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Investment banker tips waitress 1% - owner threatens to track him down to adjust tip

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This should be the official thread because the other has such a terrible title. I would never have clicked on it.
 
Obsessed said:
I never knew that the owners had to make up the difference.
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Not necessarily make it up. But if everyone did it and their pay would still be under minimum wage the owner has to pay whatever it costs to make it minimum wage. The owner won't be paying anything in this case unless it's a shithole.
 
Easy answer here: The BANKER is an asshole. Not BANKERS. THE banker. One asshole.

Edit: Though if the server was rude, then that's fine.
 
You have to feel bad for both the waitress and the banker.

Could you imagine how much hatred one must have to say a thing like "Get a real job". Poor guy was probably made fun of his whole life and thought money would make his problems/issues disappear. Now he realizes they don't and so he has to backlash some other way.

My job as a server was probably one of the best jobs I've ever had! I didn't have much money but life was much easier and more fulfilling. Work hours were short, met tons of people, didn't have to drive to work, etc.. etc.. Eye of the beholder.
 
Why not pay the waitress minimum wage and let her keep any tips that comes her way? That would be the nice thing to do and that is how it works over here.

Though saying that, we don't have a tipping culture.
 
I hope that banker gets it in the end. I'm trying to think of the appropriate punishment. Something like getting mud splashed on him as he is walking to work.
 
The banker is going to have some troubles. He paid by credit which means his information is out there despite the measures taken to redact and protect his identity and credit the information is not that hard to get. If people start to pass that around...
 
At least with pizza delivery if somebody pulls a stunt like that they're right in front of the driver.

...Of course if the driver so much as furrows an eyebrow it's grounds for a complaint.

Slayven said:
You know the owner only gives a shit because his restaurant name is all over the news.
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Pretty much.

It's better to fire the employee rather than risk losing a customer.
 
I just don't understand the US tipping system at all. So the companies get free labour and try to get the customers to pay their staff wages in tips. If a guy leaves $1 tip then it is newsworthy and he is evil and must be hunted down and punished?

Why don't you just get the companies to pay their staff? and then if the customers wants to tip he can, and if not then he doesn't have to.
 
satriales said:
Why don't you just get the companies to pay their staff? and then if the customers wants to tip he can, and if not then he doesn't have to.
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On average a server can expect to make $25 an hour. Restaurants can't afford to pay this wage without raising prices dramatically or making some other concessions(like having maybe one server work the entire evening).

It usually balances out though. There's a good tip for every bad and nights where the server doesn't make enough money are really few and far between.
Ignore this nonsense about bodily fluids and being forced the tip. For the most part everyone does alright with this system.
 
satriales said:
If a guy leaves $1 tip then it is newsworthy and he is evil and must be hunted down and punished?
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Well, this isn't just some random person who didn't understand the rules. Obviously, the person was trying to be an asshole, so it's hardly surprising that people have noticed that the person is an asshole.

As for why the company doesn't just pay the wage and that's that? Well, it's just not the way it is, and people understand that. Now, while I think following standard practices for payroll would be ideal, it's not really the scam some people think. I imagine that they benefit from less in the way of payroll taxes, but I think many people recognize that it's the same thing regardless.

Tipping goes away tomorrow? Restaurants have the same money coming in and more going out in the form of higher payroll? Well, that loss in profits will somehow affect us as customers. Today, I optionally pay in the form of a tip. Tomorrow, there'll be no tip and food prices (or something similar) will be higher. One way or the other, payment for the wait staff comes from the consumer.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
On average a server can expect to make $25 an hour. Restaurants can't afford to pay this wage without raising prices dramatically or making some other concessions(like having maybe one server work the entire evening).

It usually balances out though. There's a good tip for every bad and nights where the server doesn't make enough money are really few and far between.
Ignore this nonsense about bodily fluids and being forced the tip. For the most part everyone does alright with this system.
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What? I'm going to need to see something to back this up, because I'm calling bullshit. I doubt the average server makes anywhere near $25 an hour.


satriales said:
Why don't you just get the companies to pay their staff? and then if the customers wants to tip he can, and if not then he doesn't have to.
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Because food companies and restaurants have better lobbyists than servers.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
On average a server can expect to make $25 an hour. Restaurants can't afford to pay this wage without raising prices dramatically or making some other concessions(like having maybe one server work the entire evening).

It usually balances out though. There's a good tip for every bad and nights where the server doesn't make enough money are really few and far between.
Ignore this nonsense about bodily fluids and being forced the tip. For the most part everyone does alright with this system.
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Haha no. Maybe in fine dining. Any place with sub $10 meals waiters dont make anything near that. No waiter makes that on lunch shifts either.
 
RDreamer said:
What? I'm going to need to see something to back this up, because I'm calling bullshit. I doubt the average server makes anywhere near $25 an hour.




Because food companies and restaurants have better lobbyists than servers.
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I wasn't working at a high class restaurant and I was easily making more than that an hour. Just depends on the restaurant, location, etc.

I now have a "real job" and make more, but being a waiter / bartender was crazy fun and the amount of women I met was insane.

Good times.
 
GoingGreen said:
I wasn't working at a high class restaurant and I was easily making more than that an hour. Just depends on the restaurant, location, etc.
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But he said the average server. I'm not naive enough to deny that people do make that much. I'm sure they get it. But I highly doubt the average server gets anywhere near that. My wife worked in a restaurant for a while and made under minimum wage with tips, because she couldn't get onto the good shifts. I doubt even the people with the good shifts got up to $25 though.
 
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