Clinton: Stiffed the waitress? Big tip found

Baltimore Sun ^ | November 8, 2007 | Glenn Thrush,

[Jacquerie]

Cheapskates. Tipping wait-staff is traditional and an expected part of their compensation.

[Balata]

You obviously have never been in a position of living on your tips. I guess it’s that silver spoon thingy.

[null and void]

Who do you believe?

I believe it's been too long since I've had a Maid-Rite...

[savedbygrace]

"Since this story aired, Hillary Clinton's campaign contacted NPR to say that the campaign paid Maid-Rite a bill for $100 for food for the day of Clinton's visit and left $57 in tip money.

The food bill was exactly an even $100 and the tip was the odd figure of $57?

That sounds strange. As in, I'm not believing those numbers strange.

[DCPatriot]

You're jumping to conclusions, don't you think?

The matter has gotten to the point that the manager is the spokesperson for the restaurant.

And if it were your place, you'd tell the staff..."Look...nobody speaks for this joint but me. If you don't like that, turn in your apron."

[Bommer]

SHE LEFT A 55% TIP???? I'm calling Bull...I mean ClintonSh!t on this one!

[SkyDancer]

TO ALL: As I said in my post I did not want to turn this into a debate - shame?? I simply mentioned the movie ...now I get slammed because of it? It is not up to me to help pay someone else’s wage - the employer who pays the wage should give them enough and not depend on the public to help pay for his help, what’s next? Help pay for their health insurance the employer won’t pay ..... my attitude only .....
End of argument ...k?

[SkyDancer]

Look idiot - I paid my way through flight school without handouts!!!!! If I had to live on tips I’d find another job .... and I was born with a brass spoon thingie .....

[SkyDancer]

Nope - it was a tradition started during or at the end of the Civil War -

[ml/nj]

No. Not "k" by me. Your family has effectively been stealing from low wage earners for years. It's not "k."

ML/NJ

[SkyDancer]

No - it was the employers paying low wages - living off the backs of their employees ...... if employers paid a decent wage we wouldn’t be having this discussion ... K??????????

[ErnBatavia]

Brad Crawford, who confirmed that a bill was paid and tip money was left.

Brad Crawford wants to live to see the weekend...

[RobRoy]

The waitress must have been stiffed by whoever the tip was given to, because she said she did not receive a tip.

Or somebody is lying.

[Lion Den Dan]

Can we believe Hillary when she is President again?

[Miss Marple]

I must point out to you that the wage structure for wait staff is the same all over this country, and has been for years, and that everyone knows it; you are taking advantage of people by not leaving a tip. Less kind people would say something worse.

The wage structure for these people isn’t going to change because you don’t leave a tip. You are simly lumped in with the other tightwads who also don’t leave tips, causing a great deal of hardship on servers who DEPEND on those tips.

If you don’t believe in tipping, the ethical thing to do is to eat at home, go through a drive-through, or pick something up at a deli. Period.

[Safetgiver]

I was on the road today listening to the radio and the campaign said they left a $100 tip, and who knows where it went?

[ml/nj]

Look little girl. In many of the place I patronize the waitstaff would work for free. The employers know this and pay them next to nothing. If they had to pay them what they make in tips they a beer might cost $10, but it doesn't. Like I said, this is AMERICA. Maybe your family would prefer things back in the USSR?

ML/NJ

[Jacquerie]

What does the Civil War have to do with my comment?

[Kirkwood]

This has to be a LIE. If A $57 tip was left, it would have been a huge deal at the time.

[SkyDancer]

Because that’s when the tradition of tipping really started ...