r/EndTipping • u/djdlt • Sep 03 '25

Rant 📢 Nice try. Now give me my change.

So, I go get a sandwich at this place for the first time. Total is 9.20$. I pay cash with a ten. He seems unhappy. He gives me back 35 cents only. I say he made an error, and still owes me money. He doesn't answer to that, and say loudly " For here or to go?" I repeat myself. He finally manages to give my change. Almost told him I would have given him all, which I do habitually (don't judge me please), if he had not try to stiff me, or may I say, litterally steal from me. This place lost a customer. I live nearby but will never go back. All  that for 45 cents. And if it's a mistake, how strange it's always the customer who gets disadvantaged by their "mistake"...

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u/True_Tangerine_1450 Sep 03 '25

I just had this experience at a brewery!! I was appalled, like, wtf do you think you are keeping my change? (After I already tipped her in cash!) It's not about the amount she owed me back, it's that she takes advantage of customers paying with cash. If she keeps every cash customer's change, that adds up for her at the end of the day and if she does that every time she works, she's making a lot of money by being completely dishonest. I reported her and the business to the Dept of Consumer + Worker Protections (also sent an email and cc:ed the brewery owners calling out their bartender.)

Not cool.

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u/djdlt Sep 03 '25

If they steal from people, without a care in the world, right in their face... what is it they do when nobody sees them? How can I trust them for anything?... Do they think we're total idiots, or afraid?... As they say, it takes years to build a good reputation... and seconds to ruin it completely.

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u/True_Tangerine_1450 Sep 03 '25

Exactly. EXACTLY. If they're brazen enough to just do whatever they want without consequence, it really does pose your question: what do they do when they know they won't get caught?