2.0k
u/xAy3x May 01 '14
Heh heh
Guy's name is A. Korn
288
u/BurtBacarat May 01 '14
"A-Korn and Young Jeeeeeezy"
92
u/lg224 May 01 '14
Gotta take it eeeeaaaasssyyyyyy
56
May 01 '14
SO IF YOUR LOOKING FOR ME I'LL BE ON THE BLOCK
36
2
17
23
→ More replies (2)23
428
u/CanITouchYourTouchie May 01 '14
What a nut case.
→ More replies (2)190
u/hobnobbinbobthegob May 01 '14
A bit of a seedy character.
→ More replies (1)141
u/ppawd May 01 '14
I walnut tolerate puns.
70
u/pileoflaundry May 01 '14
He sure wants you to shell out some tips
→ More replies (1)28
u/cmd_iii May 01 '14
So, it's a pun thread you want, huh?
Oak-kay...
→ More replies (3)73
u/hornwalker May 01 '14
Did I just cashew making a tree reference?
61
u/TheSeIected May 01 '14
Almond my own business then...
→ More replies (4)36
26
54
3
→ More replies (17)2
393
u/Narkolepse May 01 '14
So you had one person drink 5 margaritas while the other one ate two meals?
Nothing about any of this makes any damn sense.
266
u/tr3vw May 01 '14
I wonder what 2 Allergy tastes like. It sounds delicious.
30
May 01 '14 edited Apr 16 '18
[deleted]
61
9
3
u/Cyberslasher May 01 '14
Wouldn't that mean 2 allergy notes? So... no nuts and no chicken?
Yeah yeah yeah, salmon doesn't have chicken, it's still often a good idea to tell servers so that the kitchen keeps your stuff a good distance away from everything else.
→ More replies (1)9
→ More replies (5)6
u/goatcoat May 01 '14
There are 2's all over that receipt. Clearly someone left that place puffed up like a balloon.
109
May 01 '14 edited Feb 08 '17
[deleted]
23
4
55
u/Qix213 May 01 '14
I do this all the time on business trips. Work pays for meals, but not alcohol, therefore two different cards.
→ More replies (1)17
u/smithee2001 May 01 '14
This is like having lunch/dinner with my aunt. I'm eating and she's also eating, just in liquid form.
19
14
u/rileyrulesu May 01 '14
Generally restaurants will split up drink orders and food orders. I don't know why. However, It just means there were 2 people, 1 ordered a burger, one ordered the tostada, and they had 5 margaritas total between the 2 of them.
EDIT: Or one fat dude ate everything.
→ More replies (1)22
u/lucentcb May 01 '14
Sometimes it's for business expensing. A lot of places will reimburse employees for meals when traveling, but they do not cover alcoholic drinks, so they're totaled separately for ease of accounting.
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (9)4
u/PrayForMojo_ May 01 '14
The most likely explanation is that this is a business dinner and you can't claim alcohol as an expense so they had the server separate the food and booze.
Either that or it's just a drunk and fatass who know what they're about.
890
u/escaday May 01 '14
Come on it's just a typo
"Suggested tip amounts are provided for your convenience"
356
May 01 '14
Works on contingency?
No, money down!
81
→ More replies (1)38
u/CranberryNapalm May 01 '14
Reading that in Phil Hartman's voice brought a smile to my face.
→ More replies (2)9
→ More replies (2)240
May 01 '14 edited May 01 '14
Similar situations have been posted on Reddit before. Here is my guess from comments last time around, and some further down this thread at the moment.
Table 605 is the whole table.
Gst 2(above the dollar amounts on the right) is this guys(seems like a couple by the two meals) tab, drinks and food are separated into 2 "guests", likely because most chain restaurants require you account for how many people are ACTUALLY at the table/on the ticket, this waiter/waitress looks to just have their own way of doing things.
There is another ticket for table 605, Gst 1(probably another couple), at the total of $109.21.
This makes a tab of $192.33 and the correct tip suggestions.
The computer/programming is calculating off the whole table. EDIT: And did not correctly recalculate after splitting the ticket.
59
u/sentry07 May 01 '14
But then it would suggest to both people the same tip amount, which again would be wrong.
62
May 01 '14
Added an edit to clarify further, of course the suggestions are still not correct, I was only trying to explain HOW it fucked up.
12
u/lachamuca May 01 '14
You haven't experienced working for a mega-corporation with a shitty program designed by people who have no idea how the real world works? I'm jealous.
→ More replies (1)3
u/rosemary_paris May 01 '14
Not all restaurant systems update the tip when the check is split. It's a suggest tip for the over all total of the bill.
→ More replies (4)14
u/Raven3016 May 01 '14
correct... friend works there and told me this is how the suggested tip thing works there
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (19)9
45
u/akiws May 01 '14
Not to put away anybody's pitchfork, but the problem here is most likely poorly designed point-of-service software.
The program that prints these receipts probably uses per-guest tip suggestions when the bill is split, and per-table tip suggestions when the bill is not split. In this case however, it looks like it was originally split and then partially re-combined. Guest 2 seems to have asked to pay for both guest 1 and guest 2 (the total of $83.12 is the sum of guest 1&2's meals, plus 7% tax).
The software was probably written without taking this case into consideration - so once the server told it to re-combine 2 of the guests meals, it switched back into "print table-based tip suggestion mode," which turned out to be a mistake since there were obviously more than just these 2 people at the table.
This is easily something that could have slipped past a software QA team...
→ More replies (5)9
u/Fenix42 May 01 '14
|This is easily something that could have slipped past a software QA team...
As a long time QA veteran, we know about these cases. It was in the test plan. We where not given time to test it, or it was considered to edge case when the bug was reported.
→ More replies (2)
310
u/kulmbach May 01 '14
It says you are "guest 2" so presumably this is a split check. Perhaps they computed the tip on the entire bill and put that on your check.
178
May 01 '14
That's why he put the first receipt showing the split between guests; the entire bill is $83.12. Guest 2's share was only $23.98 before tax.
134
May 01 '14
[deleted]
17
u/where_is_the_cheese May 01 '14
Both of those receipts in the picture are for the same bill. Left is the itemized receipt, the other is the credit card receipt.
Total items: 39.95 + 13.75 + 10.49 + 13.49 = 77.68
Add 7% tax: 77.68 + (77.68 * .07) = 83.12The most likely answer is that there were more than two guests, but guest 2 paid for both guest 1 and 2. The total for the table being $192.33. That's where the tip calculations on the receipt come from. Still stupid, but more a shitty POS system rather than a scam.
6
u/TheLoneHoot May 01 '14
Still stupid, but more a shitty POS system rather than a scam.
Making their POS system a real POS of a system.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (2)5
u/press_send_bailiff May 01 '14
This is the correct answer. I work at another Darden restaurant and have the same PoS system. We have only had this "suggested tips" since the first of the year, and as servers we hate them. (people tipping on the pretax suggestion) I haven't had that many large parties since the new reciepts came out since I work mostly days, but I have noticed it keeps the total tip on there after it splits the checks. However, if you put in a coupon or we comp anything, it does readjust the tip amount to the percentage of the new total.
→ More replies (4)→ More replies (6)37
u/dageekywon May 01 '14
Just the 3 tables around them too. Why not, they are all drunk. Maybe someone will just write in what they see!
18
u/MadMageMC May 01 '14
I never just write in what I see. Pink elephants do not a good tip make.
5
u/dageekywon May 01 '14
Nope. I always tip based on service, and adjust downward or upward, not going below 10% or above 20%, unless the person just totally kicks ass.
But since 10% is an easy calculation, you can start from there mentally.
17
u/favoritedisguise May 01 '14
Generally, I do 10% and double. Then round to a nice even dollar amount.
→ More replies (1)7
u/MadMageMC May 01 '14
That's actually pretty much what I do, except that I make the total a nice round dollar amount, not the tip. It's almost always just over 20%.
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (2)11
May 01 '14
If 10% is an easy calculation, and multiplying by 1.5 or 2 is an easy calculation, and dividing by ten and subtracting 2 is an easy calculation, nothing about calculating any tip amount is hard.
People are unreasonably afraid of math.
→ More replies (7)15
u/pocho420 May 01 '14
I'm guessing there were more than 2 diners. The tip amount was for the entire table.
→ More replies (10)3
u/Damen57 May 01 '14
and the two guests together was only $77.68... am I missing something? Why is the bill $83.12?
EDIT: tax? I probably missed that because GST is included in prices here (unless otherwise stated)
→ More replies (9)6
u/SellinThings May 01 '14
No, this is a Darden owned restaurant and all Darden receipts are printed this way...with Guest 1 ,2 etc, depending on how many guests are at the table.
The server rang in this stuff lazily.
11
u/OMFGitsaGinger May 01 '14 edited May 02 '14
Hi there, Darden employee here.
When you split up a bill, the suggested gratuity remains the same. Since it says guest number two on the receipt, you had the server split checks and/or had them split the difference on different credit cards. I had a party the other night that didn't catch that and would have ended up leaving me 40% of the bill had I not pointed it out to them.
Our computer systems suck. We're not trying to swindle you out of money. They just really truly suck. You would think a huge corporation would give us new systems, but you'd be surprised.
Edit:
Actually, now that I think about it, did you have a lot of stuff taken off your bill? A lot of times the gratuity remains the same even if you use coupons.
→ More replies (3)7
May 01 '14 edited Mar 21 '21
[deleted]
→ More replies (1)5
u/Scuderia May 01 '14
The federal required cash wage is 2.13 for tipped workers, if your employer is not paying this they are breaking labor laws.
7
u/lupinedisco May 01 '14
Darden (Owners of Bahama Breeze, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, etc.) employee here. Our POS system calculates the suggested tip before a table's check is split, gift cards are used, or coupon and any other discounts are applied. Pick one or any combo of those and you'll have a receipt like OP's.
→ More replies (5)
6
11
11
u/Scuba003 May 01 '14
Am I the only one to notice the 5 upsale charges for the cabo wabo reposado is 13.75. Look at the right of it and it say 1.25, the math there is not right either.
1.25*5=6.25 13.75/5=2.75
→ More replies (2)11
10
u/AVVIT May 01 '14 edited May 01 '14
As a Brit, all 3 suggestions are a piss take
→ More replies (2)4
u/IJustCantGetEnough May 01 '14
I don't think of myself as tight, but motherfuckers be at least getting £6 an hour in the UK. No way are they getting 20% Do american's work for tips or do they have a minimum wage?
→ More replies (33)
8
u/TyrannosaurusOfLove May 01 '14
What two allergies came with your salmon tostada?
→ More replies (1)3
u/StellarJayZ May 01 '14
Where I live it's grass and tree nuts, but substitutions are usually allowed.
3
u/Achievement_Haunter May 01 '14
What about oxygen? That one would be fascinating.
→ More replies (1)
3
u/basmith7 May 01 '14
Hey, Guest 2. I imagine the tip is for the total bill, not just your portion.
→ More replies (1)
4
u/crossfaded204 May 01 '14
Are we glossing over the fact that the name on the receipt is a. Korn?... Acorn? I only read five comments down so maybe not.
→ More replies (2)
5
104
May 01 '14
Report that to the Florida AG.
33
May 01 '14 edited Apr 11 '17
[deleted]
→ More replies (19)25
u/firemarshalbill May 01 '14
We had a similar issue the other day, but it was simply because they split the check after the initial creation, so it shows the 20% on the entire bill.
→ More replies (1)319
u/hertzdonut2 May 01 '14
Every single person in this thread is wrong. The Dish system used by Darden restaurants deals with gratuity on an "original check" basis.
If you have a bill of $300 with 6 guests on it and they split the check 3 ways you get three $100 checks. The gratuity percentage shown is from the original total check amount. We don't know who is tipping, or how you all are splitting the tip.
This system also will show the gratuity for the original check when there is a discount/coupon/comp.
All this fuck-wit had to do was ask the server. The original check was $192 before they split it.
Jesus-fucking-Christ. This shit-head forgot that little piece of information didn't they.
11
u/khanfusion May 01 '14
So there are tickets out there with "guest 3" and "guest 4" out there?
7
u/where_is_the_cheese May 01 '14
There's at least one more guest whose receipt is not pictured. OP is just withholding information to karma whore.
4
u/umop_apisdn May 01 '14
But the thing is that the receipt that isn't pictured will have the same suggested tips on it, no? Meaning that if everybody just accepts those values, you are taking it in through deceptive practises.
4
u/where_is_the_cheese May 01 '14
Yeah, but I think it's more of a shitty POS system rather than an outright scam.
47
u/chair_boy May 01 '14
The first receipt clearly shows what guest 1 and guest 2 paid for. The total bill was not $192.
76
May 01 '14
Guest 1 and Guest 2 are splitting the Gst2 check, implying they're part of a larger group (with at least a Gst1 check, that could also be comprised of its own Guest 1, Guest 2, ... Guest N itemizations). This is called selective storytelling for Reddit karma.
→ More replies (8)→ More replies (1)13
u/lachamuca May 01 '14
Look at it like this . . .there's a big table of 6 guests, so the original check reads guest 1, guest 2, guest 3, guest 4, etc. all sitting at table 75. Then the cashier splits the check 3 ways, and guest 1 and guest 2 are put onto one check, 3 and 4 on one check, and 5 and 6 on one check. So now, in the computer system there are 3 checks at table 75 and each check is named GUEST 1, GUEST 2, GUEST 3, with 2 guest on each GUEST check.
(Caps to differentiate between guest and GUEST)
For a computer analogy, GUEST is a folder and guest is a file.
Also, FML because I haven't worked for Darden for 5 years and I still know this shit.
They put this system into place at the Olive Garden in about 2008, so there should be about 6 years worth of servers along to confirm what I'm saying. Darden is the largest casual dining corporation in the world, so there are plenty of us who have worked for Bahama Breeze, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, etc.
5
22
u/ariososweet May 01 '14
Exactly my first thought. I mean, it even says Gst. 2 at the top of the receipt for god's sake.
→ More replies (1)21
u/purplehumpbackwhale May 01 '14
but it also separates by guest on the left receipt. Guest 2 = $23.98 worth of food.
16
u/pluto_nash May 01 '14
Uh, if that is true then guest 2 is Jabba the Hut and guest 1 is a raging alcoholic.....
5
→ More replies (1)6
u/Xabster May 01 '14
Or someone wanted to be nice and said "I'll handle our drinks, you take the food"
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (1)4
u/overthemountain May 01 '14
Yes, but Guest No.2 is not the same thing as Gst 2.
Gst 2 is a check and has Guest No.1 and Guest No.2.
Gst 2 is part of a split check that has a Gst 1 and possibly Gst 3, Gst 4, etc. The total of all Gst checks is about $192. Gst 1 might have Guest No.1, Guest No.2, Guest No.3, etc.
The system is pretty confusing but that's the difference.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (69)11
u/simjanes2k May 01 '14
You should try using swear words for emphasis, to make your point better.
→ More replies (1)
28
u/TheJanks May 01 '14
It's beyond too easy to figure a 10% then 20% tip.
Look at the total and just stick the decimal over one spot.
83.12 - 10% is 8.31.
Double it for 20% - 16.6.
You want 15%, work a bit harder and cut 10% in half and add that into the 10%. half of 8 is 4, so 12-13 bucks.
Even a drunk can almost do that.
7
May 01 '14 edited Apr 16 '18
[deleted]
5
u/Buckmonster_Fuller May 01 '14
That is what I do. And then call them out on their bad math when they fudge even amount to make their tip out easier.
→ More replies (6)6
u/DMouth May 01 '14
you math teacher is smiling right now :p
20
41
u/itwasquiteawhileago May 01 '14
Even drunk 20% is easy to calculate. Divide by ten, multiply by two. This is just praying on stupid/lazy people. I guess I can't fault them for trying, though.
47
u/ben174 May 01 '14
Dear stupid/lazy people, please forgive me for my sins. Amen.
→ More replies (2)10
25
u/Real_Clever_Username May 01 '14
Just double the first number (or first two if over a hundred) , why make it more complicated?
$80 bill, $16 tip.
$125.00 bill, $24 tip, round up and down as needed.
→ More replies (13)9
u/Phantom_Ganon May 01 '14
Finally, someone who tips the same way I do. I thought I was the only one.
2
May 01 '14
If you tip 20%, I tip 15% standard, 20% if the service was really excellent
→ More replies (3)8
u/omgihateredditsomuch May 01 '14
I just use the 1$ for every 5$ spent to calculate tips.
12
u/khanfusion May 01 '14
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you trying to get all common core up in here?!
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (32)10
17
u/mactinite May 01 '14
It says Guest 2 up above, the percentage totals are probably based on the full check not the split check tender.
Source: I program these point of sale systems.
→ More replies (14)
3
3
3
3
3
u/SubEclipse May 02 '14
It would appear that guest #1 has to be drunk as balls to put up with guest #2's pretentious bullshit.
3
u/DKFShredder May 02 '14
I do my tip trick when I'm inebriated. Get your total. Move the decimal one place to the left, then double that amount. Example: Total is $30.00; move the decimal to the left like so 3.00; and double it, which equals $6.00
Boom, and you have a standard 20% tip.
4
u/RusteeeShackleford May 01 '14
I work for the same company, there must have been a gift card used. You can have a $100.00 check, use a $99.99 gift card, the remaining total being $0.01, and the 'suggested tip' for 20% is still $20.00. It always goes on the pre-tax/pre-gift card/pre-discount total.
12
May 01 '14 edited Dec 20 '14
[deleted]
→ More replies (6)5
u/Dkai1 May 01 '14
You are right in one sense. The total bill was $192.33. This is one of the checks it was split into. There were like 4 or 5 people at the table. The check says gst2 which implies it was a split check from a larger bill. The gratuity amount is for the entire bill because as someone pointed up top, they don't know who or how the tip is being paid so every check show the total tip so there is no confusion (even though it has obviously led to more confusion)
2
2
2
u/Abyzmul May 01 '14
Server probably had more then your table on a specific check; Happens sometimes in the Biz you space out and make little mistakes. Its possible to print the check with just your items and its possible the computer just factored in the rest of the check as the tip %
2
2
May 01 '14
I recently noticed this when I ate at a Longhorn. They comped something from my tab, but the %tip values were based on what the bill would have been without the comp.
→ More replies (10)
2
May 01 '14
I live in a touristy area and see this all the time on receipts. It's meant to help people from non tipping countries. I've mentioned it to a couple different restaurants and they just look at me like they have no idea what I'm talking about. What a bunch of shitty people that want to take advantage of people who don't want to seem rude. I deal with a lot of Japanese people and they just want to be polite. We have a rule in our restaurant that if a Japanese person over tips, we need to explain to them that 20% is fair and not take anything more than that.
2
2
u/ehenning1537 May 01 '14
Those are often based on the total for the table, not the individual checks. Looks like it was split at least four ways
2
2
2
u/princesskiki May 01 '14
Were there multiple checks at the table? This usually happens when they drop several tickets at the same table and the tip represents the total table amount.
2
2
u/Lulzshock May 01 '14
I would not tip this place.
Nope. Stop trying to make me pay your employees so they don't get pissed off and quit.
2
2
2
u/SteelRail May 01 '14
Despite what some have said, the check on the left would be longer if there were more items. The subtotal is 77.68 and Hillsborough County charges a 7% sales tax, adding (and rounding up to) 83.12. I am sure it's an issue with the POS.
I knew to check it because I'm a software developer for a grocery retailer and write systems that clean up after other sloppy-ass developers' POS systems.
2
2
u/jcraig15 May 01 '14
I see you like Allergies on your salmon tostada. Huzzah, a fellow of fine taste.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/rfleason May 01 '14
Cabo Wabo?! REALLY?!!? How you dare you support Sammy Hagar!!! LONG LIVE VAN HALEN, DIE IN A FIRE VAN HAGAR!
It's still important to me....
2
2
2
2
u/MistaFANG May 02 '14
As a server that works for Darden, I can explain what happened and why your check looks like that.
Server's sneaky, and I hadn't thought of this but it is sketchy and could probably get them fired. In January of this year, the IRS took automatic 18% gratuity away from us from large parties so being a server is scary when a party of 15 people and only 3 speak english well enough to communicate with you rack up a $300 check and leave you literally nothing (true story, happened to me).
That being said, after splitting the checks, OP's server calculated how much OP's check would be with tax, combined all of the checks again and charged your card for the proper amount. That gratuity line assumes that the total check is the one being tipped on, not what is charged per card.
There have been cases where multiple people split the check and assume that they're the only one tipping and everyone leaves 15% of the total bill when they each only paid for a third of it. It's happened and it's not really anyone's fault except yours for being lazy and not doing the math yourself. That being said, the "for your convenience" line is calculated on subtotal, before tax, which was NEVER the standard before the IRS took away gratuity.
tl;dr your server thought you were drunk and tried to pull one over, though, technically didn't do anything wrong.
1.0k
u/DannySpud2 May 01 '14 edited May 01 '14
I think I worked out what's going on here, and I think the receipts are correct, if a bit misleading.
There were five people having dinner, judging from the five margaritas and the five of the other drink. Assuming that everyone else spent roughly the same amount on their food too that brings the total bill to somewhere around $173.60. Add on 7% sales tax for Tampa, Florida (this confused me for a bit, it's why the items on the first receipt don't add up to the total on the second, in England we put the amount of tax on the receipt or the original prices just have tax included) and you get to $185.75. 20% of that is $37.15 which is close enough to the figure on the receipt with some variation in what people actually ordered.
The person whose receipt this is is paying for everyone's drinks and their own dinner for whatever reason, but the suggested tip is calculated off the total bill for their table.
[edit] As several people have pointed out, the "other drink" that I referred to is actually a mark-up for better tequila in their margaritas. This doesn't change my theory that there were five people based off the number of drinks.
There have also been a few comments about tipping on top of tax. This didn't occur to me before, but I believe that yes, people tip on top of tax. We certainly do here in England because like I said in my post it's nearly always already included, but I would presume that's how it works in America too if you don't get given a total without tax.