Will be still be charged the automatic

[6gr8kidz]

gratuity?? We are a family of 8. 2 adults and 6 children. We will be staying in 2 rooms 1 adult and 3 children in each room. We are doing the Deluxe Dining plan.

At TS resturants I can't remember one time except for Crystal palace where we ALL sat at one table. Usually we spilt four and four just like our rooms. So if Dh sat at a table with 3 kids and I sat at the next table with 3 kids will we be charged the automatic gratuity?? We won't ask to be sat seperately but if it works out the way it did last year are we going to get charged with the automatic gratutity. Of course if we all sit together it is not even a question in my mind that we will be charged the automatic gratutity.

TIA!

 

[Tricia1972]

Yes you will be charged the automatic gratuity if you have the same server. If you have different servers you will not be charged the automatic gratuity. At least that's my understanding from reading the Disney contract. I am sure that someone will correct me if I am wrong.

 

[TDC Nala]

I think it's more like...if you book on the same reservation, you will be charged the gratuity whether or not you all sit at the same table. If you don't have a reservation and you present yourselves at the podium as all being the same party, you will be charged the gratuity whether or not you are seated at the same table. The only way around it is to go in as completely separate parties.

 

[Tricia1972]

Here is the info from the contract...

FOOD AND BEVERAGE TIPPED


Service Charge for Parties of Six (6) or more (effective January 1, 2008).


An eighteen percent (18%) service charge will be included on all guest checks of parties of six (6) or more.

1.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]The guests will be advised of the policy by the first Host/Hostess (i.e., DRC, Guest Services, Concierge, or Seating Host/Hostess) to accept the guest's reservations.
2.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]In addition to the above, the policy will be printed on the menus.
3.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]If a party of six (6) or more, regardless of reservation size, arrives and is seated at the same table and receives separate checks, the automatic service charge shall apply.
4.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]If a party of six (6) or more arrives and, for whatever reason, is split and seated at separate tables, with the same server regardless of the number of checks, the automatic service charge shall apply.
5.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]If the party of six (6)or more arrives and, for whatever reason, is split, seated at separate tables with different servers, receives separate checks, and these checks are paid for by separate individuals, the automatic service charge does not apply.
6.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]In situations where our guests refuse to comply with our policy, it will be the responsibility of the service person to locate a Manager prior to the guests leaving the restaurant so that Management can speak with the guests. If the service person fails to involve a Manager in the situation prior to the guests departing the restaurant, or receives discipline for poor service, the Company will not be responsible for the difference between what the guest left and eighteen percent (18%) of the guest's food and beverage total.
7.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]The eighteen percent (18%) service charge will be automatically added to the guest check and will be calculated on the food and beverage totals. The server will not be required to inform the guest that a service charge has been included, unless he/she is asked by the guest.
8.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]A twenty percent (20%) service charge will be automatically added to parties of six (6) or more only at Victoria and Albert's. With exception to the amount of the gratuity, all of the above aforementioned is applicable to Victoria and Albert's.



I bolded the part that applies to you and underlined the part that is interesting to me

 

[TDC Nala]

So, if you wanted to avoid the autogratuity, then you'd have to hope that if they split your party, both tables didn't have the same server.

 

[Tricia1972]

That's exactly what I am thinking. Well I am thinking that and "What a goofy system" Not good Goofy, but goofy/weird.

 

[daisyduck123]

When we went last May, we were a party of 8 (6 adults, 2 kids).
We were seated at one large, round table at:
LTT
CM
1900 PF
'Ohana
WCC
CP

At H&V & Biergarten, we were at one large rectangular table.

Never once was our party at 2 separate tables.
I guess we were lucky.

 

[6gr8kidz]

I wasn't trying to get out of the automatic gratuity but was just curious. I kind of bugs me of the fact that we make reservations for 8 and we end up at 2 seperate tables side. Crystal Palace was the only place we were able to sit together as family. No, I take that back...We were seated together at Tony's. Other than that we were seperated a Coral Reef and CRT.

Thanks for all the info.