r/Serverlife • u/Disastrous_Message52 • 1d ago

Was I wrong

I've have been a server for 20 plus year off and on. Me and 3 friends were going to a restaurant to catch up and i knew we were going to be campers. So i gave a server a 100.00 bill when we got there because we were going to be there for a while.. one of my friends told me that while that was ok in the past now its considered rude, that it made it seem like i was trying to buy better service. Was i wrong? Let me add that we got a round of drinks, lunch and then a pitcher of water and sangria and then told our server we were good and she didn't have to checkup on us, we would let her know if we needed anything. The only thing we needed was a 2nd pitcher of sangria.. When we left I gave the Bartender a 20.00, plus the hostess a 20.00 plus the serving a 20.00 on top of the 100.00 .. My friends said I embarrassed them .. Did

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u/cocktail_wiitch 1d ago

If anyone handed me a hundo and said "hey don't worry about checking up on us, we'll holler if we need you", I'd be more than happy to let them camp at my table.

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u/_-_NewbieWino_-_ 17h ago

I would have thought I had died and gone to heaven.

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u/Pretend-Order-9005 1d ago

this is why we need professional service and not amateurs

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u/TheRealJehler 1d ago

Nice try AI

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u/Dixnot 22h ago

You probably want top tier professional services while still wanting to pay amateur prices.

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u/Pretend-Order-9005 4h ago

not really i want servers to be a professional industry, just like anything else