Ames Buffalo Wild Wings, workers in Hawk shirts!
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Like I said earlier about Hooters. In cases like this, it's not what's ON the shirt/pants. It's what IN the shirt/pants that opens wallets. :biggrin:
Yeah, any guy that doesn't admit to it is probably lying. It happens subconsciously most of the time.
I usually write it on the receipt just so they know that's why I gave them a big tip.
Who cares if it is? If I worked in the service industry, I'd damned well understand that what I looked like would impact my bottom line. If you're that stupid to wear that on an ISU gameday with a ton of ISU fans in town (and very few iowa fans...unless you count the UNI people), then you probably deserve to get stiffed on tips. I personally wouldn't stiff the waitress, but I wouldn't blame someone who did.
As for being petty, I think that we'll see PLENTY of hawk fans being petty on Saturday. You guys have what is likely the most idiotic, self-entitled, boarish, ignorant, uneducated, white trash fanbase on the planet. I expect no less from your fanbase on Saturday. And what they do on a regular basis makes not giving a waitress a tip look nice by comparison.
If the chick was hot enough and showed enough her shirt could say **** ISU and she'd get a decent tip from me.
I won't deny that the Hawk fanbase is hardly a saintly bunch. But two wrongs don't make a right.
I just feel like if you're going to eat someplace, you should tip your waiter/waitress if he/she does a good job. If you don't care for their wearing Hawk gear on an ISU gameday, tip them (maybe under-tip a little, but still tip them), and then don't come back on gamedays in the future. But don't run them into the ground serving you and then leave them nothing.
It wasn't rivalry week when the OP went to BWW. The one day where this practice would be acceptable would be this Saturday. Plus, it's not fun to stiff people out of their hard-earned money. I've been on the other side of that fence before, and it's not fun.
*insert joke about getting pizza delivered here*
I'll give you credit, tm3308, at least you can take some crap. :smile: You aren't a complete and total d-bag like most of your fanbase.
wow, this is a joke right? Come on, there are Iowa fans in Ames, just as there some ISU fans in Iowa City. Get over it.
I know where I'm at when I'm here lol. It comes with the territory.
And if I were a Cyclone fan who was in the OP's position, I would have done what you guys do to me here: give him/her a little crap, all in good fun. Stiffing them on the tip is NOT all in good fun.
On game day, firing up for the Cyclones first victory, didn't need three Hawk shirts, plus glittery Hawk pin to start my day. There were others as well. Maybe they are looking for Iowa fans to work there, I don't know. They have a choice, so do I. But I believe it's not very smart business. I would feel the same way about the one in Iowa City. I would not expect I State shirts there on game day. Just my observation. If you like it, go there. They need the business. (and I wouldn't stiff the tip on anyone)
Although I have not been to this particular BWW, I would venture to guess that is inaccurate. Nevertheless, it is really pretty petty to care what a server is wearing. If she was shoving down your throats and talking trash, then so be it. Complain. But to email corporate over a few t-shirts? Yikes.
I wonder this also. It is just good business to support the home team, especially when it is not rivalry week. I wouldn't make a huge case out of it, but if it were my business, they would wear ISU or nothing at all (er, I mean just plain clothes).
First off, this seems like a double standard to me. Iowa fans can act boarish, get drunk and be rude to anyone, go up to total strangers and scream in their faces and throw beers on them and it is "just a bad segment of fans" and "we don't claim them". But ISU fan gets mad and sends an email to BWW management and our entire fanbase is thin-skinned and petty...basically whiny little b$tches. Funny how that works. Hawk fan can act like an idiot and nothing comes of it while Cyclone fan gets chastized over something that hurt no one.
As for your tipping comment, I agree. I'm usually between 10 and 20%. If the service is bad (or the girl is wearing a hawk shirt), I'm probably going to be close to 10. If the service is good and the girl is hot, probably closer to 20. The only thing that seeing the iowa gear on the waitress would do for me is move BWW a little further down the ranking when I decide to go out to eat in town again. Not saying I would never go there again, just maybe it moves WCW up above BWW a few notches.
Bottom line for me has always been that people can spend their own money where they see fit based on the price, product and whatever other factors are important to them. If a person wants to reward a business for supporting ISU or punish others for not supporting ISU, that is THEIR business.
Except that some (most) people also care -- to SOME extent -- about the experience.
Yeah when I choose to go to a place like BWW it's because of the dining experience...and it is RUINED if I see someone making a fashion choice I disagree with.
Not even going to lie, if a waitress wearing hawk gear served me in Ames and we had friendly banter and we poked fun at each other, I am more likely to leave a larger tip. Because it was all in good fun!
People (more specifically the OP), lighten up and remember that ISU-Iowa is a FUN rivalry!
People (more specifically the OP), lighten up and remember that ISU-Iowa is a FUN rivalry!
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