Seriously, $0 Tip?!

Jay's daughter received a $0 tip. How much was the bill?!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I thought this was interesting. A new survey asked
Americans how many times they tipped for services when they
didn't think it was necessary, and the average response was
forty times, and sixty percent of people say they are
fed up with being asked to tip. Like when I
was in New York. One of the cab rides I took,

(00:20):
it was me sitting behind the driver and Sarah Douglas
was sitting in, you know, behind the passenger seat in
the cab. And when you stop in the cab and
you pay, you can use your credit card. There's a
screen on the back of the seat. So I had
to lean over her to like put my card and
do all that. And I tipped twenty percent on the cab.
And she thought that was outrageous. She's like, why are

(00:42):
you paying? You're tipping twenty percent on a cab And
I was like, because they'd offered fifteen percent. Yeah, maybe
I did twenty five percent. She thought whatever it was
was too make.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, twenty five might be, but fifteen standard. Yeah, So
if fifteen is standard, I mean, when you have a
service industry background, you tend.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
To go I mean, if I'm in twenty with standard.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, what I think it is. I mean we would.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I don't think the three of us when we go
out to eat, I don't think we'd tip less than
twenty percent. So and I hope this survey that you're
talking about where people are fed up with being asked
to tip, they're not talking about sitting in a restaurant,
because that is standard. Maybe all the random places where
no one's doing anything except bringing you up.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
So that's the thing. I feel like forty, by the way,
is really really a low number. I feel like I'm
asked all the time to tip on things that I
think is kind of crazy. Like when I get a
carryout meal from my favorite Coney Island, I am literally
calling it in. Someone assembles the salad, I go through
the drive through, and every single time they ask if

(01:46):
I want to tip, And every single time I say
yes because I feel bad and feel weird saying no.
But it's like you literally just put my salad in
a in a bag.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
See. But here's the thing, Like when my daughter used
to work at Olive Garden, especially during pandem, she used
to tell me how great it was to work carryout
because people would leave something on carryout and she was
still getting like you know, her minimum wage or whatever
doing that, so you know, the order comes through, and yeah,
she's going over, she's getting the stuff, she's putting it
in there, she's getting she's assembling the salads because that's

(02:16):
still what you do, putting it in the thing. And
then she got But she would make you know, decent
money doing carryout because she still worked in a position
where you know, you would get tips. She texted me
last night, that's seven thirty nine. She's like, got tipped
zero on four hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh my god, Can I just tell you something, by
the way, really quick before you finish that story. Yeah,
when you were saying something about tipping when you started
the break, and it was about whether you got bad
service or not, like you still feel obligated to tip,
and I, even if the service is terrible, I still
have to leave something side of thing. I don't think
the server would recognize like I'm going to be the

(02:59):
bad guy no matter what. It's not like the server's
going to go I wonder what I did wrong.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I mean they're not.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
But now back to your story. To leave zero dollars period,
even on twenty five dollars is unacceptable. But on four hundred,
you have no business eating in a restaurant.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
She said. I almost walked out. Seriously, worst table I've
ever had doing this? I said, are you kidding? Are
they still there? She goes, Nope. They left three separate bills,
all over one hundred dollars? Yeah, I said, unreal. She
goes zero on all of them. I wrote, what jerks,
She says, And they were the rudest people I've ever
waited on in serving history. She goes, she said, I

(03:35):
started to get an attitude of them because they kept
talking to me like I was an idiot.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Say, that's the thing. I want to interview those people. Now,
Well on earth do you do this? They probably do
that every No, they do, and that's why they were
acting that way.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
We know your daughter. I'm sure she's a wonderful waitress,
and I'm sure that she is good at what she
does and she's kind. There was no reason, so the
fact that they acted that way. The fact that they
acted that way means you can always tell. I'm a
former server, so I can say this. There were just
things we knew. People are angling to get something for free.

(04:10):
At some point, they're gonna have problems from the get go,
or they're angling to have a reason to not leave
you any money and if you're not going to do
anything wrong. So that's why they were so rude. They
knew that they were going to leave nothing.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
She said at the start, she goes, at the start
of this, I just knew it.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Can we just please say the restaurant and the time
last night so that they can know exactly who they are? Yeah,
I really want Can we put them in the Hall
of Shame?