Posted on 11/30/2009 10:29:46 AM PST by big black dog
why do celebrities feel comfortable for selling themselves? I mean normal people don’t walk around naked but it’s ok for movies and tv or photo shoots for the world to see. No wonder our cultural is collapsing.
First of all let me set the record straight. The federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13/hr. (vs. $7.25/hr. non-tipped). The IRS requires you to claim at least 8% of your total sales as income to calculate your income taxes. Servers on average have to give at least 20% to other employees (busboys, food runners, bartenders, etc.)
So if you don’t tip or tip poorly you are literally taking money out of the server’s pocket. Because the IRS and other employees don’t care if you got tipped or not they are only looking at your sales report.
Servers are sales people...period. How many times do they try to upsell your drink from the house rotgut to a premium brand, try to get to buy an appetizer or desert? It’s all about selling. They are trying to raise your check average in hopes that you will tip accordingly.
Most servers I have met genuinely do care about giving their customers the best service possible. I have seen many a kitchen fights between servers and cooks because food came out wrong or slow...because the server cared.
A recent survey was done on why people tip...10% for food/ atmosphere, 20% for service and 70% for how people perceive themselves.
Just remember TIP is an acronym for To Insure Promptness. As a former waiter I believe 15% is the standard, anything less you should talk to the manager. And quit camparing the US to the rest of the world we don’t compare ourselves to the rest of the world when it comes to other things (gas prices, health care, etc.)because we still live in the greatest country on the face of the earth!
I could pretend and make up a similar list if I wanted to.
34 Notoriously Bad Celebrity Tippers
Monday, November 30, 2009 1:31:21 PM · 2 of 142
nmh to big black dog
Liberals are CHEAP!
All they want to do is SPEND YOUR MONEY
- ideally on themselves.
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I don’t know about Dog the bounty Hunter.
They seem to be a trashy liberal family ... . who knows!
“why do celebrities feel comfortable for selling themselves? I mean normal people dont walk around naked “
Celebrities, like Kirsten, are hot and we’re not.
Good looking people make a lot of money.
Any questions?
You know...like the large majority of your posts here...I can’t imagine what possible difference it makes to you whether or not Americans tip...what is your angle? Do you think Americans care about NZ cultural practices? We don’t, I can assure you. You’re free to behave as you wish...please extend us the same courtesy.
Is NZ really so boring that you have to get on the internet and discuss American restaurant procedure?
> Do you think Americans care about NZ cultural practices? We dont, I can assure you. Youre free to behave as you wish...please extend us the same courtesy.
When you say “us” and “we”, n0oB, exactly who do you mean?
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I don’t know either, I just figured if they were bounty hunters, they were not liberals. I do know that they really aren’t spending my money.
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