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Another tipping thread
May 3, 2012 at
07:51 AM
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Furious staff LOCK family inside restaurant for refusing to pay full 17% tip after bad service
A Houston family were locked inside a restaurant and the police were called after they refused to pay the full 17% tip.
That is the amount the restaurant adds to parties of more than five diners, but Mark's complaint was that the staff were rude, their drinks were not refilled and mistakes were made on their orders.
'We asked her, could the gratuity be removed?' said Marks.
'Could we give our own tip?
'I asked the police officer twice, maybe three times, is it against the law if we don't pay the gratuity and he never gave me a straight answer.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138736/Tipping-optional-Family-locked-restaurant-staff-refusing-pay-gratuity-bad-service.html
A Houston family were locked inside a restaurant and the police were called after they refused to pay the full 17% tip.
That is the amount the restaurant adds to parties of more than five diners, but Mark's complaint was that the staff were rude, their drinks were not refilled and mistakes were made on their orders.
'We asked her, could the gratuity be removed?' said Marks.
'Could we give our own tip?
'I asked the police officer twice, maybe three times, is it against the law if we don't pay the gratuity and he never gave me a straight answer.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138736/Tipping-optional-Family-locked-restaurant-staff-refusing-pay-gratuity-bad-service.html
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i hate to be the one to ask this... but since someone asked me earlier mine as well as ask you in the same manner. proof or i call troll. lol jk. but seriously i'm not gonna argue. i'm not from ny.
She can just tell the news how awful the service was!
Seriously, every time I go there, every person that works there has a GIGANTIC stick up their ass. They're so incredibly rude, and act like it's a horrible inconvenience to do their job.
I seriously want to slap them.
Doesn't matter if it is a coupon, a sign in the restaurant whatever, there is NO STATE LAW that enforces this matter - getting the point
Find specific State Laws for each and every State that subjects a diner to pay such a gratuity, then maybe you might be able to support your opinion, until then suck it up
Most of the SD'ers here are of the opinion that they tip rather well, rather then under tip; from previous threads; but will not be forced into paying a tip based on a restaurant's "policy" like this - especially if there is bad wait service and/or a meal problem.
She can just tell the news how awful the service was!
Seriously, every time I go there, every person that works there has a GIGANTIC stick up their ass. They're so incredibly rude, and act like it's a horrible inconvenience to do their job.
I seriously want to slap them.
Doesn't matter if it is a coupon, a sign in the restaurant whatever, there is NO STATE LAW that enforces this matter - getting the point
Find specific State Laws for each and every State that subjects a diner to pay such a gratuity, then maybe you might be able to support your opinion, until then suck it up
Most of the SD'ers here are of the opinion that they tip rather well, rather then under tip; from previous threads; but will not be forced into paying a tip based on a restaurant's "policy" like this - especially if there is bad wait service and/or a meal problem.
every restaurant handles things differently. Apparently LA Fishermans did it differently too. I'm just saying. Also if i was the owner of a restaurant, and a customer tried to pull that crap on me especially when the service was good i'd call the cops too. We'd go to court and a new law will be passed. But i will never ever own a restaurant. I stopped serving years back. Never again. LOL. like i said. slavery.
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Based on the reviews posted about that place, I would say it's a wash with that manager. Pretty shocking they still have a job.
Based on the reviews posted about that place, I would say it's a wash with that manager. Pretty shocking they still have a job.
but I could go
and it seems there is this problem here
but I could go
and it seems there is this problem here
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So you think by going to court, you are able all by your lonesome self to get a NEW LAW passed, my aren't we full of ourselves