One of the points of tipping at a restaurant is to encourage good service, right? So, if you get lousy service, I believe that you’re entitled to give a lousy tip. My mother seems to disagree.
We were over at the local Kelsey’s for lunch. Our server was polite enough when she was dealing with us. However, the times when she visited our table were very few. I wanted ketchup for my fries, but she never came around until well after my fries were done. The time from when I finished my drink up to when I got a refill was a good 10-15 minutes. All though might have been forgivable. However, when it came to dealing with the bill, that’s when things got ridiculous. From the point when I asked for the bill, to when I signed the receipt took a full 20 minutes. I never did see my server again after getting my drink refill, except when she was dealing with a larger table. I had to ask two different people for the bill. One of them brushed me off saying that the server hda to take care of it. Well, if there server was readily available I wouldn’t have asked her, right?
I wasn’t the only one unimpressed either. The tables around us were also looking around for the server, who had seemed to disappear into another dimension.
In the end I only gave a $1 tip on a $40 meal; we were simply made to wait too long. Walking out of the place, my mom told me that I was cheap. I argued that the service was shoddy, to which she replied that it’ll be even worse next time I go there. Well, to be honest, I have no plans to return. As well, I had no plans on rewarding the behaviour of abandoning your customers.
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