Entitled Guy Wants To Impress His Date And Tips $100 Just To Take It Back When She Leaves, Server Makes Sure To Get Her Revenge
It’s common sense that everyone should respect their servers. The way you treat the employees working at restaurants and cafes tells a lot about you—whether you’re a decent human being or if the Sorting Hat should have put you into Slytherin House at Hogwarts.
However, it’s inevitable that those working in the food service industry will eventually run into incredibly rude customers. Some of them might be masquerading as the most polite people you’ll ever meet. That is until they take off their (metaphorical) masks and show their true faces.
Redditor u/tamiraisredditing shared what happened when a customer left her a $100 tip to impress her date. She told the r/TalesFromYourServer online community how he later came back to threaten her to reduce the tip. Scroll down to learn what happened next! It’s a long read, but we think it’s worth your time. So put the kettle on and make yourself a nice hot cut of tea.
The perfect customer can turn into the rudest person ever, the moment they don’t have to impress anyone anymore
Image credits: Sebastian Coman Photography (not the actual photo)
Server Tamira shared how a customer pretended to leave her a $100 tip and then came back to threaten her
However, the server didn’t want to let the customer get away with his horrible behavior. She decided to teach him a lesson he’d never forget
This isn’t the first time that Bored Panda has featured Tamira’s stories from her restaurant job. Earlier, we wrote about how a rude local ‘celebrity’ ran away without paying and then ended up getting caught.
Tamira shared with Bored Panda some insights about her job and the entire industry. “That huge musician Seal was in our restaurant once and he could not have been nicer. Tipped well, made friendly, genuine, conversation with the staff, just radiated kindness. It was really an encounter I’ll remember for the rest of my life,” she said that there are very positive stories from her job as well.
According to the server, the biggest challenge before the Covid-19 pandemic for anyone working in the food service industry was the imbalance between long hours full of hard work and getting very little pay for it. For some servers, working full-time didn’t earn them enough to support themselves.
“If standard wages do not begin to catch up to inflation, we will be unable to maintain a place in the developed world,” Tamira said, adding that things have gotten “significantly worse” since the start of the pandemic.
The server told Bored Panda that more customers have been attacking restaurant staff members and threatening them, too.
“Not just over masks and other safety requirements, either. It’s as though the stress of the last year has amped societal entitlement up to a new degree. I spend more time now soothing tantruming adults than I do running food,” she said.
“A customer followed me out to the parking lot and tried to take down my license plate because I charged him for extra ketchup, (as per our business policy, written on the menu),” the redditor said what happened to her recently.
“So, the biggest problem with being a server right now is, in short, that many people treat us as sub-human trash. Say hello, look us in the eye when you order, leave a tip, and don’t call us names or threaten us. Is it so much to ask?”
According to Tamira, a good server aims to make sure that everyone leaves the meal having had a nice time.
“The essence of being a great server is making sure everyone leaves the meal having had a memorable time,” she added. “I’m always on the lookout for anything extra I can do to make the night special for our guests. If I overhear a birthday mentioned, we bring out a piece of cake. If someone comes in wearing a Dolphins jersey, we’ll turn on that game if they’re playing. We take pride in our work.”
Tamira wants more customers to consider stepping in or saying something if they see someone else mistreating a server at another table. Especially if the server looks young and inexperienced at their job.
“The server may look unbothered, but that’s because it’s their job. ‘The customer is always right,’ is one of the only pieces of training many of us get. It is literally our job to be sure tables leave happy. We cannot argue with you. So, just because they’re smiling on the outside doesn’t mean they’re not offended, or even feeling unsafe, on the inside,” Tamira said.
“If you’re not comfortable saying something to the abusive customer directly, just find a manager and quietly inform them of what’s going on, they’ll take it from there. A lot of servers are students who are too nervous about losing the job or looking unprofessional to ask for help. And, as someone eating in the restaurant rather than working there, your words will carry far more weight with the harasser than ours would anyways.”
Reddit users were impressed by the way that Tamira got back at the rude customer
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Share on FacebookI'm so proud of you, girl!! People continue their shitty behavior because we allow them. Good for you. Also for showing his girlfriend how toxic he is. I hope she dumped him
The bloke is a loser. No other words I can think off unless it's a$$hole.
You put too many $$ in the asshole word! He is too cheap
Load More Replies...Just do not understand guys (people) like this. It would never cross my mind to do this.
Yeah, you have to be an especiialy low character to even think of something so manipulative instead of just being... nice and normal. True psychopath.
Load More Replies...The tip should have been $60 if the meal was average. More if there was especially good service and absolutely more for a server who helps out as an unplanned “wingman”. The leap to $100 wasn’t that crazy to begin with. Amending it down to $20 was extremely shitty…no matter the reason. Even if the service was bad, which it wasn’t. Maybe we need a social media site where photos of these bad tippers get posted.
Exactly! He deserved to be outed for his true self. Hope the woman didn't date him again...better yet, ghost him! If she stayed with him, I'm sure she watched everything he did.
Load More Replies...I would assume the girl might come back for future dates with other guys, hoping to have you as her waitress again
Relationships are about more than performative spending. No amount of money will make up for a person you can't trust.
This is wonderful! I work in a restaurant, some people don't understand the hours that we have to put in and the rudness we have to deal with especially during covid. People who don't tip are the worst kinds of people in my mind and taking a tip back is even more awful! To think he made this woman's day and then broke it. I wish I could high five her!
OK that was really hilarious!! Such a nice and sweet revenge! The feeling might have been better than the 100$! And to the people that say she could have left the tip as it is because he signed well you never know what might happen if the idiot wants to make things serious! I've had many many times idiots pretending they don't recognise their own signature so they don't pay! People can be real assholes and workers can be in trouble!
I'm always very wary of people who are over nice and smarmy to wait staff. You just know they're over compensating because that's not what they are normally like.
Okay, I have to wonder, what do you consider as being overly nice? If you happened to see me eating at a restaurant, being kind and friendly and interactive with the waiter, as I usually am, would you look at me and think "ugh she's being way too nice. Must be over compensating for something?" I'm feeling kinda self-conscious now...lol.
Load More Replies...What a cheap piece of s**t! Also if I'm not mistaken once you add your gratuity,and sign your receipt; that's as good as a binding contract, and he would have probably had a helluva time getting his CC company to negate his bill.
I'm going to save this story and read it whenever I need inspiration.
Interesting dialogue! I didn't know people actually spoke that way outside of a film.
The biggest red flag is when someone follows up a request with "I'm gonna take care of you."
Load More Replies...Oh, I'm sure he had a story to cover, but hopefully she saw the real him when he was denying that it was him. Good on you!
What a tool! Being a decent human being was "just for show"? Wow! I have walked out on several first/blind dates because of how they treated the server. If they treat service people, children or animals poorly - run!
I'll always ask for a manager if I had a good server. I fe bad because it might scare the server, but I always want to bring attention to people who do good work. Let their bosses know they were amazing, the like. I don't get why customers have to get shitty about service workers. They're people like everyone else, just paid less and treated poorly. :/
Good. M**o needs to have his sh!t thrown back at his face. I hope he learnt a lesson after eating that.
Is this a repost? I read it recently... or was it a subitem in a post and made into it's own post?
Something's off about this. In any restaurant I've been in, you have to sign your charge slip before you leave and when you do leave, it's done. To change your mind about it would require refunding and resubmitting the charge... and a manager to sign off on it. This would take several minutes, not a few moments.
I've worked in restaurants in 5 states. Printing another ticket takes seconds. It's only after the tip has been entered in the system AND the check has been closed that management intervention is required. It's so funny how ppl are doubting an occurrence that is so relatable to me.
Load More Replies...Duh, he did that to appear rich and magnaminous to his date. Same as the tip.
Load More Replies...Ahaha, found the cheap-ass douchcanoe! It actually was the server’s money once the guy gave it to them.
Load More Replies...Good point, but it's okay. We're here on an entertainment site to be entertained, not a news site to get the straight facts.
Load More Replies...I'm so proud of you, girl!! People continue their shitty behavior because we allow them. Good for you. Also for showing his girlfriend how toxic he is. I hope she dumped him
The bloke is a loser. No other words I can think off unless it's a$$hole.
You put too many $$ in the asshole word! He is too cheap
Load More Replies...Just do not understand guys (people) like this. It would never cross my mind to do this.
Yeah, you have to be an especiialy low character to even think of something so manipulative instead of just being... nice and normal. True psychopath.
Load More Replies...The tip should have been $60 if the meal was average. More if there was especially good service and absolutely more for a server who helps out as an unplanned “wingman”. The leap to $100 wasn’t that crazy to begin with. Amending it down to $20 was extremely shitty…no matter the reason. Even if the service was bad, which it wasn’t. Maybe we need a social media site where photos of these bad tippers get posted.
Exactly! He deserved to be outed for his true self. Hope the woman didn't date him again...better yet, ghost him! If she stayed with him, I'm sure she watched everything he did.
Load More Replies...I would assume the girl might come back for future dates with other guys, hoping to have you as her waitress again
Relationships are about more than performative spending. No amount of money will make up for a person you can't trust.
This is wonderful! I work in a restaurant, some people don't understand the hours that we have to put in and the rudness we have to deal with especially during covid. People who don't tip are the worst kinds of people in my mind and taking a tip back is even more awful! To think he made this woman's day and then broke it. I wish I could high five her!
OK that was really hilarious!! Such a nice and sweet revenge! The feeling might have been better than the 100$! And to the people that say she could have left the tip as it is because he signed well you never know what might happen if the idiot wants to make things serious! I've had many many times idiots pretending they don't recognise their own signature so they don't pay! People can be real assholes and workers can be in trouble!
I'm always very wary of people who are over nice and smarmy to wait staff. You just know they're over compensating because that's not what they are normally like.
Okay, I have to wonder, what do you consider as being overly nice? If you happened to see me eating at a restaurant, being kind and friendly and interactive with the waiter, as I usually am, would you look at me and think "ugh she's being way too nice. Must be over compensating for something?" I'm feeling kinda self-conscious now...lol.
Load More Replies...What a cheap piece of s**t! Also if I'm not mistaken once you add your gratuity,and sign your receipt; that's as good as a binding contract, and he would have probably had a helluva time getting his CC company to negate his bill.
I'm going to save this story and read it whenever I need inspiration.
Interesting dialogue! I didn't know people actually spoke that way outside of a film.
The biggest red flag is when someone follows up a request with "I'm gonna take care of you."
Load More Replies...Oh, I'm sure he had a story to cover, but hopefully she saw the real him when he was denying that it was him. Good on you!
What a tool! Being a decent human being was "just for show"? Wow! I have walked out on several first/blind dates because of how they treated the server. If they treat service people, children or animals poorly - run!
I'll always ask for a manager if I had a good server. I fe bad because it might scare the server, but I always want to bring attention to people who do good work. Let their bosses know they were amazing, the like. I don't get why customers have to get shitty about service workers. They're people like everyone else, just paid less and treated poorly. :/
Good. M**o needs to have his sh!t thrown back at his face. I hope he learnt a lesson after eating that.
Is this a repost? I read it recently... or was it a subitem in a post and made into it's own post?
Something's off about this. In any restaurant I've been in, you have to sign your charge slip before you leave and when you do leave, it's done. To change your mind about it would require refunding and resubmitting the charge... and a manager to sign off on it. This would take several minutes, not a few moments.
I've worked in restaurants in 5 states. Printing another ticket takes seconds. It's only after the tip has been entered in the system AND the check has been closed that management intervention is required. It's so funny how ppl are doubting an occurrence that is so relatable to me.
Load More Replies...Duh, he did that to appear rich and magnaminous to his date. Same as the tip.
Load More Replies...Ahaha, found the cheap-ass douchcanoe! It actually was the server’s money once the guy gave it to them.
Load More Replies...Good point, but it's okay. We're here on an entertainment site to be entertained, not a news site to get the straight facts.
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