Terrible Tippers Outed on Website -- Are You on the List? Do you think LousyTippers.com goes too far?

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Terrible Tippers Outed on Website -- Are You on the List?

Posted by Adriana Velez on August 10, 2012 

Chintzy tippers beware: Waiters and delivery drivers are naming names on a website. LousyTippers.com is a list of customers who have left small or no tips. Stiffed workers in the restaurant biz just fill in an online form and presto! Instant infamy for the "bad" tipper.

Wow. I mean, I get it -- delivery drivers and waiters are pissed and they want to fight back somehow. People should understand how hard they work and how little they get paid. Once a customer leaves there's no way to retroactively spit in their food. (Not that anyone should do that.) It's not fair! Fight the power and all that. But this website just seems to bring out the worst in people -- and some of them really go too far.

YES, I looked up my name and NO, I'm not on it. Are you? You can actually search for your name to find out if you've been outed as a Scrooge. If, god forbid, you happen to find your own name wrongfully on the list (because why would you ever not tip a deserving server?) you can dispute the claim and maybe they'll consider removing it.

It's bad enough that the site lists people's full names. But the truly creepy bit is that fill-in-the-blank area that says "restaurant or address." Apparently people sometimes list a customer's home address or phone number!

Isn't that illegal? If not, it definitely crosses a line. Especially when the angry contributor invites people to "call or text" the tipper's "ass."

Eater has gone through the trouble of combing through the database and uncovering the really nasty comments. Bless their hearts. Here's a sample: "Stay in what ever foreign country you live in PLEASE." Yeesh. And that's one of the milder ones! Apparently the database is a haven for racists and homophobes. I don't know -- I think it's just inevitable that a site like this would attract jerks.

Do you think LousyTippers.com goes too far?

[ddemarco]

In today's economy we are lucky to be able to go out at all.  I feel bad if I can't tip.  I really do. :(

[atlmom2]

Wow, then go somewhere you don't have to tip.

Quoting ddemarco:

In today's economy we are lucky to be able to go out at all.  I feel bad if I can't tip.  I really do. :(

[ddemarco]

My favorite place is Applebees :(  But we don't usually go somewhere except fast food since it's much cheaper.

Quoting atlmom2:

Wow, then go somewhere you don't have to tip.

Quoting ddemarco:

In today's economy we are lucky to be able to go out at all.  I feel bad if I can't tip.  I really do. :(

[kaitybird]

It is the internet there is a place for everything!  Kind of like Onepissed customer.  :)

[barefootmommi]

Yea it takes it too far it is immature n childish and I am a waitress

Quoting PEEK05:

I think it's immature and childish.

[Barabell]

Are you saying you go out to eat without any intent of tipping? 

Do you realize that wait staff aren't even paid minimum wage in most states? Typically, they are only paid $3 an hour or so......

Quoting ddemarco:

In today's economy we are lucky to be able to go out at all.  I feel bad if I can't tip.  I really do. :(

[crystal21usmc]

I do think that website goes too far. I always tip, even if the service is bad. I tip much better for good service of course, but even for bad service I tip at least 10% (and it really does have to be bad for me to even do that). The service would have to be AWFUL for me to not tip at all, and in that case I would be speaking to a manager about the server & why I didn't leave a tip.

[jadedcynic]

The website is fairly old and hasn't been updated much. I'm not too worried about ending up on it.