Wearing Ghettoware After Adolescence?

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[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
Iron Dwarf wrote:
MattyXL wrote:
If you dont have enough money to tip the wait staff at least 20% for good service, you should not be going out to eat in a restauraunt…period. The wait staff’s wages relies heavily on tips and the wait staff for the most part are not rolling in dough.

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Having worked in food service in my youth, I understand this.
I can’t stand abusive customers and lame tippers.

Exactly. I don’t buy the hard knock life crap either. My parents (Mom’s mom died when she was 12 and her dad had an illness and couldn’t work for years and my Dad’s dad left him and he was raised by his heroin junkie mom) were on welfare growing up and somehow they learned to give somebody a respectable tip. I was on reduced lunch in public school growing up; we weren’t quite shopping at Goodwill but I know all about struggling to make ends meet.

You don’t need to give an extravagant tip. If you tip 15%, that’s not a great tip but you aren’t outright insulting the wait staff and they can get by on those sorts of tips. The difference between a 10% tip and an 18% tip is not much but it means a lot to your server.

Here’s a novel idea… if you take a date out and you absolutely only have $30… then don’t order more than $26 worth of food! Skip the beer and get a water, order the 8oz steak instead of a 10oz steak, etc. Have a little self-control! The difference between tipping $4 on a $26 bill (15%) and $3 on a $27 is essentially nothing to you as a customer, but over the long run makes a big difference to the wait staff.

Your server at a restaurant gets paid essentially entirely on tips. When you tip less than 10%, you are essentially telling the waiter that he/she has to serve you for free.

If you absolutely cannot afford to leave a 15% tip ($6 on a $40 bill) then yes, I would absolutely say that you have no business spending that money to go out to eat. Otherwise, you are forcing the server to wait on you for free and that is pretty selfish.

If you’re reading this, imagine your occupation and having somebody come to your place of business, have you work for them for 40 minutes and then not pay them. Would you be pissed? I think so…
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Definitely, always include the tip as PART of the dinner, I also did not grow up in the lap of luxury but when my parents took me out to a diner or whatever we always left an appropriate tip. It is a poor reflection on yourself (if you are an Adult) if you go to any kind of restaurant (whether it be dennys or tavern on the green) leave a tip and dont be a scumbag.

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i wouldn’t consider what i’m wearing ghetto by a longshot, it just isn’t formal.

IM King shirt
LRG jeans
Circa shoes

everything fits, nothing is baggy.

i dress more like a skater than a thug.

@ serving

the way i look at it is the tip is part of the meal. you should never leave less than 5 bucks. i’ll go out for breakfast get some pancakes and eggs or something the bill will be ~8 and i’ll still leave 5. other people will go out, have a 20 dollar tab and leave 2-4 bucks.

its like come on, you leave 2 dollars on a beer when you order from the bar, how are you gonna leave me 2 bucks on a 20 dollar tab man. wtf

and as far as attitude goes, idk what it is. idk why people think you can go out and suddenly your waiter turns into something that isnt even a person. why are YOU in such a bad mood, youre sitting and eating and i’m the one who has to run around and do shit yet im the complacent one and you;re all snappy cause your soda was a regular instead of a diet BFD.

i know everyone thinks the job is as easy as punching shit into a computer and delivering it but the job is 90% costumer service and most of the time withen a 20 step walk you have 2 tables ask you for something else and probably someone else who works there wants to ask you for something or the manager wants to bitch, as if they don’t know the job is stressful enough without getting their 2 cents every fucking second.

most of the time when waiters fuck up it isnt cause they’re dumb, it’s cause they get barraged by bullshit around the clock and it’s not like we ever stop, we don’t get breaks, we dont get a meal break, we dont get 15’s or half hours, we just work and if we do have the time to stop for 5 minutes (which means we have no tables which means we aren’t making money) one of our managers will find something for us to do because we’re making a whopping 2.63 an hour and aren’t getting paid to stand around and eat. yeah. think about that shit next time you say your burger is cooked “medium” and you wanted it “medium-rare”.

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[quote]Artem wrote:
Also, I wear my sunglasses at night.[/quote]

stunna glasses???

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[quote]Rockscar wrote:
I was channel surfing, and caught a portion of a Vanilla Ice Biography. He’s 40 years old, and wears his b-ball hat cocked to the side. Personally I can’t describe enough how rediculous that looks to me, but who’s laughing in the end?? He’s the one with the mansion and millions.[/quote]

Could be worse. He could wear sunglasses in doors.

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[quote]goochadamg wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
I was channel surfing, and caught a portion of a Vanilla Ice Biography. He’s 40 years old, and wears his b-ball hat cocked to the side. Personally I can’t describe enough how rediculous that looks to me, but who’s laughing in the end?? He’s the one with the mansion and millions.

Could be worse. He could wear sunglasses in doors.[/quote]

I hate being stuck in doors, I’d much rather be out side.

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Theres a guy at my gym who wears sunglasses while he works out…fucking douche…and no I guarantee he does not have some medical condition…unless that condition would be douchebaggedeness

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i dress like a 17 year old kid, jeans that make my legs and ass look nive to the girls and a semi tight shirt that make my delts and traps stick out.

i think that going out to eat is useless. buy a steak and potatoes and grill out, its summer for gods sakes!

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[quote]BlkBear1 wrote:
MattyXL wrote:
If you dont have enough money to tip the wait staff at least 20% for good service, you should not be going out to eat in a restauraunt…period. The wait staff’s wages relies heavily on tips and the wait staff for the most part are not rolling in dough.

I think my problem sometimes is just getting the “basic service”. Yes I know the wait staff can be busy or even short handed, but there have been times when the wait staff acted as if they really could not have been bothered to served you. They have a larger party near you that gets all the attention, their water is refilled, their orders turned in on time and their food served hot. You get the same wait person, but they don’t even make eye contact as they eyeball their “other table” while taking your orders, which of course arrives cold or not even the correct dish, “So you want them to make what you ordered or what?”

WTF?!? Forget what happens the next time I show up, take care of me the first time I set foot in the restaurant. Because you’ll not have any trouble remembering me next time, because of the ass chewing the manager would have giving you that night from having to comp meals and getting an ear full from the entire table, because of the below basic service.

For me basic service is,

Getting water and drinks to the table in a timely manner

If you have to pass my table to get to your other tables, check with me as often as you check with the other tables, at least on your way back to the kitchen!

If I only see you when you take the order, bring the food and later the check, you have not done the basics as far as checking with your table. And if I or anyone at my table has to get up to talk to the manager or worse grab a pitcher of water, order drinks or to check on orders, you can expect there won’t be a tip. Why? I’m not there to do your job, that’s why.
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not to stick up for you waiter(ess)

but big parties always get priority because their bill is probably $150+ and yours is probably 30

so the most they will get out of you is like 7 or 8 bucks if youre not a scumbag tipper, and they can expect a minimum of $25 from the 150, if the service is really good though it could be 50. its about prioritizing. that isnt to say your table should be neglected but money is money and that’s all. if we got hourly and the tip was cached into the bill then it would be different.

it also could have been your attitude too, just saying.

(but again i work with a lot of fuck ups so you could have just had a crappy server)

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[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Theres a guy at my gym who wears sunglasses while he works out…fucking douche…and no I guarantee he does not have some medical condition…unless that condition would be douchebaggedeness[/quote]

We have one of those at my gym too. He wears big, white sunglasses, and literally stands in front of the mirror and stares at himself between sets.

I want to shit on his face.

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When you do shyt like that, usually it just means you’re an ass. As a server, and a lover of a good meal out myself, I can see both perspectives.

If you get up to get your own water, you are a dipshyt. You can wait a few moments for your water to come, the server has not forgotten you. When you go up and get things, the server already knows you’re in pissed d-bag mode, so basically quits your table there…they usually tell the manager at that point too.

Unless a server specifically offends you or aims to somehow harass you, I just really don’t see your viewpoint. If you regularly have problems with servers, it probably has more to do with you attitude than some kind of pseudo retarded waiter class. People can sense if you are a demanding, judgemental and unreasonable dickbag, and will usually prioritize based on this.

Believe me, wait enough tables and you can size people up.

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Dress however you want… just remember people are stereotyping you.

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Where I work, the waiters and waitresses make 0.00/hr. Yep, a loophole in the system legally allows the employer to pay them nothing. I cook the food and get some of their tips as well (they gotta tip the cooks some of what they get). I make minimum wadge bc the owners expect the waitresses to share some tips with us.

Yeah, I’m going to quit soon.

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[quote]Mettahl wrote:
MattyXL wrote:
Theres a guy at my gym who wears sunglasses while he works out…fucking douche…and no I guarantee he does not have some medical condition…unless that condition would be douchebaggedeness

We have one of those at my gym too. He wears big, white sunglasses, and literally stands in front of the mirror and stares at himself between sets.

I want to shit on his face.[/quote]

LOL!!!