Woman leaves ‘single mom sorry’ tip on $138 bill
 

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A photo of a receipt allegedly left by a single mother at a restaurant has gone viral after it was posted on Reddit.

The bill, which shows a charge of $138.35, has a note that reads “single mom sorry” on the tip line – implying whoever signed the bill did not have enough money to tip the waiter or waitress.

The caption with the photo on Reddit reads: “I’m sure $140 could have gotten you and your kids a week worth of groceries, but instead you spend it one one meal?! For shame!”

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Hope the waiter gets fired for putting this on the internet.

Waiters

STFU

If you can't afford to tip you should not be spending 138 bucks on a single meal

lol in what situation would this happen

it looks like it just did

yea....

A good manager will delete a few items from the ticket and keep the total as it is -- that way the server isn't totally ****ed.
And this is no different from a server posting a picture of a great tip and good comment. I see the inverse of this situation all the time.

I've intentionally left no tip once or twice for stinky putrid awful service. I've only done that once or twice though, and it was at places like Buffalo Wild Wings and Perkins. I wouldn't do it on a $138 order

I ate at Buffalo Wild Wings for the first time last weekend and it totally sucked.

Now if the service is bad and they piss me off I will not leave a tip.

Watch out. If the service is bad, and they piss him off...


He will not leave a tip.

I would like to see the items ordered, how many kids, ect. If this is real that is a really shitty thing to do.

Most companies have a policy against doing so to protect the privacy of the customer. If you see people doing it, I'm assuming their employer is unaware of it.

You need thick skin to be in the service industry. I bartended for 8 years and 99% of the time a waitress got shafted on the tip is because she sucks at her job.

I rolled in the tips because I busted my ass, treated people well, and actually enjoyed my job.

That's probably true. I've witnessed it done at a few local - upscale - restaurants around town. I see no problem with it in certain circumstances.

I meant and/or My bad

LMAO

Agree with this 100%. There's no way you can justify this. And I don't give a damn if it's wrong to put it out there on the internet, this woman should be ****ing ashamed of herself.

Basically. If I know I only have a certain amount of money to spend, I do my best to order something cheap enough so that I will still have money leftover to leave a suitable tip.

The waiter should also be ashamed of himself/herself for crying about missing a $15 tip when unemployment is as high as its been.

Oh my God, someone didn't tip you!!!! Oh the humanity!!!! LMAO, what a fcking baby.

For all I know this lady had six kids with her and the service was terrible. She took her one kid out for his birthday and wanted to have a great time but the service was so terrible it ruined the whole experience. She could have wrote no tip, your service was terrible but instead wanted it to seem nicer so she wrote the whole single Mom thing.

Tips are for doing a good job not just doing the bare minimum in my opinion and I was a server in high school and college for 7 years. I have never understood these servers that exepct a customer to just give them a tip if they do just enough to get by.

This just in - someone does something stupid.

People on internet, outraged, explain how they would rectify the situation.

If you can't afford a tip, you can't afford to eat out.

That's part of the package, unless you are treated terribly by the staff.

So you're a shitty tipper too?

Let's get this thread rollin'

This shit happens all the time, but yeah, it's incredibly obnoxious. I can only think of three situations where not tipping can mean anything other than the fact that you're a total douche:

1. You are from a foreign country and just didn't understand you were supposed to leave a tip. (still minorly douchey)
2. You just plain forget. (still moderately douchey)
3. You receive the most absolutely terrible service you've ever experienced. (acceptable once or twice a decade)

In this case, she outright acknowledged that she knew she was supposed to tip but just wasn't because she couldn't afford it. That's on the level of theft if you ask me.

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A person doesn't write"Thank You, it was Great" on a ticket when they get horrible service.

Maybe she was drunk.

I don't see the problem. /Scottie Pippen

I hope you're kidding.

First, I would've tipped at least $25 if the service was decent. Second, this would be the equivalent of your boss walking in one day and telling you that you were taking a 10% paycut for the day because he just doesn't want to. That's shitty.

Also, I have no idea what unemployment has to do with this.

These people shouldn't have to wait on you hand and foot for 2 bucks an hour... If they give you good service, give them a 15% tip, if you can't do that go get a pizza and take it home, in the end you are full either way.

If you can't afford a decent tip, then save up your money until next week and eat at that place then.

Hell, you can just order the food to go from the same restaurant. Don't make someone work for you for an hour and then refuse to pay them.

This is how I tip.

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To be fair, Waiters MUST be compensated if their tips + wages are below minimum wage.

Most waiters are actually unaware of that, but it's the law.

I think he's saying the waiter should be happy with the $3.50/hour he's making before the tip.

I am cheap when it comes to letting loose money but I never stiff the waitstaff and I am that dude everybody calls dumb because I give the bum at the end of the road holding the sign the 5 dollar bill hoping he will get a sandwich instead a bottle of MadDog

I agree 100%

I love how noone wants to put any blame on the restaurant owners that are shafting their employees by not even paying a living wage.

The customers subsidize the difference.

Boo hoo, I was a server/bartender in college and for a short time afterwards and even though it burnt me to get a bad tip, I still never felt right blaming a customer for not giving me extra money that they didn't have to give.

Besides, the attitude of most servers these days is that they deserve a high tip all the time, simply for doing their job. Nope, sorry charlie.

What if the server was a single mom as well?

Yea but if they put waiters and waitresses on salary, the food would be so high they wouldn't have anyone to wait on and they would all go broke.

I never treat a server as a second class citizen and always say thank you for everything...

Are you high?

Oh yeah, the whole "they should just be thankful they have a job" line of horseshit. :rolleyes:

Precisely.

Don't pay a tip, that's fine, it's a free country.

But don't bitch when your $8 taco plate is $15 the next time you eat there.

Some people just aren't good tippers, that's a fact that servers have to deal with. But what's ****ed up here is this lady actually tried to justify stiffing the server with that garbage. And on a $138 bill no less, I doubt this was at a ****ing Denny's.

ROFL

Canadians.

I'd like to help that single mother. Anyone know how how to contact her?

I think a $138 bill at a Denny's would justify a larger tip than a $138 bill at an upscale steakhouse.

I could easily blow $138 on myself at a high end restaurant, and it wouldn't take much attention from the waiter(ess).

Denny's would be a challenge, and would require a lot of work with multiple orders per customer at the table.

I think you are just forecasting how you are. Not the fact the mom also left a note at the bottom on the service.

Exactly.

If the service was terrible, she wouldn't write "thanks it was great!"

That's a fair point, but either way it's pretty messed up.

have you ever left America?

Holy shit, r8ders talking common sense about what would happen if salararies were in place? ****, the really do suck, if that is happening.

And the fact that she does not appear to be shy would make me tend to believe she would have had no problem whatsoever to bring someone down to justify her actions.

interesting take, given the note at the bottom in large text praising the service

Never

And don't bitch when they are slow and have minimal wait staff because no one can make a living there.

right. well, the food service industry doesn't necessarily collapse merely because employers are forced to pay their employees a wage they can actually survive off. the rest of the developed world seems to manage it.

He has a valid point, americans are trained/used to a pricing structure. If employers paid a living salary to all their staff. Prices double. They have to pay more in insurance and benefits also. The effect would move over into fastfood. Applebees meal would be 18minimum. Tacobell 10 bucks to cover all the costs. Then add the bonus.

Servers would no longer be required to give good service. They get paid the same.

Yeah, that will work in this country.

I think grocery prices jump also to cash in on the profit margin.

ROFL


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That all you got? Argue your point son instead of hunting down funny pictures to impress the 16 year olds here.

Eh, both systems would have their flaws. And most servers I've known over the years made fairly decent money. Some employers do use the system to their advantage though, I dated a waitress years ago whose employer made the wait staff stay an hour after closing cleaning the restaurant for $2/hr. Now THAT was bullshit.

they aren't working for me and if it is assumed they do, it isn't one hour.

They may breeze by your table 3 times in an hour to see if you need anything, but they aren't at my beckon call for an hour.

None the less, I tip appropriately.

As someone else pointed out, you've never been overseas.

Do I give a **** about what goes on overseas? I live in America

Wait staff outside this country are much better.

Overseas they pay wait staff an appropriate wage and people do not tip. Prices are not doubled and restaurants are plenty full. Your argument to the contrary is nonsense.

Much!

Well probably because they are socialist countries and the government subsidizes, we are Capitalists here and that system would not work here.

ROFL

I am of the belief that if you are cutting it so close that you can't afford to tip then you probably shouldn't be eating out to begin with and prepare your own meals.

is this a troll? has to be

Wrong again, dumbass. Just take your dumb hick ass out of this thread.

Where are these countries you speak of mr man of the world?

Huh? No, this is actually nothing like getting a 10% paycut. This was a one-time stiff of $15-25. So it's like missing an hour or two of work. Totally worth throwing a temper tantrum for.

Hey dumb****, its my thread

Where have you been? Mexico?

And if it is, you take your business elsewhere. Welcome to the free market.