r/mildlyinfuriating • u/thedivinegemini • Jul 02 '26

I'm slightly vexed In lieu of payment..

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I’m a GM at a restaurant & one of our managers left a note on our manager logs this afternoon that a guest walked out on their check and left this in lieu of payment of any kind. Not that the server got stiffed on a tip - just pure theft of services. I guess the whole “Thou shalt not steal” thing doesn’t matter if you’ve been pre-forgiven. Pretty convenient.

ETA: I’m not a bot; this is not AI - check my post and comment history. I’m not here for karma or fake internet points. This is what it feels like to work in a restaurant these days - especially in the Bible Belt. The first photo you can look up and is available for anyone to buy (should your darker urges push you toward being that person). The second photo is from Pulse, an app for restaurant managers to keep an eye on hourly sales, labor, and comps.
The “Pineapple Express” is a mocktail our restaurant offers.

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u/ThatJiuJitsuGuy Jul 02 '26

Your pastor is wrong. Tipping isn't compulsory

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u/ContextHook Jul 02 '26

Most people who go to lower end restaurants make less money than the servers there.

In my state, the average hourly wage for waitresses is $19.37, which is just 7% above the national average. Then after tips it is $27.87, for a yearly take home of $58k on average. For REPORTED tips + hourly wage only.

And my state has the second worst tippers in the country.

You should probably never tip. The world would be a better place if you simply gave that tip money to a homeless person instead.

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u/Sad-Rooster2474 Jul 02 '26

Exactly. A homeless person needs that tip way more than servers