Simple solution: keep sending it back until she gets it right. In my experience, wait staff who keep causing extra work for the kitchen by getting orders wrong usually get told pretty damn quickly to get their act together.
pepperlandgirl, talk to the manager. And leave a tip of two cents. This lets the waitress know that you didn’t forget her tip, but that you were not pleased with the service. Seriously, talk to the manager. If the place is that small, then they can’t afford to piss off any regular customers.
Good point. I was going to let it slide, but you brought it up. I only read your side of the story, that you provided great service. Perhaps you really believe that, but you are not the judge, your customers are. If for one reason or another, they thought you provided inadequate service, it’s their judgement not to leave you a tip.
Did they not pay the bill?
Wrong. You are paid by your restaurant, which gets its money from the customers.
As I said, that’s a problem with your particular restaurant.
You know what? If I were your customers, I wouldn’t tip you too considering the kind of attitude you have.
That’s okay, there is a thing called The Manager. I make sure he gets all the details.
Last table of the night is not the same as the only table you waited on that night. Somebody needs to learn how to read, but it’s not me.
That is caused by your inability to perceive reality correctly.
Last I heard, there’s a thing called minimum wage. Unless, for some strange reason, that is not applicable to you.
Yeah, that’s just weird that she never gets it right? Does she speak English? Do you speak Spanish? Maybe it’s a language barrier. If it’s not that, then she just blows, and I’d take Lynn’s advice.
Dammit, Mr. Cheapskate snuck in there, that last post was directed to pepperlandgirl.
UrbanRanger, considering all of your ridiculous “points” have been rebutted in this thread and in every other tipping thread on these boards, I’ve come to the conclusion that you’re just trying to start shit. Your pathetic justifications of being a cheapass are really, really tired.
She speaks English.
We went there a few weeks ago and I ordered a dry Garcia burrito, and the man right behind us ordered after us a regular Garcia burrito. He got served first and his burrito was dry and mine was not.
sigh See? She got the order right that time, she just sent it to the wrong table.
I guess next time we’re there, we’ll be taking Lynn’s advise. Thank you.
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Wrong. Your point is crap. I have been a server for this restaurant for about five years. I know when I give good service and I know when I give excellent service and all the degrees in between.
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Wrong. Read the thread. I am paid $2.13 by the restaurant. If you think that this is a living wage or even a minimum wage then you are one hell of a daffy bitch.
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It strikes me that you are easily confused. It is an issue with the restaurant industry in general. It will not change because there is no incentive. It is the way that the system works. If people are not all assholes like you it works well and benefits all involved.
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You as a customer wouldn’t know that I was upset with you. I am a professional. Your shit attitude is not enough for me to sacrifice my job. The bad service would not appear to be malicious. I would simply devote as little energy to you as possible.
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Most managers have been waiters. Try explaining to that manager that you started the meal as a total bitch/bastard and that you don’t think that you were accorded enough effort given your attitude. I’m sure that you will get a great response.
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Nope. It was just the only table that I waited on that hour. As I have said, I’m no math major but:
(1 table’s tip + hourly wage - tip pool) / (time served) = total hourly wage.
In this case it looks like this: (0+2.13-3)/1 = -.87
I have thusly paid to serve a table.
It’s not applicable. Read the thread. I know it’ll take a while, but it just may help you to avoid looking like you are completely ignorant.
That’s the point, Urban Ranger. Minimum wage is NOT applicable to restaurant servers. Anywhere in the US. Period. The entire restaurant industry works this way.
Perhaps you should boycott restaurants in protest at this incredible outrage rather than going to them and refusing to tip your servers.
Urban Ranger - for the sake of restaurant servers everywhere, PLEASE start boycotting immediately. Your refusal to go to restaurants where you are expected to tip will be celebrated by servers far and wide.
Like I mentioned before, the restaurants are making a killing off the backs of their servers.
Paying them 2.13 per hour, the same wage that has been paid to them since probably the 1980s is inadequate. These people deserve to make at least minimum wage, which is about 5.50 per hour. Paying 2.13 is a travesty because as mentioned before waiters have to do “side work” which consists of numerous activities before they can leave their shift. A server can be stuck in their restaurant for 2 hours after shift cleaning their sections, rolling silverware, plus doing kitchen cleaning duties.
Then the OP has to pay (or tip out) the ushers and the bus boys. I mean, come on! That is a travesty that the restaurant is forcing the servers to help pay for others.
I worked in a Cracker Barrell restaurant in Mississippi several years ago. C.B. is a good place for people who have no experience serving and want to learn how. Also, I did not have to handle money, the customer had to pay up front. A lot of Pentecostal types came in there, and for some odd reason loved to come in 10 minutes before closing. This is annoying because I am trying to get all my other labors completed while keeping my eye on the window, plus the fact my feet hurt like hell and I wanted to get out of there. These people would maybe give me 2 bucks which is not worth it in the long run.
Lastly, I worked in another place, I was new there. Another server (the head server) thought she was a drill sargeant and ordered me to pull up my pants legs. I asked why? To see if I was wearing the correct color of socks (black not white). I refused her request. She told me not to get smart with her, that she was the “head server” and all that garbage. If I had the wrong color socks, I was to be “fined” with rolling more silverware.
It is really a Catch 22. Waiting tables sucks.
Oh, no. There’s been a raise since then. My first job was in…let me see, now…1983, and at the time, waiter minimum was $2.01.
Well, now that’s progress! 
back when I bussed tables the wait staff was supposed to put 10% of their tips in jar that would then be split between the bus people. If a waitrer/ess made $20 in tips, they’d put $2 in the jar…if they made $40 in tips, they’d put $2 in the jar…if they made $100 in tips, they’d put $2 in the jar. then they’d bitch about not getting tipped enough.
Our restaurant handled tipping out bartenders/busboys differently. When we turned in our money to the manager at the end of the night, it was accompanied by a print out of our total sales for the day. Our tip out was calculated from sales and handed directly to the managers to be equally divided between all the bussers.
Urban Ranger, the choice to tip or not to tip is yours.
However, to chalk up not tipping for good service to anything other than cheapness is absurd.
You’re cheap. Fine. You shouldn’t inflict your cheapness on servers who are paid 75% less than a living wage based on the fact that people tip. Leave the table for someone who will tip.
Oh, yes. Isn’t it wonderful?
BTW, for comparison, the regular minimum wage at the time was $3.35.