never stiff anyone on a tip! Unless they actually cause you some bodily harm or offense or something egregious like that.
True, but I think he just gave a smaller tip.
He didn’t like a dish so he tipped less b/c the server didn’t do a thing that maybe he could have done in a way that possibly he knew about but maybe didn’t. Sounds legit.
punishing someone for not guessing personal preference and then also not giving a discount is wild to me, but I worked in the service industry for a while so I usually lean towards generosity and understanding.
I don’t think it makes @moonboy a bad person or anything like that, but that’s not the kind of thing that I believe should negatively affect tip.
I’m curious: what specifically was wrong with the dish, and what makes it more likely than not that the server knew that you would find the dish to be disgusting?
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Yah, I agree. I think it’s a case of had to be there to judge the situation. If I clearly expressed dissatisfaction with a dish, sent it back or didn’t eat it I would be a little miffed if the server still charged for it. As a server I wouldn’t have charged my customer.
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It was course #2 of peking duck where they take the leftover meat/carcass, which I already paid for ($108), and make lettuce cups with shredded duck meat or a “stir-fried” course (I paid $22 for their labor only…fair enough) . I opted for the latter thinking that a high end Cantonese restaurant will make something decent out of it despite cooking the meat a second time (a brief stir-fried) which is routine for such course. But NO! It was deep fried and the whole fucking plate of bone-in meat is the toughest and most dried out piece of shit I’ve ever had anywhere anytime in my life. That shit sticks to your teeth and it was clearly inedible and I told the server as much after trying 2 pieces…how a restaurant of such caliber can serve me such a shit dish and not take it off my bill, despite the obvious execution fault, is unbelievable.
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That’s fair! I guess I never send dishes back and can’t imagine doing so for anything that wasn’t a truly extreme case, so maybe I’m not a good test for this. I don’t think I would adjust my tip by any noticeable margin based on these circumstances, but in reading yours and other posts I do understand why someone might.
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Are there high-end Cantonese restaurants with good service?
I haven’t been to many high end ones in the US but i got better service at China Tang at MGM with my brief visit there for dessert.
I think that would be a good thread.
Hotel restaurants might be an exception to the rule since there’s an additional layer of management.
The highest-end Cantonese place I’ve been to was the Crystal Jade branch in SF, on which they spent $14 million, but service was about like you’d get in a suburban strip mall.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Crystal-Jade-San-Francisco-s-14-million-13030963.php
Are baby hummingbirds a good sub for ortolan? Asking for a friend.
Only one way to find out.
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No. You want mature hummingbirds.
Is it just me, or does the Board seem less active than usual? 
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I’ve been noticing this, too.
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Yes posting traffic has been downhill for a while
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Blame it on the man who refuses to ever lose an argument, even if it means arguing with himself.
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