'I left waitress a £120 tip - but downgraded it to £3 to teach her a lesson'
A restaurant customer claimed she was accused of being a thief for not paying for her meal, even though she said she'd left around quadruple the bill's amount on the table. The apparent mix-up then left a waitress more than £120 down in tips.
The 30-year-old said she had been out for some food with her husband in small town in southern US when the incident happened. She wrote on Reddit: "My husband, 31, and I do fairly well for ourselves.
"Not well enough that we have no financial burdens but well enough that we can enjoy nice things and like to help others when we can. One way I like to do this is leaving a large cash tip when a server does particularly well or is someone we really connect with."
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On one particular evening, the couple dined at one of their regular places and left their server with a £157 ($200) tip. She explained: "We went to one of our spots and were served by a nice young lady I'm guessing in her early 20s. I decided to leave £157 ($200) cash for our £36 ($46) bill. I left cash on the table after the check came and, not needing change, we got up and left."
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But as they tried to leave the waitress ran after them insisting that they had left without paying. She said: "Our server ran us down at the door and somewhat angrily demanded we must pay and we couldn't just run out on the bill. I asked her if she had looked at the table and she said she hadn't. I walked back to our table with her, took the £157 ($200) and replaced it with £39 ($50). Enough to cover the bill and leave a small tip.
"I told her I would have appreciated it if she would have glanced at the table first or approached us with a question instead of assuming we were running out on the bill. She seemed embarrassed and we parted ways." The woman's husband, however, said she should have left the original bill but she insisted: "I think [the server] could have handled the whole situation better and I don't appreciate being called a thief.
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"For clarification, when she rushed us at the door, she walked right past a chest-high partition wall where you, very clearly, could see our table and that cash was left." The upset customer added: "Paying cash is very common in our area/this restaurant. The cash was clearly visible on the table and the restaurant was not busy. Our server had one other four top in her section and there were maybe eight other customers in the restaurant."
One Reddit user agreed wholeheartedly with her and believed that it taught the waitress a lesson: "I agree with your take 100%. There were multiple ways the server could have approached the situation that didn't start with step 1: accuse the customer of thievery. Your server just received a $150 lesson in how not to deal with customers. Hopefully it will serve her well in the future."
Others were keen to point out that she should not have left that amount of money lying about in the first place, as one wrote: "I do think it's foolish to leave that amount of money out in a public place like that. You have no idea who might swipe it if the server isn't right on top of things."
However, some people questioned the entire validity of the story and referenced previous posts the same user, OttoBonz, had left on the forum. One said: "Just six months ago you were so poor that you redeemed a gift card and used it yourself after giving it to someone as a gift. Now you're supposedly leaving 150+ tips.. Lmfao no. Not buying any of it," while another exclaimed: "Oh wow, Original Poster is that lady? I remember on another sub they were ripping her one for that."
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