A woman I knew opened a bar/restaurant this past December. We weren’t great friends but I have known her forever.

Anyway, when she opened I picked up a few shifts.

So last night this table comes in. It was 3 women and one of them owned a website that basically features best restaurant, hotels, best things to do, etc in my city.

So the owner sat with them for a while. At the end, the owner comes up to me and says “Don’t give them a check”

So they ask me for a check and I told them there wasn’t one. The website lady said “Are you serious? Then you are getting a nice tip!”

So anyway, their check would have been like $64 and she gave me a $60 tip (she didnt know how much her bill was).

So a few minutes later the owner was like “How much did they give you” and I told her and she said “ok, I want part of that to help offset the check. I don’t want to have to eat that whole thing”

So she basically made me give up $30 of my $60 to pay for the check.

Besides being in complete shock, I am still trying to rationalize this by thinking- well, I probably wouldn’t have gotten a $60 tip if I had presented the table with a check. But even still, I think what she did was completely wrong….