Why don't waiters give you your exact change anymore?

[Shell Beau]

A lot round it off now a days. Sometimes you come out in the good and sometimes not. What is wrong with giving me my correct change?

Does this happen everywhere? It seems to be common practice around here.

[SteppingRazor]

1. It's de rigueur in Miami Beach, but I haven't seen it as common practice anywhere else.

And in the South Beach version of this, they never round in your favor.

[Shell Beau]

2. Sometimes they have rounded in my favor, but even then I just

want what is due to me. I don't ever make a fuss about it, but it seems to be the common thing to do now a days. They only do it when you use cash though. Never have they rounded it on my credit card. Just weird to me.

[auntAgonist]

3. What I find pretty forward and annoying is the question

"do you need change" .. hell YES I need change. I will leave a tip on the table, but I WANT my change back. Sometimes the bill is just over 10.00 and I pay with a 20.00! Yeah, I want my change back.

Please don't ASK for a tip.

aA

[Shell Beau]

4. They always ask that! I will leave a good tip. I always do, but

yeah I want my change!!

[XemaSab]

5. My ex-bf paid for a $40 meal with a hundred

The waiter asked if he wanted change and I laughed in his face. :D

[Dammit Ann]

6. Because we don't carry a cash register in our aprons and usually...

we figure you would rather not wait twenty minutes for your thirty seven cents and we know we don't have time to wait on your change. Although we do, for you, most of the time. Nine times out of ten you are wondering why you are out of diet coke and we are at the bar or with a manager waiting on change. Service with a smile.

[slampoet]

7. Bingo!!! we have a winner.

[Dammit Ann]

8. And what do I win?

A lounge attack? I'm a veteran. Bring it. It's been a while.

[slampoet]

9. You just save me from explaining it.

(and you get the usual 20% if you are serving me)



I don't blame you for expecting an attack.


There are a huge amount of Anti-labor trolls on DU.


The pity is most of the anti-labor trolls actually think they are democrats.

[Dammit Ann]

10. Thank you. We servers appreciate people like you. Sincerely, thank you.

We are a legion of people who are paid 2 dollars and 13 cents an hour. It is not easy.

[slampoet]

11. I was the guy handing you servers the plate for table #12 all my highschool/college years.

and a little beyond.

[Dammit Ann]

13. i think i love you.

expo has always been my friend.

[RandomThoughts]

12. You might want to avoid using the word legion in that way, it has bad connotations with many people.

Just a suggestion.

of coarse I think workers are not part of that bad connotation.

[Dammit Ann]

25. Legion?

OK.

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[Dammit Ann]

19. I'm a self entitled jerk?

Please, tell me, how is that?

[omega minimo]

20. You are?

:wow:

[slampoet]

26. Read the thread again you are jumping down the throats of the workers.

Learn to read.

[omega minimo]

14. With an attitude like that, you'd BETTER be taking the tips from customers' change

:rofl:

[Dammit Ann]

18. Yeah, that dollar and sixty seven cents really makes or breaks my week.

Just because of you, I'll count my pennies. Learn to cook. Stay home if it bothers you so much.

[omega minimo]

21. You hold back almost $2.00???????!!!!!!!!!!! wtf?

:wow:

[Dammit Ann]

23. crazy, right? usually, i give that away.

I'm telling you, I single-handedly caused the recession. I'm pretty sure...

[Shell Beau]

35. Yeah, way to go overboard there. But it is crazy because it isn't

your money to keep. After a day of keeping people's change, it starts to equal "real" money.

[Shell Beau]

34. That is just wrong. It is my money that is being kept.

"Learn to cook. Stay home if it bothers you so much."

Yes, that is the solution. I should not be able to eat out because the waiter doesn't give me MY money back correctly. What kind of attitude is that? A sour one I think.

[datasuspect]

32. that's okay, i got time

i'll wait for someone to walk 12 feet to the register area.

[Shell Beau]

36. 20 minutes for 37 cents? I think not.

[omega minimo]

15. They don't know how to count change anymore.

[Dammit Ann]

17. You are cute.

:rofl:

[omega minimo]

22. You know I'm right. Calculators, digital cash registers, computers. They CAN'T DO DA MATH!

:hi:

[Dammit Ann]

24. Darlin', it is not about being able to do the math. It's about cash...

even the restaurant doesn't have it sometimes. We are a credit card based business. Throw change into it and we have none.

[Gormy Cuss]

28. If your restaurant doesn't have enough cash, perhaps they should warn customers.

A big sign that says "Credit and Debit Cards Only" would do the trick. Servers shouldn't be in the position to stiff the customer just because of management incompetence when it comes to stocking the registers.

[Shell Beau]

27. Well this went a different way than I intended. BUT

I appreciate waiters. I show it with my tip. I tip well and am always very polite. But I want my correct change. That is all.

Weird. It is always the same people.

[mnhtnbb]

29. This happened to me for the first time at a Red Robin this summer.

I asked to see the manager and told him that I expected the correct change. I also told
him that if management is expecting waiters to make change from their pockets then maybe
it was time to hire a cashier and assign the duty to that person.

I always tip well--unless I've had cruddy service and been ignored.

[ZombieHorde]

30. I would assume their math was probably off.

I almost always use my debit card at restaurants, but I did use cash the other day.

My bill was $26.?? and I gave the waitress $40, she asked me if I wanted my change back. I came very close to stiffing her for asking, but I ended up tipping her.

[datasuspect]

31. somebody might get jumped on if they fuck with my scrilla

shoot, i want EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PENNY that is mine, if it's coming to me.

then I decide what to tip.

there ain't no preemptive tip buffering service available from me.

[SacredCow]

33. I haven't noticed that, but since I rarely pay with cash anymore I'm not one to ask...

Seems odd, though.