This.
Restaurant workers are like everybody else, and want to get out of work ASAP. To do so they usually start wrapping up food, cleaning, prepping for tomorrow, etc. in order to save time after work. Having worked in the food industry, you gain a little more respect for those in the restaurant business. I usually try and clean up the table as much as possible before leaving, tip well if they did a good job, and if a place is getting ready to close, I’ll eat somewhere else.
Yeah as an American that makes sense but there are many other cultures where tipping isn’t something you’re supposed to do. And if your patrons are from said culture, this poses a problem.
In Japan any “tip” costs would already be added into the price of the food, which is something he could do too. Maybe make a “late night” menu with slightly higher prices and pay the servers more during that time.
Some restaurants now have “suggested gratuity” printed right on the bill when you hand it to the guest. Maybe he needs to buy a register that prints that option in order to “nudge” them into tipping.
Either way it’s a hassle.
lol I live in the area and there is no “nudge” that will work with them.
Limit the menu to appetizers after 9pm. Pretty common move, and then no more sharing entrees.
shogun charges for sharing
I went to this mexican restaurant for lunch a few weeks ago and there was gratuity built into the credit card slip. Not even a line to add more if I wanted. I probably would have left more out of habit/rounding up if they hadn’t added it in already. The service was shitty despite the fact. Definitely not ever going back, mandatory gratuity at lunch time for a table for two is a dick move.
Tell them if they share an entree you’ll butcher a cow. If they don’t tip, they watch.
Exactly! If it does happen (I’ve done it by accident before) and I ordered something simple/easy IE: cold sandwhich or something a prep cook could handle, and tip accordingly and GTFO when I finished.
some places change extra if you share an meal…
it sounds like serving larger portions and being open later are driving them in. Possibly we have a victim of their own creation here.
Just pull a 4Play and tell them you’re closing down because there aren’t enough white people up in here.
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wow…
I ran into the same thing last summer when I worked at the Subway on main &transit. We’d close at 11, I’d be the only person working, trying to start putting stuff away and they’d show up at 10:45 and order like 5 vegetarian subs and translate through 1 person.
I don’t mind they show up late! That’s business for me, but if you going to order so little to share with many people that’s just not right. Why won’t they order take out and take it home and share it? I respect other people cultures, but you are now living another culture and should learned or adapted to it.
Working in the food service business isn’t a fixed hour shift tho which is why I dont agree with the “We want to get out and not stay late”. Its the same for the clothing stores too that lock their doors at 11 and people are there putting stuff away and folding clothes till sometimes 1am.
You are getting paid so if you don’t like it, find a new field that you leave at a fixed time.
I do agree tho that if they do show up close to closing, they should have tipped. I don’t think it should be mandatory but I am surprised you didn’t pull a move from “Waiting” and run out with their shitty tip and tell them they need the money more than you do.
they’re possibly coming to you because they can get away with that… it’s your business model.
It’s more of a courtesy thing, there’s really no job that has “fixed” hours. If you see the clothing store employees folding clothes around closing time you don’t go in try on a bunch of shit and leave it on the floor.
I HATE it when people do that. such scum bags
Food service…sorta. Still have a schedule and an hourly wage.
Clothing stores you stop getting paid when your shift ends. People can GTFO.
if you walk in at 930 to get food and they close at 10, you either
a. are an asshole
b. completely oblivious and have never worked in food service
THIS.
Slurpee or Casino?