when it comes to tips i've been told that if you circle your tip the waiter/waitress cannot adjust it. This advice was given to me by an owner of a restaurant, i guess just make sure it's a very small circle that leaves no space
Insuboordination is actually quite appropriate. As a waiter, I rarely received a paycheck due to taxes taking away my whopping $2.13 an hour. Therefore, I always considered my patrons as my employer.
Nice SNL reference! The worst experience I've ever had was during college at the Bennigans on I-10 and the Beltway. My girlfriend and I got seated and then 5 minutes later, another couple got seated at the table next to ours. Evidently, our waitress knew this other couple because she spent half the time talking to them and ignoring us. She took their orders first, their food came out first, she kept giving them refills and just ignored us all night long. My girlfriends order was wrong and it took 30 minutes for them to correct it. Finally, we asked for the check (the other couple had since finished dinner and dessert and left long before) and we waited almost another half hour for the freakin' check. We asked 3 or 4 times and never got it. We got up and left....
That has to be the most classic restaurant names ever! Fazoli's is my favorite fast food place. Are there Carabbas in H-town? I've always liked eating there in Georgia.
Health Inspector: All right, I'm looking for someone named Poppie. AUDREY: Uh, who are you? Health Inspector: Board of health, we've had several complaints. JERRY: Oh, about the... uh (Jerry pretend to wash his hands) Health Inspector: Are you Poppie? POPPIE: I'm Poppie. Health Inspector: I think you'd better come with me. POPPIE: What's the problem? (Poppie leaves with the Health Inspector) AUDREY: What do they want from Poppie? JERRY: Well, Poppie's a little sloppy.
This is odd because on Saturday night I was actually eating dinner at Maggianos with my mother, aunt, uncle, and a couple of family friends. Service wasnt that bad, except for a 15 minute standoff when my uncle tried to order more wine. Our waiter looked like fullback from Nebraska with a Josh Hartnett haircut. We had forgotten the waiters real name (Dennis) and my uncle let go a ,"Hey, Josh, another bottle over here" Besides that, all was good. Especially the alfredo with chicken.
Bad service?? Bad service for them doing their job and following the law?? You are an *******. I would have pegged you square in the forehead with your damn penny. Have you ever waited tables? It's not easy dealing with schmucks like yourself. Also, did you know that aside from losing their liquor license, that if TABC were present, not only you, but the waiter, manager and bartenter could all have been fined and taken to jail over one little sip??? I guarantee if you were on the other side of the table you would at least have not taken it out on the waiter by screwing them. I would love to come to your work and screw you out of part of your day's pay simply because you were doing your job. Sorry if you don't like my reaction, but I am a part time waiter.
Now, Trader_Jorge, I find it hard to believe that this experience happened as you described it simply because you failed to mention speaking with management. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt though and say that if your story was accurate she was out of line by treating you the way she did and by not getting management involved herself. Also the waitress is just doing her job by offering soups, salads, etc with every table. Get over it or don't go out to eat.
You call embarassing me in front of the whole damned restaurant because my g/f took a tiny sip of my margarita doing their jobs? What was he doing spying on us like that anyhow? Geez, I bet you don't get much in the way of tips. If you had read the entire post, you would see I was understanding of their position, but yet they embarassed my party in front of the whole restaurant. If he would've just said something about it quietly, I would've been all right about it. The ******* got what he deserved for ratting on us and he's lucky I didn't beat him within an inch of his life. I once waited on tables in college and I never did anybody like that, ever. I carded religiously, but yet, I never spied on people to make sure that someone who I didn't card took a sip of a someone else's drink. Geez, are you one of those hovering waiters that I can't stand that interrupt conversation every ten seconds? I guess I know why some of them do that. In fact, I was such a good waiter that I paid my living expenses and books and part of my tutition with my tips. Geez, don't rush to judgement and no, I'm not a schmuck or ******* because I don't like to be embarassed in front of an entire restaurant.
Dayum Pimp daddy, relaz. In the case of bamaslammer, the waiter and the manager should have definitely been polite. They obviously have a right to check up on everyone who is drinking, but embarassing someone in front of the entire restaurant is going overboard. And I understand pushing side items and wines are a waiters job, but you can't exactly force it down their throats. Just mention it once or twice at the most and let it be. I don't want to go to a restaurant and have the waiter make me feel like a cheap ass for not ordering side items or wines. Speaking of Italian, if you guys want real Italian try out Aldo's Con Amore. Absofreakinlutely the best Italian I have ever had. Their chesses, pasta and beef tenderloin are to die for. Da Marcos is also bad ass.
I hope that you called the restaurant back and had that fixed. I'm a waiter at an Olive Garden, and just one single incident of changing or entering in an incorrect tip is a terminable offense there. I've seen a number of my co-workers get fired for adding a buck or two to a low tip. I'm sure most restaurants have the same policy. TJ- In regards to being out of lasagna, sometimes it happens. At the OG the kitchen prepares a certain amount of lasagne based on projections from the past. Sometimes it's busier that the proections said that it would be. Sometimes more people order the lasagna that usual. Lasagna takes a long time to cook (four hours for us). Certainly it can be frustrating when a restaurant is out of something that is considered one of their staples, and when it does happen, it certainly isn't the server's fault. Anywho, just felt like I needed to throw in my two cents here...
A waiter/waitress saying that she is going to 'ignore you now', as well as give you service in the manner that she did, is probably succeptible to being fired. 99% of servers are not nearly that rude, and the 1% that are will be out of a job before long. Needless to say, being a server is the most underappreciated job ever. Bamaslammer, Why is it the waiter's fault that his manager berated you in front of the restaurant? As a waiter, you can get FIRED or FINED for allowing an underaged person to drink. As a patron of a restaurant, it is your responsibility to not share your drink with a minor. The server was doing his job, but it was the manager's responsibility to not embarass you in front of the restaurant. Why give the waiter a penny tip for doing his job? Illogical. What you should have done, IMO, is tip the waiter decently (if he gave you good service otherwise), and complain to the national office about the manager. If you go back to that restaurant again, and you are recognized, you can expect the sh*ttiest service ever. I have been working as a server in an Olive Garden in Houston for about a month, and it really makes me hate people in general a lot more. People have absolutely no clue how hard it is to be a waiter, and usually tip horribly. Maybe one in four people actually understand that anything less than 12% is a fairly lousy tip for good service, and that servers are supposed to get paid as a direct reflection upon how good a job they do. Tipping is not 'optional', because if no one ever tipped, restaurants would have to pay their servers a lot more, meaning that they would have to charge you a lot more for your meal. Needless to say, if your server does a good job in the future, please tip him or her well (15-20%), and if they do not do a good job, feel free to tip them sh*tty. I know who tips me well at Olive Garden, and when I see them again, they get much better service than a person who doesn't tip well. Also, I have a really nasty story to share about the Olive Garden if anyone wants to hear it. It will probably make you not want to eat there again.
Why am I getting a feeling that many people will be curious enough to actually tryout the restaurants memtioned above & checkout the waiter/waitress quality themselves?...
In college I did not tip Poverty prevented it Now I do. I've been stereotyped as a non tipper and treated sh*ttily . . . . [I often dress down] Guess what . .they are right . . .u treat me sh*tty YOU GETS NO TIP You decent . . . You get about 10 You great . . .. 15 and up a friend said he would put his tip on the table before the meal started Every time they f*cked up . . .he would take a dollar away He said the Waitstaff usually piked up on it. .. . and would get better as time went on Rocket River
Please don't . . I'm a bit partial to the Olive Garden F*ck it now. . . all of them are suspect YOU RUINED MY LIFE just say it was on ONE of them Rocket River . . . hoping I have not eaten at that one
T_J, I don't know why you chose Maggiano's in the first place. There are much better Italian restaurants here in restaurant-land. Da Marco, Damian's and Carraba's all have Maggiano's beat hands-down in terms of food and service.
But poverty didn't prevent you from going to a restaurant with a waiter? My God, it's unbelievable how you try to evoke pity with every post. In college some friends of mine were waiters at Pappasito's on 610 near Astroworld. There is a Pappadeaux's right next door. Interestingly, no one wanted to work at Pappadeaux's because the clientele were stereotyped to not be tippers. That same clientele did not like to eat Mexican food, so the Pappasito's next door was a popular place to be a waiter.
