dhill
New member
Ditto to thainer and satchmo. I worked in restaurants for years and as a former waiter kudos to you for not affecting your servers income.
As a restaurant manager, I would say you did 100% the right thing. It was not the servers fault, and you understood that. BUT----
You shouldve told the server that she was absolutely great, but kindly asked for the manager, also reassuring her that you are not speaking to him/her about her. From there the restaurant should have taken care of one or both of your meals. Any time this has happened to me and I ended up with a very small bill, I still tip 25% on the original size of the bill before compensation.