It seems that as people get older, they tend to forget what it was like to be living paycheck to paycheck... Not all, of course, for some of us, that joy and pain will lurk in the shadows over many a birthday. But I have never, ever heard anyone who ever worked in the foodservice industry talk about how it was crap that they got tipped so much, which is why they don't tip these days.
mingez said:
Memo to customers: because your server is "serving" you doesn't give you the right to beraid and belittle them in public.
Damn right! I never served per se in a sitdown restaurant of any kind. I did, however work at Subway Sandwiches for 2 1/2 years, give or take... Did I expect to be tipped, no. Did some people, yes. Did I expect for anybody who was having a bad day to take it out on me, no, but it happened. Sure, I had bad days. When you're the only one there most nights, meaning you have to: greet the customer, take the order, make the food, ring up the food, keep the others in line calm while waiting, keep everything stocked, have dishes piling to the ceiling in the back because you are up front waiting on people all night, then when the night is finally over, spend 3 more hours doing all the food prep for tomorrow, cleaning dining room and bathrooms, and catching up on Mt. Dishmore, break down the line, Z-out, cash drop, take out trash, and finally get home, you get stressed. But I never took it out on a customer. So why did they feel the need to stand there and scream at me if something was not happy with their sub, even if they ordered it wrong, or just having a bad day in general? Who knows...
Lets face it. People who are serving you are doing just that, performing a service, and usually something that you do not feel like doing yourself... If I go out to eat, it means that I probably do not want to cook, so the people working at the place that I am going are taking a load off my shoulders. So treat them nice, or they will moan and groan about you on message boards :twisted: .