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<p> </p><h2>While of course it&#39;s not always smart to lie on the job, sometimes there&#39;s no harm in bending the truth to get through a 12-hour shift of Karens screaming at you about their side salad...</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Single af but forever lying to bar customers about having a boyfriend 💀</p>&mdash; Shelby (@ItsTwitchh) <a href="https://twitter.com/ItsTwitchh/status/1168689171126353921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p>Anyone who has worked at a restaurant or a bar is familiar with the exhausting grind of bizarre requests, terrifying Yelp reviews, and being told to smile while balancing a tray of free refills. Running around a packed dark room of candlelit customers who all need something from you can feel like an endurance test in a horror-themed video game.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">lying to customers is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off</p>&mdash; citlali ♡ (@_baguettee) <a href="https://twitter.com/_baguettee/status/1472291561920626688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Usually, there are many fun, polite and interesting customers per shift that make the job worth it but every once in awhile you might have to remix the truth to pay your rent. So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/comments/sb0ead/do_you_ever_lie_to_your_customers_in_order_to/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=iossmf">Reddit </a>user asked servers and bartenders of the internet what little white lies they tell to boost their tips, people who have endured the service industry were ready to share their coping mechanisms.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I just be lying to customers at Whole Foods; they’ll ask me what this cake is &amp; I’ll go on about how great it is, &amp; how it’s vegan/gluten free but in reality I’ve never seen that cake in my life</p>&mdash; Uriah (@moshozolo) <a href="https://twitter.com/moshozolo/status/1483175565599199232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Our place has a lot of different rooms and people, especially older ones, often get lost on their way to the toilets. Whenever that happens I tell them how many times I got lost in my first few weeks.</p> <p>It&#39;s not really for the tip, just to make them feel better about themselves and also have something to talk about as I get them back to their families. - Magical__Entity</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>I mean I wore my trainee badge until my manager MADE me take it off. I never needed the trainee badge but it does bring better tips. - falec4</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>My entire work personality is a lie - OmgOgan</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was a young bartender I would always keep 1 cigarette in a pack behind the bar. When someone inevitably asked if we had a cigarette they could bum, I&rsquo;d always show them the pack and say something like, &ldquo;I was saving my last one for after the shift, but you can have it.&rdquo; Led to big tips every time. And as soon as they went outside, one more cigarette goes in the pack. - tdkme</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>Sometimes if I accidentally let a table sit too long, I would go up to them and say &ldquo;is anyone taking care of you yet?&rdquo; When they say &ldquo;no&rdquo; I would say &ldquo;well, I don&rsquo;t know who your server was supposed to be, but I&rsquo;ll take care of you right now since you&rsquo;ve been waiting.&rdquo;</p> <p>Then they usually tip me even better because I look like a hero and not the dumbass who forgot about them. - FictionVent</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>One of my coworkers is vegan and just lies through her teeth about what she thinks of the dishes - Decentcrabboi</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to work at an Irish pub in Washington DC that got a lot of tourists and conventioneers from all over the country as we were right across the street from two major hotels. One night we were slammed and one of my tables stopped me to complain that their Irish stew was cold. I told them with a straight face, &quot;That&#39;s how the Irish eat it, sir&quot;. He and his wife looked at each other and said, &quot;Oh, I didn&#39;t know that&quot; - seanchai611PF</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>Every word I say from punch in to punch out is a lie. Sometimes I&#39;m married, sometimes I&#39;m divorced, sometimes I have kids. Whatever seems to work in the situation. They don&#39;t actually listen. - Aware_Department_657</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>I tell them what the need to hear to have a good time. I don&rsquo;t outright lie but I&rsquo;ll tell them things that aren&rsquo;t the real reason. &ldquo;No, your party isn&rsquo;t being annoying, but let&rsquo;s move you all over there, that way you can have more fun. You&rsquo;ll love it, I promise. It&rsquo;s got a lovely view I&rsquo;d like you all to enjoy.&rdquo; - johnnybain</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m pregnant every Christmas! Just got dumped every Valentine&#39;s, and can&#39;t wait to get home to my kids every mother&#39;s day. (They are cats) - spankenstein</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>In retail if a customer needed something and it wasn&#39;t where I expected it, or was having trouble finding it I&#39;d say &quot;jeez, take a week off and they rearrange half the store!&quot; Even if I was working overtime that week.</p> <p>In reality stock placement changed all the time but you don&#39;t get sympathy for that - chalk_in_boots</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>Cook here: when a server forgot to put in an item on a ticket, I told them &quot;I&#39;ll make it right now. Get the rest of the food out so it isn&#39;t cold and tell them the new guy forgot something&quot; - Frierguy</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>At a restaurant I used to serve at there was a small step going up to the patio. It had florescent tape and watch your step signs, and I would even remind almost every table I sat that it was there and to watch their step. Without fail, at least 1/3 of people tripped over that god damn step. And every single time I told them It happens to me <em>all the time</em>. Not once did I trip there. - t-a444</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>one of my go-to lies was to make sure to tell anyone wearing any sports apparel that <em>that</em> was my favorite team - Agentkeenan78</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I first started working at 12 doing door to door sales, I would get bored and would try different accents when going through the spiel. I found that most responded positively to the sickly sweet southern drawl. I would drop a sweetie, honey, darling when speaking to a woman (I am a woman) and it landed well. - krystyana420</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Mostly due to me working at a casino my regulars are older men in their 40-50s. I&rsquo;ve learned that being a &ldquo;single mom&rdquo; even though I&rsquo;m engaged with no kid gets me a better tip with less creepy interactions. The single part gets me the better tip and the mom part for some reason secures them seeing me as a person to respect. So they will flirt but more respectfully. F*cked up but I&rsquo;ll take it, I don&rsquo;t owe them my real life details I&rsquo;m part of the entertainment experience so I mid as well play a part - TalkQuick</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

16 servers reveal the lies they've told customers to earn a bigger tip.

 While of course it&#39;s not always smart to lie on the job, sometimes there&#39;s no harm in bending the truth to get through a 12-hour shift of Karens screaming at you about their side salad...Single af but forever lying to bar customers about having a boyfriend 💀&mdash; Shelby (@ItsTwitchh) September 3, 2019 Anyone who has worked at a restaurant or a bar is familiar with the exhausting grind of bizarre requests, terrifying Yelp reviews, and being told to smile while balancing a tray of free refills. Running around a packed dark room of candlelit customers who all need something from you can feel like an endurance test in a horror-themed video game.lying to customers is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off&mdash; citlali ♡ (@_baguettee) December 18, 2021 Usually, there are many fun, polite and interesting customers per shift that make the job worth it but every once in awhile you might have to remix the truth to pay your rent. So, when a Reddit user asked servers and bartenders of the internet what little white lies they tell to boost their tips, people who have endured the service industry were ready to share their coping mechanisms.I just be lying to customers at Whole Foods; they’ll ask me what this cake is &amp; I’ll go on about how great it is, &amp; how it’s vegan/gluten free but in reality I’ve never seen that cake in my life&mdash; Uriah (@moshozolo) January 17, 2022 1. Our place has a lot of different rooms and people, especially older ones, often get lost on their way to the toilets. Whenever that happens I tell them how many times I got lost in my first few weeks. It&#39;s not really for the tip, just to make them feel better about themselves and also have something to talk about as I get them back to their families. - Magical__Entity 2. I mean I wore my trainee badge until my manager MADE me take it off. I never needed the trainee badge but it does bring better tips. - falec4 3. My entire work personality is a lie - OmgOgan 4. When I was a young bartender I would always keep 1 cigarette in a pack behind the bar. When someone inevitably asked if we had a cigarette they could bum, I&rsquo;d always show them the pack and say something like, &ldquo;I was saving my last one for after the shift, but you can have it.&rdquo; Led to big tips every time. And as soon as they went outside, one more cigarette goes in the pack. - tdkme 5. Sometimes if I accidentally let a table sit too long, I would go up to them and say &ldquo;is anyone taking care of you yet?&rdquo; When they say &ldquo;no&rdquo; I would say &ldquo;well, I don&rsquo;t know who your server was supposed to be, but I&rsquo;ll take care of you right now since you&rsquo;ve been waiting.&rdquo; Then they usually tip me even better because I look like a hero and not the dumbass who forgot about them. - FictionVent 6. One of my coworkers is vegan and just lies through her teeth about what she thinks of the dishes - Decentcrabboi 7. I used to work at an Irish pub in Washington DC that got a lot of tourists and conventioneers from all over the country as we were right across the street from two major hotels. One night we were slammed and one of my tables stopped me to complain that their Irish stew was cold. I told them with a straight face, &quot;That&#39;s how the Irish eat it, sir&quot;. He and his wife looked at each other and said, &quot;Oh, I didn&#39;t know that&quot; - seanchai611PF 8. Every word I say from punch in to punch out is a lie. Sometimes I&#39;m married, sometimes I&#39;m divorced, sometimes I have kids. Whatever seems to work in the situation. They don&#39;t actually listen. - Aware_Department_657 9. I tell them what the need to hear to have a good time. I don&rsquo;t outright lie but I&rsquo;ll tell them things that aren&rsquo;t the real reason. &ldquo;No, your party isn&rsquo;t being annoying, but let&rsquo;s move you all over there, that way you can have more fun. You&rsquo;ll love it, I promise. It&rsquo;s got a lovely view I&rsquo;d like you all to enjoy.&rdquo; - johnnybain 10. I&#39;m pregnant every Christmas! Just got dumped every Valentine&#39;s, and can&#39;t wait to get home to my kids every mother&#39;s day. (They are cats) - spankenstein 11. In retail if a customer needed something and it wasn&#39;t where I expected it, or was having trouble finding it I&#39;d say &quot;jeez, take a week off and they rearrange half the store!&quot; Even if I was working overtime that week. In reality stock placement changed all the time but you don&#39;t get sympathy for that - chalk_in_boots 12. Cook here: when a server forgot to put in an item on a ticket, I told them &quot;I&#39;ll make it right now. Get the rest of the food out so it isn&#39;t cold and tell them the new guy forgot something&quot; - Frierguy 13. At a restaurant I used to serve at there was a small step going up to the patio. It had florescent tape and watch your step signs, and I would even remind almost every table I sat that it was there and to watch their step. Without fail, at least 1/3 of people tripped over that god damn step. And every single time I told them It happens to me all the time. Not once did I trip there. - t-a444 14. one of my go-to lies was to make sure to tell anyone wearing any sports apparel that that was my favorite team - Agentkeenan78 15. When I first started working at 12 doing door to door sales, I would get bored and would try different accents when going through the spiel. I found that most responded positively to the sickly sweet southern drawl. I would drop a sweetie, honey, darling when speaking to a woman (I am a woman) and it landed well. - krystyana420 16. Mostly due to me working at a casino my regulars are older men in their 40-50s. I&rsquo;ve learned that being a &ldquo;single mom&rdquo; even though I&rsquo;m engaged with no kid gets me a better tip with less creepy interactions. The single part gets me the better tip and the mom part for some reason secures them seeing me as a person to respect. So they will flirt but more respectfully. F*cked up but I&rsquo;ll take it, I don&rsquo;t owe them my real life details I&rsquo;m part of the entertainment experience so I mid as well play a part - TalkQuick  

While of course it&#39;s not always smart to lie on the job, sometimes there&#39;s no harm in bending the truth to get through a 12-hour shift of Karens screaming at you about their side salad...    Anyone who has worked at a restaurant or...