Auto Gratuity for Entitlement Junkies
bad tips, entitlement junkies, ghetto, gratuity, money money money, white trash Add commentsAfter the past two nights of utter and complete Hell, and the lack of money it has brought in, I’ve decided I’m in favor of adding an automatic 20% gratuity to ALL guest checks. There’s different reasons for this. 1, it’ll be easier to claim tips for the irs and keep from being audited. 2. I don’t want to have to worry about all the white trash and ghetto trash tables not tipping me, or leaving me shit tips making it so that I’m basically paying for them to eat. 3. I’m tired of people who feel they don’t have to tip while they run me and my serving associates like dogs.
People who don’t tip or tip poorly when they receive excellent service are what I like to call “Entitlement Junkies.” These are the people, and yes, I’m going to say it, the ghetto black people and the snotty black people, the trashy trailer bound inbred white hicks, the snotty rich white bastards, and the military.
In the case of the ghetto black people, they think it’s their job to run us around for nothing. Even the black servers at my job don’t like waiting on the ghetto, and with good reason. They don’t get tipped by them either. The snotty black people think that we (we meaning white servers) OWE them the service, because of ancestry issues.
The trashy trailer bound inbred white hicks think they should run us around without tips because they work in factories making canned food and potato chips and get treated like trash, so they come out to treat us the same way. The snotty assed rich white trash bastards think they’re better than us because they’re rich, so they’re just going to treat us however they want because they have money and we don’t.
The military people, well, they just don’t often tip well, especially the younger ones. After all, they’re “defending our freedom” as one has told me, and in his own words, “Why should we give you cowards who aren’t serving your country anything, we’re already keeping you free.” This was a 23 year old recently returned from Iraq. The reason is, because we keep your wife and baby fed while you’re there. We keep your parents spirits high while you’re out there risking your life. It’s also the right thing to do.
If you people are going to come out to a restaurant, and expect us to do your bidding, then expect to tip us, or the next time you come in, we’re going to ignore you and not care what you say to the managers. The managers support us, because they don’t want to do what we do, they don’t want to put up with your entitlement bullshit any more than we do, so just tip and we’ll all be happy.
That all being said, I don’t want to hear anymore that I’m a “Fucking Racist piece of shit” in e-mails. I’ve never used the “N” word on here, and I never will. I have many black friends who think the same way I do. We’re all just tired of the trash.
We all know it’s not all the black people that don’t tip. It’s a select couple of areas of the African American race. The respectable ones, the ones that wanted to make something of themselves, they tip and they’re happy to do so. They’re great to talk to, and you can learn a lot from them. I’d much rather wait on a couple of my black regulars than most of the white people I have to deal with. Not because they tip well, because they only tip average, but because they don’t treat me like shit. They are good people. They aren’t trash.
If you’re trash, it’s time you just started staying at home. If you’re an entitlement junkie, then it’s time for you to go to Hell and burn.
Ribeye
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October 21st, 2007 at 7:27 am
Ribeye, one of these days I am going to come to Nashville, sit at your table and be very nice to you. I’ll tip well and not run you ragged. I won’t swear at you or insult you. I’ll dress nicely and not look slutty. However I do like ranch dressing - but in a sensible amount.
October 21st, 2007 at 7:58 am
>“Why should we give you cowards who aren’t serving your country anything, we’re already keeping you free.”
.. what do they think you, a *server*, are DOING??
LOL!
October 21st, 2007 at 10:21 am
I object to the autograt for small tables. A few times I’ve gotten servers who really didn’t do anything like a decent job(not great,not even the bare minimum). I would hate to reward these people.
October 21st, 2007 at 10:57 am
I’d just like to say not all military men and women think like that. When my boyfriend came home on leave, we went out to dinner the first night. It was a generic chain restaurant and the total bill was $30 plus some change. The service was good, nothing stellar but the guy was nice and did his job well. As a former waitress, I’d agree that he deserved (or earned, whichever you prefer to call it) 20% for his service. My boyfriend dropped $40 in the book (almost 25% for those of you out there who can’t do math in your heads) and we were on our way home.
I personally think that tipping has to do a lot with how your parents viewed tipping. His dad (also a military man) tips well. My parents tipped well even before I was a waitress, and I followed their example. Most of my friends have parents who tip fair to well, and so do they. A couple of my (ex)friends have trash parents who don’t tip, and neither do they. A lot of it is entitlement, or hard working people who know how hard you work, but I think those attitudes, along with tipping, are thing you learn from your parents.
October 21st, 2007 at 12:03 pm
On behalf of every decent person who has worn or is currently wearing a military uniform, I do apologize, Ribeye. Sadly, a large proportion of the enlisted ranks come from the ghetto/redneck/trash communities, and as the saying goes, putting lipstick on pig doesn’t make it anything more than a pig. I served as an officer, both active duty and National Guard, and I can tell you honestly that the dickheads you’re dealing with in your restaurant are an embarrassment to those of us who proudly wore the uniform. In particular, the “I’m serving because you were too cowardly to do so” attitude makes me want to heave. Please don’t take it personally.
And if you get the chance to serve an officer or group of officers, who will come from the non-trash segment of society, you’ll get a better reception. I guarantee it.
October 21st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Well put! In Memphis, we get to look forward to the COGIC people each and every year. That’s Church of God in Christ, btw. They leave those little pamphlets that LOOK like a ten dollar bill - that’s their idea of a tip. Every service industry worker in downtown Memphis dreads these ridiculously overdressed so-called ‘christians.’
October 21st, 2007 at 3:33 pm
“I’m serving because you were too cowardly to do so” Yeah, my wife is in the Military and believe me..most of these clowns are serving only to get a roof over their heads and 3 squares. Totally uneducated trash-a-roni. I live with it everyday.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Where I live and work, you have to be able to afford 200$ a night for a hotel room. A dinner for four isn’t any cheaper. So I don’t see too much of the ghetto, white trash, tippage. However, I do get those god-lovers that believe a phamplet is a top. I also get those old-fogies that are still stuck in the depression. As for the military boys? I see none of that in my area, always pretty reasonable. But if a man is in uniform I give him 50% off at least, if not buy his meal. Even my nerdy boy scouts tip well. Must be something with Tennessee. My parents just moved up there, yet my father has to work in another state because their is no money to be made. Maybe you are in the right line of work in the wrong kind of place?
October 21st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Kate ~ as a Christian I totally agree with you here. If churchgoers feel they absolutely MUST leave some kind of pamphlet, then it absolutely MUST come with a very good TIP, particularly in the case you mention: naturally the server initially thinks it’s money.
To me that is deception, and it’s just plain UN-Christian!
October 21st, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I appreciate that you realized its not a general demographic, but just small areas of them, white, black, brown, yellow, etc. It sucks that certain people make a bad name for their race cause of their actions. But I agree with riceczeks in that it has a lot to do with how your parents raised you.
October 21st, 2007 at 7:32 pm
“They leave those little pamphlets that LOOK like a ten dollar bill - that’s their idea of a tip.”
I wish they would charge the groups who leave those as tips with criminal charges for attempting to use a counterfiet bill.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:36 am
Thomas, it’s not all the military that said that, that was a certain guest. But yes, it did happen.
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 am
As an enlisted guy in the Army,I assure you those who are bad tippers are a small percentage. I always tip well because I am grateful to be eating a decent meal for a change and glad someone is nice enough to bring me food drinks and clean up the dishes.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Okay, I have had the priveledge of not only working in retail for 8 years, but serving and bartending for 7, and being in the military (enlisted) for 5. I have been shit on every way possible all of my working life. First of all, let me dispell the myth that officers will treat people better than enlisted will. BS-assholes are assholes, regardless of what insignia is on your shoulder. Second, yes, a fair population of the young, lower-ranking enlisted men/women are ignorant, and have a sense of entitlement….but so do an awful lot of senior citizens who are retirees…I see it every day.
That being said, some of us are not this way. We were in the “real world” before, and know what it takes to get by…and I for one appreciate ANY person who provides ANY kind of service for me. I tip my cable installer.
Keep up the posts Rib, I for one very much enjoy knowing that I’m not the only one who has a completely thankless job.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
I have to comment on the mil side of the post -agree with rest of it.
Basically I am willing to let it go so long as they arent running up a huge tab if they are mil folks -face it we as in the US govt pay them shit to go out and get shot at. Also consider the number of poor schmuks a year who die in uniform by accident. Being around a bunch of idiots packing loaded weapons, grenades , explosives isnt the safest job in the world then factor in mega ton tanks, life fire arty, jumping out of perfectly good aircraft.
All I want out of them is respectfully behavior in the dining room and how they interact with me and my staff.
All that said this is for the officer poster-NOT all officers are gentleman. I wait in a place a 5 min drive from the gates of a Joint Reserve base with activated Marine Air units in permanent deployment. This guy is black and a captain based on his CC info. He is a self righteous, santimonous, jerk who complains loud and hard every time he comes in. Personally I cant WAIT for his overseas deployment to start.