Douche of the Week 7-30

 

This weeks DOW is more of a group than a person, but their Doucheness hits close to home for me.  This weeks DOW are bad tippers.  Bad tippers disgust me.  They go out to eat, usually run the server ragged, complain about everything and then leave a bare minimal tip or nothing at all.  

My wife is a waitress at a Cheesecake Factory in Boca Raton, FL.  Its funny, everytime I tell people where she works they immediately think she makes a ton of money in tips.  The truth is on most nights she doesn’t do that well at all, so much in fact she recently picked up another job to have a more steady income.

When I was old enough to go out to eat and pay for myself  it was already ingrained in my head to leave at least 15% of the  bill as a tip.  Now I feel it is customary to leave around 18-20%.   Some people feel 18-20% is too much, but it would probably surprise them to know most people leave around 10-12%, which for someone with a base pay of half the minimum wage (around $3.00)  barely pays for the gas to get to work.

I have found that the one of the top reasons people leave bad tips is because they simply don’t have a lot of money and can’t afford it.  Although I understand, I also believe if you can’t afford the tip after the meal, maybe you shouldn’t be going out to eat in the first place.  Maybe you should spend your money buying your own food where you can cook it at home and serve yourself instead of ruining someone else’s night by making them work for nothing.

Even more shocking are the people who are very well off and still leave horrible tips.  I once read an article about celebrities that were horrible tippers.  Topping the chart were people like Usher and Jeremy Piven whom have both left just an autograph for bills that are up in excess of hundreds of dollars.  And how about Bill Cosby who reportedly left a $3 tip on a $375 bill.  Oh and lets not forget about the queen of the small tip, Rachael Friggin Ray.  Ray has a TV show called $40 a Day in which she shows how someone can spend a entire day eating out for just $40.  She is seen on the show leaving around 10% on most bills.    Its shameful that these people who probably have enough money to buy the restaurant they eat in leave such horrible tips and for that reason they are all, with out a doubt Douche of the Week!!