Entitled Server Surprised When a Customer Refuses to Leave Them a 90% Tip at a Restaurant, 'Tipping Culture' Rant Ensues

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 28, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

This family man was completely flummoxed when he paid cash for his order after his server boldly suggested he should leave more than his original tip. Because, apparently the standard 18% gratuity which is automatically included on nearly every bill nowadays was not enough. 

If you've ever worked as a server, you get it---tips are really important to your income. However, nowadays, servers are no longer completely reliant on tips to bring home the bacon yet there's an enormous amount of pressure on customers to leave a tip for everything. But that brings us to an even more important question: Should we be leaving tips for effectively completing the tasks in your job description? Or should tips be directly correlated to your upstanding service?

Well, when the family in this next story decided to go out for a meal at a restaurant, they were faced with an entitled server who apparently thought that their average work performance deserved more than a standing ovation. You can read on for the weird and insulting request from a server that'll make you want to join the tipping culture rant in the comment section never to set foot in a restaurant ever again. 

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    Waiter asked me to double tip Anti-Tipping Was at Olive garden, we paid him $20 in cash as tip and then followed by paying the $109 check with $200 cash. He then asked if I wanted change.... Ofc I want
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    change, tf?? After he hands me back my change he then says please feel free to tip. We obv did not a second time but seriously??? Just
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    ranting. The more these things happen the less I feel bad about pressing no on the kiosk when ordering Togo (this experience however was sit down).
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    Edit: For those asking why we tipped first, here's what happened. My wife and I wanted to take her family out (4 of us) for dinner since we don't see them very often. When
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    we were done with food, I was ready to pay but my brother in law politely asked to cover some of it. when I said no, he insisted I just told him if he wanted to cover something the tip would be more than enough.
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    Just then the waiter passes by and BIL gave him the $20 saying "this Is for you". (We already know what the total was b.c OG has a kiosk tablet at every table with
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    the bill) I stopped the waiter to let him know I have only cash to pay the bill. And he says okay. I handed him 2x hundred dollar bills and the rest is mentioned above.
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    Point is not that we caused confusion which yeah, as a table we did. but that does not excuse the rudeness of the waiter to ask if we wanted change after seeing two hundred dollar bills
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    without a folio. Infact he looked at the bills before he made eye contact with me and asked. Also even if he forgot that we tipped, it was even more to suggest to tip as he handed me back the cash as if we wouldn't.
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    Itchy_Nerve_6350 • 2d ago If someone asks me to tip I'm not doing it. It's
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    mattdvs1979 3d ago • I'd say sure and ask for the $20 back, then swap it out for a $5
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    Senior_Effect_54... . 3d ago Why is your payment and tipping process so complicated? Why are you giving them $220 dollars to try to leave $20 on $109?
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    Appropriate-City... 2d ago. I would have just asked "Oh, I'm sorry. Was that $20 bill* we gave you not enough?"
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    420Malaka420 • 2d ago Would you like your $91 in change? 90% tips are totally normal and everybody does it/s
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    the-mare-bear • 2d ago Even if the change is $4, the appropriate response to cash payment is "I'll be right back with your change." If they want you to keep the whole amount they will say to keep it.
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    jkraige 2d ago . Even if the tip hadn't been paid, why wouldn't you want at least part of your $91 back..? Like, that would be a highly unusual tip
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    Steve47886 2d ago The default phrase all servers should be using is "I'll get your change and be right back". This leaves the tipping in the hands of the customer where it belongs. Period. Full stop. Any other wording that even hints at a tip should be avoided.
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    Stargazer_0101 · 2d ago • Yeah, the tipping over has gone crazy in the last three years.
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    DraculKuroHem... . 3d ago That's when you just say you already did. You still tipped him 20 on a 109 bill. That's just over 18%. Still decent. A simple reminder you'd need that 20 you gave him back to properly tip would keep him quiet hopefully.
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    Humble-Rich9764 2d ago I would have changed my $20 tip to a $10 tip, preferably so he could see it.
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    RexxTxx .2d ago "Do you want your change?" Are you expecting a $91 tip on a $109 check (83%), even if you didn't notice the $20 cash tip already left?
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    Mike102072 · 2d ago. Did he see the original $20 and know that was a tip? Did he see $200 in the thing they give you the bill in? If he sees that you're paying $109 with $200 he should assume you want change and not that you are leaving a $91 tip.
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    FinancialPlastic4... . 2d ago. It will never be enough. You could sign over your house they will still come for more.
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    phlflyguy • 2d ago • The correct phrase a server should use when picking up the customer's cash with the bill is "I'll be right back with your change". That's the trigger for the customer to either say, "thank you", or "keep it". I don't know why every server hasn't picked up on this nuance and never say "do you need change".
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    Ashamed-Emu-3... . 2d ago So I you should've yelled in the restaurant I ALREADY Igave you 20 you don't want it? I am a server and am so grateful for tips I make. Please don't think we are all like this.
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    nnnrrr171717.2d ago • But how would the customers have known that they were free to leave a tip if the waiter didn't tell them?
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    H2OSD 2d ago Even if no tip, tip should never be discussed by waiter. it up. I've never had it happen.
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    exdivernky 2d ago . Should have just asked him if he thought he deserved a $91.00 tip. Turn the embarrassment.
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