Talking about groups at restaurants, my ex worked one time and a group of 5 women came in. They were constantly asking for refills, one complained about her meal even though she ate half of it, so he comped it, but he had a bad feeling. They all wanted their leftovers boxed up. Anyways when he rang up all their separate checks realized they left him zero tips. And they had all scurried outside and were laughing together, as he could see them through the window. But, they had forgotten all their doggie bags!. So he got the trash can and with one satisfying sweep, swept all their boxes of food into the trash. Finally they sent one women in to get the food, and when she didn't see it, asked him embarrassed "where's our doggie bags?" And he said as sweetly as he could "i'm sorry, those are in the trash". And she slunk back out to her friends. The thing that my ex couldn't understand was that there were some semi regular people who didn't tip, or tipped terribly (pile of change, mostly pennies). At one place he worked the waits would argue that they weren't going to serve them. And when they did, got the minimum. He didn't know if those people were ignorant, or it became a vicious bad tipping cycle because the wait staff were not happy to see them, crappy service, poor tip. But he waited on them a number of times and tried to kill them with great service. Same thing happened.
