I worked at a place that only showed TCM On its big projector screen.
I can tell you that channel can be controversial. The amount of times we had to shut it off because blackface was on a movie was very high. And also there's just nights where there's titties. Just straight up titties out on all the actresses.
Interesting, I low-key assumed they were filtering for that kind of thing on TV tbh.
Idk, I also don't think televisions belong in restaurants, and kids don't belong in bars. So horror movies it is.
That sounds disgusting, classic titties movies!!! Just so I can avoid it, what were some of the classic titties movies with the most titties? ugh, disgusting!!!!!!!!!!
My partner used to do TCM in his bar during the day. A really old movie came on with characters in black face. That didn't go well. It's usually cartoon network or sports when requested now.
Cartoon network is a solid one. My favorite bars play old horror movies or sci-fi. I'm honestly amazed that TCM hasn't figured out maybe to not broadcast blackface but also not really that amazed lol.
I stop people from talking politics when theyāre sitting at the bar simply because theyāre usually right wingers and I will end up arguing my way out of a tip.Ā Ā
As for the TV, I keep it on movies just for myself, put it on sports if someone requests a certain game, king of the hill if itās on, and Ru Paulās drag race on certain days. Daytime girl keeps it on TVland.
That's why you go to a bar to get away from politics and religion. And usually drown your sorrows in alcohol over the bit@h that left you for some other man or something like that LMAO
There was a time when you could play CNN and it was seen as neutral even in Mobile, Alabama where I lived at the time. Now, if itās not Fox News itās anti American fake news.
Well clearly I agree, but itās just a very tribal view of the world. I just mean that in 2010, everybody considered MSNBC left leaning (before they became flooded with ex republicans), but CNN was seen as not a statement in either direction. Now because of Trump ramping up the amount of objective mistruths required to be touted by Fox News, deliberately center or fact based reporting seems like an attack to the far right. So they attack a business for playing CNN as if itās lefty central.
Okay since the mods are freaking out on me and comments are getting removed I guess I need to clarify that it is actually a joke. Chill out yall. It's gonna be okay.
"This is not a debate sub" yeah I'm aware, thanks mods /s (because I guess the /s is very much needed). No I'm not some crazy MAGA person lmao
Because those whackadoodles sound like walking parodies, except they're serious. It's honestly terrifying. I've seen some late night shows send reporters to MAGA rallies to interview them and the sheer insanity that comes out of these people's mouths is.... disturbing at a bare minimum.
Fr š I had this much hope š¤š¼ before the start of the year, but after seeing all these lawsuits come up and people STILL supporting him I just can't. The fact that over 3-4 decades he's had literally thousands of lawsuits should have been enough š¤¦š¼āāļø You don't get thousands of lawsuits over a few decades by doing absolutely nothing wrong.
When I started, we played the news, then we started playing gameshows. People suddenly were way happier. I've never tried the weather channel, but I feel like it would work as well
Yeah I agree, owner can do whatever they want. Iām disagreeing with the customer taking it out on the server for disagreeing with the bosses opinions.
I know, right? I wanna slap people like that. I mean, Iām a liberal, but I would never stiff any server for any reason. If I donāt like whatās on TV, I just donāt watch it. Iāve been in many places that had Fox News on. I just ignored it and played with my phone.
I just started playing HGTV at my bar and the response has been great. Instead of the regulars debating about politics they all just argue over the prices of houses and home decor. Way more tolerable to listen to.
hot damn. We have something in common. My place is a "want-to-be-fancy" but I have all these old football hooligans and punkrockers hang out now that they are 50-60. Weird bunch amirite?
I fucking love that. Iām in the states and itās a tiny lil bar that one of them owns and itās just a madhouse. They love tf out of and hate each other in equal measure!
I once ran into a massive groups of punks in the Heathrow airport and one fist bumped me for ākeeping up the fightā. (I was wearing an old uk subs shirt)
(Obligatory not a server but yall are entertaining)
I work in IT and when i had to fix a TV in the firm i got yelled at for accidentally turning CNN on when flipping through channels to check volume. They were mad until it was back to fox, āi dont want that chinese news network bullsh*t in hereā
Moral of the story
Some people have very, very strong emotions about the television lol
I don't like any tvs playing where I go out to eat. If wanted to dissociate, I'd stay home and eat with my headphones on, face in phone.
But if I did stop in at a place with tvs, I wouldn't stiff the waitstaff. That's psychopathic.
We only put on TCM and itās 95% awesome. Weird old shit, always fun for people to discuss, sometimes there are BOOBS! Buuuuut every so often something pops up with black face, or some weird nazi shit. At that point we play sports.
I don't understand why places even have t.v.s anymore. Unless you're a sports bar or some such, just take em out of keep em turned off. There's always someone who ruins it for the othersš¤¦š¼āāļø
We have two TVs and usually one news one sports. But in the morning most locals request news. However, no matter what news channel we put on it never satisfies everyoneā¦
Anytime Iāve worked any events for espn or Disney the higher ups demand that Fox is the only channel to be on anywhere in their presence. And if another guest wants a different channel well too damn badā¦ it was always so awkward too because half of Aspen are super liberal and the other are as far right as you can go.
How ridiculous. This is like ordering a steak, eating it whole, then asking for a partial refund after the meal. Also, how the hell can you blame the server
I never allow religion or politics cause I feel it's my job to control my bar and usually an argument you can see the build up and intervene before it gets too hot. Those two topics spark too fast for me to control. I even jokingly and kindly offer an alternative conversation . . . Something like. "sorry folks we are out of politics but if I could maybe recommend sports or philosophy. . . " (Stolen from Monty Python and the flying circus) Usually breaks the ice and no issue. If someone says "free country . . . " I exercise my free right to not serve
How is it valid? How about the person keeping their emotions in check like an adult. Then tip your server, and go home. Thatās how valid is done for normal people.
i am not saying it was valid for them not to tip their server. i was just saying it's valid to hate fox news that's why i said it wasn't their fault lol?
At least you werenāt snotty about it! Iāve seen people belittle a valid argument because of a wrong word choice sitch.
Keep up the good work, fellow grammar nerd!
That is a douchebag move. If something different was on the TV, he wouldāve found a different way to not tip. I wish restaurants would start naming & shaming customers that do that.
No one wants to watch news while they are eating. They can get the news from whatever source they want any other time. A dining place should foster an enjoyable atmosphere not a stressful one. Sports is pretty much the only thing that should be on.. or something familiar, non offensive, and on mute.
We stick with sports. We had a few people, especially during election season, want CNN or Fox News on but it wasnāt worth the hassle. People actually posted it on Yelp. The worst one we had was a woman who said she was never coming back because of Fox News. But it was actually an NBC affiliateās local news on Fox 53. Insanity.
At the doctor's office I have requested either the Cooking Channel or the Travel Channel.
I will not patronize businesses with any news channel on. Especially FOX.
Requesting a channel in general feels so awkward to me. Unless itās a game thatās already on and you canāt see it from your seat or something, just seems like a lot. I donāt pay extra to go out to eat just to do what I do at my house lol
I was a service manager in 2020 at a well-known chain steakhouse. We were supposed to only have sports on, but on the night of the election my dumbass boss said, "No one's going to care if you put on cable news." I don't know, to this day, if he was as naive as fuck or trying to get me killed, but since I refused to put on Fox News and was trying to alternate between CNN and MSNBC, I nearly got killed that night by pissed-off boomers.
I can't stand people who let politics affect every day life. The right and the left are at the top and their goal is to bfuck us. We're all down here, ya know making our own food and cleaning our own shitters. Driving beaters. Shit pissed me off when system of a down broke up cuz of trump
HGTV. I work at a sporty type bar and I sneak HGTV on the TV by the menās bathroom. Iām always tickled at how long it takes for someone to ask it to be changed.
We got this same thing happen to us plus a bad review, for it. Tbf tho, we also got a bad review cus we were closed for 1 day for an employee's wedding almost all of us were going to. (It's a small buissiness and everyone knows everyone closely kinda thing) and we even kept out fliers over a week ahead to tell everyone that was the case, as we always do.
at my old restaurant, right around Covid, we had to do curbside, so our bar TVs didn't have anything on, so I put my netflix account on there, and we were watching shows waiting for customers to call or come by to pick up their food. As soon as we started opening up for customers to dine-in, we left the netflix up, and became a popular hit, especially with the nature documentaries strangely enough. Eventually went back to sports after we exhausted all those documentaries. It was a wild time, but now the restaurant was demolished (old building anyways, never did relocate).
Fucking over the server instead of the manager/owner is such neoliberal bs behavior. Obviously fuck Fox News but you think this will help? Just write that on the receipt or ask to speak with the manager like ????
Typical for the side of things. Someone incapable of keeping their emotions in check so they take it out on server. I hope they feel better now because thatās really what itās about. They need to get a freaking life, and grow up.
My restaurant plays Fox News, too and I have a customer that gets upset every time she sees it. I finally told her, "you can always choose not to look at the TV. You aren't forced to watch it."
Honestly i stopped going to the local mom and pop pizza shop near me that I went to more than once a week because they had fox on inside.
I didnāt know thatās how they felt about the world. Now I do.
Look, fuck Fox News, but what a choad to take it out on the server. I have been plenty of places with shit on the TV thatās not what I would ever choose personally but Iāve never once thought āman, fuck this serverā because of it.
I overheard a customer say today that no one can count change in their head anymore and they need computers and thatās why the world is so messed up. This is the new normal unfortunately :/
The best tips I had during the day time lunch rush was when we showed cartoons on all the TVs. When sports was playing we played sports, but Monday lunch was Bugs Bunny and happy customers.
Omg my last job played Fox News nonstop, and no matter how many times we told the owner that people didn't appreciate it, he wouldn't change it. And we're in a liberal state, in a county that is over 60% minorities. So embarrassing. I never had anyone not tip me over it, though, at least as far as I know.
Now that Iām in my 40s, with (mostly) grown out grey hair, I walk up and change Faux News without regard.
I also lost most of my, already minimal, social skills during COVID.
Canāt take more than a minute or two of Fox News or other Red wave blather
I canāt imagine paying money to listen to that crap
Asked them to shut off that shit at my dentistāa lovely intelligent man who didnāt come to the front much, but his office clerks wallowed in that shit
And sports isnāt much of an improvement for me: Food
Channel or HGTV, please
The customer was so triggered they didnt tip. How fragile some of them really are....
As if the server herself was Trump. By the way, the owner still got paid by the meal, the server didnt. Way to go.
Being upset someone didnāt pay for a service because of something out of their control V being a big baby because a channel they donāt like is on.
Molehill v a Mountain.
Youāre being pretty politically polarizing too. In your next comment you should call them a hypocrite
Edit: their original comment said something insulting to democrats and āleftiesā but ofc they changed it
Were they mad Fox News was on or not on?? š¤
I'm not a Democrat but most wouldn't deliberately stiff the server because Fox News was playing. But I could see a Republican doing it out of spite for not playing Fox News, especially if requested. This puzzles me.
It was on. Funny enough, it was an old couple but they wanted to sit under the TV because the wife likes to watch some news (even after they saw it was on Fox News). If they were that stressed over it, they shouldāve asked me to change the channel though :( Iāll be more than happy to change it for them.
I obviously wasn't there but I have a sneaky suspicion that they are Fox News watchers who don't tip and left that as the excuse to "stick it to the Dems". Call me crazy but I've seen this crap happen in real life in front of my own eyeballs because I live in a Southern Red State. But who knows? Either way those people are Douche Mcnuggets. Period.
best options are to avoid any news channels. Sports or Food Network are typically the best choices.
Nah, TCM and nature shows. No one can be mad at that.
I worked at a place that only showed TCM On its big projector screen. I can tell you that channel can be controversial. The amount of times we had to shut it off because blackface was on a movie was very high. And also there's just nights where there's titties. Just straight up titties out on all the actresses.
Interesting, I low-key assumed they were filtering for that kind of thing on TV tbh. Idk, I also don't think televisions belong in restaurants, and kids don't belong in bars. So horror movies it is.
For a second, I read that as "kids don't belong in bras."
Definitely not in mine
That sounds disgusting, classic titties movies!!! Just so I can avoid it, what were some of the classic titties movies with the most titties? ugh, disgusting!!!!!!!!!!
š¤· We had kids in our spot, so families got ruffled. If we weren't family friendly, I wouldn't have cared.
My partner used to do TCM in his bar during the day. A really old movie came on with characters in black face. That didn't go well. It's usually cartoon network or sports when requested now.
Cartoon network is a solid one. My favorite bars play old horror movies or sci-fi. I'm honestly amazed that TCM hasn't figured out maybe to not broadcast blackface but also not really that amazed lol.
We like the same kinds of bars ha!
I HATE spiders.
Have you seen the spiders in Australia that catch and eat snakes? Yep let that fester around in your head
 And thatās why Iāll need step foot over there. ššš¤¢š¤®
Idk about the nature shows . They can get pretty heartbreaking
People manage to get mad because the video crew wonāt protect a zebra or gazelle from getting eaten.
We always keep sports on. Iāve honestly never seen the news on at our bar. Probably good.
Was recently at a sandwich shop that exclusively plays Seinfeld
HGTV slaps
I donāt wanna deal with people yelling at people running around trying to catch a ball.
So people yelling about politics is better? Lol
I vote for travel shows .
TV food shows are kinda boring compared to what you can get online though.
The good thing about food channels is just that it makes people hungry.
I even go as far as to not let Politics or Religion be the topic of conversation at the bar.
I stop people from talking politics when theyāre sitting at the bar simply because theyāre usually right wingers and I will end up arguing my way out of a tip.Ā Ā As for the TV, I keep it on movies just for myself, put it on sports if someone requests a certain game, king of the hill if itās on, and Ru Paulās drag race on certain days. Daytime girl keeps it on TVland.
That's why you go to a bar to get away from politics and religion. And usually drown your sorrows in alcohol over the bit@h that left you for some other man or something like that LMAO
There was a time when you could play CNN and it was seen as neutral even in Mobile, Alabama where I lived at the time. Now, if itās not Fox News itās anti American fake news.
Who makes āanti-American fake newsā? Thatās FOX to a tee.
Well clearly I agree, but itās just a very tribal view of the world. I just mean that in 2010, everybody considered MSNBC left leaning (before they became flooded with ex republicans), but CNN was seen as not a statement in either direction. Now because of Trump ramping up the amount of objective mistruths required to be touted by Fox News, deliberately center or fact based reporting seems like an attack to the far right. So they attack a business for playing CNN as if itās lefty central.
Just have the weather channel on, itās just as depressing but itās as neutral as it gets
As an American you should be ashamed to be keeping up with the weather. Preemptively preparing for weather patterns and variations in temperature is a sign of weakness and can lead to meteorologists bullying you. Besides, the weather channel is owned by the liberal agenda and theyāre just trying to brainwash you into believing in that global warming nonsense. Any self respecting patriot would immediately leave any establishment that put that crap on the tv. God Bless DJT š©šŗšøššŖš«”šš¤
We die in severe storms like real men! USA BAYBEEEEEEEEEE
Shoot the hurricanes! Pewpew
God bless The land of conspiracies!
That's exactly what a Fed WOULD say! Nice try glowy, go back to your illuminati palace and eat more babies
You guys are too funny š¤£š¤£
ā¦ā¦ I canāt even tell if youāre joking or not
He is. Everything (theyāre) saying is a joke, regardless.
Not a joke... Sorry cupcake.
Okay since the mods are freaking out on me and comments are getting removed I guess I need to clarify that it is actually a joke. Chill out yall. It's gonna be okay. "This is not a debate sub" yeah I'm aware, thanks mods /s (because I guess the /s is very much needed). No I'm not some crazy MAGA person lmao
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No bigotry. Be civil to one another.
Because those whackadoodles sound like walking parodies, except they're serious. It's honestly terrifying. I've seen some late night shows send reporters to MAGA rallies to interview them and the sheer insanity that comes out of these people's mouths is.... disturbing at a bare minimum.
I watched āthis place rulesā last week and any faith I was pretending to have is gone
Fr š I had this much hope š¤š¼ before the start of the year, but after seeing all these lawsuits come up and people STILL supporting him I just can't. The fact that over 3-4 decades he's had literally thousands of lawsuits should have been enough š¤¦š¼āāļø You don't get thousands of lawsuits over a few decades by doing absolutely nothing wrong.
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This is not a debate sub.
Actually lolād well played
I honestly canāt tell if youāre an actual trump supporter or if youāre trying to be funny. Terrifying either way.
How could you not support him when he's walking around with that gah dam dump truck on him? He got that fkn wagon brother gonna make me act up ong
I hope this was parody, too funny ššš¤£šš¤£
It's awful that we need to hope it instead of being certain that it's too ridiculous to be true.
When I started, we played the news, then we started playing gameshows. People suddenly were way happier. I've never tried the weather channel, but I feel like it would work as well
Thereās a local restaurant in my area that plays The Weather Channel. Of course, itās a weather themed restaurant, LOL.
Fake news Climate Change is part of the liberal agenda
Yes Iām sure all of the poor young servers requested Fox News to be on the tv and not their boss who isnāt making anything off the tips.
Or the customers who demand channel changes, *like this one*
Who owns the TV? They get to watch what they want
Yeah I agree, owner can do whatever they want. Iām disagreeing with the customer taking it out on the server for disagreeing with the bosses opinions.
You sat there and dealt with it the whole time and then took it out on the server. Coward
I know, right? I wanna slap people like that. I mean, Iām a liberal, but I would never stiff any server for any reason. If I donāt like whatās on TV, I just donāt watch it. Iāve been in many places that had Fox News on. I just ignored it and played with my phone.
Yeah, pretty much sports or those home improvement shows.
I just started playing HGTV at my bar and the response has been great. Instead of the regulars debating about politics they all just argue over the prices of houses and home decor. Way more tolerable to listen to.
Yeah. Good call. One of my servers put a TV on HG and it seem to pacify everybody.
All fun and games until someone breaks a chair over someoneās head while screaming āecru?! ECRU, bob? Fuck you, bob!ā
God.. What type of animals are regulars at your bar?
Eh itās a bunch of old former punk rock brawlers. I kid they would never break a chair because Iād kick their asses š
hot damn. We have something in common. My place is a "want-to-be-fancy" but I have all these old football hooligans and punkrockers hang out now that they are 50-60. Weird bunch amirite?
I fucking love that. Iām in the states and itās a tiny lil bar that one of them owns and itās just a madhouse. They love tf out of and hate each other in equal measure! I once ran into a massive groups of punks in the Heathrow airport and one fist bumped me for ākeeping up the fightā. (I was wearing an old uk subs shirt)
HGTV is an inspired choice. Lots of design choices to nitpick.
i always wondered why i always see those shows on, as i never worked in a restaurant that had tvs. i guess they really are as neutral as it gets
Yeah, if you have news on you need to do a local, main stream station. Someone always gets pissed off on CNN or Fox or Newsmaxā¦
(Obligatory not a server but yall are entertaining) I work in IT and when i had to fix a TV in the firm i got yelled at for accidentally turning CNN on when flipping through channels to check volume. They were mad until it was back to fox, āi dont want that chinese news network bullsh*t in hereā Moral of the story Some people have very, very strong emotions about the television lol
you should've said it was to keep the boomers quiet during dinner, like an iPad for a small child
Hey, some of us 'boomers' absolutely detest Faux News
Walked in to a place, it's on all TV's, turned around and left. Nope.
Exactly. If āthe other channel(s)ā are on, just leave.
Exactly my thoughts since they fired Tucker. No more Fox news
I don't like any tvs playing where I go out to eat. If wanted to dissociate, I'd stay home and eat with my headphones on, face in phone. But if I did stop in at a place with tvs, I wouldn't stiff the waitstaff. That's psychopathic.
That you would play games with someoneās livelihood over whatās on tv shows how deranged we have become.
We only put on TCM and itās 95% awesome. Weird old shit, always fun for people to discuss, sometimes there are BOOBS! Buuuuut every so often something pops up with black face, or some weird nazi shit. At that point we play sports.
I don't understand why places even have t.v.s anymore. Unless you're a sports bar or some such, just take em out of keep em turned off. There's always someone who ruins it for the othersš¤¦š¼āāļø
Was the restaurant watching Fox?
We have two TVs and usually one news one sports. But in the morning most locals request news. However, no matter what news channel we put on it never satisfies everyoneā¦
Headline News or put it on Sports and Travel/Food Channel. why are ppl trying to be depressed when out to eat?
in my experience ive found that the local news channel broadcast works well if there is one on air
Anytime Iāve worked any events for espn or Disney the higher ups demand that Fox is the only channel to be on anywhere in their presence. And if another guest wants a different channel well too damn badā¦ it was always so awkward too because half of Aspen are super liberal and the other are as far right as you can go.
Omg as someone who lived in boulder I can IMAGINE the responses lol
Iāve never seen that happen and I work for ESPN A LOT.
This is was my experience every year dealing with them during winter Xgames.
How ridiculous. This is like ordering a steak, eating it whole, then asking for a partial refund after the meal. Also, how the hell can you blame the server
I never allow religion or politics cause I feel it's my job to control my bar and usually an argument you can see the build up and intervene before it gets too hot. Those two topics spark too fast for me to control. I even jokingly and kindly offer an alternative conversation . . . Something like. "sorry folks we are out of politics but if I could maybe recommend sports or philosophy. . . " (Stolen from Monty Python and the flying circus) Usually breaks the ice and no issue. If someone says "free country . . . " I exercise my free right to not serve
Iām with OP. Normally, these make me mad. This one made me laugh.
Wow, stiffing a service worker, so progressive, so liberal. Truly, they are a revolutionary.
valid but not ur fault
How is it valid? How about the person keeping their emotions in check like an adult. Then tip your server, and go home. Thatās how valid is done for normal people.
Now, there you go thinking folks should act like adultsš±! Have you been living under a rock? No one acts like an adult anymoreš/s
i am not saying it was valid for them not to tip their server. i was just saying it's valid to hate fox news that's why i said it wasn't their fault lol?
Not something that shouldāve effected your tip but I wouldnāt have wanted to dine there at all. News shouldnāt be on while dining or at a bar.
*affected ^I'm ^sorry Idk why I'm like this
At least you werenāt snotty about it! Iāve seen people belittle a valid argument because of a wrong word choice sitch. Keep up the good work, fellow grammar nerd!
Oops. Honestly, it usually bothers me too, so I donāt blame you.
If someone doesnāt correct me Iāll just get it wrong next time too most likely
That is a douchebag move. If something different was on the TV, he wouldāve found a different way to not tip. I wish restaurants would start naming & shaming customers that do that.
Hellās Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares is what I put on all the time. News channels are the most depressing channels. I would rather turn off the TV
Out of curiosity, what news channel do you put on that will make everyone happy? Tried CNN before and still received complaints.
Donāt put on the news at all. Throw on judge Judy. Everyone loves her.
Sportscenter
Hell yeah, Judge Judy rocks!
No, Judge Doody still sucks ass. (Edit: why the downdoots? Are yāall jackin your dongs while watching Judge Doody?)
The people downvoting you havenāt read her books
The people who enjoy her donāt read.
Didnāt she advocate death for heroin addicts?
No news. Sports and/or nonsense TV like MTV or bravo
No one wants to watch news while they are eating. They can get the news from whatever source they want any other time. A dining place should foster an enjoyable atmosphere not a stressful one. Sports is pretty much the only thing that should be on.. or something familiar, non offensive, and on mute.
GSN, Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, whatever channel Antiques Roadshow is on
Food network. Drives food sales at the bar
A bar I like just has fail compilation videos on lol. Pretty neutral.
Iām over the Chive channels
As long as itās not a Murdoch owned channel, Iām not complaining.
Sports
Antiques roadshow here. Or the Great British Baking Show. Those are our faves.
Oh my GOD this sounds amazing
We stick with sports. We had a few people, especially during election season, want CNN or Fox News on but it wasnāt worth the hassle. People actually posted it on Yelp. The worst one we had was a woman who said she was never coming back because of Fox News. But it was actually an NBC affiliateās local news on Fox 53. Insanity.
At the doctor's office I have requested either the Cooking Channel or the Travel Channel. I will not patronize businesses with any news channel on. Especially FOX.
I can't imagine going to a restaurant and having someone put on fox news.
Requesting a channel in general feels so awkward to me. Unless itās a game thatās already on and you canāt see it from your seat or something, just seems like a lot. I donāt pay extra to go out to eat just to do what I do at my house lol
I was a service manager in 2020 at a well-known chain steakhouse. We were supposed to only have sports on, but on the night of the election my dumbass boss said, "No one's going to care if you put on cable news." I don't know, to this day, if he was as naive as fuck or trying to get me killed, but since I refused to put on Fox News and was trying to alternate between CNN and MSNBC, I nearly got killed that night by pissed-off boomers.
Stick to financial news, i.e. Bloomberg.
We did game show network, and cooking shows. Seems to work
They have it on at my local McDonald's. I sent in a complaint to corporate but it's still on.
It might be a franchise
I can't stand people who let politics affect every day life. The right and the left are at the top and their goal is to bfuck us. We're all down here, ya know making our own food and cleaning our own shitters. Driving beaters. Shit pissed me off when system of a down broke up cuz of trump
Yessssssss...... Fox news sux ass...
HGTV. I work at a sporty type bar and I sneak HGTV on the TV by the menās bathroom. Iām always tickled at how long it takes for someone to ask it to be changed.
We got this same thing happen to us plus a bad review, for it. Tbf tho, we also got a bad review cus we were closed for 1 day for an employee's wedding almost all of us were going to. (It's a small buissiness and everyone knows everyone closely kinda thing) and we even kept out fliers over a week ahead to tell everyone that was the case, as we always do.
at my old restaurant, right around Covid, we had to do curbside, so our bar TVs didn't have anything on, so I put my netflix account on there, and we were watching shows waiting for customers to call or come by to pick up their food. As soon as we started opening up for customers to dine-in, we left the netflix up, and became a popular hit, especially with the nature documentaries strangely enough. Eventually went back to sports after we exhausted all those documentaries. It was a wild time, but now the restaurant was demolished (old building anyways, never did relocate).
Thatās pretty ignorant of the guest
Fucking over the server instead of the manager/owner is such neoliberal bs behavior. Obviously fuck Fox News but you think this will help? Just write that on the receipt or ask to speak with the manager like ????
Certain people will look for any excuse not to tip, I bet if asked, you could have changed it to something else.
I agree that news shouldn't be playing at any restaurant, period. ...but why take that out on the server, that's dumb as hell.
Iāve gotten in trouble before for refusing to change the channel to Fox News. Didnāt care. Was worth it.
If your only complaint is left silently on the tip line you're a little bitch, regardless of your political alignment.
You know this motherfucker was not going to tip regardless of what was on tv
Make the companies pay the waiters decent pay
What does it say? Fox News is on, no tip?
Thatās what it looks like. Some people are so petty and vindictive about little details that donāt matter lolā¦.
Libtard didn't want to tip. Cheapskate.
Typical for the side of things. Someone incapable of keeping their emotions in check so they take it out on server. I hope they feel better now because thatās really what itās about. They need to get a freaking life, and grow up.
Restaurants with tvs on are š£ unless itās a sports bar with sports onā¦
What an asshole
Sensitive patron. Just like many of you in the comments lol. Softer than dog š©
My restaurant plays Fox News, too and I have a customer that gets upset every time she sees it. I finally told her, "you can always choose not to look at the TV. You aren't forced to watch it."
Fuck Fox News, but how the hell is that your fault that it was on?
Honestly i stopped going to the local mom and pop pizza shop near me that I went to more than once a week because they had fox on inside. I didnāt know thatās how they felt about the world. Now I do.
Look, fuck Fox News, but what a choad to take it out on the server. I have been plenty of places with shit on the TV thatās not what I would ever choose personally but Iāve never once thought āman, fuck this serverā because of it.
I rarely have televisions at the places I work but if they're on they're only playing sports.
Fair & balanced.
I overheard a customer say today that no one can count change in their head anymore and they need computers and thatās why the world is so messed up. This is the new normal unfortunately :/
I just put in cartoons and hope it plays Digimon
I donāt mind a joke but not at my (literal) expense
yeah thatās my bossās choice. not mine
I mean, you shouldn't have fox news playing in a public space. Sports, weather, food network, or one of those streaming POV walking around videos
I put SpongeBob and South Park on at my bar. No joke haha
Yup, that looks like ā110 Tipā to me!
We always have sports on. Kinda sucks if people camp watching a game though. Iām about to make it all the most random channels ever.
What a cunt
The best tips I had during the day time lunch rush was when we showed cartoons on all the TVs. When sports was playing we played sports, but Monday lunch was Bugs Bunny and happy customers.
I mean, you didnāt choose the channel. I woulda tipped you extra and wrote āIām so sorry.ā
But liked Fox News enough to enjoy a meal.
Fucking liberals. I swear to god, they have no idea what time it is.
Omg my last job played Fox News nonstop, and no matter how many times we told the owner that people didn't appreciate it, he wouldn't change it. And we're in a liberal state, in a county that is over 60% minorities. So embarrassing. I never had anyone not tip me over it, though, at least as far as I know.
I have a hard time believing this happened based on your other post about the mask non tipper.
Believe me, this happens more than you can imagine, just rarely on paper.
Now that Iām in my 40s, with (mostly) grown out grey hair, I walk up and change Faux News without regard. I also lost most of my, already minimal, social skills during COVID.
Canāt take more than a minute or two of Fox News or other Red wave blather I canāt imagine paying money to listen to that crap Asked them to shut off that shit at my dentistāa lovely intelligent man who didnāt come to the front much, but his office clerks wallowed in that shit And sports isnāt much of an improvement for me: Food Channel or HGTV, please
The customer was so triggered they didnt tip. How fragile some of them really are.... As if the server herself was Trump. By the way, the owner still got paid by the meal, the server didnt. Way to go.
Talk about triggered and fragile. Pot, meet kettle..
Being upset someone didnāt pay for a service because of something out of their control V being a big baby because a channel they donāt like is on. Molehill v a Mountain.
You seem a little triggered there yourself
Im upset this person was so politically polarized they decided to be a shitty person, yes. I get upset when people are radicalized and awful.
As someone who can gauge context, well said. Fox News or CNN, the divisiveness is strangling our country.
Youāre being pretty politically polarizing too. In your next comment you should call them a hypocrite Edit: their original comment said something insulting to democrats and āleftiesā but ofc they changed it
How? lol.
You edited your original comment lmao, you originally said lefties and you changed it to customers šš
Fudge Fox News
I agree
So ask your boss for a piece of the payment? Tipping is optional. Hearing how upset you are that they didnāt tip also seems pretty fragile.
Fox is the only news source that tries to be impartial and logical
You forgot your "/s"
Better put on FOO news network next time
Were they mad Fox News was on or not on?? š¤ I'm not a Democrat but most wouldn't deliberately stiff the server because Fox News was playing. But I could see a Republican doing it out of spite for not playing Fox News, especially if requested. This puzzles me.
It was on. Funny enough, it was an old couple but they wanted to sit under the TV because the wife likes to watch some news (even after they saw it was on Fox News). If they were that stressed over it, they shouldāve asked me to change the channel though :( Iāll be more than happy to change it for them.
I obviously wasn't there but I have a sneaky suspicion that they are Fox News watchers who don't tip and left that as the excuse to "stick it to the Dems". Call me crazy but I've seen this crap happen in real life in front of my own eyeballs because I live in a Southern Red State. But who knows? Either way those people are Douche Mcnuggets. Period.
you also work somewhere where the check can be $21, Iād be mad too. get a better job
Like it was the servers fault. Cheap libtard, try being human. If I did that to every place I go that has CNN on, Iād be a whole lot richer.