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jimnyc
12-13-2021, 04:07 PM
I have seen MANY folks in stories that made very very high tips, and some state outright to share with the entirety. Or even write it on the receipt.

In this case, the money was given directly to the 2 people that served them.

The guy that gave the tip was contacted and he asked for all of the money to be returned. Then he gave it directly to the waitress.

Many places uses a jar for overall tips and then share it with the waitresses, cooks, cleaners... and sometimes management will sneak into it when they shouldn't be. Other places just simply split at the end of the evening. But the majority, I believe, the servers keep their own tips daily. And it's how it should be if you ask me. Some work so much harder than others. Some are much more attentive and helpful. Others are simply lazy.

If it were me and I got such a hefty tip, and they told me it was just for me at their table - I would still give a small percentage to the cooks and cleaners, as they are often forgotten. But this isn't necessary, IMO.

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Arkansas waitress fired after customers leave generous $4K tip

An Arkansas waitress received a whopping $4,400 tip, only to be fired after her manager made her spilt it with other staffers, according to reports.

The generous gratuity came on Dec. 6, when waitress Ryan Brandt and another server worked a party of more than 40 at Oven and Tap in Bentonville, Fox 59 reported.

Each diner had chipped in $100 in tip money — believing the total would go to both servers.

“We knew servers really hit hard through COVID, and it was something that we had come up with to help give back,” Grant Wise, who dined at the eatery following a conference in town, told CBS 5.

But the restaurant’s manager instructed Brandt to pool the tip with her co-workers who didn’t serve the large party, in an arrangement she told Fox 59 was unprecedented in her more than three years working there.

“I was told that I was going to be giving my cash over to my shift manager, and I would be taking home 20 percent,” Brandt told the network.

When Wise, who owns a real estate company called Witly, found out, he demanded the restaurant return the tip money — then turned over $2,200 directly to Brandt.

Brandt was canned the next day.

“They fired me from Oven and Tap over the phone and I’ve been there for 3 1/2 years and that was really heartbreaking,” Brandt told CBS 5. “Especially because I didn’t think I did anything wrong.”

In a statement, Oven and Tap said Brandt was fired for reasons unrelated to the tipping incident and that it “fully honored” the generous tippers’ requests to reward the pair of servers at their party.

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Gunny
12-13-2021, 04:26 PM
Some people are just assholes.

tailfins
12-13-2021, 05:10 PM
There's a labor shortage going on. The restaurant lost out, not the waitress.

Gunny
12-13-2021, 05:50 PM
There's a labor shortage going on. The restaurant lost out, not the waitress.True. Everything isn't dot matrix. Just most things :)

The manager is 110% pure asshole and if I was the owner, he'd be sitting on the curb and the waitress re-hired. Or I'd hire her to be his boss.

This guy is definitely in the running for Grinch this year:rolleyes:

Abbey Marie
12-14-2021, 12:14 PM
Socialism’s tentacles reaching out evermore.

Totally absurd and just plain wrong to steal that tip from the 2 servers for whom they were intended. If the manager had said, “Hey, you know, the cooks and some others made it possible for you to deliver good service, you might consider giving them a small portion of your tip”, I wouldn’t mind that.

tailfins
12-14-2021, 12:42 PM
Socialism’s tentacles reaching out evermore.

Totally absurd and just plain wrong to steal that tip from the 2 servers for whom they were intended. If the manager had said, “Hey, you know, the cooks and some others made it possible for you to deliver good service, you might consider giving them a small portion of your tip”, I wouldn’t mind that.


She has received $8,000 from a GoFundMe account s that someone set up for her and she already has another job.


https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/ryan-brandt-gofundme-page-raises-8-000-oven-tap-waitress-fired-4-400-tip



The fundraiser was later disabled after it reached its desired goal and collected over $8,000 in donations. The organizer also mentioned that Ryan Brandt has managed to find a job at another local restaurant.

https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/editor/2021/12/a97f8-16394037524311-1920.jpg

fj1200
12-14-2021, 01:02 PM
If it were me and I got such a hefty tip, and they told me it was just for me at their table - I would still give a small percentage to the cooks and cleaners, as they are often forgotten. But this isn't necessary, IMO.

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Arkansas waitress fired after customers leave generous $4K tip

An Arkansas waitress received a whopping $4,400 tip, only to be fired after her manager made her spilt it with other staffers, according to reports.

Isn't that pretty much standard procedure. A percentage to the back? That should be honored at least.

Abbey Marie
12-14-2021, 01:11 PM
Isn't that pretty much standard procedure. A percentage to the back? That should be honored at least.

I know they often give a percentage to the bartender and maybe the host/hostess. I have not heard they share with the back of the restaurant (I.e., cooks, dishwashers).

Gunny
12-14-2021, 02:09 PM
Isn't that pretty much standard procedure. A percentage to the back? That should be honored at least.It depends on the policy of the establishment, and I am sure local/state law.

It also depends on the make up of the crew. In a really confusing establishment you have barmaids, waitresses, busboys and dishwashers. In my experience: Barmaids have their own jar and keep their own individual tips. Smart ones usually "tip" the back backs at the end of the night.

Waitresses in some places keep their own tips and others they pool them and split at the end of the shift. They generally tip the busboys if there are any.

Waitresses work for a scale wage that is less than minimum because they get tips. Not sure about bus boys. Never worked around any.

Dishwashers get paid minimum wage (or whatever the rate for them is) and not tips. They aren't part of the cut. The cook staff is making enough because they can cook that they don't need anybody's tips. They occasionally are tipped individually by individuals and it's hands off for anyone else.

In this case, the established policy is they keep their own tips. Policy is what makes the manager a dick. He unilaterally changed the policy for this one occasion. Then compounded his stupidity by firing the waitress. Worse, no one above the manager stepped in to put a stop to and correct his stupidity resulting bad PR for the establishment.

I don't know for a fact in this particular instance, but experience from way back in the day tells me that this was probably personal between the manager and the waitress.

fj1200
12-14-2021, 03:24 PM
I know they often give a percentage to the bartender and maybe the host/hostess. I have not heard they share with the back of the restaurant (I.e., cooks, dishwashers).

I was thinking busboys but I don't know the typical split.


It depends on the policy of the establishment, and I am sure local/state law.

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Hopefully all involved followed policy.

Gunny
12-14-2021, 04:49 PM
I was thinking busboys but I don't know the typical split.



Hopefully all involved followed policy.They did not. That's the issue. As I read it, policy in that establishment is you keep your own tips. Probably wouldn't be an issue if policy was to split. The issue as I understand it is the manager went against policy and made her split the tip.