Question for waiters and waitresses at Disney World or Disneyland?!
Just to proof a point to myself and my friends, we tried dining and not using the card and you can definitely tell a difference. You get the usual, thanks and have a nice night and the staff generally seems more friendly and seem to expect a good tip. However, when using that discount card, you get the monotone "have a nice night" with very little enthusiasm in their voice (kind of like they know this is a table that they just wasted time on and they probably won't leave a tip or leave a crapy one).
Oh, I asked this question here because I am vegan.
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Maybe people with that card are low tippers.
You should post elsewhere.
Hey, I'm a disney cast member who worked in a restaurant in the past. One reason is it lowers the overall cost of the ticket so MOST people tip less. I'm not saying everyone does that, though. Quite frankly, the difference isn't much so I don't care.
Another big reason, though, is that most people don't say they have that card until the end of meal (which is totally understandable). The problem is we often times have the check ready and have to run it again (and void out the previous one) when we find out about the discount. This happens with other discounts such as the discount WE get for being cast members. You'd think that we would at least let the server know ahead of time but most of the time even cast members don't.
If you really want to you can let the cast member know ahead of time about the discount so they don't run the receipt through too early, but really it's not your responsibility. Don't worry about it. It's a bit of a "hassle", I guess, but it's part of the job. A good cast member shouldn't look annoyed at something like that.
PS I'm a vegetarian. :)
its just the expected standard gratuity decreases when you use a discount card. waiters and waitresses lives on tips and when a person uses a discount card it decreases their expected tips. example 100 dollar meal without a discount card their doing the math in their head that they might get 10-20 dollar tip. but with a discount card of 20 percent they will expect 8-15. dont take it personally, its just they split the tips and a fiver makes a difference to them.
my girlfriend's a waitress.