How would you react if a worker scolded you for not leaving a large enough tip?

22 comments

1. Ask for 5he recipe, again to adjust it.

   Then remove it completely.

2. I would take back the tip I gave them. Tipping is not a requirement.

3. This is a weird question.. It wouldn’t happen because I’ve been a waitress and a bartender and I know how to tip properly.

4. As a chronic and renowned overtipper, I’d be absolutely bewildered and pretty offended. I’d want to take my whole tip back but in reality I’d probably just drop another $5 or something (not the smallest bill in my wallet but also not the largest) and seethe in the car.

5. I wouldn’t go back and give them a bad review.

   If the bill wasn’t taken care of yet, I would erase the tip and mark it a 0. If the transaction happened, I would seriously consider talking to a manager to retract the tip.

6. I’m Australian. The wait person doesn’t get a tip at all and the venue gets a seriously shitty review.

7. I might get backlash for this, but while I do tip it’s not a requirement. If your going to scold me for the tip I left (which I presume is right when I’m leaving since I usually leave a tip in cash on the table) I’m probably going to request to have it back, and I probably won’t be coming back to the restaurant.

8. I’m Australian. This is not a custom here, and I’d be inclined to tell them off or tell them they can go to America if they are so wound up by it. Probably in far less kinder words than this.

9. I would be so surprised since workers don’t rely on tips here in Denmark. There’s a tip jar on counters that everyone share by the end of the day but it’s not normal to tip a waiter directly so this type of behavior would be so far out that I don’t think I would even know what to say.

10. I’d let the owner know that the worker is seriously out of line, take back the tip, and tell everyone that it’s a shitty place and avoid it at all cost. How rude.

11. Yeah, it’s not a custom to tip where I live unless it was really a good service. So I’d take whatever I left as a tip and go. Probably never come back.

12. i wouldn’t go back. i’m a generous tipper, as i have been in the service industry myself for five years. if i don’t tip well, there are good reasons for that. like the time we waited for an hour for a round of shots in a nearly empty bar with no one checking on us in between or even walking by.

13. I always tip well, so I would probably just call them rude and greedy or something. I won’t take back the tip tho it’s crazy out here

14. In England. It’s not really as much of a thing here.

15. I would ask them to speak with their manager, with a nice smile on my face.

16. I’d say “Anything I give you outside this motherfucking bill is the tip.”

    And if they had a problem with that I’d take it right back.

17. I’m 18 and got let go from my job a month ago due to funding issues. I’d probably cry.

18. Laugh at them, take the tip back and have a nice calm conversation with their manager. A review will be written and the outcome of that depends on how the manager handles our talk.

19. Tipping isn’t really a thing here but if someone scolded me for not leaving “enough” I’d be taking whatever I did leave back and they’d get nothing.

20. I’d be petty and take my tip back

21. If they did it in Australia (where I live) I’d be furious because its not a usual practice here.

    If it happened overseas I’d be embarrassed because I always try to comply with the normal tipping practice wherever I go.

22. I always leave at least 20% for servers, so if they complained about that they would be getting 0%. Tipping is *not* a requirement