"Goomba" > wrote in message
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> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>
>> You go into a a fairly chi-chi restaurant. You are waited on very well
>> by many different people. At the end of the meal, you make a generous
>> tip to either a) the head waiter or the b) maitre'd and indicate that the
>> tip be spread around accordingly. At a later date, you go to the same
>> restaurant, the head/maitre'd treats you well, but the rest of the staff
>> treats you as if you were dirt under their feet. You tip again, the same
>> way as before, but find out thru the grapevine (aka a friend of one of
>> you kids works there) that you 'stiffed' the staff twice in a row. The
>> only explaination is that the head/maitre'd is pocketing the quite
>> sizable tip and telling the others 'no tip for you'. What would you do?
>
>
> Where are you leaving this tip? Are you adding it on to your credit card
> bill and/or leaving it in the leather portfolio with the waiter?
> How are you doing something different from everyone else at the restaurant
> that apparently aren't stiffing the crew?

As I stated in the original post, the question was posed to me, it was not I
who dined, but from what I gather, the person in question uses plastic so I
would gather that the tip was incorporated in the final tally submitted at
the end of the meal. Person who inquired had been employed as waitstaff in
college and was mortified to think that it was being 'passed along' that
s/he would stiff a waiter. From what was later learned from the source was
that tips are 'light' and often non-existent and the h/m often states that
is because the staff is incompetent.
-ginny