Posted on 11/26/2005 9:50:03 AM PST by smoothsailing
Bad tippers and bitter waitresses
By Jack Kemp (not the politician) Nov. 26, 2005
Once, years ago, I heard a heard a lecture by a rabbi on dating. He advised that if your date treats a waiter/waitress or a busboy in a condescending and mean manner, that is the way they will treat you after a while – if you were to marry them. Today's New York Post had an article about cheap celebrity tippers listed on the website www.bitterwaitress.com.
I went there to see how many well known political "champions of the little guy and gal" rated. I cross referenced the website with liberals from Bernard Goldberg's One Hundred People Screwing Up America.
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Let's see. First up, Michael Moore, 3% tip.
Tipper's Name: Michael Moore (yes THAT Michael Moore)
Where it happened: Los Angeles
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $452.25 / $17.74 / 3%
What happened:
OK I ran my ass off for this guy and his friends. Funny I didnt know this guy had friends, maybe they were kissups. 2.5 hours they spent shoveling food down their fat faces. Numerous refills. By the way MM is a pompous ass judging from his treatment of the staff.
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Let's see again. Barbra Streisand, 2% tip.
Tipper's Name: Barbra Streisand
Where it happened: New York
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $457.00 / $10.00 / 2%
What happened:
She demanded the best table, acting rude to everyone and then barely tipped.
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Next "champion of the people," Jessie Jackson 9% tip.
Tipper's Name: Jesse Jackson
Restaurant: Sam's
Where it happened: Kansas City
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $228.00 / $22.00 / 9%
What happened: rude,arrogant,demanding and cheap
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Next up, Sen. John Kerry, 2% tip.
Tipper's Name: John F. Kerry
Where it happened: St. Louis
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $773.24 / $20.00 / 2%
What happened:
Added $20.00 on the signature line and then scribbled a little note to vote for him. What a load of crap.
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Kerry's former running mate, Sen. John Edwards, 2% tip.
Tipper's Name: John Edwards
Where it happened: Washington, D.C.
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $746.25 / $13.75 / 1%
What happened:
This is the guy running for Vice President… Sat in our private section for 3 1/2 hours and left less than 2%. Jackass.
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Former VP Al Gore. 8% tip.
Tipper's Name: Former VP Al Gore
Where it happened: Alexandria, VA
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $40.00 / $3.50 / 8%
What happened:
Al and Tipper Gore were regulars at the restaurant I used to work at. You'd think this would be cool, waiting on a former Vice President. And it would be, if not for the fact that Al Gore is cheap.
Last time they came in, Tipper actually spilled her beer on me (it's not smart to gesture wildly with a bottle of Corona on your table). She didn't apologize—he apologized for her. Still. Less than 10%. You'd think they'd know that the 'underclass' the Democrats claim to represent are people like waitresses in VA making $2.13 an hour. Guess not.
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Lastly, Sean Penn, 0% tip. Nada. Zip. Zero.
Tipper's Name: Sean Penn
Where it happened: New Orleans
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $450.00 / $0.00 / 0%
What happened:
Sean Penn is in New Orleans filming & came into my restaurant with 3 other people. Waited on them hand and foot. The bill $450.00 – the tip: none. Cheapskate.
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There you have it. The champions of "fairness" and "the little guy." Yes, President Bush and VP Cheney made the website as well. But who is claiming them as champions of the poor and oppressed victims, advocating extra government payments to make up for past suffering, etc.?
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Thomas Lifson adds:
I have followed Bitter Waitress for years. It is well-known in the food and beverage industry, and at least at the upscale restaurants, it has a big following among the wait staff. When one of these bozos comes in, they usually will not treat them overtly rudely. But vengeance of another sort may sometimes occur. Let the diner beware.
Most people realize that watitrons (that's the non-sex-specific term favored theses days, believe it or not) are usually paid less than minimum wage, and that tips provide the margin of survival (to use leftist terminology) for them. To stiff a tip is to relegate someone to below minimum wage. This makes the behavior of these compassionate liberals all the more phony. Judge them by their deeds not their words.
I absolutely agree with Jack's rabbi that the best way to judge someone's character is to observe behavior with those who have no power or standing, and to do so in private in the case of celebrities and politicians. I have used this as a guide to friendships for almost my entire life, and it has proven highly reliable.
For the most part I agree. Depends on the setting. If you are a male at say a sports bar and a bunch of guys get you instead of the honey, count on 12% or so if lucky. The worst are groups of women esp black women (don't infer anything just saying). We would bribe the hostess not to take them. I was stiffed or tipped in change many times by women.
That's true. Most always go for government money instead of working hard and getting something out from your own sweat. One thing I don't understand is, they are saying that Red State are poor people, Blue state are rich people while at the same time they are claiming that GOP only helps rich people instead of poor people. Can they go both way? This is obviously two-face hypocrisy here.
Also, if tips money are shared.. they will go to the chefs, busboys, and other servers. The worst part is woking in one of the chinese owned Japanese restaurants because even the owner will get the tips shared. I found out that my employer voted for Democrat.
Great FReepers think alike. If I have to pay with a credit card, or even a debit card, I write in zero on the tip line, but I tip the server in cash.
"Next time, I'm spitting in the drink and charging double."
You expect me to reward this kind of attitude with a big tip? And look at the picture they are using to sell their t-shirt. Frankly, if they want to work for an employer who pays them sub-minimum wage, how is that my fault?
NOT! Service work is not demeaning, or lowly, even if it is sometimes dirty.
God gives us the opportunity to keep our fellow humans alive by feeding them.... Jesus started his ministry as an ad-hoc food and beverage guy at a wedding party. He later preached a sermon on a mount, with fish and bread being the meal that he provided.
Service is sacrament.
I feel pretty strongly about that, for a former engineer/unix geek.
/john
Tell us about the Kerry Table!
Oh. come on, you gotta tell us now! (:
I once knew someone who met Dan Marino and said that he was a down to earth genuinely nice person.
On another occasion I had a conversation with a person who was a waitress in a fancy place and she told me that he was one of the most arrogant condescending diners that she had ever met while in the business.
Nope. :-)
Actually it was in a little coffee shop in Oakland. I was waiting for a nearby store to open so I could buy a slide rule. This was an older lady who was being run ragged by a pack of young punks. After they left, I left her a 50$ tip hoping to brighten her day just a little. (It did :-))
Good for you!
If we can't use money to make others and indirectly ourselves feel good, then what is the point?
:)
This one tips the scale. But I wouldn't put it pasta man like Michael Moore to stiff the waitrons.
That and they think it is the government's duty, not theirs, to support all those low wage people.
You read my mind. :-)
I took three years out of my life without pay to teach a 5th and 6th grade space science class. (I know tooting my horn now). LOL!
Just saw your post, yum.. His Bone-in Rib Eye at the Venetian in LV is the best. And service is great.
he prolly calculated that at 25%, thought he was being generous !
http://www.bitterwaitress.com/std/index.html?page=11
Tipper's Name: O.J. Simpson
Where it happened: savannah
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $50.00 / $0.00 / 0%
What happened:
We gave him free drinks at the bar i worked at and he didn't even tip at all!!!! He did sign a shirt for me "Love and Peace, OJ" Jerk
Wow.....the cheapskates on that site are quite a diverse crowd: we have the usual suspects plus OJ, Peyton Manning, and Ken Starr!!
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