Two nights ago I came very close to sacrificing my job in order to let a table know what classless jerks they were. It wasn’t even my table. A party of 25 people came in for a birthday. Usually we don’t accept reservations on weekends, but my manager made an exception for them. There were adults and teenagers, some of whom were immediately saying that they didn’t want to pay the added gratuity. One teenager ordered her food and said she wanted it right away and didn’t want to wait for everyone else’s food. She wasn’t even the birthday girl. I happened to run her food and instead of saying thank you she said “swag”. No lie. The two waiters taking care of them were good waiters. The table was very needy, but that’s not a big deal. What IS a big deal, is that after all 25 separate checks were split (yeah, 25 checks) one teenage girl said that they weren’t going to pay the added gratuity because they forgot one water refill! The waiters had to combine all the checks, remove the grat, and then split them AGAIN! Then, out of 25 people only 3 people tipped. Those 3 actually left notes on their CC receipts apologizing for the others. On a $400 tab, they got about $20 to split, minus the $16 that went to tip out…so $2 each. The kicker is that the girl who complained had the NERVE to say that she was a server! I’m serious. I have NEVER wanted to go off on SOMEBODY ELSE’S table as bad as I wanted to this time. What is wrong with people!?! And the restaurant sucks too. In most restaurants that I’ve worked, managers would comp some food in order to make sure the server got a tip. Not this one though.