Indeed. (via Reddit)It’s been kicking around the Internet for a couple days, and we teased it in yesterday’s Go Home Already, but we really couldn’t let this fade into memory.
On Sunday, some jerk had dinner at an Austin Grill restaurant. We’re not sure which of the Tex-Mex chain’s four locations it happened at, but clearly, the diner either endured the worst table service in the history of the hospitality industry, or he/she is just history’s greatest monster. Like, full-on, one-percent-of-the-one-percent self-indulged. Someone who walks around in corpulent greed.
The diner, who rang up a tab of $29.68, did not leave a tip for their waiter, identified on the receipt as Zachary. Not 15 percent ($4.45). Not 10 percent ($2.97). Nothing. Zilch. Bupkus. Flat freaking nothing.
Actually it would have been better if this customer penciled in $0, but apparently they needed to tell Zachary what a big deal they are:
“I make more money than you do. My time is worth more than yours,” the customer wrote.
Wait, if the customer has so much cash, why couldn’t he juke Zachary a couple bucks for bringing margaritas and enchiladas over to the table? Oh, the customer’s time was so valuable they couldn’t spare the half-second it takes to pen in the five characters that make up “$4.45.”
We’re certainly sympathetic to the argument that purposely terrible service shouldn’t be rewarded. But going out of your way to tell the server that you’re infinitely more important than them — instead of, you know, complaining to the manager about the quality of the service — is a whole new level of low. According to a report by the Restaurant Opportunities Center United, the median wage for untipped restaurant workers is $2.13, after all. It’s not like Zachary, as good or bad as he is at his job, is getting rich off of waiting tables here. He certainly doesn’t need that rubbed in his face.
Not long after the customer left this F-U to hungry waitstaff everywhere, naturally, it wound up on the Internet. It showed up on Reddit first, but with a slight edit. Next to the customer’s message was an added note:
“Fuck this guy.”
Truer words were never Photoshopped.
