If a restaurant doesn’t allow substitutions do you leave a tip? What if you had a pitbull and a declawed cat locked in the car on a hot day with the windows rolled up while you ate?
If the restaurant refused to substitute something simple like fries for mashed potatoes I’d not take it out on the waitress. But I’d never go back again. Any restaurant that loses customers over a silly no-substitution policy won’t survive in a world full of restaurants competing for your business.
I’ve had similar experiences transporting guinea pigs across the country* while snacking in the car, but there was nobody to tip.
*the scrabbling and shrieking noises do get on your nerves.
Of course I would. If I keep going back to restaurants I don’t like, I’m the idiot. Not the waiter.
why wouldn’t I, assuming the service was competent? it ain’t the people making $2.13/hr who are setting policy.
I’m not sure. Does the server wear shoes in the house?
I’ll tip the waitress if she’s a heifer.
Moving over to CS.
I’d only tip the waitress if she was circumcised.
I’d tip. If I went back would depend on the no substitution policy. Does it apply to the $4.99 lunch special or does it apply to all entrees in a place that charges $20 a plate and up?
I completely understand the no substitutions on a lunch special, but I’d never go back to a place that was completely rigid for expensive entrees.
Where does your dog stand on the issue of abortion? Does your cat support voter-ID laws? Is the waitress an ethical vegan? Did you bring your screaming children into the restaurant with you? Did the cashier at Walmart have appropriately happy demeanor with you earlier that day?
Why did you leave out so many important details. I can’t answer questions like this until you do.
Also, is your car on a treadmill?
Which way do they hang the toilet paper in the restrooms? I always check the restrooms before deciding how much to tip.
StG
Where I’m locking it.
Reopened and moved to MPSIMS.
I always tip the waitress, but if dogs and cats are in a hot car? Isn’t that tailgating?
I would tip the waitress, but I don’t think I should have to pay her child support because she could have chosen to leave her child in a hot car and I don’t even have a car and I don’t understand why most people think they need one.
ETA: Texas sux!
I will tip in this situation only if I have brought one or more children with me to the restaurant, and am refusing to clean up after them.
However, if anyone else has brought their brats to the restaurant, I do not tip, and I demand my meal be comped.
I always tip $1.00, but I’ll drop down to $0.999… if the service isn’t very good.
I asked to substitute filet mignon for the fishsticks and they refused. Crappy policy if you asked me.
How about if the waitress is trapped in a hot, locked car?