I mean how much of a scumbag do you have to be and how bad could the service have been that you're that deliberately insulting?
No it doesn't. Shit service is shit service and leaving a tip has nothing to do with the customers economic or social status.
I think he meant that a celebrity would be treated differently in this circumstances than a regular mortal would be.
Yeah I didn't read it like that. I've always made it a point to have staff treat a famous person exactly the way everyone else is treated, by which I mean at the highest level of service.
Faux, sorry. I don't think I'm making it any clearer either. I think the point was that he would be treated differently by the media. If I left a penny you, as an owner, I'm sure wouldn't have problem with it. I'm guessing you'd want to know why I did that and if you play it smart, made me a customer for life. When media gets ahold of this done by a celebrity, they won't look for reason why the tip was small. "Big actor X is a cheap scumbag" would get a lot more clicks and chances are that's how they'll spin it.
I think we're on the same page here. Of course the media treats it differently and it's a douche move on the owners part true or not. He's gonna have a full dining room now that everyone's gonna come to see "how bad the service is."
You're quite wrong. I said that it plays out differently if it's a celebrity. The public will label the celebrity a cheapskate even if the shitty tip is justified. They'll never know about the shitty service that justified it, unless the celeb takes to twitter, but at that point the celebrity will sound petty and cheap. I wasn't talking about the underlying rules of tipping at all; that's where you got tripped up.
Yeah I read it funny. My thinking is just different on it. When I read he left a bad tip, my first thought isn't dudes cheap, it's how bad was the service.
No worries! I do agree that he probably got awful service. If he was actually a cheapskate/jerk there would be many of these receipts over the years. There are a few celebrities (Michael Jordan & Tiger Woods) that are rumored to be bad tippers / cheap, but until a celeb builds up a big track record, I agree that people should by default assume that they got horrible service.
There are times when a restaurant service sucks so badly they don't deserve a tip. If they ignore you and don't check in for 30 minutes or screw up multiple times or treat you like crap because they're having a bad day, they don't deserve the tip. They are supposed to earn that tip with excellent service. I usually give them the benefit of the doubt if they make mistakes, I almost never send food back. But for me it's more about the attitude. You gotta be pretty damn bad for me not to tip you. I understand when the place is busy and they can't be everywhere at once, but to disappear or make you sit around waiting to ask for the check when your meal has been done for 15 minutes is just laziness, especially if the place is empty.
Update: The restaurant's owner, who posted the photo of the 20¢ tip, says McCoy got excellent service. http://6abc.com/food/pyt-responds-to-lesean-mccoy-tiny-tip-controversy/301480/ Apparently Charlie Sheen (who is known to be a very generous tipper) has decided to give the server $1,000. McCoy is being coy and hasn't said anything about it so far.
You don't have to couch that last statement in "celebrities", anyone that's ever worked a job where tipping is involved knows that most black people don't tip, and it doesn't matter how rich or poor they are.
