What would you do in this situation?

[gacook]

Originally Posted by Craig T

Accidents happen. If service was good before the "accident", I would not let the accident affect my tipping %. Food servers work hard for very little money. Accepting th apology and dry cleaning the clothes is the correct response.

Exactly what he said. Did you dock your daughter's allowance when she spilled stuff or broke plates/bowls as a kid? I've never understood why people freak out about that kinda stuff.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Craig T

Accidents happen. If service was good before the "accident", I would not let the accident affect my tipping %. Food servers work hard for very little money. Accepting th apology and dry cleaning the clothes is the correct response IN MY OPINION .

FIFY.
And I respect your opinion, I just don't agree.

Food servers get paid very well considering the the job.
Truth be known they're probably pulling in $20 to $25 an hour, and because most of them don't declare all tips on taxes, that is probably closer to $30 an hour.
Pretty good money for a job most high school girls could do with 4 hours of training.
A difficult job that almost anyone can do is not worth much $.
A hard job that only a very few can do well is where the $$$$ is.
Supply and demand.

And again, people in this thread are demonstrating the attitude that a big tip is DESERVED, and not leaving a big tip is punishment.
That simply is not the case.

A tip is a REWARD for exceptional service. It is something extra that has to be earned.

If the service is not exceptional, then no tip is earned or deserved.

[Baz]

[SoCal911T]

$140. comes out to $35.00 per per person including drinks (i assume). I guess I have a different idea what constitutes 'high end'. I also agree that a true high end establishment would have offered something for their mistake whether it be free desert, a bottle of wine or an offer to cover cleaning.

@sammyg, I hope you don't eat out much, you sound like you'd be the customer from hell.

[Gogar]

I would've stood up and flipped the table upside down and started throwing a few windmill punches, for sure.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Gogar

I would've stood up and flipped the table upside down and started throwing a few windmill punches, for sure.

lol... Sounds exciting!

[Brian 162]

Here's my story.
Out for dinner 2 servers collide and 2 plates of pasta hit me on my shoulder. My leather jacket on my chair took the brunt of it.
Now get this one of the servers tries blaming me for sitting there. The owner seated us.
Anyway the owner grabbed a used cloth to wipe my jacket. ( It never was the same)
No apology, no free coffee or desert nothing, just the bill.
Whenever people I know want to eat at that place I tell them what happened to me.

By the way Guy you did the right thing. At least you got an apology.

[Bill Douglas]

Tell your daughter she got off lightly. In New Zealand a guy got beaten up by a waitress and didn't even get an apology . Mind you, he slammed them in a review on Tripadvisor.

[Noah930]

Cannot answer the OP's question without a pic of offending waitress. Was she hot?

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by Noah930

Cannot answer the OP's question without a pic of offending waitress. Was she hot?

Uh no....would not have made any difference anyways. Daughter says she got no apology. T shirt and pants washed just fine. Then daughter and husband went home to find fire trucks at their condo building. Could not get into their building for a couple of hours. It was a false alarm.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Gogar

I would've stood up and flipped the table upside down and started throwing a few windmill punches, for sure.

hey isn't that typical behavior of a rock star?

[look 171]

Its was an accident. Depend on the service, I still tip accordingly and would not have taken anything free meals or discount. If the waitress was a royal bicth, then it would have been different.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Gogar

I would've stood up and flipped the table upside down and started throwing a few windmill punches, for sure.

Oh yeah! And rip your daughter's shirt off and show it around say'in "Look at this! Rosalita here effin' ruined it, am I right?" Then fap the husband in the face with the soggy shirt and shout, "And what are YOU do in' about it you limp wristed tweedbuckle?"
That'll get you free pitchers of Marguaritas every time.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

I walked out of a restaurant in Parnell without paying once.

Good.

Parnell. They didn't need the money.


I did a runner from a restaurant in Spain once. The waitress was being VERY rude to my German girlfriend to I was even ruder back to her. Next thing you know a guy about the size and looks of a gorilla appeared and started giving me angry looks. I pretended to leave the cash on the table but as soon as we got to the door I said run for it. Quite exciting stuff

[impactbumper]

Crap happens, I got stuff dumped on me with no apologies so many times. Life is too short to trip over these kind of things. OP handled it just like how I would minus posting a thread which means he believes he should have done something else, or deserves something...

[DanielDudley]

Good Lord, Where's your sense of outrage, Man ?

Oh, right, Canadian. Carry on.

FWIW, I would have tipped about the same, I think.

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by Gogar

I would've stood up and flipped the table upside down and started throwing a few windmill punches, for sure.

Because 'Merica, That's why.

[aschen]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

A tip is a REWARD for GOOD service.
It is NOT manditory, it is not automatic, it must be EARNED.

If a server dumps crap on me or one of my guests, that is NOT good service even if she is nice about it (unless of course someone else bumped her or caused the accident).
Having a server being careful enough to NOT spill sauce on the guests would be considered minimal expectation.
I would most likely NOT have left a tip.

PS $173can for mexican food for four? That's about $140 US. For that kinda change I would expect near perfection.

A tip is not a reward in the US, it is the actual payment for the job

[gacook]

Originally Posted by aschen

A tip is not a reward in the US, it is the actual payment for the job

Uh, no...they DO get an hourly wage. The tip just makes that wage better. It is indeed a "reward;" however, having worked for tips in the past, a waiter/waitress has to be pretty damn terrible not to get a decent tip from me (at least 20%).

[MikeSid]

I'm shocked there isn't a joke about a canoe somewhere in this thread!