When the waitress presented the lunch bill to the sales manager she heard him bellow, "Gratuity? Who ordered the gratuity? I told you folks that we weren't going to order any dessert!"
Moral of the story. True sales professionals know that when they take their clients or their colleagues out for lunch, they need to treat the wait staff well. No one wants to appear cheap by cutting corners on the tip. Besides, a lot of business professionals waited tables to put themselves through school and know what it means to work hard for their gratuities.
"Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid." - Little Milton
