Wherein I got annoyed at one of the rudest fucking waiters I've ever had the misfortune to encounter.
Back in March of this year, my wife and I went on a trip to Washington State to visit friends and catch up with folks. During a visit to Seattle, we met with others at some little high-end bar/grill downtown. The food wasn't to bad but our waiter... Holy crap, one of the rudest individuals I've ever encountered.
He took an inordinate length of time to take our orders, routinely ignored any drink refills, showed up at the table long enough to give us our food and nothing else, and essentially gave off numerous indicators that he would have been glad to see us vanish off the face of the earth. I'd still like to know what bug crawled up his ass...
The part that really bothered me though was as follows:
After a couple of hours, we finally managed to flag him down for our bills.
Due to the nature of the people in our party, we needed predominately seperate checks.
Now, yes, I'm aware that a gratuity is added when theres more than x number of people at a table. What started me on the road to pissed off was how they worked their gratuities- 30% added for groups over X........ Apparently based on individual bill!
Other places I've been, even when seperate checks were involved, the total gratuity was divided evenly amongst the entire party and the fee added to each bill- This ensures everyone pays the same amount to the waiter.
In this place? Someone apparently decided it was a bright idea to tack on a 30% gratuity based on each individual bill.
This didnt sit to well with me. In short, my single friend gets off with a minimal tip added on because of what he ordered, but because I was paying for myself and my wife, I ended up paying a "tip" that could have bought us another entirely seperate dinner.
Rather confused, I tried to ask the guy what the reasoning behind it was and his reaction indicated I'd just told him to go clean dog-shit off my car with his tounge.
I asked if getting a manager would achieve anything only to have him tell me "no, not really"... So instead of making things worse, I just sucked it up and got ready to leave.
However, by this point most of our friends have moved out to the parking lot and the jackass waiter had moved on to a seperate part of the establishment. Feeling the service granted me nowhere remotely qualified for a 30% tip, I proceeded to calmly collect four half-empty glasses of beer and pour them out over the table-top.
I guess my thoughts at the time were "If you're going to collect on a 30% tip, than by jove you're going to earn the damn thing."
I'm now curious as to what others here on the board would have done in that situation. Was I even remotely justified in my petty payback stunt?
... And if it helps, I can honestly state I'm never going to darken that doorstep ever again.
Back in March of this year, my wife and I went on a trip to Washington State to visit friends and catch up with folks. During a visit to Seattle, we met with others at some little high-end bar/grill downtown. The food wasn't to bad but our waiter... Holy crap, one of the rudest individuals I've ever encountered.
He took an inordinate length of time to take our orders, routinely ignored any drink refills, showed up at the table long enough to give us our food and nothing else, and essentially gave off numerous indicators that he would have been glad to see us vanish off the face of the earth. I'd still like to know what bug crawled up his ass...
The part that really bothered me though was as follows:
After a couple of hours, we finally managed to flag him down for our bills.
Due to the nature of the people in our party, we needed predominately seperate checks.
Now, yes, I'm aware that a gratuity is added when theres more than x number of people at a table. What started me on the road to pissed off was how they worked their gratuities- 30% added for groups over X........ Apparently based on individual bill!
Other places I've been, even when seperate checks were involved, the total gratuity was divided evenly amongst the entire party and the fee added to each bill- This ensures everyone pays the same amount to the waiter.
In this place? Someone apparently decided it was a bright idea to tack on a 30% gratuity based on each individual bill.
This didnt sit to well with me. In short, my single friend gets off with a minimal tip added on because of what he ordered, but because I was paying for myself and my wife, I ended up paying a "tip" that could have bought us another entirely seperate dinner.
Rather confused, I tried to ask the guy what the reasoning behind it was and his reaction indicated I'd just told him to go clean dog-shit off my car with his tounge.
I asked if getting a manager would achieve anything only to have him tell me "no, not really"... So instead of making things worse, I just sucked it up and got ready to leave.
However, by this point most of our friends have moved out to the parking lot and the jackass waiter had moved on to a seperate part of the establishment. Feeling the service granted me nowhere remotely qualified for a 30% tip, I proceeded to calmly collect four half-empty glasses of beer and pour them out over the table-top.
I guess my thoughts at the time were "If you're going to collect on a 30% tip, than by jove you're going to earn the damn thing."
I'm now curious as to what others here on the board would have done in that situation. Was I even remotely justified in my petty payback stunt?
... And if it helps, I can honestly state I'm never going to darken that doorstep ever again.
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