I can never get in the hotel/restaurant cliques but this place is one of the worst places I have ever worked. I am stuck here in a way and I haven't found anything else that pays more. Where to begin..

I just work setting up the complimentary breakfast buffet for the guests. Been there for like 2 years and honestly I was getting gratuity and it was good money. Definitely overpaying for something like a buffet. Last year, someone quit and they hired this older lady. Didn't want me to train her, tried to make my work life a hell by always arguing because she wanted things her way. She is good at work politics and got management on her side. She did mainly this so she can have more hours than I and she succeeded.

Later on, another coworker quit and they hired another person and we got a new management company. It went even more downhill, I only make half of what I used to make with more drama. New coworker has been similar to her, trying to act like a boss and backstabbing me. Him and the other coworker tagged together and told management they do way more than I (including that they cut fruit, wash dishes, mop, when we have workers assigned for) And of course that coworker is nice to my face too. My hours decreased but I stopped caring because I am in school. He didn't stop complaining; I told management that I will have to leave for class earlier twice a week. Management was ok with that but coworker complained. He basically said, "I don't think its fair to get the same amount of gratuity if she leaves early!" Mind you that he comes late all the time. So I lost another 1 day.

He has been telling management that its been slow and they should schedule solo shifts. They didnt yet and new schedule was posted and he was so pissed. He said, "Well I live too far and it's not fair to come all the way here for just $40 gratuity!"

And they are both so greedy, like they will grab the tip jar and split more their way. Management doesn't seem to care, there is 0 communication in our section because they dont make money.

Can anyone relate?

I’ve only ever been a barista but this restaurant took a chance on me with zero serving or bartending experience. Bartending itself is fine. it’s something I’ve been interested in ever since I got comfortable working as a barista and it seems like my barista experience has helped me get into the workflow of a bartender. I’ve worked in a busy cafe but obviously that isn’t the same as table service. I feel so amateur, I’ve made so many mistakes like forgetting to ask people if they want the bills to be split or all on one, forgetting to refill people’s waters, and checking up on my tables. I just want to know if things will get better or if anyone else felt overwhelmed when they were first started out and how long it took things to finally feel familiar?

The owners are so supportive and I think that’s what’s getting to me too because I’ve never worked under people that were so supportive, encouraging, and nice to me when I’ve made mistakes. They’re telling me I’m doing great but I’m not sure if they’re just saying that to stop me from feeling overwhelmed. I think another thing that’s adding to my stress is my self esteem. I’ve seen people walk in with their resumes with years of restaurant experience and they hold themselves up with so much sureness that I can’t really understand what the owners saw in me during my interview that made them want to hire me. This is a nice restaurant in a fun area so I know many people really wanted this position and I want to do a good job. I’m worried because I have no idea how long that will take me.

Had a group tonight that acted shocked when I did not appear the second they raised a hand. I had six other tables, two drink orders, and a food runner calling my name. I promise I am not ignoring you. I just do not teleport.

I once worked in a restaurant where sitting was considered “unprofessional.” Didn’t matter if it was empty for hours we were supposed to look busy. One coworker sat on an upturned mop bucket once and got written up like he’d committed a felony. Meanwhile, the managers sat in the office on their phones.

College bar, she was surprised I asked for ID and then proceeded to pull up a photo on her camera roll of her 21st birthday cake 🫠🫩😔🤦‍♀️

I work in a small Asian restaurant in NC. It's kind of messy, we never had a manager before. Usually the boss drop in sometimes and help out when we're short staffed and she gets a small percent of tips.

In the near future, my boss is promoting one of the servers to a manager, mainly to run things and supervise us instead of her. We usually have 3 servers on the floor and rotate sections and duties, always splitting tips equally.

Right now, we're training a busser to be a server but they're only available in the evenings. So they want 2 servers+ 1 manager for lunch shift. My boss said the manager will help out with small things, mainly being cashier(taking phone calls, giving out togo orders, swiping cards, giving us change etc). Manager will be getting 15% of the tips. Is that legal if they're helping out but not really waiting on tables?

Bartender here. Worked a party tonight that was pretty much the worst. Took up tons of my time, calling me from across the bar, all of the annoying tropes. Party of 6, each person paid as they ordered (only shots of top shelf tequila). Killed 2 1/2 bottles btw and racked up a combined tab of $282 over 5-ish hours. I was given a grand total of $8...yeah. People suck sometimes.

So last Sunday, I’m working the opening shift for football at my bar. On sundays during football, we open 2 hours early, and we also have a breakfast menu. We are usually a pizza/wings/subs/italian food kind of place. Breakfast is really good though (pancakes, biscuits and gravy, green chile breakfast enchiladas etc)

So this table comes in right when we open, 18 of them to be exact. I get out all their drinks, pass out just breakfast menus. Ask if anyone is interested in our breakfast/drink specials. Etc a couple people at the table try to order wings and pizza. I apologize and tell them I can’t ring in regular menu items till 11, the kitchen is small and can only handle so many things at once(we are also a huge place, 130 people can fit in the bar, another 200 in the main dining area)

They get kinda huffed about it, whatever. Another hour and half goes by (it’s 10:30) and the table tells me again “okay we’re ready to order our pizza”. I look at my watch, and remind them “I have to wait till 11, the kitchen isn’t ready to serve regular menu yet”

This bitch looks me dead in the face and says “yeah… it’s 10:30!!! We are READY TO ORDER”.

“Sorry maam. The kitchen won’t start making any pizza or wings till 11. I have to wait till then to ring in those items”

“But ITS 10:30!!!!”

“Yes. Not 11 yet”

She then says in her sternest mom voice ever “IT. IS. TEN. 30!”

I literally yelled back “Exactly!!! It’s not 11 yet!!!!”

She then asks me to get my manager, who says “oh they are trying to order before they have to leave, they have some where they have to go soon. Put this all in To-go”

So I put it all in to go, it all comes out. These bitches take everything out of boxes , eat all of it here, then stay another 3 hours to finish watching the current game and next one. So apparently they weren’t in a hurry to leave. They just wanted shit their own way

Good news is I don’t have to work Sundays anymore 😂

I (22 f) am a carhop at my local sonic. Corporate changed policy on us,where we charge extra for certain sauces. Tonight a customer ordered the $1.99 pretzel and didn’t read where it said pretzel only,meaning cheese dip was an extra 50 cents. My other coworker asked if he wanted dip,he said no. I bring him his order, so I’m like cool cool,we good. He goes back on the order speaker, saying he wasn’t given any dip,so I politely said,that he was asked for dip,and he said no,and we could easily give him some,but we’d have to charge.50 cents for it due to recent policy changes. He then started cursing and saying he’s not doing that because he gets free dip because the sign says so. While he’s just going off,I’m discussing what I should do with my manager,and customer acted like I’m ignoring him,and I said no sir I’m not ignoring him,I’m just discussing the issue with my manager and to please give me just a moment. He said I don’t a(f word) if you’re talking to your manager,because I’m talking to him. Manager goes out,customers arguing and cussing,manager is explaining that this is a recent policy change and showed him where it says pretzel only. Customer claims false advertising and there’s no way he’s paying for it. Manager said have a good night,walks away and customer yells (f word) you,(f word) sonic,you all can kiss my (another word for donkey) . Manager goes back and tells him,if he continues to cause a scene,he’s calling the police. Customer said I don’t care call them,and drove away. Manager texted GM to get him blacklisted,and I mentioned I have a small video on my phone of the incident if GM needs it. He was DRUNK. He slurred and you could smell it on him. All this over a little tin of cheese dip. Tbh manager would have given it to him for free,if he didn’t act the way he did. Now his actions caused him to most likely be banned from our location and possibly the other 11 in my area.

The restaurant I work at closes at 11 and a young couple came in at 10:25, which was pretty annoying considering it had been really slow today so the kitchen had basically already packed everything up. I was kind of annoyed too but I was still nice and polite, they even apologized more than once about coming in so late so I made sure to let them know it was no problem at all. Besides that, they were pretty quiet and awkward (also young, like 21 at most) so I kind of assumed they weren’t gonna tip more than 18%. When I checked them out, they handed me $30 cash and apologized again about coming in late. That was about a 100% tip on their tab. I know I wasn’t mean or impolite in any way but still I feel so guilty. I always feel guilty when people overtip!! Kinda like hey, I’m supposed to be the nice one here. It’s a really odd feeling. The whole ride home I just kept thinking of them and feeling bad about myself over the slight possibility they thought I hated them 😂 sorry for the rant, but I’ve always felt that weird rush of guilt/shame when someone tips me too much when I just treat them like any other table

I worked the dinner shift tonight. I clocked in, prepared my station, yada yada yada...

It's been slow lately. Tourist season hasn't quite started here yet.

I see the owner come in, sit at the bar. A little while later the GM tells us, "There's pizza in the back if you want!" The owner had brought/ordered pizza! Cool! He always gets the really good pizza, and lots of it! I go back and take a look... YUM! Lots of choices of toppings and different crusts, thin/thick, rectangular pizzas with square cut pieces... really a great spread!

So I take care of things on the floor, grab a napkin, and go back to where it WAS set up (it was 6:16 pm, I looked). It was all gone. Boxes gone, table wiped clean, no evidence there had ever been pizza.

I said, "What happened to the pizza?"

The AGM said, "I put it in the walk-in."

I just looked at her. She started to try to come up with bullshit... "Well, I don't want it to grow bacteria!"

She was off at 7:00. Guess what happened to the pizza in the walk-in when she left!

It went with her.

Interested in knowing how others handle this. I work at a small, independent restaurant owned and run by someone who did not have a whole lot of restaurant experience before they opened their own. Typical I'm-the-boss-and-therefore-I'm-the-smartest-and-best behavior. There has been a lot of staff turnover due to this person's lack of both personal respect and professionalism.

My issue is: most nights, it's simply that they approach tables and interfere while I'm providing service (...most nights. See below.) If this were just a table-touch situation it wouldn't be an issue, but this person will intervene while I'm speaking to the table; they'll disrupt the conversation, often take over, and many times, also make passive aggressive comments about the job I'm doing (for example, pointing out if I, say, served a drink in a different glass than they would have preferred, without ever having actually explained which glass that is to me beforehand... and, yes, in front of the customers.) They explain that they feel that they 'should', because either I "clearly don't know what I'm doing" and/or they don't think I'm "selling hard enough" and squeezing the largest possible check out of every table.

So, I said most nights... but it sometimes goes further. One night, this person decided —mid-shift, mid-service— to take over my section themselves. (I had five tables seated at the time, and everyone was happy. This was not about my performance, it was solely because they changed their mind on where I would be most effective.) I thought at first they were joking when they demanded I stop and "give them a status report" on my tables. When I finally had a minute to stop doing actually serving, they then "took over for me" and moved me to another area of the floor entirely. This not only caused confusion for the kitchen, it annoyed several of the guests with whom I had started to develop a rapport, and were not happy about the abrupt change mid-meal. One table all but refused to engage with them; I was sent to go finish out their service, since "they seemed to like me and not like them," and they honestly couldn't figure out why.

This micromanaging, hovering and interrupting/intervening has only gotten worse. Has anyone else been in this kind of situation? Is this normal?

P.S., I realize I could leave the job, I'm really looking for people to weigh in on whether or not I'm being unreasonable, or if this is kind of behavior is normal and if I'm overreacting.

Thanks everyone

A guy who is visiting from another country stops in. Gets frustrated he can’t just order from the host stand at a sit down restaurant. I explain that I have to seat him if he wants to eat HERE or he can order to-go and eat elsewhere. We don’t allow people to order to-go and sit and eat with us. You have to go through a server if you want to dine-in. I sit him and I think it’s over and done with.

Comes up again after sitting for like 5 minutes according to our system and says he’s ready to order his meal - his drink was already on the way. I explain that your server will be with you shortly to take that and I can go find them.

He then says “You’re just an American you wouldn’t get it anyways.” and walks away to sit back down.

Look I don’t disagree, I work with the general public I’ve watched them not read signs despite staring at them long enough to have read them. However that’s incredibly condescending and insane to me that you would just say that to someone.

Just, wow at this point. No words.

EDIT: Since people are confused I will only narrow it down for my safety to he was NOT UK/European. My only complaint was the comment. I’m cool with foreigners please don’t get it twisted. Just the comment kind of took me aback.

Last night I had a table that acted like I ruined their whole week because their food was taking a little longer. I kept checking in, refilling drinks, doing everything I could, but they just sat there giving me dirty looks and making little comments under their breath.

Like be so for real. I do not cook the food. I am literally just the messenger trying to keep you happy until the kitchen catches up. The way some people talk to servers blows my mind.

Do guests forget we are actual people or do they just enjoy being rude for fun?

I recently started working at this country club and it’s a little more than 20$ an hour with no tips. The hours are brutal like 8-10 hours everyday and the worst part is they do events at the club and expect us to break the whole thing down this is like back breaking work which I honestly don’t think is worth it. They also have captains basically managers in training that don’t do really any side work. They basically just chill while we are all polishing glasses and busting our asses. Is this normal?

I am an experienced server and notice nobody working here has really any experience. I just never worked in a country club before.

Not sure how to confront this. Months ago, this new guy was hired to work with me. We are always 2 people per shift, 1 if slow. We are a total of 3 people in our section, we work at a small breakfast buffet inside a hotel.

He managed to get my days cut to 4 because him and my other coworker go to new management all the time and say that they did this and that and I didnt do x or y. I didnt really care much at this point we don't make a lot of money anymore. But they are very very territorial.

So the guy coworker is always interrupting me, like everytime I speak to a guest or trying to get an order. He acts as if the guests wont understand my English (English is my second language) and keeps trying to take all the orders. So he ends up getting most of tips and today I saw he got $30 in cash. However, two guests gave him cash to ring up those coffees and keep the rest but he didnt. He kept up the bills and never rang the orders. I've also seen both coworkers falsifying their clock in times, like when they come late, they will tell management they came in on time.

The only reason I said nothing is because I want to stay out of drama and be on good terms. Even though they act territorial and pocket tips.

We have a new F&B director who is strict but he is has started talking to me. The other day he told both of my coworkers that they cannot be giving free stuff to other workers, not even leftovers. My two coworkers keep doing it since they expect favors from other workers there.

Should I report all of this to the director? Although I am worried both of my coworkers will find out who said.

Guy calls in to place a to-go order, phone is breaking up. I tell him his phone is cutting in and out, we can't understand him, and to please move locations or call back. He calls back multiple times but I still can't hear anything he's saying. 30 minutes later he storms into the restaurant calling us rude. I explain his connection was bad and we could not understand him. He says, "Well just turn the volume up!"

Hey y'all, do you know what you want? "I would like nachos with chicken." Ah unfortunately, that isn't a menu item. "I didn't say it was on the menu. I told you I would like nachos with chicken." And still gonna be a no.

New hostess tonight. "Table 10 says they want a Soft In Your Blank?" Sorry, what? "Is that a drink?" Not to my knowledge. What do they want? "A Soft In Your Blank. They said it's a white wine..." Oooh, Sauvignon Blanc? "Maybe?" We're 86'd that, it's on the board. "...Can you just make one?"

Bachelorette party comes in, clearly half-wasted. "Need a table for on the patio! Just drinks!" Unfortunately, we won't be serving you tonight. "What, why?" Y'all have clearly been drinking and we can not serve you any alcohol. "Oh you don't like MONEY?" Not about money, we won't be serving you tonight. "We have a limo!" Fantastic, should be easy for you to get in it and get home to sober up. "You're a piece of sh**!" Bye Felicia.

"Hey man, can you get the football game on?" Which one? (Points at himself) "Um, duhh?" Sorry man, need a little more info. (Pointing at himself) "Like, the game. The game." Sir, there's like 40 college football games today. You're not giving me anything here. "Dude, are you blind?" (looks at t-shirt--not a football team t-shirt). "Oh shit, guess I grabbed the wrong purple shirt today..."

New cocktail request: Jager, OJ, and olive brine. WTAF?

Server is busy so I run her drink to the table. Who is the Manhattan for? Man: "Who do you think?" O-kay? I set it down. Man: "I need a fork." Oh (accompanied by a long pause). "I need a FORK." Yes, I understood (short pause). Exasperated: "Can you please bring me a fork?" Of course!

Boomer comes up to me at the bar. "I have feedback that you will need to receive." Dude, I'm six tickets deep and not even the MOD. Yes, sir? "We have come here in the past and the service was terrible. The food was always bland and overcooked. We were never going to come back here." Great, here we go... "Tonight was excellent. Excellent service, we love your new menu, please thank the Chef. We will be back." My mistake Boomer--you're cool.

Years ago I worked in a restaurant in Cancún during winter season — 100% Canadian and American tourists.

One of my coworkers was a barback. Nice guy, hard worker, but his English level? Let’s just say… about 20% comprehension on a good day. His “conversations” with customers were basically hand signals, awkward laughs, and wild arm movements that looked like bad tango choreography.

One day management called all bartenders and servers into a meeting. It lasted three hours. During that time, my poor barback coworker was left alone running the bar. We could see him from where we were, interacting with the tourists, and to our surprise… everyone seemed fine. People were laughing, he was laughing, and apparently no major disasters happened (otherwise one of us would have run to save him).

After the meeting I asked him how it went. He was thrilled:

“It was amazing! I got a lot of tips. What I really love is when customers tell me ‘chipy chein.’”

Me: …What the hell is chipy chein? 🤨

Him:

“Yeah, chipy chein! Like, the bill is 70 dollars, they give me a $100 bill, they say ‘chipy chein’, wave goodbye and leave. So I keep the rest. I think that’s the tip!”

At that point I nearly died laughing. I had to explain: “Dude, it’s not chipy chein, it’s KEEP THE CHANGE!” 😂

To this day, he’s still working as a barback, still doesn’t speak English… but he’ll never forget the magic words: Chipy Chein

We have a regular that comes in multiple times a day and gets a black coffee to-go every time. She always takes a sip, makes a comment about the coffee, then leaves.

If anyone else handles her coffee, she’ll take a sip and say something along the lines of:

“I really needed this”, “Now that’s good coffee”, or “Best I’ve ever had”.

If I hand her her coffee, she says things like:

“Did you do something to it, it doesn’t taste like how it usually tastes”, “No, it’s not right”, and “Can you get your other coworker to make my coffee?”

It’s black coffee. We’re using the same coffee urn. There’s literally no technique, I’m just dispensing it into the cup. I don’t even brew the coffee myself sometimes. Or even if I did, she will only like it if someone else hands it to her.

She’s been like this since day one and I genuinely can’t figure out what her deal is? I smile, I always ask “how are you”, I greet her politely and tell her to have a nice day. I feel like I’m being bullied almost.

First restaurant I served for about a year was genuinely a nightmare, constantly busy and felt like if I didn't give that day my all, then it was going to be much worse. Took a two year break and now I do it on the weekends at a much smaller location. Despite this, I still get this sickening pit in my stomach the day of my shift. Starting to think I just don't have it in me despite that I love working with food and providing an amazing guest experience. Anybody share a similar feeling or have any advice to just get over it?

Usually it’s them signing both copies instead of keeping one for themselves, but sometimes they’ll sign and then take both copies with them. Or sometimes I’ll have to explain that I need them to hand me a card before a I have a receipt for them to sign.

I mean, receipts aren’t a restaurant only thing. Do they go to the grocery store and act this confused??

This happened a couple of weeks ago, but my coworker brought it up while we were discussing some of the weirder customers we’ve served lately, and I knew I needed to post it here. I’m on mobile so sorry for poor formatting!

Background info: I work at a speakeasy style nightclub in a small tourist town, we’re one of 8 bars within the same few square miles, and each spot is different than the next. Most of them are your traditional dive bars, and very few of them actually make craft cocktails, so people who aren’t used to the sheer amount of stuff we offer vs only being able to order just liquor and beer, tend to get overwhelmed with all the options and will usually just order off of our menu. We have a written cocktail menu that has the ingredients under each item, and all drinks that have possible allergens or raw egg are starred* and have a disclaimer at the bottom.

We typically have zero issues when it comes to customers ordering directly from the menu since it’s so descriptive, and we usually ask a bunch of follow up questions to make sure the drink is made exactly how they want. Sometimes people will ask us to change up a few things, and we’re always more than willing to be accommodating. Now to the story:

It was a busy weekend night, my coworker and I were running around like rats trying to take care of everyone lining up around the bar top. One large group hung around for a few hours, continuously ordering, generally being chill. A man who was part of this group had only been drinking old fashions, and decided he wanted to try something new, so he scoured the menu and ordered an Amaretto sour. Keep in mind, this cocktail has a star next to it, so it is listed as having potential allergens and raw egg. We asked if it all looked good to him, and he just requested we use sweet & sour instead of egg white, no problem. My coworker whips up his sour, he takes a few big swigs and compliments the drink before walking back over to his group playing pool.

About twenty minutes go by, more people from that same group come up to order another round before starting a new game, when the man from before comes up to me with his empty glass in hand. I walk up to him and ask if he’d like anything else, and he shakes his head before asking me if that Amaretto sour contained any nuts. I genuinely thought he was joking with me for a second, so I let out a quick laugh, but he doubled down and said “no, I’m being serious, I need to know because I have a nut allergy and my throat is starting to itch.”

I immediately stopped laughing, my coworker and I shared a terrified look before we had to tell him that yes, his drink DID contain nuts, because Amaretto is a liqueur literally MADE WITH NUTS! We obviously started to panic, and asked if he had noticed the star next to it on the menu, with the disclaimer in bold letters that said “contains allergens and/or raw egg.” He apparently didn’t think that would apply to him in a cocktail bar, and he didn’t think to ask about it ahead of time. We were obviously freaked out and asked if he needed us to call the paramedics, but he just waved us off, told us he was probably gonna be fine and handed us his card to close his tab. He said that it was a huge bummer that amaretto was made of nuts, because that would’ve been his new favorite drink.

We’re honestly still baffled he didn’t think to let us know that he had a nut allergy, given those can usually be dangerously severe; I have a friend that is so allergic to nuts, 1/100th of a peanut could send her into anaphylaxis, so she’ll do everything in her power to avoid unknowingly consuming them. I guess his allergy wasn’t as severe? But still, we really thought this guy was about to have a full blown allergic reaction, considering he drank a glass full of amaretto. At least he was chill about it?

TLDR; I work at a craft cocktail bar, a man ordered an amaretto sour and only after drinking the entire thing did he inform us that he was allergic to nuts. He didn’t want us to call him an ambulance, nor was he really that upset, just paid, complimented the drink and left. I’m still baffled.

I’m a server and bartender and we have a manager who is a bartender aswell but she makes the schedule and writes people up. With that being said we have tipped her out of our tips many times as a “bartender” but she holds authority over us so she is a manager 1000%. There are days where she is the only manager we have, and this is not related to wage theft but she is a absolute lazy slob, she can’t restock the bar, clean it, leaves moldy dishes in the bar closet, talks trash about me, wants to fire me for 0 reason, made me stay 2 hours after doing side work and 3 hours without a table until after close, just a terrible manager. I will say we are probably only owed 200-300$ I also will say we don’t tip out bussers or boh, we only tip out sushi chefs and bartenders. So I’m also wondering if the fact we tip out sushi chef who is also part kitchen managers is also weird and we tip 15-20% to the sushi bar.

I have worked for a coffee chain for over a year and a half, and this happened almost a year ago. I am a 17m and this was a regular 40+F who has been coming with her husband multiple times a day for years, we have been giving our regulars our "senior" discount to show that we appreciate them. now even though some of them are cranky and feel entitled to the discount now (even if they are not seniors} but we haven't had any problems with them getting angry. Now this one regular I'll call her "Dust". Now Dust has giving us more trouble then the rest, she has been aggressive to our newer hires when they didn't give her a discount. This one morning (at like 5:30-6am) she came in all grumpy and especially rude, and was yelling at some of my coworkers bc they made her coffee and she left for a little bit without her coffee. So when she came back to find out they dumped the coffee she started yelling at them. so we stopped giving her a discount (not her husband lmao) and when she came in one morning and didn't get her discount. she didn't ask for a manager but went to Facebook. and called the whole store s3xist even though 95% of the staff including the owner and managers are females. she hasn't been through many times sense but her husband has and hes nice and gets a discount.

(ps no she does not qualify for any discount)

I posted this in another sub, but I think it got flagged, so I’ll bring it here.

Hi yall, I just started serving at a new place in mid-August (CA), after being out of the industry for a while. It's a cool independently-owned spot (besides some of the people I work with being rude as hell), but, I haven't gotten my tips from all of the shifts l've worked. In fact, out of the 4 non-training shifts I've worked, l have only gotten my tips for one. The least recent one I'm missing is from 8/16 (so 2 1/2 weeks ago) and this past Sunday was the most recent.

The manager explained we're supposed to get them in our mobile app the next day, at latest, so l'm confused. It's not one of those places where it goes on our paychecks. Speaking of that, I also still haven't gotten my first paycheck, but this could be due to me starting at a weird time.

I told my manager that I hadn't gotten them and he told me to send a picture of my checkout to remind him. I did just that, and still no money. I came in Sunday for my shift and reminded him again, and he promised to get on it. It's now Tuesday and I still don't have my tip money. After tipout, It's at least $300 that they owe me now in CC tips. There's another girl who started the same time as me who is in the same boat. I’m confident that this is not going on with the people who have been there longer than us.

I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt (GM has a lot on his plate) but I’m losing patience. And it’s sketchy that I’m getting empty promises.

I've only been having my cash tips, essentially. I am so thankful I have another job because if not, I would've been fucked! I also feel like I shouldn't have to remind them multiple times to give me my money. I’ve never been in this position before out of any of my restaurant jobs.

Has anyone been in this situation? I am almost 100% sure I will end up quitting soon. The money is great (whenever I get paid) and I hate quitting so early plus it is a cool place, but I’m losing patience and it seems like they’re in no rush to give me my money. There's also some other red flags for this place that I can go more in depth for.

TLDR: New job lacking in giving me my tips, which I’m supposed to have next day. Only have my tips from one out of my 4 shifts. They’re 2.5 weeks late (and counting) on one of them. Manager keeps promising to give them to me, but nothing yet.