A few nights ago I was at “mystery restaurant” working and I noticed my section and the girl’s section next to me had cleared out all at the same time even though it was still pretty busy. As I went up to the desk to see what was up, I saw the host coming toward our section with a huge group of people and realized they were seating one huge party separately in our sections. When he sat them (a party of 25), I asked him why they sat them like that, he replied, “because the host of the party requested it so she would not be charged with gratuity (18%).” As I turned around to see 4 of my tables sat and 5 of hers sat at the same time, I realized there is nothing worse than knowing you are gonna be fucked over on your tip before you even start serving the table. This is gonna be a looooong night.
-Conz
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At my restaurant, it doesn’t matter if you’re seated across different tables or not – you still get gratuity added. Of course, ours isn’t mandatory, but most people don’t notice the part that says it’s not mandatory.
Anyway, gratuity isn’t based on how many tables are put together, but how many people are dining together! It’s a lot of fucking work.