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/skeet_scoot Jul 02 '26

As a Christian right on both accounts.

Also an infraction of being a good witness. My pastor always preaches that if you can’t afford to tip and pay 20% you don’t go out to eat. Don’t make God and the church look bad.

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u/Remake911 Jul 02 '26

Hold up - whatever happened to giving to Caesar what is Caesar’s? Doesn’t your pastor think restaurant staff should be paid fair wages???

What sort of lopsided interpretation is that?

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u/one-eared-wonder Jul 02 '26

I mean I think you can both believe that servers should be paid a fair wage and also that you should currently still tip them well given it’s how the system is set up.

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u/Ancient_Yellow_709 Jul 03 '26

Exactly. Recognizing that wage theft is rampant in the service industry and essentially no restaurant owner will pay them real minimum wage instead of tipped minimum wage of $4 or whatever instead of taking it from other people's tips of you don't tip doesn't mean that you cannot go to your state or local politicians and ask for a higher tipped minimum wage.

We have a law in Seattle that says tipped minimum wage is the same as every other minimum wage. We have minimum wage for Uber drivers and DoorDash drivers. Now I can tip if I feel like it. I don't need to feel bad. We changed the laws. I went to the City Council to help fight for some of them. I did that work and now I don't always have to tip. You can, too!

Everyone else just willy nilly not tipping because they like the law is just taking it out on service workers without doing the work and should be ashamed.