Busy golf restaurant luncheon yesterday - waited maybe 5 minutes for our server, who hinted that he was covering both inside and outside dining before strongly efficiently taking our order. We wisely ordered drinks and food at once - all he had to then do was input our order and everything appeared in decent fast fashion including beverage refills. He was hustling fast and hard with a lot of tables. Easy to see that he was covering a huge space! I was ready to pay but our server mentioned to me that there was only one handheld machine and that I’d get faster action with the cashier at the door. I always fear wage theft when the server isn’t handling the payment, so I just handed him a $20 because he deserved to correlate his top service with the 25-30% range. Paid the bill at the door - that’s $0.60 Costco cash back that I won’t be getting.
this is a nice case of server tips plus the feast/famine when it’s suddenly not busy and servers have less service and tip-giving clients.