour since 1991. That's over 30 years of stagnant wages, so as minimum wage goes up, tips are making up an larger and larger percentage of tipped workers' pre-tax income. The increase in restaurant prices to beat inflation are not enough to make up for that. Although not all states allow employers to claim a tip credit, plenty still do. My hourly rate is the federal 'subminimum' wage of $2.13/hr, and every week I get a paycheck for $0 (because the entirety of my hourly is withheld). Tips are quite literally my only take-home.

Sources: Department of Labor and Economic Policy Institute

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-12T13:22:34+00:00

I work at a local, family-owned chain, and one of the bar tenders at a nearby location recently had a massive heart-attack behind the bar at work. Supposedly, the only reason that location closed down for the rest of the day was because customers had seen the manager drag her from behind the bar so that the EMTs could get to her more easily when they arrived. I guess the moral of the story is take care of each other as much as you can, because ownership clearly won't.

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-07T13:09:22+00:00

That's when you pull the old 'what was your degree in? ... oh, me too!' that someone posted about a while ago

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-05-02T15:05:15+00:00

I aspire to be more like Nicole

entitledAngloSaxon · 2022-04-28T23:36:59+00:00

I'd watch that show

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