Originally Posted by
jwslam
So 1/3 of your group is not there to actually pay for a meal plus generally leaving a mess with food on the floor, while potentially being loud and obtrusive to other customers around them.
My generalized experience from serving at multiple restaurants:
-When parents bring kids and they clean up after themselves, they leave a generous tip.
-When parents bring kids who leave half a plate of food on the floor, expect a shitty tip if at all.
edit: I'm not trying to defend this restaurant's operation in any way, but the societal model is flawed that servers are paid minimum wage when they are the front face over a lot of variables such as understaffed kitchen, incorrectly prepared meals, and cook times. These minimum wage servers are also the ones who get the grunt of dissatisfied customers...