Greg Abbott left no tip to restaturant servers and he had a party of twenty folks

[iluvtennis]

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Denise☮️@DeniseBinAR
Replying to @JonBoyle18 and @Joannafersulli
My niece was a server at The Rainforest Cafe in Grapevine, Texas. Abbott came in with a party of twenty. Two servers. Not one dime for a tip. His wife told my niece they should be honored to serve him.

My niece, single mom, came home in tears.

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Fkn cheap bastard

[Meadowoak]

1. What a piece of shit.

[iluvtennis]

2. Exactly. n/t

[Turbineguy]

3. When billionaires are your boss

you can shit on the little people.
















Maybe

[The Unmitigated Gall]

4. The cruelty is the point.

Now, watch them yell about “class warfare”.

[at140]

5. Cheap bastard

ESAD Abott.

[Meadowoak]

6. I think I would have told him off to his face.

[Hekate]

36. I took a lot of crap in my working life, and since I desperately needed whatever job I was in...

…I NEVER told anybody off to their face. That went double when I was a single mom.

[TexasTowelie]

7. Cecilia Abbott also deserves to be shamed for her comment.

The arrogant nature of that comment is an indicator that Greg deserves to be voted out office.

[iluvtennis]

8. +++ agree. n/t

[roody]

57. Her fashion choice is shameful.

[treestar]

61. Very TFG-like

when TFG says people will get more business merely because they did something for him as a justification for not paying.

[MiniMe]

9. I hope she remembers that in November

[dalton99a]

10. Typical Abbott.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. VOTE THAT SOB OUT OF OFFICE AND OUT OF TEXAS! n/t

[Initech]

92. Time to sack the cancerous Christian right!

They have no business being in government! Fuck them!

[Maraya1969]

12. I hope a journalist goes after him and asks him about this

Get him on record that he stiffed these waitstaff.

When I waited tables I follow 2 groups out to the damn parking lot. And I got my tips too. It's funny how if you confront these people they act all sheepish and give you money.

[KS Toronado]

35. If I ever had to follow a non tipping group outside

HEY, did any of you guys see who stole the tips you left me?

[Volaris]

45. Oh. I got one, too...when I worked at a casino, a guy left .50 on the bar,

And the bartender wasn't having it. She walked it back over to the guys blackjack table and told him he forgot his change.

'Oh no, that was your tip.'

'That's not MY tip, and if I ever see you do that to any other bartenders in here again, security is GOING to remove you from the premises.

For rest of the night, her tip was the rest of the 10 bill. Per beer.

[KS Toronado]

48. Hope he was drinking the cheap stuff

not the $9.95 stuff.

[pandr32]

13. This story needs legs

It certainly won't help Abbott's re-election chances.

[ARandomPerson]

16. Have to make sure it's true first.

For example, lots of restaurants add a standard gratuity (15-20%) to a bill for a large party (such as 20 people). Are we sure that the complaint isn't simply that the Abbott party didn't add a tip *beyond* the standard gratuity? if that's the case, things are much more murky. Best not to go off just based on a tweet.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

38. Here in CA I've never encountered a restaurant that doesn't add a standard gratuity

automatically onto the bills for large parties.

Not sure what happens in Texas, but...

[W_HAMILTON]

75. California is quite different than Texas.

I'm sure I don't need to inform you of this.

[TreasonousBastard]

91. NY does the same thing. In fact, we're often asked on the bill...

if we want to tip 25%. Or more.

[pandr32]

71. Good point

Though it seems unlikely that Abbot's wife would have behaved with such callousness if that were the case. The servers wouldn't have likely complained either.

[Meadowoak]

39. Maybe Beto should mention it at some of his rallies. It really

Goes to the heart of what Abbott thinks of working people in Texas.

[pandr32]

72. It is a gut punch to working people.

Texas has wealth. I think Canada's Alberta is similar, but Alberta has free health care and no sales or payroll tax.

[prodigitalson]

14. So this is what counts as news these days?

Dog bights man?

Genuine newsworthy Headline

Counterintuitively, Abbott doesn't stiff wait staff

[czarjak]

15. White Supremacy to spare y'all. Dannie Scott Goeb is his Puppet Master. Ask him.

[Warpy]

17. Who;s the bigger asshole, him or his Mrs?

I'd say it's a dead heat.

Maker sure your niece tells that story all over the place. That clueless cheap bastard needs to be outed as a clueless cheap bastard. Oh, and tell her to call Beto's local campaign office. Maybe restaurant managers will tell him to honor somebody else.

[lpbk2713]

18. Scrooge.

What a cheap ass mofo.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Sounds exactly like TFG who stiffs those he hires saying his business is sufficient contribution

[AZLD4Candidate]

20. Sounds like Donnie Dumbass with contractors. I won't pay you, but tell people you worked for me

Look at all the business you'll make. You should be happy I gave you the opportunity and be honored I stiffed you.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[msongs]

22. depends on if it is true actually nt

[Kali]

31. don't like defending assholes

but when I was waiting tables, parties over 6 had a gratuity added automatically. good folks leave more on the table, but still...

[soldierant]

23. The only thing I would be honored to serve him

would be a landslide defeat.

[SergeStorms]

24. I hope he dines there again very soon.

Chefs and Servers have special techniques for taking care of customers who are raging idiots or stiff the Server.

Yep.....special techniques alright.

[Iggo]

33. He can't be that dumb.

Can he?

[SergeStorms]

64. He most certainly is.

These people think their feces doesn't stink and that they can do, or say, anything and get away with it.

If only one republinut recognized him and sang his praises that's all he'll remember about the place.

I imagine he'll be dining there again within two weeks.

[Iggo]

67. I mean, he doesn't have anyone working for him who used to work in the food service industry?

I know my boss screwed up once and got in an argument with the back-of-house staff at a restaurant we were having lunch at, and I had to tel him “No. A hundred percent, no. You can never ever eat there again, no matter what.”

Don’t fuck with strangers who prepare your food, man.

[SergeStorms]

94. Precisely.

It would never occur to these republinazis that someone who they consider "beneath them" would dare do anything in retribution for their abhorrent behavior.

[niyad]

90. Pecan pie, anyone?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Greg has always been an ashhole

I was at the same firm for a while in the 1980s. Greg was part of the toxic tort defense team who bragged about cheating widows and orphans out of what due to them

[Skittles]

28. of course, Greg got what he needed, after his accident

or so I heard....

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. The accident before I got to the firm-Texas monthly had a long article on Greg

It is written by a person who was a paralegal at the firm Greg started at. That firm had issues and fell apart in the early 1990s.

I still have not figured out why Greg is running so scared. Greg is pushing policies that fine with the Q-nuts and the more right-wing part of the base. These same policies will hurt Greg in the general election.

There are some good details on the settlement Greg got due to a falling tree. I never got all of the details of this settlement or the accident that left Greg in a wheel chair.

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https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/who-is-greg-abbott/

One of the higher-ups at Butler & Binion was a canny litigator named Pearson Grimes. (Disclosure: I worked as a paralegal at Butler & Binion from 1976 to 1979, before Abbott arrived.) Grimes persuaded Don Riddle, who was then considered one of the best personal injury lawyers in Houston, to represent his young associate in a potential lawsuit. Abbott had been hurt during the heyday of the plaintiffs’ bar in Texas, with wily lawyers regularly winning jury awards and settlements in the seven figures for injured clients. Riddle knew, however, that a tree falling did not necessarily indicate negligence on someone’s part—and negligence had to be shown in order to recover damages. But Abbott made for a sympathetic plaintiff, struck down just as his professional life was beginning. And the owner of the property where the accident occurred was a wealthy divorce lawyer, Roy W. Moore. (He died in 2018.) According to one person who heard the story from Moore, he visited Abbott in the hospital and promised that he would insist that his insurance carrier pay Abbott the highest amount the policy would allow, negligence or no negligence.

Moore was covered for $1 million or so in his homeowners policy, Riddle recalled. “A million dollars didn’t stretch that far if you were damaged for life,” he said. But he discovered that Moore had paid a tree company that was part of a large national chain to do some work on the oak. Riddle could then assert that the repairs might have been done improperly—that more attention had been paid to caring for the tree’s canopy than to protecting and stabilizing the roots. Now Riddle had not one but two deep-pocketed defendants. Through what was then known as joint and several liability, a plaintiff could recover damages from multiple parties so long as some responsibility was established.

By 1986, Abbott had completed his rehab. He wasn’t walking, but he was moving forward in other ways. Riddle had negotiated an impressive settlement that would support his client for the rest of his life. The estimated total of $3 million (about $8 million today) began with an initial lump-sum payment of $300,000 (about $770,000 in today’s dollars), followed by another lump sum of $100,000 in 1989. Abbott would continue to get lump-sum payments every three years, with the last payment of $740,020 scheduled for November 1, 2022—a nice supplement to his $153,750 annual governor’s salary. Additionally, in 1986 Abbott started receiving $5,000 a month (almost $13,000 today) with a built-in annual increase of 4 percent for the remainder of his lifetime. It was all tax-free.

I have never been impressed with Greg's intelligence and I am hopeful that Greg will continue to push homophobic policies that will help Beto

[Skittles]

32. it feels like Abbott and DeSantis are in a contest to see who can be the most cruel

they both make me sick, like Trump they are utterly VILE people

thank you for the article, Texas Monthly does good work

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. I agree

DeathSantis has just adopted regulations to block gender affirming care for trans youth. Greg came up with this cruelty a while back

[Skittles]

41. they perform strictly for the sick cult

disgusting

[Norbert]

26. These 'people' are so full of themselves

[Sogo]

27. A party that big should have gratuity figured into the ticket.

Many places do on every tab.

[onenote]

55. Not sure if its company wide, but the FL Rainforest Cafe adds 18% to the bill for large parties

[fierywoman]

30. Someone needs to piss in his drink before they serve it to him.

[Ms. Toad]

37. Has anyone confirmed this is not just confirmation bias? n/t

[Retrograde]

44. I can believe he's a cheap SOB

I'm having a hard time believing he dines at Rainforest Cafe or any chain restaurant

[Ms. Toad]

65. The former is what I'm concerned about -

It's something we'd love to be true - the very kind of stuff which is made up, attributed to a friend of a friend, and ultimately turns out to be completely made up - usually after we've made fools ourselves by repeating and spreading false junk.

[YoshidaYui]

40. Thats some kind of fucked up

if true.

[Lemon Lyman]

42. What A Douche

How much you wanna' bet the worker doesn't get fired over this being in the news now too?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

43. His voters think he is smart for stuff like this

His cruelty is the badge that makes him a honored republican.


That man is small.

[Solly Mack]

46. I was waitressing during high school and got fired because I refused to wait on Klan members.

Knew who they were because they came in from time to time and always left a calling card on top of their tip. One day they were seated in my section, and I said I wouldn't serve them. I was told to "Do it or clock out". I clocked out.

I did not have the burdens a single parent would have, so it was easier for me to take a stand.

Even still, I would not have waited on Abbott either. It's not the least bit surprising that he stiffed the servers and as odious as the comment made by his wife is, that it was said is also not surprising either.

Scum is scum.

[Hekate]

47. I applaud your stance!

[Solly Mack]

49. I didn't have the need a single parent or even a married parent would have, so it didn't

really cost me anything to leave.

But I just couldn't wait on them. I thought even allowing them in the restaurant was wrong.

They harassed the staff and other customers, but the management didn't seem to care because they came in a large group, which meant a hefty bill.

Thank you, though.

Pisses me off when people don't tip.

[LudwigPastorius]

50. Tip?

…and lose his Republican “street cred”?

Next you’ll want him to expand Medicaid for Texans!

[DFW]

51. If the tip was not included in the bill

If the staff waiting on Abbott and his party came away with nothing at all, this deserves to be on page one of every paper in Texas this morning. We can be sure it will be mentioned in Dallas, Houston, Austin and El Paso, but those are blue islands in a red sea. This needs to be made known statewide.

[former9thward]

81. But it is not.

I can't find the story anywhere. Google lists DU as the number one source and Reddit as number two. Why is that? I doubt it happened. A governor, no matter who they are, is not going to handle the bill for that many people. They all have aides to do that.

[jmowreader]

52. This doesn't sound right

The company I work for owns either 10 or 11 restaurants depending on whether you want to count our "pedal powered pub" (yes, bicycle themed) with a full menu as a bar or a restaurant. Each of these places has a line at the bottom of the menu: groups of six or more have a 15 percent gratuity automatically added to their check. A lot of people will tip above that because 15 percent is the tip of the past.

Most of the places I go do it too.

This doesn't excuse Abbott's Karen-like wife's nasty comment, but if this restaurant doesn't do automatic gratuity for large groups I'd recommend the niece move to a restaurant that does.

[onenote]

54. Not sure about the Texas location, but the Florida Rainforest Cafe adds 18% automatically

to the bill for large parties.

[Liberal In Texas]

56. The restaurants website says

"A Suggested Gratuity of 15% - 20% is customary. The amount of gratuity is always discretionary."

So they apparently don't have a policy of adding a manditory tip to the bill with large parties. They f'ing should change this policy.

[former9thward]

82. A reveiw says it is "suggested" but in fact is automatially added.

For large parties.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g34515-d3253032-r198956819-Rainforest_Cafe-Orlando_Florida.html

[Goodheart]

83. That's the Florida location, not the Grapevine TX one.

[former9thward]

84. No, the policy saying it is "suggested" is nationwide.

If the story is true why is no one running it?

[VGNonly]

53. What's the difference

between a republican and a canoe?

canoes sometimes tip

[Pisces]

58. The story needs to be verified before running with it. A party of 20 would be automatic gratuity.

[Stuart G]

59. This will do it permanently for ...former governor ..."Greg Abbott." He hasn't got a clue.

Much too stupid to know that not tipping is ....'VERY, VERY, VERY STUPID

but.......... when he loses the election, he will learn his lesson. I wonder if Abbott knows how insensitive this moment is.
.............. Abbott is total SH*T. ...AND HE PROVED IT TO EVERYONE!!!

[Hotler]

60. Selfishness is a cornerstone of the repug party. I'd be surprised he didn't reach over and steal the

tip off of another table.

[bullwinkle428]

62. I just went to restaurant's location-specific site to verify tipping policy :

A Suggested Gratuity of 15% - 20% is customary. The amount of gratuity is always discretionary.

https://www.rainforestcafe.com/location/rainforest-cafe-grapevine-tx/

This seems to suggest that there is no automatic tip added for parties of a given size.

[pwb]

63. Abbott and his wife must eat a lot of spit and

other body fluids in their restaurant food eh?

[EnergizedLib]

66. No, Mrs. Abbott

People like her are your husband’s constituents, not his servants.

I know a lot of things is done backwards in your state, but that’s how it goes.

[DBoon]

68. I would be in tears too, if I had just worked for $2.13 an hour

https://foreignusa.com/texas-tipped-minimum-wage/

[superpatriotman]

69. I call bullshit

NO party over six is not getting a mandatory tip added to their check. Full stop.

[Cadfael]

70. From the Rainforest Cafe website

[iluvtennis]

73. Thanks. Discretionary gratuity means it's not just included in bill for LARGE party. n/t

[Cadfael]

74. Exactly!

It means there is no tip automatically included in the bill no matter what the party size

People upthread kept quoting the website - and yet some kept “calling bullshit” - I thought it might help our more visual learners to be able to see it themselves…

[allegorical oracle]

76. Hope Denise and those servers are registered to vote and return the favor to Abbott. nt

[Kid Berwyn]

77. In Abbott's mind, slaves always are honored to serve him.

“The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.” — Johann von Goethe

Hey, Abbott! Your days as plantation master are numbered. The slaves are waking up.

[mnhtnbb]

78. Most good restaurants automatically add 18-20% tip for parties of 6 or more.

Sounds like a crap restaurant to me. Probably owned by a$$hole Republicans who aren't looking out for their wait staff.

[Goodheart]

80. Different atmosphere in Texas, apparently.

The Lake Buena Vista restaurant in that chain says that an 18% tip will be automatically added to parties of six or more.

[Samrob]

79. This is worth an ad in all TX newspapers and a banner over his estate. nt

[Lisa0825]

85. Most restaurants I go to add an automatic 18% tip to large parties...

I am a bit skeptical about this.

[iluvtennis]

87. See post #70 above. n/t

[sarcasmo]

86. It's not cheap, Abbott is a dick, being a dick.

[Takket]

88. the "fake no tip" story has been around before

let's just take this with a grain of salt unless someone confirms it.

[FlyingPiggy]

89. It should have already been included in the check.

[Initech]

93. "He's a horrible person" - that seems to be a common denominator with Christian right politicians.

No wonder they love Trump so much.