Manager filmed refusing to let table leave without tipping their waitress and people are divided

To tip or not to tip? That is the question and social media users are getting up in arms after a viral video on TikTok started doing the rounds.

Director Quentin Tarantino immortalized the tipping debate in his 1993 film Reservoir Dogs and over 30 years later, the argument still rages on.

How do you do it?

If your server has been exceptional, are you happy to leave a hefty tip or do you go with a normal 12 percent tip regardless?

With the emergence of social media, we now can see incidents from all over the world that show both the server and customers in the right and in the wrong.

So, the debate still doesn’t go anywhere new really but one clip on TikTok has got people talking... or rather arguing with one another about who the jerk is.

User Gladys_Nicole shared a video on her TikTok page and praised a restaurant manager after his rather brazen act.

According to the video, which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times, the unnamed manager confronted some customers and demanded that they give a tip to their waitress.

The TikToker stated that the group had been at the spot for hours and had multiple beers and played pool while they were there.

The discussion the manager has with the three guys can’t be heard clearly, but Gladys alleges he tracked them down and would not let them leave before they tip.

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Now if that was me... you are not stopping me leaving. I will make sure I pay for all the goods and services I am legally required to pay, anything else is at my discretion.

But while I might fall on one side of the fence, social media users were certainly divided on the issue.

“Oh you mean the money HE and HIS COMPANY should be paying her?? Tipping culture is ridiculous. Properly pay waiters and waitresses already,” one user wrote.

“When you don’t tip your servers or bartenders they are quite literally paying out of their own pocket for you to come out and have a good time. Come on. Be better people,” a second person wrote.

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“What's really going manager POV: "We do not and will not give them a raise so that is where customers come in so I need you to do your part now,” a third wrote.

“I love how people will be willing to pay 30% more for food rather then tip a server 20%.”

What do you think? Would you tip if the manager wouldn’t let you leave unless you did?

Topics: TikTok, Viral, Money

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.