‘Don’t You Know Who I Am?’ : Entitled Rich/Famous Customers Who Are Total Karens to Servers and Tip Horribly

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    Font - Posted by u/Emjewels223 1 day ago Famous Customers Long I've seen a few of these posts, but never added mine. I'm sure there are more from people, so thought I'd start a new post. I worked at a 24/7 diner in the middle of of a city that is 5280 in elevation, of the same name for a couple of years. I worked graveyards, 10pm-6am. So bar rush. And boy did I see some stuff in my time. A few favorites of mine (circa 2003-4)
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    Font - ***Andy Dick was performing at a well known comedy club in the area. Came in wrecked out of his mind. Ordered the trout (which, no one ever ordered that before or since him from me). He partially ate, got up & just walked out. Manager (a huge greek man who barely spoke english but you did not want to mess with) called the club & someone came by & paid his bill. No extra for me.
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    Font - ***Carmello Anthony, who was playing on the NBA team in the city at the time, came in on my birthday, with about 5 other guys. I don't think anyone else was a player. I served him, they were nice. He signed an auotgraph for me & stiffed me. I guess the autograph was my tip. ***Joe Rogan, also was performing at the comedy club. Came w one other guy, he looked super tired, kept his head on his arm on the table. I didn't realize it was him & I asked him "Does anyone ever ask you if you're fa
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    Font - ***Vince Vaughn, wasn't in my section, but I totally noticed him. He was so tall, and really nice. I got his autograph, and right after, people started realizing it was him. He left shortly after as people were crowding his table. ***Dog the Bounty Hunter he was a local (half of his time he spends here). His wife Beth (RIP) was just an ogre. Hot water not enough 3x kind of person. He was very nice, tipped well on just drinks.
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    Font - Bearbiedoll6. 18 hr. ago I have served more celebrities than I can remember, but a few that stand out: Andy Dick - has been kicked out of more than one place I worked on multiple occasions. The man is a mess.
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    Font - Carmelo Anthony - I don't like this guy at all. He was a regular and never tipped more than 10%. I even snapped at him once when he ordered so much food that it had to come out on multiple plates. He said, "How am I supposed to eat this?" I said, "I don't know, I didn't order it, you did." LaLa sucks too. A lot of other athletes are mediocre tippers, but Justin Turner is amazing!
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    Font - Other great customers/tippers: Simon Cowell, Steven Tyler, Brian Austin Green, Rebecca Creskoff, Minka Kelly, Emilio Estevez, Adam Devine. Terrible customers/tippers: Aubrey Plaza(she's horrible), J.K. Simmons, Jon Lovitz, Justin Timberlake was kind of an a
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    Font - I served Leo DiCaprio and he sat at the bar with a hoodie up, eating with his head down. Tom Hardy stood at the bar beside him so people would notice him instead. Not a single customer realized he was there.
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    Font - Nick Swardson came in with some other comedians(I won't say their names). They ordered a couple of rounds, waited for Nick to go to the bathroom and bailed on him leaving him to pick up the tab. He came out and looked crushed, asked if they left, then asked if I'd do a shot with him. I did, then he gave me a hug and tipped me $300 on a $100 tab. Lastly, Suge Knight is terrifying, but tipped well. ↑ 86 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - sheplants 7 hr. ago I agree with a few of these but J.K. Simmons came into my place about a dozen times while filming and was kind of the ideal patron. Quiet, never needed anything, tipped pretty well. Not surprised about Timberlake. His wife was horrible. Complained about everything (but though another person at the table mostly) and didn't tip.
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    Font - Not surprised about Timberlake. His wife was horrible. Complained about everything (but though another person at the table mostly) and didn't tip. Miley Cyrus was surprisingly one of the coolest and most generous people I've had. ↑ 13 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - cervidal2 21 hr. ago My greatest management joy was escorting Neil Patrick Harris out of the restaurant for server abuse. He clearly thought it would never happen. Watching Demi Moore take guys up to her room three at a time from the bar, every night during a divorce for about three weeks was also high comedy.
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    Font - Athletes, in my opinion, depend on their sport. Broadly, basketball players seem genuinely mystified at tipping. Football players outside of QBs are cheap. Hockey players tip well and seem happy to be recognized. Baseball players always seem angry during daylight hours but that may stem from wife presence. They loosen up with the fellows i the evening. Could also be a Detroit thing 72 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - tommyboyx595 - 20 hr. ago Whoa, care to go into more detail on the nph story? 39 Reply Share ... cervidal2 15 hr. ago He launched into a litany of things the server wasn't allowed to do when they greeted him - don't speak to him, don't approach the table unless he beckoned them, don't look him in the eyes. After watching him
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    Font - snap fingers a third time at staff who had nothing to do with his table, I had him leave. I got chirped at a bit by my boss because Harris was staying at the hotel the restaurant was in, but I just do not tolerate behavior where you treat staff like they're not people. 62 Reply Share
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    Font - axe_michelle · 11 hr. ago Scottie Pippen has palmed me a $100 bill on three separate occasions- from what I have heard, I may be the only service worker on the planet to have this experience. All three times the tip was for one drink I made his date just minutes after last call. ~500% My experience with Andy Dick was also an anomaly as, if I had not known who he was, I would have thought him a genuinely lovely guy-sitting still for a dinner with what appeared to be an elder relative. ~30%
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    Font - Mike Tyson was easily the greatest and most humble human being of ANYONE, not just celebrities, that I have ever met working in Los Angeles for over a decade. I have personally served Kylie Jenner twice and seen her parade weedstorm neighboring restaurants dozens of times. Always the same. Three or four GIANT private security men would show up about 15 minutes before she did- they sat alone at separate tables all over the restaurant. They spoke to nobody and wouldn't even take a water.
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    Font - When Kylie arrived she usually remained on a phone call the entire time and barely raised her head to eye level. Her friend always did the ordering. They ordered 20+ items and took 2 bites of each thing at most. They held plates in the air when they wanted them gone and Kylie always tipped exactly 18% of the subtotal. Both times I served her, she paid and left before all her food was out. I will also note that she looked the LEAST like her photos of any famous person I have ever met.
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    Font - Arnold Schwarzenegger convinced me that he remembered me from when I met him as a kid and tipped 50%. One of my favorite regulars who I became close with over the course of a year was a lovely woman I knew only as "V". After many great nights serving her I finally asked what V stood for, and she said "Vivica." "Like Vivica A. Fox?" I asked. I felt pretty dumb. She was great and always tipped 30%+
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    Font - I waited on Jussie Smollet's family, (party of 12), just a few nights after the evidence of him staging the attack hit the news. I would have never known who they were if they weren't doing some kind of... I don't know... grassroots PR for him? one restaurant at a time? It was bizarre. The only celebrity I ever grew to hate after serving was Jamie Foxx.

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