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Only read the first and last pages, but.... how was that racist!? I think you're drawing conclusions you have no reason to draw. Yeah, she sounds like an a-hole for doing that, but you're just assuming it was about your race. Drives me nuts when people do that.
I tip really well because I'm a server and I know it's good karma. But if your service is bad, I'll give you a terrible tip and tell you to your face that your service was brutal, and that I'm a server so I would know.
It's true that we do live on our tips, and it isn't really fair that you have to pay to make up for our terrible wages, but think of the menu price as paying for your food, and of the tip as paying to be served, only you're allowed to pay for that part based on how good you thought it was.
Personally, I would 10000x rather a customer be nice to me and treat me like a human being and leave a mediocre tip than someone be a total a-hole and leave me a fat tip. A smile and some joking around makes my day way more than 5$ ever could. Try to keep in mind that 7 times out of 10, your waiter/waitress is having a $$*+%$ day. Serving is pretty stressful, no one's ever happy, people will all out scream in your face over ranch dip, and maybe 30% of my customers on a daily basis say 'please' and/or 'thank you'. No one talks to you like you're a human, it's just people condescending to you all day. Smiling and addressing your server like an equal will garner you better service 90% of the time.
I tip really well because I'm a server and I know it's good karma. But if your service is bad, I'll give you a terrible tip and tell you to your face that your service was brutal, and that I'm a server so I would know.
It's true that we do live on our tips, and it isn't really fair that you have to pay to make up for our terrible wages, but think of the menu price as paying for your food, and of the tip as paying to be served, only you're allowed to pay for that part based on how good you thought it was.
Personally, I would 10000x rather a customer be nice to me and treat me like a human being and leave a mediocre tip than someone be a total a-hole and leave me a fat tip. A smile and some joking around makes my day way more than 5$ ever could. Try to keep in mind that 7 times out of 10, your waiter/waitress is having a $$*+%$ day. Serving is pretty stressful, no one's ever happy, people will all out scream in your face over ranch dip, and maybe 30% of my customers on a daily basis say 'please' and/or 'thank you'. No one talks to you like you're a human, it's just people condescending to you all day. Smiling and addressing your server like an equal will garner you better service 90% of the time.