Ok, many of you don't know I work at Denny's seating people and cleaing up the front of the resturant ($7.00 an hour for an easy job). Well I had a very interesting (and quite disturbing day yesterday).

I was on my break and ordered some food, a double cheeseburger and season fries. Well I was getting my meal from the food window and noticed that my season fries only consited of about a few cold fries next to the burger. I politely asked the cook (huge dirty woman with a thick black mustache) for some more. She hardly acknowledged me and mumbled something. After I asked her again politely she said "The fries are in the window!" And mumbled some incohereant ebonic referecnes towards me.

Wow. Ok, no big deal. But check this out.

So I seat a regular who comes in to the restaurant. His waitress isn't around because she's usually outside smoking her flirting with her boyfriend whose also waits tables. So he told ME to get him an ice cream sundae. Since I know him I make it extra special and give it to him. He's very intelligent (graduated from Harvard, and was a history professor for 15 years) and thought I did a good job. I made him a ticket since his server wasn't around and didn't even check up on him, and I cashed him out. Well he gave ME a dollar for a tip saying I went "above and beyond the call of duty as a host. So I take the dollar thinking I could get some desert later or something.

Well after that my manager ushers me into her office. She tells me waitress is making a big commotion about me "stealing" her table, and taking her tip. So I give up the tip to the manager and leave the office.

Question. Even though it was just a dollar, the principle of me having money taking away from me for a job I did, to another person just because I had to take over their station because I their incredbile addiction to nicotine, or their addiction to their boyfreind is absurd. Seriosuly, get paid for your own work. Even though the manager agrred she said there were "politcal" ramfications.

The point is, it doesn't matter if it's a dollar or a hundred dollar, it's still something I worked for to cover someone else's butt, and it was given to ME. Even the man said "this is for you", he didn't say her, or the server of the station but "you".

What do you think?



-KnightRider2000


P.S. Just had to throw the Fry Nazi story in, sort of shoes the demeaner of the employees.

Dirt woman you say?

I say, grow up!

Used keyboard. Got hit from an obessive Counter-Strike player.


-KnightRider2000

I thought this was a THRAWN thread initially.

yumm... i wored at a restrant. i feel your pain.

I believe that like I believe that Jesus wasn't a dirty hippy.

I lost a keyboard that way myself.

That sucks KnightRider. Maybe you might want to start looking for a job that better fits what you want to do with your life. Just make sure not to let them know. >.>



Please tell me you mean "worked".

You should have gone to the nicotine addict waitress and given the dollar straight to her, along with the words: "Do you work next time, or there will be no more next times."

What good is to to give the dollar to some greedy manager, anyway...

I also whored at a restaurant.

Dark times..

I think you're right.

Denny's sucks anyways. Start sticking up for yourself.

FIGHT THE POWER. >.>

You are getting pushed around. When you can probably find a much better job than that, why would you put up with it?

Ugh...Denny's! I worked there for a bit (and probably will be going back to work there) and my second day of training I was taught to watch my back because people take tips. I was told this as my trainer took my tip (they said I could keep the tips I made) and then took another guy's tip. She also made sure to tell the people I was in training so they would give me a bigger tip. She wasn't very nice...

I say you fight for that dollar...or at least recognition that you were the one that served him.

That is BULL. It'd be one thing if you took advantage of her not being there but a customer asked to be help and that's what the employees are there for. If she wants her job to pay off, flipping do it!

You had every single right to the tip because you weren't too caught up in yourself to not do your job.

gees forget the k and it all goes to...

Waiters and waitresses are really defensive about their tips.

I would've told the waitress to shove it and kept it. She wants money, tell her to do her damn job.

Why didn't you tell the manager everything that happened? Why didn't you tell him that the customer's server was nowhere to be found, and she didn't even check on him, take his order or anything?

You lost more than a buck in that incident, dude.

Dude, I did tell. But she was like, "no, she works off her tips and you get a full an hourly income, you can't take tables". Gee, and all those times I had to take tables because we were under-labored, and I had to take the load off the other waitresses. That's gratitude.


-KnightRider2000

Bah, so many people let themselves be pushed around.

You do your job like anyone else for their hourly wage. You do your job, you don't deserve extra money. Tipping is just dumb.

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you do realize their hourly wage is normally around $2, if that, right?

$2.12 if I am not mistaken.

Ugh dennies...*barfs

Hmm. I have a friend who works for $2.41 as a system administrator. Heh.

And I agree. Money should not have gone to her in the end, but to you, IMHO. Being poor and low shouldn't be a good enough reason to force people supporting her sorry arse.

Aaaah, tipping. I work a lot of coat check at the restaurant I work at during the winter, and I'll easily pull in $100-150 a night... but then I only see about $30 because it "wouldn't be fair for the other busboys" which is true. So wouldn't it make sense to share it with the other busboys? Nope, it goes straight to the owner's pocket. Heh :p.

I don't really mind though, $30 + hourly wages isn't bad for sitting and doing homework.

You should see the dirty tricks I pull to get better tips though... it's all about making it look like the average tip is $2 by hiding everything but one $5 bill and $2 coins and a random loonie.

Um, BV, you should just keep the money. The tips are given to you, and your employer has just as much right to take them as he has a right to take money out of your bank account.

That depends on state laws.

It's their own damn fault for having that job.

*Is tempted to post quote from Reservoir Dogs.*

So basically you think that nobody should be a waiter/waitress/delivery driver

No, I believe he's saying that servers should be paid a higher wage, lessening the expectation for tips. Most other countries operate this way.

I usually just reboot my servers.

Yeah, but tips encourages good service.

No, tips encourage testy waiters when they're not given money they don't really deserve.

...but when they become testy, they don't get good tips.