No Tip Rattlesnake Edit Meaning

1.

leaving a reduced / non tip to a server at a restaurant for failure to bring you a drink refill (or even ask if you want another).

The rattlesnake is shaking your ice to try to get their attention.

When you eat at a restaurant and your drink runs dry. The server, for whatever reason, will not come by to give you a refill. You summon the "no tip rattlesnake" by shaking the ice in your glass to try to get their attention. You either do not get a drink, or it takes forever.

See tipping, gratuity, tip, restaurant, waitress, server