Coupons........

Let's take an analytical look at coupons....

First of all...they are designed for one thing...to get you in the restaurant....we hope

you like what you had and will come back again....I remember a time when restaurant

coupons were almost unheard of....maybe there would be one in the Metro Passbook....but

other than that they were far and few between...now you can have a night where every one

of your tables is sporting a coupon....great...we do not love this......we love that you

are there...but more often than not....it is the servers who suffer because of the

coupon....If you have a $20.00 coupon....great...you'd just saved $20.00....we're happy

for you...but why should the server have to take a pay cut.....


Tip on the the original amount of the bill....it's even printed on some of the

coupons.....I can understand using the coupon...I live in Michigan...the poster child for

the messed up economy.....


AND THEN.....we get the people who try and scam a bunch of coupons at one table...when it

clearly states one coupon per table...then you pretend you didn't see that part...or are

your reading skills sub-standard, perhaps you have a next to zero command of the English

language....

I know all servers have heard this..."Well then, we want separate checks"....oh, aren't

you clever...like you're the first one to come up with this scheme....how would you feel

if your employer told you, "By the way, we're running a special, so you have to take a

$5.00 an hour pay cut." It doesn't matter where you work, or what you do....I'm sure this

wouldn't set well with you.....and don't even try and hit me with "It's your choice to do

this type of work" crap....all you're doing is showing the world you're a cheap ass.....

after all, actions speak louder than words.....