Couple Arrested for Refusing to Pay Tip!

[losfreddy]

welp, noones going to that restaurant proabably not gonna get any buisness after this report 

[SeatownGreen]

Welcome to the capitalist police state of America! Where businesses have more rights than citizens!

[ctrodney]

The tip is mandatory. It is not an optional part of dining out. If you can't afford to tip, then you can't afford to dine out. Do you want me to come to your job and take part of YOUR pay away? It's always the old white republicans who do that crap because they don't care who they harm. I guarantee the waiters and waitresses work harder than they ever will?

[VooDoo669]

@ctrodney Um no tips are not mandatory. You are out of your fucking mind. If you give me poor service you get shit for a tip.

[lbradjoslin]

gartuity. a gift of money, over and above payment for service.. To define it is a gift a gift. To requier a gift In itself is a contradiction. first the tip should never be mandentory! suggest yes and mybe a persent too if the sevice was adiquet. The contract between the patren and the restaurant, custamary is to provide eatable food and  adiquit sevice befor payment is made! if these requierments are met then payment is made. If not payment is to be determined accordingly. call 911 is a joke

[KEWLIDO]

Hmmmm. Well if the food was bad and the service was good, should I pay for bad food? This is a civil and NOT criminal matter.

[Proconstitutioner1]

Hahhahahah america sooooooooo fucked upp lmao

FUCK YOU AND YOUR TIP JUST BECAUSE YOUR BOSS DOENST PAY YOU DECENT SALARY YOU GETTING CUSTOMERS TO PAY YOUR SHIT

AND THEN EVEN CAL THE COPS YOU PPL TOTTALY LOST ALL YAH MARBLES .

BRAINWASHED IDIOTS

[kingdobbs1]

Who the fucking pig who arrested them? Asshole my need to be kicked in the balls you bitch!

[misterbeanladen]

Wow. Just wow.

[FarmerTrans]

If a gratuity is mandatory on large parties (which they usually are, and it is usually posted) then that added into the bill becomes part of the bill. If they didn't pay it, then they did not pay the complete bill and therefore ARE guilty of theft. The smart thing for the couple to do would have been to pay the tip and consider it a lesson learned and take their business somewhere else in the future. The Police (even though they may not have like it) did the correct thing.

[fatalwish666]

a tip is a tip just that not you owe me htis your stealing thats nonsense

[MadMaxPaladin]

I hope they sued the bar and put them out of business. I would support any businessperson who gave me good service but anyone who calls the cops over a bullshit "mandatory tip" after giving horrible service doesn't deserve to earn a living.

[LibertyJedi]

Welcome the Police state, you like me are a slave you will do and pay what your master's in gov say u will.....  U need to learn to be good slave and obey your masters.

[cynthiabaudino]

mandatory?....i love mcdonalds

[alandalus1]

bolony... tip is optional... always... 

[FarmerTrans]

@alandalus1 .. Tips are not always optional. If you have more than a certain number of people in your party it is usually mandatory and is added in. Also, a lot of places add the tip in when you order food to go, as well as when you order food to be delivered. Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Etc.. are real bad about it. Next time you order from them check your receipt real carefully.. it is usually written in as a surcharge, which means you double tip.

[Numba1SouthParkFan]

The guy in the middle left is a fuck tard

[vampire847]

mandatory gratuity is an oxymoron and there is nowhere in any law that says you have to tip.

[lastpatriot4America]

Mandatory tip ? WTF ? I would sue the piss out of that resturant

[deanoobaby]

only in america whats wrong with you people ?

[Dunington]

if there is a sign at the front that says a tip is automatically added onto the bill, then its mandatory. Its the same as dine and dashing. if they arnt happy with the service you pay, complain then never come back. Lack of service is better than breaking something that is knowable for everyone

[SLKinshella]

what the f--- america?

[pwnurnoobazz]

Glad to see the cops are taking these sick bastards off the street, instead of murderers and rapists.

[WilliamN188]

Hey Lehigh Pub.....enjoying the new found PR? fucking idiots....instead of supporting the customer (ya know, those pesky troublemakers that pay your bills), you thought it was a good idea to call the cops and piss them off even more. I can only hope your incredible level of stupidity results in a bankruptcy for your business.

[jlgrimm100]

and i bet thay had a fine as well and cort cost thay have to pay the cop every time thay are took in why you ask are thay fine you3 violation now when your pull over thay want money the cops want money and the more money thay get thay keep thir jobs to sirve and bleed dry because goverments need 300 bill to to so

[thezombiekiller87]

we are not suppose to pay a tip. the word "tip" stands for some thing for good service. get a real job when you dont get tipped. what the fuck

[TheRosettaStoned]

what do you do if youre in asia and the gook, dont torture the puppy long enough before its cooked? The meat is stringy and tough if its not beaten properly

[cbarsonfire]

What a BS law. Boycott this business.

[noorgard1]

A tip is a gratuity! to say that it is part of the bill is wrong. The problem really arises because gratuities have become illegally taxed. For police to arrest someone for $16.00 means that the taxpayers have to pay for the time that the police were handling this situation, for court, jail stay and everything else involved with this arrest. The establishment should be billed to recover losses for the taxpayers. The couple should receive a refund for indigestion and to recover court costs, etc.

[szumwalt]

Gratuity is part of the tab if it is listed on the menu. When you order food or drinks you go into an agreement if you don't like it don't eat there.

[Snoop18719]

That Is fucked up!

[flourbiscuit76]

Go to a restaurant that doesn't have mandatory gratuity for large parties, then. If you go to a bar with a 2 drink minimum and you think the drinks are watery garbage, you still have to pay. Just don't go there again.

[brianbillick]

Guess what? If they restaurant says it requires a 18% gratuity, also known as a service charge, then you are REQUIRED to pay it. It's part of the service. Even if you have slow service, that person is still providing you with service, so you have to pay for it. Why should it be free??. Glad the owner taught them a lesson!! Take notice people!!

[DethBatCountry]

@jossgower Get some respect for your fellow man dude

[edwardd6681]

fuck tipping

[Hughster49]

The cop is an idiot, this was a civil matter.

[ajaykeer23939]

so news women used to be waitresses

[DethBatCountry]

I doubt any of what those ppl said was actually true. It's sad they were such incredible Dbags that they had to go running to the news with it. And that stupid F*%#ing news-anchor! No way was she ever a server once in here life. No server ever says "Sometimes you don't get tipped and that's okay." As a bartender who gets paid $2.13 an hour myself, I think tipping should always be mandatory and should be enforced by the government. since they tax us on tips we dont make because of you a%%h*les!

[jossgower]

@DethBatCountry Get another job dude

[ZeroColourz]

1 hour???Should of gone to applebee's...

[torontothegood]

@ZeroColourz i'd have gone to T.G.I. Friday's after 30 minutes .. yummy taco salads!

[MrCarl220]

They paid their bill...oh, but those 'madatory' gratuitie's get you!

[PornDawgDaddy]

I don't tip is service sucks.

[elaniemyjsk]

A mandatory gratuity? That doesn't even make any sense. No offense to any servers but if your service sucks, don't expect a tip or very much at all from me.

[edwardd6681]

tipping nazi's are evil and pure scum

[aBenDragon]

They should of asked for a manager and thier meal probably would of been free.

[GreatSpirit07]

This is why I get take out! Mainly because I'm poor and feel I shouldn't have to pay 15% on top of what I am paying already for over-priced food. Also, I'm anti-social. But mandatory tips? Fuck that shit. I'll go to McDonalds.

[1775novten]

@GreatSpirit07 haha, classic!

[sssssjjjj1]

this is crazy.....this is absolutely nuts.

[chartrule]

Since when is a tip manditory?

[ohannahdad]

I have always left a 15% tip as a minimum. I have always appreciated waiter/waitress people for being hard working busy people. In most cases more than 15% would be the case. I don't think however that a mandatory gratuity is a smart idea from a business standpoint. The tip should be an expression of appreciation for a job well done, not something the establishment guarentees the server will receive......good service or bad.

[Born2Flesh]

They are both terrorist, and should be tortured.

[gatewayeast1609]

The mandatory "gratuity" is not a gratuity. It is a surcharge.

[defmoe1982]

tipping is also not mandatory. fail cops

[johnnybagofdonets]

I always tip.... don't like anyone spitting in my food....

[SmileyBK6]

come on arresting for a tip? I NEVER FUCKING TIP

[giathecat]

You can't arrest someone for not tipping. My god.

[DSuper3]

@giathecat Yes they can!

The restaurant's policy was that the gratuity is "mandatory" for parties of 6 or more.

It's morons like you who accept the terms of an agreement to recieve the benefits and then refuse to follow those terms after you've recieved those benefits.

[jamespaulkeegan]

@giathecat you should thats how they eat how would it feel making $1.18 an hour workin 7 tables and you have a $50 order and they sit there for two hours and leave without tipping you and guess what your rents due today and you need to cat food human food pay the bills and that weird little thing called living a decent life so that they don't have to sell their cat get depressed and shot themselves in the face all over your lawn

[giathecat]

@jamespaulkeegan I actually get $1.26 an hour. I work as a waitress, as a part time job while in college. I barely get by, but guess what: I don't throw a fucking fit when someone doesn't tip me. If they do, that's great. If they don't, oh fucking well. I'm GREATFUL they even eat there, so i'm not out of a damn job. There isn't a damn sign on the door saying they HAVE to tip us.

Wikipedia: Tip- "A voluntary payment made for services rendered" Key word: VOLUNTARY.

Fucking idiot.

[noorgard1]

@jamespaulkeegan tell your company to pay you minimum wage; Tips are not part of a wage; no matter what the tell you.

[BadSnefsky]

@giathecat You can be arrested for not tipping if they list the 18% as a mandatory gratuity for a party of 8 or more. Whatever the policy is at that restaurant, they went there and thus have to abide by its rules.

[nezpercenathan]

I always tip, but it varies greatly depending on service. I used to manage a restaurant, and have had to go out back and tell smoking waitresses to get to their tables, that they were needed. So, I know that poor service is often the result of laziness. I also know that sometimes food is slow to come out of the kitchen, so that is not a server's fault. But, when I have an empty glass for 20 minutes, and my idle waitress, and the beverage I am drinking are in plain sight, the tip goes way down.

[Carnius797]

@nezpercenathan Exactly. It gets kinda bad soemtimes. Like you said it isnt always the servers faulkt, but if they walk by you 3 or 4 times and its obvious you have an empty glass, they can fill it up. I actually had a waitress last month in this city i was passing through raise her voice saying "well why didnt you just get my attention somehow!" When i was smiling and riasing my glass trying to make eye contact. Plus the food sucked so i gave her a 2 dollar tip

[Danbo342]

What grinds my gears is places like Dunkin Donuts that have a tip cup on the counter.

[Sbljuan]

This a first

[2009stalker]

fuck that! i never pay give tips. :D

[ACocktailShaker]

This is pure bullshit. In my 30 years as a bartender/waiter, I had bad nights when I KNEW I couldn't service my people properly at all. And there were times, when I actually gave back tips because I just didn't want people to have to pay for what they didn't get. Asshole bartender is a pure punk. Thank Gerald Ford for making gratuity a taxable transaction in the first place. Restaurants that put mandatory tips on the bill are just trying to limit the wages they have to pay out of the biz.

[musiclvr1able]

what a bunch of crap; if i was subject to terrible service, mandatory gratuity or not, I wont be tippin! at the very least, I'd let the waiter/tress know I was unhappy with my service and don't feel that it would be right or fair to be forced to pay such a large percentage in tip; and the dude who actually supports the restrnt should get bad service just to know what it feels like, and then be forced to tip anyway or get arrested for "theft"; so stupid

[smitty195]

Why on earth did PD get involved with this?? I can understand them responding to a disturbance, but once there, they should have said "It's a civil problem"--and left it at that. Arresting is CRAZY.

[avellaneh]

Cops blew it..... a gratuity is a gratuity!!!!! I am sure the police could have been doing something more important that enforcing a $15 tip with taxpayers money!

[dogdemon444ify]

now they try and to seek the tip in your receipts

[ninjajesus81]

How the hell can you have a mandatory gratuity? That's an oxymoron.

What a fucking retarded restaurant.

[BufirdMauhaney]

2nd guy from the left is a Democrat obviously.

[badpanda84]

To be fair if someone was arrested for $16 theft ( regardless wheather it is a tip or not) t it wouldnt hold up in court.. Simply because court can't be stuff proscuting such as samll amount

[biggoober]

The "mandatory tip" is only a civil agreement between the establishment and the customer. I would say the arrest was unlawful. It should be dismissed either by the police department or the court and they should do it fast. Hopefully someone with some sense will figure it out.

[BunkerGearGal]

Charge them, they get dismissed, BUT, they are in the system for the rest of their lives, and have PN's as a result! Listening to the weasel reporter supporting mandatory tipping makes me a bit sick to my stomach, douchebag.

[KWP880609]

@BunkerGearGal If you can't afford to tip do not sit and be waited on; just go get food elsewhere. I used to wait tables and if I wait on you I expect a tip.

[BunkerGearGal]

@KWP880609 Then you are a complete douchebag. Sorry, but that's it. In America people aren't arrested for not tipping, or shouldn't be, and your self-righteous and repugnant attitude makes you part of the problem. If people can afford the cost of the food they order, then they have every right to go wherever they want to and eat. You're actually very pathetic, I feel genuine sorrow for those who are forced to interact with you in real life.

[KWP880609]

@BunkerGearGal - No Way I am not a douchebag. Servers wages are only 1/2 of minimum wage which means that even the US Government and the IRS intend to take the other half of their taxes out of the tips which you SHOULD be earning.

When you eat in a full service reataurant you are EXPECTED to tip. If you receive bad service than leave a bad tip to reflect that- this will also let your server know that you were not happy with some aspect of their service and give them a chance to change it.

[junekentucky]

@KWP880609 Rewarding bad service with any tip is still rewarding the bad wait person for bad service. If you expect to get tipped, you better give good service, that's what the tip is for, service.

You said it yourself "When you eat in a full service reataurant you are EXPECTED to tip."

[longboardlifer]

Mandatory Gratuity is a misnomer If it is Mandatory means required, so how can it be a Gratuity (which means voluntary). If it is Mandatory then is is a Sales Tax, and NOT a gratuity! The ignorance and lack of forethought in both the the lawmakers, enforcers and some of these reporters is mind numbing!

[nicolassoleil]

they should have just left and taken their business somewhere else.

[psteverific]

@P0LICEstateWATCH

Regarding your description, it's important to keep in mind that police officers are trained to be experts in enforcement, they are not legal experts.

And it kind of has to be that way... if you had to go to law school to become a cop, why would you choose a cops income over a lawers income?

I know it's not ideal, but there's no such thing as a perfect system.

[psteverific]

Tip= To Insure Promptness

at over an hour for an order of chicken wings, I'd say the restaurant had already failed to deliver on their end of the deal

[MelkorHimself]

@psteverific While I agree with your point, the word "tips" is not an acronym for two reasons.

1) It uses the wrong form of "ensure". If it were an acronym, people would call them TEPS.

2) Tipping began as an English custom among the wealthy, and it was brought to the United States as a way of flaunting one's supposed wealth. Gradually it became our culture.

[psteverific]

@MelkorHimself

Funny, it occured to me as I typed that it was the wrong form of ensure, but I didn't think about it very hard lol

Mind you, propper spelling was not common in medevial England lol.

Regardless of how the custom came across the pond, originaly the custom was for weathey people to show their money purse before being served, to prove that they could pay for their fare, and were thus deserving of extra attention.

At least, that is my understanding

[Casper48022]

Yeah, at the restaurant I worked at, any groups bigger than 8 have an automatic -mandatory- gratuity added to the bill...

[rukahk981]

The cops probably thought it was a joke too, but they must arrest, so.

[MrSojitoji]

complete idiocy

[glenisah]

Ridiculous