Andi's Server Soap Box Vol. 4

To the welfare family who spends $100 on dinner at the beginning of every month, only to not have enough to tip your server:

I understand that getting a check in the mail can create excitement. It's money you didn't have before- it's almost like Christmas! I understand- you want to celebrate. But when you go to a sit-down restaurant and take up space and time from a server who is probably just as poor as you are, and then not tip them (because you "can't afford it"), it's not only rude and hurtful, it's stealing. It's basically the equivalent of indentured servitude. Servers work for a ridiculously small wage (in many cases as low as $2 an hour), and we live solely based on tips (as ol' Uncle Sam gets all our "paycheck").

Your coming in to make us wait on you without paying us literally is slavery. We HAVE to wait on you while you sit at our table, and if you choose not to tip us, then we DON'T pay our bills. There's nothing we can do about it.

Solution? Maybe... if you are on welfare and you really depend on that monthly check....just maybe, you don't go out to a sit down restaurant like clockwork, spend all the "extra" money you have on that celebratory meal, and then stiff your server. If you don't have enough money left over to pay a server for their work, don't spend as much. OR go to a fast food joint that sells similarly tasting food and enjoy a server-free environment. Good luck!

This rant is based on past personal experience and/or past experience of other servers in various restaurants. If you think this is about you, you should remember that any resemblance or similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. And you should also probably take a good, long look in the mirror before you go out to eat again. 

Just in case.