https://us.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-waitress-served-party-tipped-114149034.html

I’m going with the server.

On Friday, Oven & Tap's owners threatened to sue Brandt in a cease-in-desist letter in which they claimed she's permanently damaged the restaurant's reputation. People who've never been to the restaurant have since left "countless unwarranted 1 Star Reviews . . . an outpouring of negative reviews, which will undoubtedly impact [the restaurant's business]," attorney Steve Brooks wrote in the cease-and-desist letter. Oven & Tap "has now been cast as a restaurant that treats its employees poorly."

Oven & Tap, the Bentonville, Ark., restaurant

https://us.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-waitress-served-party-tipped-114149034.html

I’m going with the server.

The server is correct. I've been to this restaurant more than a few times. Their food and atmosphere are pretty good, but we won't be going back. We have plenty of other options so I won't necessarily miss this place.

The owners are getting roasted here. They had to take down all of their social media for themselves and the restaurant over the backlash.

First of all, this is a very nice gesture by LTG in one of his many trips to the great state of Arkansas.

The restaurant can't win in this and should cut their losses, they have lost many good clients already.

Is this a huge story down there in Below Kansas?

Serious question...

While I have worked in the food industry before, I have never been a server nor worked with servers. What is the etiquette when receiving a big tip like this? Is is expected or the 'right thing to do' on the server's end to share some of the tip with the kitchen staff or bartenders, or is it just her lucky day and can pocket the entire thing and feel no shame or remorse?

She shouldn't feel shame. It's not her job to share the tips with anyone.

If it is a written out company policy then the tip should have been taken and distributed accordingly but it sounds as if it was not a company policy to split cash tips.

She shouldn't feel shame. It's not her job to share the tips with anyone.

If it is a written out company policy then the tip should have been taken and distributed accordingly but it sounds as if it was not a company policy to split cash tips.

She shouldn't feel shame. It's not her job to share the tips with anyone.

If it is a written out company policy then the tip should have been taken and distributed accordingly but it sounds as if it was not a company policy to split cash tips.

A tip like that (and large party tips) should absolutely be shared with your bartenders, barbacks, and bussers. It would be a super nice gesture and really should be sharing with the BOH also. If she gave everybody 100 and walked away with 2200 it would be good all around. Restaurants have varying policies for stuff like that and I can see why. The girl sounds like a little bit of a patriot here.

I don't know if that makes the restaurant right but they were trying to hold staff and business together.

That's what I took from the part where the restaurant actually spent $7,700 extra to pay the support staff.

I also think the tippers themselves created much of the drama by making such a public proclamation. Could've just slipped them cash but they had to be braggadocious.

Wise, president and co-founder of a company that helps real estate agents effectively advertise on Facebook, had enjoyed his meals at Oven & Tap, in no small part because of Brandt, who'd waited on him. He and his wife wanted to share their experience with some of his clients, so they chose the restaurant for a seating of the $100 Dinner Club, whose participants agree to each tip $100 at establishments across town.

A tip like that (and large party tips) should absolutely be shared with your bartenders, barbacks, and bussers. It would be a super nice gesture and really should be sharing with the BOH also. If she gave everybody 100 and walked away with 2200 it would be good all around. Restaurants have varying policies for stuff like that and I can see why. The girl sounds like a little bit of a patriot here.

I don't know if that makes the restaurant right but they were trying to hold staff and business together.

this is the correct motorcycle, regardless of formal policy it's standard for waitstaff to break off some of their cash tips for bartenders, bussers and barbacks/dishwashers even. Not so much for kitchen staff, which is usually compensated at a higher hourly level from the get. and if she wasn't in the habit of doing so, if she planned to continue to work there and rely on those support staff to do her job after publicly getting that sort of tip then breaking off a few 20's at least to each of them seems like a no-brainer. If I recall from brief periods working at restaurants, it wasn't huge chunk of their cash tips; something along the lines of what you tip on a meal, so if a server made 100$ she'd throw at most a 20 on the pile for the boh staff, usually less.

but the real dbags are the customers who didn't allocate enough tip to cover everyone.

she definitely had every right to keep all that money herself...and would've kept her job to boot, had that dumbfuck not grandstand about what he was doing. like jaw breaker said.