I always thought Kirsten had big tips. 
Posted on 11/30/2009 10:29:46 AM PST by big black dog
Good point. I never thought of it that way. I’ve asked around our town and they say foreigners are the worst tippers hands down. Especially Canadians. Maybe they don’t tip as much up there and don’t know what is correct here. If the service is horrible, I will drop the tip down to 10% but it has to be really bad.
Ask tickebastard why they charge higher "handling fees" when you buy a $125 ticket vs the $40 seats for the same event.
And they charge it PER ticket even though they are handing over all tickets to a customer at the same time.
Seinfeld: “The bad fiancé, the bad dinner guest, the bad credit risk... the bad date, the bad sport, the bad citizen... the bad tipper!”
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George: How much do you tip a chamber maid?
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JERRY: Whatta ya tip a “wood guy”?
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ELAINE: You can get a gardener.
JERRY: You tip him?
ELAINE: You can.
GEORGE: [to Elaine] You don’t tip a gardener!
JERRY: They deliver the coal?
ELAINE: Sure, it’s...probably the same guy, who delivers the wood.
JERRY: Oh, than I gotta tip him.
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Newscaster: Tobias Lehigh Nagy, who is also wanted in connection with a series of unrelated slayings in the North West is still at large, his whereabouts unknown. He’s described as 5’5” bald and reputedly a very generous tipper.
What’s wrong with 15%? Standard tip is still 10%. It automatically indexes itself through inflation.
This is what generally happens when low-brow, low-class, white-trash dirtbags suddenly become "rich and famous". Suddenly, they start treating those who are "beneath" them in a manner in which they themselves were treated before they became famous.
It's sort of like how child abuse gets passed on, generation to generation. You'd think they would have more empathy for the "common" people, since they were "common" once themselves, but it doesn't always work out that way.
Exactly. Seems to me the easiest way for somebody with a grudge to badmouth a celebrity, could simply go to one of these websites and type, “so and so doesn’t tip....” and then it’s taken as gospel.
There should be. Why should one waiter suffer a loss of income because some other waiter got the "good table" with the generous tipper?
Pool all of the money and don't forget to split it with the chefs, food prep people, busboys AND cashier AND greeter.
i dont understand your post. are you saying that if a meal costs $30 at TGIF’s and a meal costs $300 at a steak house, you should leave the same tip?
I always thought Kirsten had big tips.
Excuse me, Tiger, but you can add the tip to your credit card right on the dinner ticket.
Every restaurant I worked at did precisely that.
Well, that's ok,...as long as he didn't puke.
What incentive would they have to sell an expensive bottle of wine, or a more profitable "Special," if they only get a fixed charge for either one?
I have no where near the money these celebrities have, but I always carry a few credit cards in my wallet and I usually calculate a 20% tip.
Hollywood really is Hollyweird. They do think we should be honored to be in their presence and that it is a privilege to wait on them.
Yes. Because it is the same work being done by the waiter. The only difference between the two restaurants is the quality of the food, which is something upon which the waiter has no impact.
When I do take the family out, I try to patronize places which do not require tipping, which are usually places where you go pick up the food at the counter when it is prepared. I prefer saving money that way.
chuckle...
Yes, but she also stiffed some wait staff on at least 2 occasions during the last Presidential campaign. Each time it made the News. You’d think that this would get her on this particular list. As far as politicians go, the moral of the story is always leave a good tip and don’t delegate the act to a staffer. If they forget you get the black-eye.
In a lot of restaurants, the tips are not just for your waiter. They are split with the wait staff, the bar, the bus boys, the kitchen and the entrance staff.
So if you have the doorman, the coat checker, the seater, the sommelier, the waiter, the bus staff, and the dish washers, you might have 8+ people who will be splitting your tip. At Applebees, you might have the tip split between 3 or 4 people at the most.
Why not just raise prices by 20%, pay the waitstaff at least minimum wage, put big signs up that say "NO TIPPING" and leave it at that?
I don't see it that way. I figure someone patronizes a restaurant because that restaurant ran advertisments that enticed a patron to come in. A patron doesn't sit at the table and then decide based on what the waiter tells him whether or not he'd be a paying customer.
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