Waiter at Hind Bar & Restaurant in West Hollywood tries stealing additional $10 tip
My friend and I went to Hind Restaurant for dinner last week. When we got there, there was no hostess anywhere to be seen and we waited 10 minutes before someone came out to seat us. There was only one other party dining other than us in this section.
Service and food was fine, but like many of you, I donβt believe in tipping when waiters here are already making $19.65 hourly*, but our waiter was nice so I decided to throw in $5.
A few days later, I check my credit card statement and the posted price was $10 more than the total I wrote down.
Most POS systems have a calculator-style number pad layout (3×3), meaning the 6 and 7 are not remotely close together at all, so a typo is very unlikely. Realistically, I think the waiter felt entitled to a 20% or $28-30 tip just for taking our order, sending it into the kitchen, and then standing around doing nothing for most of the hour we were there, and he felt the need to steal an extra $10.
I called the owner to inform them of the incident, and he was super apologetic and promptly refunded the overcharge. He also mentioned this is the first time that itβs happened, but I knew he probably meant this was the first time they were caught.
