ok peopl WHAT THE CRAP?!?!? My dad was a waiter before he had me, and made $150.00 a night, so stop saying waiters only make $2.00 dollars an hour

I think dine and dashing is wrong because of many reasons stated before. If you the place isn't in your price range when you look at the menu you should leave some money on the table (as compensation for taking up a space that could have seated other patrons in the time you were there) and politely and quietly exit and find somewhere you can afford. Depending on where you are and how corrupt the place you are working for is it is very easy to make 50 dollars in tips a night but not make anything on a weeks physical paycheck. Many places in the USA have a separate minimum wage that is different than a standard minimum wage for workers that make tips than the ones that don't its called Tip Credit. In some states minimum wage is lower than federal minimum and in some states there is no minimum wage in effect what so ever. The taxes that you pay into the state/fed can overtake what the minimum is if you are only making 2.13 an hour or how ever much many of these low wage places are paying especially since they are supposed to from what I know keep track of how much in tips each person made at the end of their shift (because that is all taxed). From what I hear it is not uncommon for places to tell a worker (especially one who doesn't have many options or is unlearned in the ways of labor laws) to multiply this number by that, or write a certain amount down on their paperwork even if it wasn't what was really made. Taking advantage of workers isn't hard, but it is wrong and sadly is done often. If a worker complains though it isn't hard especially in today's economy to find a replacement is it? Anyway as tipping goes in OR all employee's make at least minimum wage and minimum wage here is high (by comparison to the rest of the country but is sorta on par with inflation and living expenses) so here I do consider tipping as a reward for good service. It is always 10-15% if the service was alright or pretty good and 20% if the service was outstanding, but I refuse to tip if the service was terrible. The servers here make minimum wage + tips (which I believe are taxed too) and so if the server treated us poorly I don't feel bad not tipping or tipping very little.

"Dine and dash," "chew and screw," or (aw, hell) you can call it "running the check" if you want, it does count as an act of theft. Even worse, it's technically an act of legal fraud. Of course, the way you said it makes it look like it was a joke (sure sounds like it), but since servers are indeed forced to pay for dine and dashers with their own wages/tips, I doubt your server was amused. I wouldn't dine there again if I were you. Also, to those who are griping about lower-than-minimum-wage serving jobs, if you know of a business that's indeed doing that to their employees, you should be reporting them. Even for performance driven pay jobs (IIRC, that's what these are called), that's completely illegal. Oh, and somebody mentioned food stamps? You can't even pay for restaurant food with those anyway, so I don't know what the heck that was all about. Last but not least... @Bigdaddy (the guy that wrote this FML): http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

it's never ok to do a dine and dash or chew and screw. they can catch you. cameras, etc. plus if you ever came back they can prosecute you.

she works her butt off to keep stupid customers like u off of her back. YDI for being a bee-otch. ps. I bet this is fake.

Here is an excerpt from the U.S. Department of Labor which should clear up some confusion on the subject concerning the waitress, her tips, and minimum wage for servers. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, tipped employees are individuals engaged in occupations in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the employer must pay at least $2.13 an hour in direct wages. An employer may credit a portion of a tipped employee's tips against the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. An employer must pay at least $2.13 per hour. However, if an employee's tips combined with the employer's wage of $2.13 per hour do not equal the hourly minimum wage, the employer is required to make up the difference. The employer who elects to use the tip credit provision must inform the employee in advance and must be able to show that the employee receives at least the applicable minimum wage (see above) when direct wages and the tip credit allowance are combined. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference. Also, employees must retain all of their tips, except to the extent that they participate in a valid tip pooling or sharing arrangement.

op you are a huge dick

Tip your server, you ass. If you can't afford to pay for your bill +tip then stay the **** home and cook.

what does that mean??

so you wanna go to a nice restaurant yet are not prepared for it being expensive? logic, wtf?