Drunk_Dynasty wrote:I know people who have served him a B Dubbs on his Friday football feast and the guy doesn’t tip at all, after getting everything for free.
People only tip based off their bill. I did a semi-recent stint bartending and an old time chick pointed it out to remind me and it really is true.
If someone ends up getting a free drink or burger, and they're aware of it and grateful for whatever reason resulted in the gesture, a lot of servers anticipate that it's going to result in a bigger tip. Let's say the customer's tab would've been $45 and now it's $35 after you hooked them up.....
.....in 95% of cases they're going to leave you $5. They're not going to look at the money you saved them and leave you $10 realizing that's what their bill would have been prior to tipping at all had you not hooked them up.
If you're a server and want bigger tips?
You do whatever you can to ring their bill up higher.
You never miss adding a drink to their bill, you never ring a drink in at a lower price, you push drinks, you push dessert, when they ask what's good on the menu you push the 12oz prime rib....you do what you can to have their tab hit a hundred because even if they look at it like it, "Holy Shit!" they're still leaving you $15 even if they're cheap.
People don't pay attention to shit when they're out besides having a drink ready when they're just about finished with the one they have and making sure their food order comes out in a timely fashion, is correct, and hot.
If they drank five Miller Lites and you only rang them up for four they don't notice and certainly don't give a flying fukc about it when it comes time to tip. All they determine that by is from looking at their bill. They're drunk. They aren't counting drinks. The only way they notice is if you accidentally charge them for an extra they didn't have.
So I don't fault PA at all for not tipping. I actually think it's really shitty and stupid on your friend's part to spread that shit about him.
Prior to this last recent stint of bartending/serving, where the place by the cabin had a sign up looking for experienced wait staff and I figured, "Fugg it...why not spend a summer at the cabin slanging drinks, fishing every day, and working in tight spaces grabbing glasses and drinks in and around twenty year old blonde collegs chicks home from college for the summer?" I was making $600 on a Sunday....walking out with $400 of it in tips...straight cash homey....
....anyways,
Guess what I had that counted me as an "experienced bartender?"
Working at B-Dubbs sixteen years previously in college. Where on a Friday? Shit, we'd turn fifteen....maybe twenty customers by noon.
So if PA, Charch, Nordo, and crew came in and set up shop on a Friday morning from nine to noon.....and brought several hundred patrons through the door buying lots of food and drinks and tipping lots as a result....because they had a great time coming out to see PA.....
.....no fukcing shit would he not be allowed to ever even offer to pay for a damn thing.
First off, as I pointed out---no bill = no tip. A suggested gratuity, or social norm, of tipping 15%.....well, 15% of zero is zero.
Second, if for some reason he incorrectly felt the need to leave a gratuity after being the star the establishment was insanely fortunate to have come in and make everyone there a shitload of money.....if he tried to leave anything I would've absolutely refused to accept it, profusely thanked him again, tell him how grateful we all were, asked him if I could get him anything else....a food order for the road, a bottle of booze from behind the bar, anything.....
.....if he threw down even a $5 without making it apparent......I would've ran out to the parking lot with it hoping to catch him and give it back, profusely thank him again, and ask if there was anything....Anything....else I could do for him.
Your friend bitching about PA not tipping after hosting his Friday football feast at the B-Dubb's they worked at is one of the dumbest and most disrespectful and shitty things I've heard people talk shit about a public figurehead.
Your friend made bank that day....guaranteed...and for one reason and for one reason only.....being lucky enough to have PA come to work that day where they happened to work. No shit he's not going to open his wallet....he better fukcing not. The only way that happens is some giant dumbass working there doesn't understand how business is done in this country.