I’ll let an idiot letter to the editor author take care of this one;
By Joyce J. and Ray M. Hofer, Freeman
I am writing about Honorous L. Yusoff’s letter dated Sept. 21.
I, too, tip at a restaurant but not very willingly. We own a business and have employees, and no one has ever tipped. We have to pay our help.
If a restaurant can’t make tons of money, there is something wrong when I pay for my food and part of their wages.
Plus, what really makes me angry is when I’m punished for bringing a group of more than six people to their restaurant and they automatically add a 15 percent to 20 percent gratuity.
Shouldn’t I be able to tip the percent I feel is ample for a large group?
The comments under the article are awesome & stupid;
Let me get this straight: Your job is to take an order and bring it out to the customer when it’s ready, and you want more money than what your boss pays you to do this? Is this capitalism or socialism?
These people are freaking clueless about dining out in a full service restaurant. I would love to make 20% tips by only doing this, but I know I have to go the extra mile to get a good tip, that’s kind of the point of tipping, jackass. Come eat where I work and request me, and I’ll give you ‘take your order’ kind of service. I can guarantee after I take your order and drop off your drinks you won’t see me until check time. We have an infamous family that comes in and never tips. NEVER! When any of us get them, that is exactly how they are treated. They even complained once that we never refilled their drinks, asked how they where, or brought them more bread. Hey, McFly, ever wonder why? T.I.P.S. (TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE). No TIP. Do the math.
And this guy is a real rocket scientist;
The waitress pulled a fist full of cash bills that could choke a horse out of her apron to put the 15% tip I left for the buffet. This was early in the evening dinner hour, so I am assuming she brought in even more in the next few hours.
You wanna know why she had a fist full of money? Because servers are responsible for their own banks. Not only was that her tips, but I can guarantee most of it was payment for meals she had to give to the restaurant at the end of the night. That is why I try to avoid making change at the table, because dumb fucks like this think that is your tips. And besides, what if it was all of her tips? Are you jealous she has to wait on poor slobs like you all day and gets to take home a living wage? It reminds me of the clever folks who pay part of the bill with a giftcard and only tip a percentage of the amount that is left. Do you think you are fooling us? If your bill is $50 and you normally tip 15% your tip would be $7.50 not $3.75 after a $25 gift card.
Can you make good money waiting tables? Yes, but you have to bust your ass, and you have to put up with the Joyce and Ray Hofer’s of the world who think people should just wait on them because they are so fucking cool to own a business in Freeman. I would love to see what they pay their workers. Take my advice, stay in Freeman to eat, we don’t want you polluting our restaurants in SF with your anti-tip, Oprah watching nonsense.
I would also suggest that every server in SF write down their name in their server books and if they ever come across these people with a check or CC to make their exiting experience one to remember. Servers in Sioux Falls may not have an union, but we talk, and we have your number.