Stupid Restaurant Tricks!

[psychomaj]

I hate to ruin a good rant with a rave but... I am one of those who request the gluten free meals (Disney is one of the few places I feel safe eating outside of home). I know it takes extra time and if I did not call ahead 24 hours I proably won't be able to get the whole menue adapted (Disney has really good gluten free bread). That's ok. I want to thank all the wait castmembers and Chefs who took time to make sure I can eat safely. If my meal takes a bit longer to get to my table I need to apoligise to my party not the castmembers to me. So thank you to everyone who has waited on me or made a special prepared dish to accomidate my needs.
Matthew

[hobie16]

I beg the Tiki Gods for forgiveness!!!

You may be getting a visit from the Huaka'i Po or Night Marchers. :crazyharr

[kurtisnelson]

I beg the Tiki Gods for forgiveness!!!

All you have to do is :zazu: and sometime in the Tiki Room he will get you forgiven.

[WLStephanie]

Zazu,
is there anyway you can make me that smilie with the lei and flower in it's... uh... hair so that it's usable as my avatar?

[StephM]

My DH calls me supertipper. My sister worked as a waitress for years at a restaurant right next to a theater. You would think great tips. Yeah right. Try 14 dimes and 9 pennies once from a party of 10 in gowns and tuxedos. And this is a girl who would cut off her arm to make things right for you.

So I tend to tip high. Especially now that we have our 2 yr old, who is a messy eater. I figure the mess alone is worth 15%, then tack on 10 or 15 more for the service. We use the DDP and always try to leave an additional 10 on top of the included 18%, more if the service was great, and of course, we tip on the stuff we pay OOP for, like alcohol. Heck, you would probably get a little more from me cuz your name is Stephanie, too. :D:

People who don't tip at all irritate me. I can understand if your server was nasty or really bad or something, but come on....if your food came relatively quickly, was hot, refilled drinks, etc....they deserve a tip. If your potatoes tasted like crap, that is NOT the servers fault.

And, if your 2 yr old makes a mess that is going to take more than 30 seconds to clean up.....leave a TIP! I once had a friend tell me I shouldn't tip so much cuz servers do not report all their tips and get a tax break anyway. The next time he went out with us, DH told him to drop it and stop being so cheap, right in front of our server. He doesn't go to dinner with us anymore.

[hobie16]

I once had a friend tell me I shouldn't tip so much cuz servers do not report all their tips and get a tax break anyway. The next time he went out with us, DH told him to drop it and stop being so cheap, right in front of our server. He doesn't go to dinner with us anymore.

I've got a better weasel story for you. I use to ride motorcycles and went for a ride with a friend and a friend of his. We stopped to get something to eat. When we were finished and presented the check my friend and I each looked at it and put our shares plus tip on the table.

The friend of my friend looked at the check amount, counted the money on the table and put just enough, to the penny, on the table to cover the check. Basically, he was using our money to pay his tab and not leave any tip.

I told him I was not paying his tab so he'd better cough up some more money AND leave a tip. He got red in the face and sputtered some crap but finally did leave the proper amount.

My friend told me later he did it all the time. That was the last time I ever rode with that weasel.

[Zazu]

Zazu,
is there anyway you can make me that smilie with the lei and flower in it's... uh... hair so that it's usable as my avatar?

You should be able to copy it from the Smilies page to your avatar. Unfortunately, it's not going to get any bigger when you do so, leaving you with an itty bitty avatar.

What you might want to do instead is to go to Google Images (<google.com>, then click on "Images"). Search for an image that suits you and isn't too large.

Remember, is your friend!

But when friends let you down, <ask.com> images is my second choice.

[Stripes]

Hi All,
I've been reading for quite some time now, and as I have something WLStephanie might be interested in, it seemed like the time to jump in.

[SueOKW]

oh - that is totally painful. how embarassing.

I think you can always tell when a customer has been on the "other side" of any transaction... customer service, waiting tables, cashiers..

oh golly........all things i've done in my life... but you get my drift. I've received the dreaded $.01 tip.. the $1.00 on a $20 dinner.... ugh.

I'm a super-tipper, and I hope I'm an easy customer. I do have picky kids and I really appreciate it when they can get something not adult-y.

I think we more than make up for it in adult beverages, deserts etc... i hope!

In any case, I know your job just ain't easy.

[Syndrome]

A question for you servers:

When you know that you gave good service but receive NO tip, and the people didn't seem to have any animosity, be from a country that doesn't tip, or be problem customers, what do you surmise? Do you peg them as cheap? Figure that they made a mistake? Something else?

I just wish there was a way that we could have been contacted when that mess-up with our neighbors happened. Really, I wish the neighbors had 'fessed up sooner beause I would have just gone back there and given something after the fact.