You are certainly at the very least morally wrong if those conditions are made clear, and you receive adequate service that you then refuse to pay it. You are perfectly entitled to express the opinion that you object to it and will not pay it and therefore avoid places that do so - but I do not agree that it is right to use these places knowing of the practise and then refuse to pay.
Agreed, as I'm a reasonable person and I'm not going to screw an employee out of his earnings just because I disagree with the system.
The thing is though, that doesn't mean my reasoning is flawed and that I can't hold an opinion, just because I follow their customs doesn't make their customs right morally even if it's legal where they are.
At the end of the day a Service charge IN ADDITION to Gratuity is immoral because you're disguising the price of a meal twice, if they want to add a mandatory service charge have it factored into the price of the food.
Gratuity IS optional, a service charge is not optional, therefore there is absolutely no reasonable argument to be made that the service charge can't be factored into the price of the food.
Originally Posted by
Raynz
I would love to say that as she brought each replacement drink she managed to spill it on him again and again. But alas it was all at once. She had a tray full of drinks, and thought it would be smart to start taking them off one side. She got to 3 before the whole tray unbalanced and tipped over onto him.
Ah, I've seen many new servers or even experienced servers lose entire trays of drinks.... I personally always hated carrying drinks, thankfully I was never a server or bartender.
The worst was when the restaurant I was working at was running an hour and a half wait for food the day before mothers day when our POS system crashed and things went haywire, we had about 1,000 people seated and the server and I ran into each other turning a corner and he lost a plate of food......
That was a joyous talk with a table while wearing their food on me, needed a new suit after that but we managed to smooth things over as much as humanly possible.... Not that the patrons that evening were very happy given the huge delays in food.
Oh man the restaurant business, the movie Waiting was pretty dang accurate even in the mass scale fine dining atmosphere...