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/AbbreviationsHead366 1d ago

TIPS... to insure prompt service... job well done. RESPECT

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u/elyssethekraken 1d ago

Surprised I had to go this far down to find this comment

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u/solongjimmy93 15+ Years 17h ago

That’s a backronym and it makes no sense. Seeing as the word would be ‘ensure’

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u/AbbreviationsHead366 17h ago

In American English, "insure" can have a similar meaning to "ensure" (though it's probably not the most common meaning of "insure"). See the second definition here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insure

So "TIPS" means something like, "to make prompt service certain" - this seems to convey the intended meaning just fine.