Tipping etiquette...what would you do?

[buckeyefarmer]

Yeah, I was taken to an up-scale restaurant out in Haggerstown, MD a few times a couple years ago. .

What? When did Hagerstown MD get a up-scale restaurant? :laughing:

Ok, schmankerlstube is a great German restaurant in Hagerstown.

 

[mark02tj]

You are so right! I am so glad to be out of the restaurant business.

Many years ago I knew a guy that managed a McDonald's. He used to say that it was amazing that people would buy a $20,000 car and expect problems but that they would complain about a $1.50 sandwich like it was the end of the world!!

I've never worked in food service, but I did work in a couple of small, locally owned retail establishments back in high school and college. Dealing with the public is "interesting" to say the least. 95%+ of them are usually very nice. But it's those other 5% that can make your life a living heck!

 

[Soundguy]

You can *ASK* to see the kitchen ticket. It's a *CHOICE*!



90% of the time it's the SERVER'S FAULT:.

Your posts are overly vauge. many restaurants run differently.

If the ones I worked ina nd out of, the printed kitchen ticket in the back printed out on t he line, As the food progressed or palte was built ( multi part orders, dsides, etc.. ) the ticket went from the printer side down a sliding line.. eventually food was ready, when it got handed over the line, the prep cooks or line cooks, pulled the ticket from the 'end of the line' and tossed it into the big thing at the end that had a plastic bag in it.

On the expediter side of the line was a table ticket that traveled with the order to the table.

no surviving kitchen ticket.. and server didn't see or touch the food.

That's just an example of a couple kitchens that I have to work in and around fo rthe last couple of decades.

towards the end, i noticed they were using touch screen ordering and monitors in the kitchen, making me think the printed line tickets no longer even existed.

I have seen fast food places use this too... tickets on monitors..

I agree, in a place where the server takes the food out.. they should look it over to see if it imatches the order.

However in a place that expedites food... you hit a snag... Server isn't looking at the outgoing food, though should be visiting the table at close to the time it hits.

 

[Bird]

I noticed they were using touch screen ordering and monitors in the kitchen, making me think the printed line tickets no longer even existed.

I have no idea what happened in the kitchen, but saw that touch screen ordering not long ago at the most popular breakfast/lunch restaurant in this area. So I assume it must have printed out, or shown up on a screen, in the kitchen.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Do you like pancakes?:licking:

Yep, I do...especially when they come with 2 eggs, over easy with link sausage. Long standing joke in the family; my brother said he could never get pancakes like Mom used to make...runny in the middle. :laughing:

 

[Bird]

Yep, I do...especially when they come with 2 eggs, over easy with link sausage. Long standing joke in the family; my brother said he could never get pancakes like Mom used to make...runny in the middle. :laughing:

We all have our preferences and habits.:laughing: If we eat breakfast at home, my wife has one banana, and nothing else except coffee. If we eat breakfast in a restaurant, she has 2 pancakes with extra butter and syrup.

And at home I have a bowl of cereal with banana, OR I have 2 poached eggs and bacon; no bread. But when I have breakfast in a restaurant, my preference is 2 scrambled eggs, 2 sausage patties, 2 biscuits all covered in gravy, and maybe some hashbrown potatoes.:laughing: And since I'm already too heavy, I don't do that very often.:laughing:

Pancakes? We never have them for breakfast at home, but do occasionally have them for supper. And I do like an egg over easy between the pancakes.

 

[Otto Syracuse]

Yep, I do...especially when they come with 2 eggs, over easy with link sausage. Long standing joke in the family; my brother said he could never get pancakes like Mom used to make...runny in the middle. :laughing:

LOL, good one!!! If you are ever on the east coast, stop in and I'll make you two eggs the way you like them!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

LOL, good one!!! If you are ever on the east coast, stop in and I'll make you two eggs the way you like them!

Bless you Otto. Maybe someday I'll take you up on that!

 

[MossRoad]

What? When did Hagerstown MD get a up-scale restaurant? :laughing:

Ok, schmankerlstube is a great German restaurant in Hagerstown.

Yeah, I ate there, too. THAT was tasty! :licking:

 

[MossRoad]

Many years ago I knew a guy that managed a McDonald's. He used to say that it was amazing that people would buy a $20,000 car and expect problems but that they would complain about a $1.50 sandwich like it was the end of the world!!

I've never worked in food service, but I did work in a couple of small, locally owned retail establishments back in high school and college. Dealing with the public is "interesting" to say the least. 95%+ of them are usually very nice. But it's those other 5% that can make your life a living heck!

One of my first jobs was at Dairy Queen. It was one of those walk-up style DQs with the little sliding windows for service. Many a time an order would come back at us through that little window at high velocity! The folks in that neighborhood had some pretty good aim! :laughing: