Monday, December 8, 2014

Open letter

Dear Cheap Tippers:

When a person is waitressing or bartending for you, that person works off the tips you give them. When is it good to be so cheap with the tips for another person? I have been in the service industry for fifteen years and a lot of people are really cheap. I hate when people sit down for two hours and then think it is O.K. to tip a person two dollars on a one hundred dollar tab, like they are doing me a favor.

Stop being so damn cheap on tips people live off the money you give them and they work hard for it. When I'm working a twelve hour shift and running around in circles for people, why would you think it is O.K. to tip barely nothing? Tipping nothing is just as rude and saying that my services were not worth that fifteen percent of your bill. I work hard for that tip and I don't get paid as much as you think hourly, if anything at all.

I have a family to support and how would I do that if everyone left a couple dollars or nothing at all on a tab. I have a kid to pay for and school to pay for. How would I be able to eat off your two dollar tip? I couldn't even buy my kid a happy meal with that tip.  Think about that person you are being cheap with and what they are going through and they have bills to pay, too!

I have bills and this isn't helping me one bit. I make a living bartending and it takes hard work of being nice to rude people, people getting drunk or even people that like to start fights in my bar. I can't pay my car insurance, phone bill, food or child care on people that tip me a couple dollars. If you go out be considerate or just stay home!

Obviously you need the money more than I do and that's why you're leaving such a cheap tip so you should just keep it because it's insulting. People have bad days every once and a while so don't take it out on your waitress, she didn't do it to you. When you complain to the waitress about your order it usually isn't the waitresses fault usually it's a problem with the kitchen, don't skip out on her tip because of something she has no control over. Why would you even leave such a small tip or even think that's O.K.?

Don't be a cheap tipper because people work hard for their money. Wait staff doesn't get paid more than four dollars a hour in most places and you leaving barely nothing doesn't help. If you leave such a crappy tip or none at all is just mean to do to a person. Don't go out to eat or drink if that's what you do all the time because you are doing nothing but making people to a lot of extra work for nothing!



Jerusha

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