But tip 30 to 50 percent anyway.
When they start judging us for not tipping 50%, I’ll just heat up the grill and stay home.
We always tip 20-25% even if the service is bad due to unforeseen conditions, 2 other waiters call off sick and one waiter for 25 tables.
Now if the waiter screws up our order, does not return under normal conditions they get way less tip.
As usual Brooks is as fundamentaly ignorant as he is absurdly arrogant.
BEST ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE FOR AVERAGE AMERICANS SINCE THE 1960s Daive
So keep your tokenism and political bigotry in your pocket, we would rather have good jobs and growing incomes then pathetic “tips” from a self appointment Political/Media “master” class.
Brooks never fails to annoy me.
” 30 to 50 percent tip “
Wat. I don’t eat out very often, but am usually at the 15% range.
I got a tip for ya - go piss up a rope.
Go home, cook your own stuff
Stop being a Food Snob
But tip 30 to 50 percent anyway.
Sure.Why not 100%.
For much of my adult life, I supplemented my income by working nights and weekends in bars and restaurants. Unless it is a small ‘hole in the wall’ in the middle of nowhere, I can tell you unequivocally that most waiters and bartenders make out like bandits. It was not unusual to take home $200-300. on a busy night - and these weren’t even the high end clubs.
30-50%? Bull.
Sorry, but where I live, an inexpensive meal for my family will tally up to about 40-50. I am not leaving you $12-$25 tip for taking my order, filling my drinks, and bringing me miscellaneous requested items. Assuming you are serving 4 tables an hour on average, that would be $48-$100 an hour... and while I do appreciate good service, it is not worth that much.
If you want those kind of tips, work on your skills, and get hired at a restaurant where the typical bill is $250 a table. If you do, you will soon realize, that service expectations there are far higher than your typical restaurant.
If the service is good, I tip well, the rest is a judgement call.
I do keep in mind that not everything that goes wrong is the fault of the server.
Is anyone still actually referring to this guy as a “conservative” with a straight face?
> Per the article: Tipping is racist, sexist and widens class divisions. <
It must be really easy being a New York Times writer. If you can’t come up with a legitimate story, just fill in the blank below, and run with it.
______________ is racist, sexist and widens class divisions.
Garter belts and generosity go together
When I was a poor student in Boston, I got a job as a waiter and then several jobs as a bartender.
The only racism I ever saw was from groups of blacks, of any class, none of whom would tip.
I knew this, but provided great serve to anyone, but other waiters would do anything to avoid waiting on tables with blacks.
So, yes, there is some racism going on. But it’s because of certain social behaviors of groups.
Brooks is supposed to be what passes for a “conservative” at the New York Times (and also NPR, until they managed to get Never-Trumper radio talker Charlie Sykes).
Brooks got his start by successfully begging William F. Buckley for a job as a senior at U of Chicago when I was a freshman (Buckley visited the campus). What a phony.
That’s certainly what I thought as a bartender.
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Like Almost Occasionally Coherent, he should have stuck with that.
The 30 people who read Brooks column can tip 30-50%.
The waiters at the big steakhouse in Chicago, Gibson’s, Chicago Prime, etc. make $100,000 to $150,000 a year in tips. Not sure what they report to the IRS.
TIP = To Insure Promptness