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Originally Posted by knotfan1234
I understand but at what point do you actually realize that you overpaid? You get your bank statement 2 weeks from now and realize that you overpaid $10.64 would you go back to get it?
One of two things here:
1) You go to a cheapish place i.e. Applebees with 10 people, you tip twice, once with the add-on and then again with the missed tip. Your looking at maybe a $5-10 oops-I-added-on. If your so cheap to deny some kid $5-10 bucks then you shouldn't be eating out.
2) You go to a high class restaurant i.e Ruth's Chris or something even more expensive with 10 people and it's $40-50 bucks a person. Again, tipping twice you are probably going to look at a hefty tip of upwards of $20/person. If you go back to a fancy restaurant and ask for your tip back you just look awful and shouldn't be eating there in the first place.
However in any circumstance I would gladly return their extra tip and joke about how it's an honest mistake, then discuss with my co-workers how they are incredibly cheap.
I would assume that most people would just let it go if they realized the mistake several weeks later. I think I would, anyway, but I haven't ever had to deal with something like that.
That wasn't what I wrote though. The theoretical situation was that the guy came back an hour later and asked for the mistake to be corrected. I don't know what the cut-off point is, but I wouldn't think less of some guy correcting a mistake even two weeks later if that's when he discovered the mistake. I'd probably just think he had too much time on his hands.
1. You're not denying anyone anything. The kid already got his tip. While 10 bucks is most likely not worth a drive to a restaurant the amount of money shouldn't change the fact that the customer is more entitled to the money than the server, just like the bank mistakenly transferring 10 bucks to your account doesn't magically make it your money.
2. I don't understand why you have to be able to afford and extra $100 tip in order to eat at a restaurant. Again, the amount of money doesn't really mean anything. If you can afford to pay for the food, drinks, and the standard tip then you can afford to go to the restaurant. I don't understand why anyone but a waiter(and Henry as well) feeling entitled to money that isn't his can think that wanting to correct a $100 mistake is cheap. You already got what you're entitled to. At what point did you suddenly feel entitled to money given to you by mistake.
I really can't think of any other situation where a person making a mistake that costs him money and later trying to correct that mistake would be cheap. I can easily think of situations where the mistake are so small that most people wouldn't care like example 1, or someone forgetting a quarter in change at the gas station and then driving back and ask for it. But the whole discussion started because some guy makes most of his money from customers not realizing that they're tipping him twice. If somehow all those people are incredibly ******ed then I'm more alright with it, but seeing how supposedly a lot of people do it, I would venture to guess that they need a little help to figure it out, so why not give them a little help?
Anyway, I seem to be the only one who has a problem with this thing, so I'm either completely wrong or you're all entitled waiter douches, and I guess the first option is the most likely so why not just leave it at that?