“I Should Have Hundreds Of Dollars Right Now”: Buffet Worker Has Had It With People Leaving A Mess Behind And No Tips, Starts Discussion Online
Interview
An employee working at Golden Corral recently went viral on TikTok after venting about her tips. Brittany, @itsbrittanybitch225, who works as a buffet server, shared how little she made from tips after waiting on 50 tables.
In the video, the woman urged customers to tip buffet workers in cash, and started a discussion about tipping culture in the United States. While many internet users were on the TikToker’s side, some others disagreed that the same rules ought to apply to buffet staff as other servers. Bored Panda got in touch with Brittany who shed some more light on the gritty aspects of her job. You’ll find our full interview with her below.
Buffet server Brittany went viral after revealing just how small her tips are
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Tonight we’re gonna talk about how s**tty it is to be a server at my job. I’m not gonna say the name of my job because I don’t want to get fired because I absolutely have no other option right now because I’m carless, but let’s just take a look around these tables that left me $0.
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Image credits: itsbrittanyb****225
Image credits: itsbrittanyb****225
I’ve been at work since 3 o’clock this afternoon and let me show you the section that I’ve had all to myself. Considering how busy we are, you would have thought that I made buku money, but let’s have the count.
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$69. And some of you may say that’s a lot of money, right? I have probably, from three o’clock to now, I’ve probably had about 50 tables, give or take.So I should have hundreds of dollars right now but I don’t, I mean, there are worse nights and this is actually a pretty straight night considering over half the people didn’t tip me.
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Usually I leave with nothing. And some people are gonna say “Well, why don’t you get another job?” I’m not getting another job because I don’t have a car to get to another job and the bus route does not go on my road. So I’m stuck here until I get transportation. So don’t say “don’t do…” because I can’t.
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You can watch the TikToker’s full video right over here
@itsbrittanybitch225 A day in the life of a server at a shit restaurant #serverlife #server #reaturants #fyp #viral #viralvideo ♬ original sound
“If it were up to me, there would be a tip education class for kids in high school or college”
Brittany lost her job at Golden Corral after her TikTok went viral. She was fired. However, since then, she’s found work elsewhere. She shared some more context about her old job with us. “The Golden Corral that I was employed at is in Baton Rouge, off Millerville,” she shared that most of the people who come to that particular buffet aren’t used to tipping.
“They come to Golden Corral where it’s literally a half-a-star restaurant expecting Ruth’s Chris Steak House treatment. There are those who eat until they throw up. Or they will come for breakfast and stay all the way until dinner, just sitting at your table, getting their money’s worth, which takes away the tables you could have flipped,” the former Golden Corral worker revealed to Bored Panda.
According to Brittany, the entire purpose of her video was to vent because it had been a bad day, and to educate people about tipping. “Most people probably aren’t aware servers at a lot of buffets only make $2.13 hourly plus tips.” Brittany was told that she’d be compensated up to minimum wage if her tips were low. However, she said that this never happened to her: “My weekly check with tips included every week was never over $200.”
Before working at Golden Corral, the server was always at nice restaurants. She opened up that she’s currently in recovery and living sober. Her rent is $150 per week, leaving her $50 to live on.
“If it were up to me, there would be a tip education class for kids in high school or college because if you don’t grow up seeing your parents tip like I did, you don’t know you’re supposed to leave tips.”
Brittany said that the advice she’d give other servers who are just now starting to work would be to “find anything besides a buffet.” She urged servers to engage with their table and don’t let people’s drinks get empty. “There is a lot of money to be made serving in restaurants, but you have to be patient and a people person.”
The server advised anyone living in Baton Rouge to avoid eating at that particular Golden Corral that she worked at. “I’ve found roaches crawling in the buffet, and watched the general manager steal cash out of a wallet left at a table. They sprayed termite killer all around the food in the back that was being cooked, then picked the dead termites out of the food and put it on the buffet like it was legal,” the former employee claims.
The woman’s video put buffet staff in the spotlight
At the time of writing, Brittany’s video had 35.4k views on TikTok, as well as over 1.8k likes and more than 180 comments. The discussion that the woman’s video started centered on two main things. First of all, she raised awareness that buffet servers can be severely underpaid because they’re not tipped enough. And secondly that it’s not always feasible to switch jobs at the drop of a hat when money is tight.
“I’m not getting another job because I don’t have a car to get to another job and the bus route does not go on my road. So I’m stuck here until I get transportation,” @itsbrittanybitch225 told the internet that her options are limited.
Brittany said that you’d expect servers with so many tables to make ‘buku’ money (‘buku’ deriving from the French word ‘beaucoup,’ aka ‘a lot’, and brought back by Vietnam War vets to the US), however, she got just $69 from serving 50 tables.
Many Golden Corral current and former employees don’t feel like they’re paid enough
According to Indeed, Golden Corral pays hourly wages, ranging from $10.01 if you’re a server or a cashier to $17.65 if you happen to be a head server. Hosts and servers make roughly $20k per year while district managers get 4.5 times that—their annual salary stands at $90k.
Indeed’s Work Happiness survey showed that out of 2.5k respondents, comprising current and former Golden Corral employees, barely 36% thought that they’re paid fairly. Meanwhile, 2.6k respondents noted that they don’t receive paid vacation days, and merely 17% said that it was easy to request paid time off.
Meanwhile, out of 628 respondents, most said that they never got a raise. And 55% of 797 employees said that they did not get overtime pay. Now, make of these stats what you will. However, it seems fairly likely that Golden Corral doesn’t have the best working conditions, at least in terms of pay, overtime, and time off, unless you rise to management.
Golden Corral, a US restaurant chain, primarily focuses on an all-you-can-eat buffet and grill. Incorporated in 1972, the restaurant opened its first location in early 1973 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as Golden Corral Family Steak House. Currently, the company has around 500 locations around the States. Around 100 are company-owned while the rest are franchised stores. Most locations had to close down temporarily in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and some had to shut down permanently.
Tipping laws need to be changed to make things fairer for minimum-wage employees
Tipping culture is a sore topic in the US and is bound to elicit some strong reactions. Some folks believe that servers ought to be paid a fair wage without having to rely so much on tips, however, the law concerning minimum wage tipped employees differs from state to state. A more standardized approach across the country could provide workers with more stability. As would a massive shift toward a tipless culture.
Tips can also lead to feelings of resentment among coworkers, some of whom might feel angry that others earn more. A server Bored Panda spoke to a while back noted that, “Your livelihood depends on tips as a server.”
She said: “You don’t make much in the form of a paycheck, so if someone works the same job as you but makes more money, it will breed jealousy.” According to the anonymous server, “The only way to get rid of it is to get rid of the tipping culture and pay a living wage to servers.”
In the meantime, until the system is overhauled, it’s best to write to your local lawmakers with suggestions, talk to your boss about a fairer wage, and treat your customers in such a way that they’ll want to leave a bigger tip. Customers tend to appreciate attentive servers who can anticipate their needs, who are friendly, and who make them feel like they’ve had a memorable experience.
Many people agreed that buffet staff should definitely be tipped. Here’s what they had to say
However, some internet users thought that buffet staff shouldn’t get tips. Here are their arguments
It's not the customer's job to pay employee wages. What restaurants do is a crime, seriously. Buffets, there is no reason to tip unless a service is given. A server brings drinks and clears the table? Yup, a tip is involved, just not as much as if they were also bringing me food. But the server never brings drinks or clears dishes from the table while I'm there? Nope. No service done, no tip. If you leave dishes at a table and clean it up at your own time, that's your job. You clean up dishes in a certain period of time so customers aren't needing to stack dishes? That's your job but the extra effort is the tip.
It's the state/government that's at fault for allowing this.
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It is just insane that hospitality and wait staff are not paid minimum wage (which isn’t even a living wage).. The more I see how things are done elsewhere, the more I realize it is time for the US to stop making excuses. This isn’t the 1950s anymore, and jobs do not cover the cost of living they way they did previously. Period. There’s no other “side” of the story; “Reaganomics” and “Trickle Down Theory” didn’t work, the studies show it, and people need to realize that all good-sounding theories didn’t turn out to be actually true. Learn from it as a society, and vote for a better model of economics. The rich won’t, because they’ve got more money as a percentage of society than in any time in past, as a result of those theories.
Tip culture won't go away until people quit working for tips. And let's be honest here. A lot of people make more money with tips than they would a factory job. They will let the debate rage because it espouses the idea that you should tip regardless of service. But if you were to offer them $20/hr instead of tips, most folks that work traditional restaurants would pass. Buffets are a bit different. But then again there is no way she is waiting on 50 tables. Drinks you can do, but actually serve? No way. That business model is you find a small thing for the server to do so folks feel she deserves a tip, but her primary job is bussing tables. GC knows this so they pay a better wage. Truth is I'd rather get my own drink in a buffet. The servers are kept busy by having 50 tables so drink service is slow and tips are small or nonexistent. Just pay em a fair wage to bus tables and let the customer get their own drink.
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My only take away from this is "who tf tips at a buffet?". I tip the serving staff because they were friendly while doing their job. If I'm eating at a buffet I'm serving myself, so why on earth would I leave a tip?
I don't live in US, so for me it doesn't make sense that I can't buy something decent to eat, with a little money I might have, because I can't afford additional 15-20% tip. Here where I live, minimum wage is around $10-11/hr for 16yrs olds, increases when you turn 17 and 18, the MINIMUM wage is around $13-14/hr. If you have a full time job at 16 yrs old (that means between 35-38 hrs/week) your monthly payment is around $1700-1800. If you work more than 35-38 hrs, in most workplaces you are entitled to overtime. So $1700-1800 is for 16 yrs old working full time. That increases with age and experience. As an adult, the minimum start wage is around $16-18/hr, that increases every two years. That gives aprox $2700-2800/month, as minimum start wage. My point is that instead of people going off at customers who don't tip, go off at employers who don't give living wage. Customers who are expected to tip, could be min wage employees too.
"Get mad at the employers, but don't get a living wage in thr mean time because it's not fair to customers, either," is basically what you're saying. Yes, it's the employers fault, and also the government's fault for having allowed $2.50 an hour to begin with, but don't make other people suffer because you don't like it.
Load More Replies... This is just more low quality tiktok content. Please stop posting it. Everyone who has a bad day at work suddenly has to shove their whole face into the camera and whine about it to go "viral". Please stop posting this kind of content.
Workers try, but efforts are summarily quashed. I’ve been there a few times.
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Tips is for "job exceptionally well done". NOT to aid your boss to save money on your salary. Demand better pay not better tip.
No matter how you look at it, you are working in a field which relies on receiving alms. It's not the customer's job to pay your wage but your employer.
People are not just going to tip for the sake of tipping. Unfortunately, some do discriminate their tips based on attitude of the server, their appearance, how frequently they're interrupted during their meal, how quickly they're being pushed to get their bill and leave. Not saying this is how I think, but it's what I've observed while working in cafes and retail, and reading comments online. I, too, have been snarked by customers. I hate it and it's a reason I've not wanted to go into bar tending or work at restaurants where the staff all seem to be young, thin and gorgeous. I was once told you have to be hot in order to make it as a bar server or you won't get tips, and may actually drive business away.
It ceases to amaze me how US foodservice operators have the gall to plead poverty about their profit margins and at the same time pay staff a pittance of a salary. By comparrisson, outlets in Canada purchase goods and services from the US at US prices, retail at menu prices less than the US, pay wait staff minimum wage of $15.00 an hour (10.25 US), and still manage to keep on truckin' with acceptable margins. I know this to be correct because I'm an accountant and look after 4 restaurant businesses. I would suspect that thier staffing resources are a quinessntial revolving door, fueled by total disrespect for staff. That said, tipping cultures around the world are changing perhaps, fueled by price gouging.
Happy to live in Europe where this insane tipping culture is not used.
some restaurants have buffets and a server as well. GC the server usually brings drinks and busses tables and that's it. Something like Old Country Buffet, there's only bussers and even then, there's sometimes a belt for your dirty dishes so your only interaction with staff is at the buffet itself. But other buffets like Ponderosa they have an actual menu and the server brings drinks and can bring cooked to order meals in addition to the buffet. So there's a range. It's difficult with GC bc you pay before you really enter. If a business wants to pay their employees mainly through tips, the guests need to be notified ahead of time of this.
The hospitality industry provides a service that is, by definition, expendable. If people want to berate customers over something they can skip, things are not going to go well for either owners or servers. Time to wise up and treat it like any other business. Decent pay, tips as an extra as it happens everywhere else.
Did she mean beaucoup? Or is boku money some sort of slang I'm too old to understand? Lol
She seems to conveniently sidestep the fact she isn't STANDING UP FOR HER RIGHTS . If her employer was flouting the law and not making her wage shortfall up to minimum, she should have filed a case with her local Labor and Industries department so the owners are fined and prosecuted or will settle out of court. Hard to feel sorry for someone who openly admit they didn't stand up for their rights. NOT the customers fault.
I'm not saying if I am for or against buffet workers getting tips, but I need more info. If the OP is getting paid at least $7.50 an hour, she should have no expectation of getting tips. If she is only making $2.13 an hour, she should have an expectation of getting tips, but the buffet should also state that with signage along those lines. The dollar amounts I posted are the federal minimum wage amounts. They may vary according to the state you live in.
I often pay by cards, but i rarely, if ever, tip by card, and if there is a tip line on the CC, i don't use it as i simply can not trust the company not to take the money. What i do is to make sure i carry smaller bills (5/10) or coins (1/2) for this, and when anything is in doubt, i had it to the server and state that "this is for you personally", making any attempt of taking the money into a pot for others, or off the server for the company, theft.
I just don't eat out, sick of supplementing some jackals cosplaying a restaurant owners.
Golden Corral is a buffet. People don't leave big tips at buffets. Because they figure all the wait staff has to do it bring the drinks. So the staff has to clean up the dishes and tables here. I always tip at this places, but I don't like these buffet restaurants anyway. The big problem is that no servers are paid a decent wage.
When a McDonald's is busy they'll sometimes give you a number to take to your table and then will bring the tray of food out. And they clean the tables and clean the floors. No tip expected. So, IMO if you want a tip you need to do more than a McDonald's worker. At a buffet, they bring drinks once and then forget about you (sometimes they'll come around at the end when they know you're done eating, making it seem like they're providing service, but in reality betting that they won't have to do it). Sorry, no tip for you. If you come over a few times refilling my drink and asking if there's anything I need, you earned a tip.
I don't understand why all working people aren't paid living wages. Imagine working at McDonald's knowing that people don't give AF about you getting paid a decent wage. Imagine having more than one job and still being forced to choose between buying food or paying rent. None of this should be normalized. I'll be happier when I'm dead and I don't have to watch America devolve into some mash-up of The Purge, Escape from New York, Lord of the flues, The Dtsnd, and
Tipping culture needs to end. This isn't the fault of the consumer, they already paid to eat there and have someone clean up. Tips are not salaries, they are a reward for outstanding service. Being asked at a self serve buffet to tip the person who clears your table is ridiculous. Edit: the business should be paying their employees real wages and not throwing it in the backs of the customer to pick a number out of thin are and leave behind for the server.
People who don't tip their servers refill their drinks and remove their empty plates are as sorry as all get out. Because buffet servers don't take customers' orders and bring them to the table, 7% is the standard tip while it's 15% at a full service restaurant.
No, it's 20% at full service restaurants. Even when I was a kid, over 30 years ago, it was 18%.
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Sad. Def doesn’t live in NY where I live and minimum wage for me is $15. I am lucky to make around what a Golden Corral DM makes, but for where I live, that is prob the bare minimum survival rate if you want to own a home and still have a small social life.
My only real recourse (other than my voting for least-evil politicians) is to stop going to restaurants.
I think in the case of a buffet restaurant if there is still a server bringing drinks, clearing dirty plates, and cleaning up the table after the customers are finished, a tip would still be necessary. Perhaps not the full 20% that is the norm, but definitely something. So tired of people taking out their disdain for America's tipping policies on the servers. We don't make the laws. We are also at the mercy of the people who do.
Either they need the money or they don't. If they need the money then surely you support the full 20% no matter what? Supporting the tipping culture by accepting lower than minimum wage jobs, and not unionising, or tipping. Both perpetuate the problem.
Load More Replies... Yes, tiping culture should be fixed and possibly erradicated. It's the employers/company fault for not paying workers at least the minimum wage. UNTIL THEN, if you don't have money to tip, you don't have money to eat.
I always hated that line. Its b******t and feeds into the idea that tipping is a wage.
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Yes people at Buffet should get tipped but at the same time they should get more money due to them busing tables. Busing tables is disgusting and a lot of work. People make huge messes that a one year old would make at their first birthday party. They get your drinks also and make sure that you're taking care of. If fast food workers show great customer service I tip them. They don't get enough money so why not tip them for being awesome? Next time I come around guess who's not going to get bad customer service.
If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, change business. Or reduce your own profit.
Load More Replies... It's not the customer's job to pay employee wages. What restaurants do is a crime, seriously. Buffets, there is no reason to tip unless a service is given. A server brings drinks and clears the table? Yup, a tip is involved, just not as much as if they were also bringing me food. But the server never brings drinks or clears dishes from the table while I'm there? Nope. No service done, no tip. If you leave dishes at a table and clean it up at your own time, that's your job. You clean up dishes in a certain period of time so customers aren't needing to stack dishes? That's your job but the extra effort is the tip.
It's the state/government that's at fault for allowing this.
Load More Replies... It is just insane that hospitality and wait staff are not paid minimum wage (which isn’t even a living wage).. The more I see how things are done elsewhere, the more I realize it is time for the US to stop making excuses. This isn’t the 1950s anymore, and jobs do not cover the cost of living they way they did previously. Period. There’s no other “side” of the story; “Reaganomics” and “Trickle Down Theory” didn’t work, the studies show it, and people need to realize that all good-sounding theories didn’t turn out to be actually true. Learn from it as a society, and vote for a better model of economics. The rich won’t, because they’ve got more money as a percentage of society than in any time in past, as a result of those theories.
Tip culture won't go away until people quit working for tips. And let's be honest here. A lot of people make more money with tips than they would a factory job. They will let the debate rage because it espouses the idea that you should tip regardless of service. But if you were to offer them $20/hr instead of tips, most folks that work traditional restaurants would pass. Buffets are a bit different. But then again there is no way she is waiting on 50 tables. Drinks you can do, but actually serve? No way. That business model is you find a small thing for the server to do so folks feel she deserves a tip, but her primary job is bussing tables. GC knows this so they pay a better wage. Truth is I'd rather get my own drink in a buffet. The servers are kept busy by having 50 tables so drink service is slow and tips are small or nonexistent. Just pay em a fair wage to bus tables and let the customer get their own drink.
Load More Replies... My only take away from this is "who tf tips at a buffet?". I tip the serving staff because they were friendly while doing their job. If I'm eating at a buffet I'm serving myself, so why on earth would I leave a tip?
I don't live in US, so for me it doesn't make sense that I can't buy something decent to eat, with a little money I might have, because I can't afford additional 15-20% tip. Here where I live, minimum wage is around $10-11/hr for 16yrs olds, increases when you turn 17 and 18, the MINIMUM wage is around $13-14/hr. If you have a full time job at 16 yrs old (that means between 35-38 hrs/week) your monthly payment is around $1700-1800. If you work more than 35-38 hrs, in most workplaces you are entitled to overtime. So $1700-1800 is for 16 yrs old working full time. That increases with age and experience. As an adult, the minimum start wage is around $16-18/hr, that increases every two years. That gives aprox $2700-2800/month, as minimum start wage. My point is that instead of people going off at customers who don't tip, go off at employers who don't give living wage. Customers who are expected to tip, could be min wage employees too.
"Get mad at the employers, but don't get a living wage in thr mean time because it's not fair to customers, either," is basically what you're saying. Yes, it's the employers fault, and also the government's fault for having allowed $2.50 an hour to begin with, but don't make other people suffer because you don't like it.
Load More Replies... This is just more low quality tiktok content. Please stop posting it. Everyone who has a bad day at work suddenly has to shove their whole face into the camera and whine about it to go "viral". Please stop posting this kind of content.
Workers try, but efforts are summarily quashed. I’ve been there a few times.
Load More Replies... Tips is for "job exceptionally well done". NOT to aid your boss to save money on your salary. Demand better pay not better tip.
No matter how you look at it, you are working in a field which relies on receiving alms. It's not the customer's job to pay your wage but your employer.
People are not just going to tip for the sake of tipping. Unfortunately, some do discriminate their tips based on attitude of the server, their appearance, how frequently they're interrupted during their meal, how quickly they're being pushed to get their bill and leave. Not saying this is how I think, but it's what I've observed while working in cafes and retail, and reading comments online. I, too, have been snarked by customers. I hate it and it's a reason I've not wanted to go into bar tending or work at restaurants where the staff all seem to be young, thin and gorgeous. I was once told you have to be hot in order to make it as a bar server or you won't get tips, and may actually drive business away.
It ceases to amaze me how US foodservice operators have the gall to plead poverty about their profit margins and at the same time pay staff a pittance of a salary. By comparrisson, outlets in Canada purchase goods and services from the US at US prices, retail at menu prices less than the US, pay wait staff minimum wage of $15.00 an hour (10.25 US), and still manage to keep on truckin' with acceptable margins. I know this to be correct because I'm an accountant and look after 4 restaurant businesses. I would suspect that thier staffing resources are a quinessntial revolving door, fueled by total disrespect for staff. That said, tipping cultures around the world are changing perhaps, fueled by price gouging.
Happy to live in Europe where this insane tipping culture is not used.
some restaurants have buffets and a server as well. GC the server usually brings drinks and busses tables and that's it. Something like Old Country Buffet, there's only bussers and even then, there's sometimes a belt for your dirty dishes so your only interaction with staff is at the buffet itself. But other buffets like Ponderosa they have an actual menu and the server brings drinks and can bring cooked to order meals in addition to the buffet. So there's a range. It's difficult with GC bc you pay before you really enter. If a business wants to pay their employees mainly through tips, the guests need to be notified ahead of time of this.
The hospitality industry provides a service that is, by definition, expendable. If people want to berate customers over something they can skip, things are not going to go well for either owners or servers. Time to wise up and treat it like any other business. Decent pay, tips as an extra as it happens everywhere else.
Did she mean beaucoup? Or is boku money some sort of slang I'm too old to understand? Lol
She seems to conveniently sidestep the fact she isn't STANDING UP FOR HER RIGHTS . If her employer was flouting the law and not making her wage shortfall up to minimum, she should have filed a case with her local Labor and Industries department so the owners are fined and prosecuted or will settle out of court. Hard to feel sorry for someone who openly admit they didn't stand up for their rights. NOT the customers fault.
I'm not saying if I am for or against buffet workers getting tips, but I need more info. If the OP is getting paid at least $7.50 an hour, she should have no expectation of getting tips. If she is only making $2.13 an hour, she should have an expectation of getting tips, but the buffet should also state that with signage along those lines. The dollar amounts I posted are the federal minimum wage amounts. They may vary according to the state you live in.
I often pay by cards, but i rarely, if ever, tip by card, and if there is a tip line on the CC, i don't use it as i simply can not trust the company not to take the money. What i do is to make sure i carry smaller bills (5/10) or coins (1/2) for this, and when anything is in doubt, i had it to the server and state that "this is for you personally", making any attempt of taking the money into a pot for others, or off the server for the company, theft.
I just don't eat out, sick of supplementing some jackals cosplaying a restaurant owners.
Golden Corral is a buffet. People don't leave big tips at buffets. Because they figure all the wait staff has to do it bring the drinks. So the staff has to clean up the dishes and tables here. I always tip at this places, but I don't like these buffet restaurants anyway. The big problem is that no servers are paid a decent wage.
When a McDonald's is busy they'll sometimes give you a number to take to your table and then will bring the tray of food out. And they clean the tables and clean the floors. No tip expected. So, IMO if you want a tip you need to do more than a McDonald's worker. At a buffet, they bring drinks once and then forget about you (sometimes they'll come around at the end when they know you're done eating, making it seem like they're providing service, but in reality betting that they won't have to do it). Sorry, no tip for you. If you come over a few times refilling my drink and asking if there's anything I need, you earned a tip.
I don't understand why all working people aren't paid living wages. Imagine working at McDonald's knowing that people don't give AF about you getting paid a decent wage. Imagine having more than one job and still being forced to choose between buying food or paying rent. None of this should be normalized. I'll be happier when I'm dead and I don't have to watch America devolve into some mash-up of The Purge, Escape from New York, Lord of the flues, The Dtsnd, and
Tipping culture needs to end. This isn't the fault of the consumer, they already paid to eat there and have someone clean up. Tips are not salaries, they are a reward for outstanding service. Being asked at a self serve buffet to tip the person who clears your table is ridiculous. Edit: the business should be paying their employees real wages and not throwing it in the backs of the customer to pick a number out of thin are and leave behind for the server.
People who don't tip their servers refill their drinks and remove their empty plates are as sorry as all get out. Because buffet servers don't take customers' orders and bring them to the table, 7% is the standard tip while it's 15% at a full service restaurant.
No, it's 20% at full service restaurants. Even when I was a kid, over 30 years ago, it was 18%.
Load More Replies... Sad. Def doesn’t live in NY where I live and minimum wage for me is $15. I am lucky to make around what a Golden Corral DM makes, but for where I live, that is prob the bare minimum survival rate if you want to own a home and still have a small social life.
My only real recourse (other than my voting for least-evil politicians) is to stop going to restaurants.
I think in the case of a buffet restaurant if there is still a server bringing drinks, clearing dirty plates, and cleaning up the table after the customers are finished, a tip would still be necessary. Perhaps not the full 20% that is the norm, but definitely something. So tired of people taking out their disdain for America's tipping policies on the servers. We don't make the laws. We are also at the mercy of the people who do.
Either they need the money or they don't. If they need the money then surely you support the full 20% no matter what? Supporting the tipping culture by accepting lower than minimum wage jobs, and not unionising, or tipping. Both perpetuate the problem.
Load More Replies... Yes, tiping culture should be fixed and possibly erradicated. It's the employers/company fault for not paying workers at least the minimum wage. UNTIL THEN, if you don't have money to tip, you don't have money to eat.
I always hated that line. Its b******t and feeds into the idea that tipping is a wage.
Load More Replies... Yes people at Buffet should get tipped but at the same time they should get more money due to them busing tables. Busing tables is disgusting and a lot of work. People make huge messes that a one year old would make at their first birthday party. They get your drinks also and make sure that you're taking care of. If fast food workers show great customer service I tip them. They don't get enough money so why not tip them for being awesome? Next time I come around guess who's not going to get bad customer service.
If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, change business. Or reduce your own profit.
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