i can see the restaurant's side of this one. what if they tip out the waitress in cash but then the customer disputes the credit card charge a month or two later?

alternatively, they could have sat on the tip for a couple months, but that doesn't seem much better....

like a slip with the tip and a sig. dispute over.


More likely the cheap ass fuckers at waffle house didn't want to pay the trans fee.

eating at a Waffle House? (Or "Awful House", as Jim Gaffigan calls it.)

It's really cool to see someone's eyes light up with joy from a surprise like that.

North Carolina isn't exactly overrun with 24-hour fine dining establishments.

God help me, we even ate at Shoney's. But nothing--nothing--would make us eat at Waffle House. Totally sketchy.

There's nothing wrong with going to a Waffle House.

sad to see the treatment it's getting in this thread. My kids love that place so we stop occasionally. We know it's not extremely healthy food - it's like stopping for ice cream now and then.

and it's supposed to be sketchy. That's the charm. There's entirely too little sketch drivin' down the highway these days.

3 eggs easy and some wheat toast.

But they aren't any closer than Ohio.

This is a sad fact.

and hash browns scattered, smothered and covered.

you just HAD to mention the patty melt plate scattered, smothered and covered DIDN'T YOU!?!

my cardiologist will undoubtedly wish to speak with you after my next checkup

sP

I know, I'm thinking of going there for lunch tomorrow. hashbrowns all done up and a patty melt. Even the pickles are good because they are kind of warm .

except i am watching the kids and feeding THEM that menu might be considered child endangerment

oh... EXTRA pickles... they can keep the little pack of mayo...

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Not me, but more pickles!

as the sandwich is, for lack of a better term, perfect as is... with extra pickles.

now for a confession... i always double-up on the hash browns... <guilty pleasure>. no need to rat me out to the cardiologist... she knows.

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My lips are sealed

maybe he realized he can't take it with him.

maybe he just felt like being generous.

(Well, it's possible.)
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There are a handful of establishments I'd continue eating at regardless of income-- one being a Waffle House-like chain restaurant... simply because I like the food, the hours, and the waitstaff are kind and attentive.

and I'll wager it is one of them for quite a few people. I've seen my Congressman in the one near my parent's business before when we went to get breakfast, and he isn't poor (for that matter, neither are my parents). He wasn't trying to be a politician, either, just eating breakfast with the family and keeping a low profile.

waffle house is the great social equalizer. You can find poor and rich, black and white, young and old, male and female, drunk and sober.

Day or night, despite there being one nearly everywhere ALL of them are packed. The only time I saw an empty Waffle House was the one that had 10 feet of water in it after Katrina.

who was working at a place that obviously wasn't paying its waitresses a lot of money?

If she got the money via the credit card it's a tip. Now it can be classified as a gift (no tax on a gift.)

can she get away with tax evasion easier if it's not on a credit card? sure.
is it legal? no.

then it's a gift. If the waitress were to approach him and have himwrite that, then it's a gift.

as i said, it would be pretty easy to evade taxes in this case because she could easily conceal the facts from the irs.

however, if the irs understood that the guy had been a patron where she waited on him, and subsequently gave her money, they would absolutely treat it as a tip. especially given that he had clearly attempted to give her a tip, then asked to pay the same amount in a different form.

who was talking to another waitress about not having enough money to pay tuition and was going to have to drop out of school that semester. She was $1,200 short. The lady she was serving that day overheard the conversation. She paid her bill and then gave a check for $1,200 to the waitress. It's a gift, not a tip.

if the patron gave the big check to a *different* waiter they would likely view it as a gift.
but if the patron gave the check to his own waiter it would be viewed as a tip.

They probably didn't want to eat the 50 bucks the tip would have cost them.

"Where is pancakes house?"