Comments on: 13 Things Your Waiter Won’t Tell You http://www.bspcn.com/2008/07/14/13-things-your-waiter-wont-tell-you/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:40:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: temptationsgirl http://www.bspcn.com/2008/07/14/13-things-your-waiter-wont-tell-you/#comment-19986 temptationsgirl Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:15:04 +0000 http://www.bspcn.com/2008/07/14/13-things-your-waiter-wont-tell-you/#comment-19986 <I>11. Always examine the check. Sometimes large parties are unaware that a gratuity has been added to the bill, so they tip on top of it. Waiters “facilitate” this error. It’s dishonest, it’s wrong-and I did it all the time.</I> That said, always examine the check because there are restaurants out there with a no gratuity for large parties policy. The place that I worked at that had that policy (or lack of, depending how you phrase it) said the 18% gratuity was "tacky". I cannot tell you how many times I got stiffed because the person who paid assumed there was gratuity included on the bill and just signed the slip and thanked me for my excellent service. 11. Always examine the check. Sometimes large parties are unaware that a gratuity has been added to the bill, so they tip on top of it. Waiters “facilitate” this error. It’s dishonest, it’s wrong-and I did it all the time.

That said, always examine the check because there are restaurants out there with a no gratuity for large parties policy. The place that I worked at that had that policy (or lack of, depending how you phrase it) said the 18% gratuity was “tacky”. I cannot tell you how many times I got stiffed because the person who paid assumed there was gratuity included on the bill and just signed the slip and thanked me for my excellent service.

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