Server tells customers to \u2018serve yourselves\u2019 after they say they wouldn\u2019t be tipping TikTok: @poorandhungryIn a video that\u2019s gone viral on TikTok, a waitress recounted a bizarre tipping experience she\u2019d had with customers, and how she handled it \u2013 and viewers are a bit split. Gaining well over half a million views on the platform, waitress Syd shared an interaction she\u2019d had with customers looking to be waited upon. In the video, she plays out the scenario, playing the part of the customer in question, who told her: \u201cWe wanna let you know up front we don\u2019t tip. We\u2019re not tipping. So you can just give us whatever service you need.\u201d Her reaction was surprising. Instead of accommodating them, she tells them to return to the host stand, where they can place a to-go order instead. She explains that there is a service charge for sitting in the restaurant. \u201cSo because I don\u2019t believe that I should have to pay your salary I can\u2019t even eat here?\u201d the customer responds. \u201cIf you don\u2019t want the great service, if you don\u2019t want to pay the service charge for it, that\u2019s totally fine. We can still feed you. We can\u2019t deliver free services,\u201d she claps back. TikTok weighs in on tipping situation After the video was posted on the platform, people couldn\u2019t wait to weigh in and share their opinions on the matter. Many sided with Syd, commending her for her response: \u201cThis is a brilliant response \u2013 tip is the service charge!\u201d \u201cEspecially when the server has to tip out, I have paid $7-$10 to serve a table that didn\u2019t tip,\u201d another shared. However, many were confused by her response in the video, not understanding the rules of tipping: \u201cI am confused\u2026 What is the job of the waiter\/waitress? What do they get paid for then?\u201d \u201cInteresting, I always thought you tip someone when they do a good job. I was unaware it\u2019s mandatory,\u201d another wrote. Some were flat-out enraged by Syd\u2019s behavior, writing: \u201cAs a server for over a decade, this is ridiculous. I would never kick out someone that doesn\u2019t tip. I\u2019ll give them my most basic service maybe.\u201d \u201cI hope the customers in this setting stayed there, took their time, and didn\u2019t tip. The audacity of wait staff,\u201d another chided. Another tipping situation went viral, when a customer demanded that an automatic tip be taken off their bill when a waiter refused to serve them water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Server tells customers to \u2018serve yourselves\u2019 after they say they wouldn\u2019t be tipping TikTok: @poorandhungryIn a video that\u2019s gone viral on TikTok, a waitress recounted a bizarre tipping experience she\u2019d had with customers, and how she handled it \u2013 and viewers are a bit split. Gaining well over half a million views on the platform, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}