Bad tippers come from all walks of life, but when wealthy celebrities shaft hard-working waitresses, the world deserves to know about it. At least that's the feeling at bitterwaitress.com, where one can find the Shitty Tipper Database
When Steve Martin only leaves fifty cents on a $5.00 tab, my outrage is minimal. But Keith Richards leaving the same half a buck when his party of five runs up a tab of $1947.55? Tar and feathers is too good for him. The bitterness is not forever, though. Any celebrity that is stricken with a guilty conscience has the option to submit an apology. Justice is served. Enjoy!
Posted by dan at March 14, 2004 10:17 PMhttp://www.bitterwaitress.com/std/index.html?detail=1&id=262
Posted by: at March 17, 2004 12:41 AMHhhhmmmm...My guess is that the average age of those who whine here is about 19. You are a server because you think it is good, fast money, you thought by mking tips you could cheat Uncle Sam, and you thought being a server was easy. What moron can't set a plate in front of someone, right ?
Then you discovered that being a server requires a brain, organizational skill, math skills, personality, diplomacy, prioritizing, handling constructive criticism, a positive, engaging disposition, and the realization (which will come with maturity, kids) that you must accept the not great tippers along with the 30% tippers. Do you chase after a 30% tipper and say, "excuse me, but you left me twice as much as I deserved !" Uuuh, DOUBT IT !
As for the "REVENGE" stories I'm reading on these server gripe boards, ..putting ex-lax in peoples' drinks, only washing bar glasses in the chemical solution and not rinsing it, so as to give the patron diarrhea, and scooping out sauce with your hands and giving it to people, as REVENGE for them having the nerve to come in while the restaurant is still OPEN, returning gratuities that you deem unworthy of your service,......
A) The actions that affect peoples' health could get you arrested and/or your place of work shut down by the health department.
B) If you can't accept the good with the bad, get the heck out of the service business and go put cogs in sprockets in some factory.
C) Just plain freaking grow up.
Posted by: El at May 31, 2004 03:36 AM