cattyann

Perhaps it is just my warped sense of right, because I am a server, but….here goes. If you don’t have enough money for the whole dining experience, then please, stay home. Yes, I am a server, I’d like to think, a very good server. After having a weekend of 8, 10, 12 people at a table, and leaving $2.00 or possibly, nothing, I’ve had it. I was not the only server to have this happen. Yes, I know the economy sucks and yes, I realize if you get bad service, the tip is a reflection of the service. This not being the case, as I politely asked if the service was acceptable. The reply, yes it was great. Before going any further, the majority of these people, weren’t dressed high class, as a matter of fact, most seemed rather poor, but the answer to why we were soooo busy, income tax refunds. Yes, the majority were people with a lot of children. I have three of my own and three step children, so children were not my problem. And yes, it can be very expensive to take your entire family out to dinner, but if you can’t include the tip, please, please stay home. We servers make $3.50 an hour, yes we bus our own tables where I work. I am the one who cleans up under the table where you kindly let your child throw all of the food on the floor and laughed as he did it. I am sorry, but if the service was not up to par, then ask for a manager and get a new server. After several of our parties flaunted that they had received their income tax refund and this is why they were out to dinner, please remember this, at the end of your meal. Have the decency to tell the server what is wrong if you are unhappy. I am not rich, nor do I hate my job, in fact, I love what I do, but do not appreciate working hard to make someone happy, just to have them stiff me at the end of the meal. Yes, at the first of the month we get people on welfare, disability and so on and so forth, yes it always shows at the first of the month. This is something I do not mind, like I said people don’t have to have a lot of money, to have a sense of right and wrong. If there was nothing wrong with the service and someone kept getting me drinks all night long and picking up the dirty dishes, keeping the table clean and was there anytime you needed them and even when you didn’t, please tip. If someone provides you with a service and it was well done, tip. Don’t be cheap, just because you can. When I take my car thru a drive thru car wash and they dry my car off, I tip because it was a service provided to me. Even though I know they get an hourly wage, a person provided me with a service of drying off by hand, my vehicle, I tip. Most servers, get 3.50 or less, as an hourly wage, not the minimum, whatever that is now, for our state, I believe it is 6.85. Please just think about this, next time you go out to dinner. It would be greatly appreciated.