[calex59]

To everyone who thinks this guy is cheap: IMO, he is totally correct, it isn't the customers job to pay the help, it is the restaurant owner's job. The tip should be in the price and should state on the menu that 15% is added to the price as a tip. Then, if a person doesn't want to pay they don't have to eat there. That would also get around the $3.00 law in the east.

Tipping has become ingrained into the minds of the public in one of the most blatant mind washing efforts in history.

There is no reason to tip. Do you tip the hardware guy, the grocery store clerk or anyone else who gives good service? No? The reason for that is you know they get paid by their employer so you pay the bill and don't tip. Waiters/Waitresses get paid also and their living wage is the problem of the employer. Period.

[netmilsmom]

>>There is no reason to tip.<<

As a repeat customer, it’s to keep your food and drinks bodily fluid free.

[RobRoy]

This is pretty hard to argue with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-qV9wVGb38

[RobRoy]

>>Do you tip the hardware guy, the grocery store clerk or anyone else who gives good service? No? The reason for that is you know they get paid by their employer so you pay the bill and don’t tip.<<

Bingo.

I have been to Lowes and the help I have gotten has flabbergasted me sometimes. A guy will be busy setting up a display or something and I will ask where an obscure item is. Sometimes he/she will not just tell me where it is. They will walk me to the section and bring me right to the spot, even helping me with what size or quality I might want to consider. No, I don’t slip ‘em a fiver.

Meanwhile, if a waiter or waitress would do just what they are REQUIRED to do - no more and no less - I would be happy.