Couple arrested for not paying tip

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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Most restaurants add a gratuity for large groups. I have never heard of adding 18% automatically. I wonder if it was mentioned on the menu, or somewhere else in plain view.

    Should be an interesting court case!

    We stayed in a hotel last month for a wedding outside of Boston... Instead of the usual continental breakfast, you had to pay ($10) for the breakfast buffet. Not only that, but they added an 18% gratuity to your check... for a buffet! The waitress/server cleared our plates a couple of times and refilled coffee (juice was at the buffet).

    Ridiculous..
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  • tybird
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    Phantom Pain wrote:
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Most restaurants add a gratuity for large groups. I have never heard of adding 18% automatically. I wonder if it was mentioned on the menu, or somewhere else in plain view.

    Should be an interesting court case!

    From the article it said it was a party of 6

    I guess it was on the receipt maybe at the bottom...I've seen it there before
    Them and a party of six friends=8.....the line where many establishments do enforce the mandatory 15%....that said, 18% is a bit unreal....as is calling the police
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    lukin2006 wrote:
    I didn't know tips were mandatory, always thought tips were for good service.
    not anymore, in north america anyways.

    you can have shit food and shit service, and its still somehow bad on you to not leave a tip.
    and if you complain about it, you are somehow painted as a cheap ass hole for not helping these people 'make a living' because they work for minimum wage - something that may be true in some areas of the USA, but not where I live. A person working in retail and a person working in food make the same minimum wage, only in food you can make an extra 500 dollars a week in tips.

    this bartender was dumb! :roll:
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  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Most restaurants add a gratuity for large groups. I have never heard of adding 18% automatically. I wonder if it was mentioned on the menu, or somewhere else in plain view.

    Should be an interesting court case!


    I've eaten in a restaurant where it says on the menu "18% service charge included in bill" or something to that extent. Doesn't matter if there is only one person, it's still included. That was at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA. I'm sure that other restaurants are following in Alice's footsteps.
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  • theoceansmademe
    theoceansmademe Posts: 1,132
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Most restaurants add a gratuity for large groups. I have never heard of adding 18% automatically. I wonder if it was mentioned on the menu, or somewhere else in plain view.

    Should be an interesting court case!

    Exactly what I thought after reading the original post.

    If it's on the menu then it is theft. They new prior to ordering that there would be a required tip.

    I spent 10+ years in the business and sometimes you're just to busy to give the service people want.

    My gut feeling is the costumers were Assholes, for I have waited on many.

    Hooray for the law!
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Wow, that's ridiculous, the service sounded horrendous. I wouldn't have tipped her either or maybe I would leave her 50 cents.
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  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    libragirl wrote:
    Wow, that's ridiculous, the service sounded horrendous. I wouldn't have tipped her either or maybe I would leave her 50 cents.

    the tip was included on the bill & most likely it was written on the menu. They have no excuse for not knowing this already. They should have explained the situation to the manager before they ditched out.
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    libragirl wrote:
    Wow, that's ridiculous, the service sounded horrendous. I wouldn't have tipped her either or maybe I would leave her 50 cents.

    the tip was included on the bill & most likely it was written on the menu. They have no excuse for not knowing this already. They should have explained the situation to the manager before they ditched out.

    Well sure they probably should have complained to the manager but you don't have to tip for bad service. I don't care if it's written on the menu.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    do these poor people have a website so us Scottish people can donate money to fight their cause?

    hee hee.. i just said us Scottish people would donate money.

    thats funny. :lol:

    so, on what channel can i watch this couple get their Congressional Medal of Honour?
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  • dunkman
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    philthehip wrote:
    Fifthelement wrote:
    norm wrote:
    dunkman's gonna have a conniption over this one :shock: :lol:

    :lol::lol::lol: That was my first thought when I saw the thread topic.

    I wonder if Dunk has successfully completed his move :?: We'll have to keep this topic bumped until he returns :lol::lol::lol: Definitely need some Scottish input on this topic.

    I should have been given a tip.

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    good times! 8-) :thumbup:
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    dunkman wrote:
    do these poor people have a website so us Scottish people can donate money to fight their cause?

    hee hee.. i just said us Scottish people would donate money.

    thats funny. :lol:

    so, on what channel can i watch this couple get their Congressional Medal of Honour?


    really? i expected way more out of you on this subject mr dunkman :!:
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    this is absolutely ridiculous.

    how much do you wanna bet the only reason the cops actually arrested them is because they frequent that restaurant and are looking for some free meals?

    16 fucking dollars....deal with it! :evil: :evil: :evil:
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    The Jeagler wrote:
    this is absolutely ridiculous.

    how much do you wanna bet the only reason the cops actually arrested them is because they frequent that restaurant and are looking for some free meals?

    16 fucking dollars....deal with it! :evil: :evil: :evil:


    I'll bet you.

    They paid for everything they had except the tip... as the service was shittier than your 'reading of first posts' skills ;) so how were they looking for a free meal?

    I only had poor service once when i was in Florida... but the waitress was older than Methusalahs granny and she was saving up for a new plastic hip... so i left her a quarter and the flight times to the UK.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    dunkman wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    this is absolutely ridiculous.

    how much do you wanna bet the only reason the cops actually arrested them is because they frequent that restaurant and are looking for some free meals?

    16 fucking dollars....deal with it! :evil: :evil: :evil:


    I'll bet you.

    They paid for everything they had except the tip... as the service was shittier than your 'reading of first posts' skills ;) so how were they looking for a free meal?

    I only had poor service once when i was in Florida... but the waitress was older than Methusalahs granny and she was saving up for a new plastic hip... so i left her a quarter and the flight times to the UK.



    priceless!
    and you are making fun of his reading comprehension skills?
    perhaps reread his post. ya know, the one you quoted. ;)
    btw - it took you long enough to show up in this thread!
    :mrgreen:


    and for the record, you bet...utterly fucking ridiculous. we do not have any laws forcing tipping, whether it is on the menu or not.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    dunkman wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    this is absolutely ridiculous.

    how much do you wanna bet the only reason the cops actually arrested them is because they frequent that restaurant and are looking for some free meals?

    16 fucking dollars....deal with it! :evil: :evil: :evil:


    I'll bet you.

    They paid for everything they had except the tip... as the service was shittier than your 'reading of first posts' skills ;) so how were they looking for a free meal?
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    huh? the cops dunk :roll: ...pay attention here...the cops arrested them so they'd get preferential treatment at the restaurant their next few visits. the cops are probably regulars ;)
    i've never heard of someone getting arrested over a tip. utter garbage.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    decides2dream wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    this is absolutely ridiculous.

    how much do you wanna bet the only reason the cops actually arrested them is because they frequent that restaurant and are looking for some free meals?

    16 fucking dollars....deal with it! :evil: :evil: :evil:


    I'll bet you.

    They paid for everything they had except the tip... as the service was shittier than your 'reading of first posts' skills ;) so how were they looking for a free meal?

    I only had poor service once when i was in Florida... but the waitress was older than Methusalahs granny and she was saving up for a new plastic hip... so i left her a quarter and the flight times to the UK.



    priceless!
    and you are making fun of his reading comprehension skills?
    perhaps reread his post. ya know, the one you quoted. ;)
    btw - it took you long enough to show up in this thread!
    :mrgreen:
    t.

    irony of ironies...he didn't comprehend my post! :lol::lol::mrgreen:
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    I would have just left before they realised I hadn't left the tip, simple. Get your shit together and put the money down at the last minute. If it was as busy as they said it was in the report, it would have taken a minute or so for them to pick the money up and check it, by which time I would have been miles away!
  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    Just heard today the Judge threw the case out !

    Not surprising..he said there is no criminal case here but possibly a civil case
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Just heard today the Judge threw the case out !

    Not surprising..he said there is no criminal case here but possibly a civil case




    i think even that possibility is ridiculous.
    i hope someone has to pay these people for their time/aggravation. it is BS they even got arrested!
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    decides2dream wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    The Jeagler wrote:
    this is absolutely ridiculous.

    how much do you wanna bet the only reason the cops actually arrested them is because they frequent that restaurant and are looking for some free meals?

    16 fucking dollars....deal with it! :evil: :evil: :evil:


    I'll bet you.

    They paid for everything they had except the tip... as the service was shittier than your 'reading of first posts' skills ;) so how were they looking for a free meal?

    I only had poor service once when i was in Florida... but the waitress was older than Methusalahs granny and she was saving up for a new plastic hip... so i left her a quarter and the flight times to the UK.



    priceless!
    and you are making fun of his reading comprehension skills?
    perhaps reread his post. ya know, the one you quoted. ;)
    btw - it took you long enough to show up in this thread!
    :mrgreen:


    and for the record, you bet...utterly fucking ridiculous. we do not have any laws forcing tipping, whether it is on the menu or not.

    i am making fun of his reading skills.

    i'm also making fun of my own.

    this thread highlights not only the dumb tipping thing in america... but also the jeagles poor use of grammar and punkchewasian. etc.

    :thumbup:
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.

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