How do you tip?

Originally Posted by The_Melomane

17. I also want to add...why do people think that it's okay to walk into a restaurant and eat when it's 15 minutes before closing???? FYI...there's a lot of stuff to be done after hours, i.e. cleaning up and Stuff like that! So if it is vacuuming and shit like that you don't want to hear when having a decent meal...then don't show up 15 minutes before closing time! Not only are you holding up your server from leaving the damn place, but you are also pissing off the individual who's cooking your damn meal...remember that!

Yeah, I'm pretty much with Sass on her sentiment--regardless if how much it INCONVENIENCES the staff to work their restaurants advertised hours, the servers should do it with the same courtesy and respect they would give someone who waltzed in at 3 in the afternoon.

Same goes for the cook, too. Yes, like, I know it's late and everybody wants to go home and there's all this other shit in the restaurant that needs to get done before you can close officially, but that is really no reason to be STINGY on the quality of the food OR to fuck with the customers meal or whatever. Nobody likes the last minute customer, but since you are essentially a slave to the store hours, just do your fucking job and do it without being a colossal dick.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by The_Melomane

So you think it's perfectly acceptable to stay somewhere a half an hour plus after they've closed?
Last Monday a table didn't leave until 11:50. We close at 10:00. Basically you're saying we have no right to be upset at them even though they're the ones not respecting company hours. If we were to go by what Sass and Seris are suggesting, we wouldn't even begin closing until they'd left. Almost two hours after we were closed, simply because there was one table left.

I've worked RETAIL jobs that have required employees to tend to customers long after the store has closed. And we--the employees--managed to ring every customer out, bag all their shit, and say "have a nice night!" without being jerks about it.

I'm not saying that having to do that is annoying, but it is your job to do that sort of thing every so often. Some of the customers coming in, they might be working long days too and the only time they have to get what they need to get done is 20 minutes before closing time. Shit happens. It does not entitle you, the employee, to take your frustrations out on them regardless of the circumstances.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Shin

And call me a snob but asking for a bag to take away the leftovers at the end of a meal is really chavvy.

Well, in some cases restaurants often give larger portions than what you're willing to eat at the time. And lets say you drop down 30 dollars on a meal that you've only half eaten. Call me trashy all you want, but saving 15 dollars worth of food for later takes priority over looking high-class.

Besides that, that's un-eaten food gone to waste. It's not like they can recycle that steak you didn't eat; it just goes straight into the garbage. That should be considered a CRIME.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.