Posted on 08/23/2003 9:34:42 PM PDT by I_Love_My_Husband
*Natalie Portman - (loc.)Boston (#in party)2 (amt/tip)$27.00/$3.00 (tip %)11%
*Tom green (loc.)Los Angeles (#in party)5 (amt/tip)$175.00 /$15.00 (tip %)8%
*Serena and Venus Williams (loc.)Boston (#in party)12 (amt/tip)$280.00 /$20.00 (tip %)7% *********
*Madonna (loc.)New York (#in party)4 (amt/tip)$120.00 /$10.00 (tip %)8%
*Natalie Merchant (loc.)New York (#in party)2 (amt/tip)$108.00 / $8.00 (tip %)7% ******
*Allen Iverson (loc.)Detroit (#in party)5 (amt/tip)$495.00 / $50.00 (tip %)10%
*********Tipper's Name: Serena and Venus Williams Restaurant: Italian Where it happened: Boston Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $280.00 / $20.00 / 7% What happened: They came in with coaches managers and groupies....ordered things that were not on the menu only drank a strict 40% water 60% cranberry juice mixture and very rudely snapped their fingers for water refills (they had played that afternoon). The manager payed one bill and tipped well the groupies payed the other and left only 20 bucks. They were awful, and when they got the bill had us split it 12 ways and denied ever ordering half the things their fat asses just ate! Never again if these two walk in will i jump to serve them and their group of 12- 14 aunts uncles cousins neighbors and any or all other groupies that walk around kissing their asses!
******Tipper's Name: Natalie Merchant Restaurant: Campagna Where it happened: New York Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $108.00 / $8.00 / 7% What happened: Not to mention all the shit she got for free that night from the evil owner of this now defunct B-list celeb shit hole
I grew up around Boston where you learn the ropes pretty early, if you have any social life and then lived on Cape Cod for thirty years where almost all my friends were restaurant owners or staff.
We live in Bangor, Maine now where tipping is small town style. When we go for dinner or drinks we tip 15%/20% and the staff sometimes protests that we're giving them way too much!
I took my grandmother out to lunch last week. The waiter was in his 50s and treated my grandmother like a queen - absolutely made her day - so I left him a twenty dollar bill for a $15 ticket. Pulled out of the restaurant with my grandmother, and as we hit the street, she started lamenting that she'd only had $2 to leave him as a tip. I think the waiter came out of that encounter pretty well... :-)
It's really easy. Remove the last digit and move the decimal one spot to the left - that's 10%. Remove the last digit, move the decimal and double - that's 20%. Remove the last digit, move the decimal and add half - that's 15%. Even if you don't want to do the hard math (and I don't), doing the easy math gets you in the ballpark and you can round up or round down from there.
For example, let's say your food bill came out to $37.24. 10% is $3.72. 20% (double this) would be $7.44. 15% (adding half) would be $5.58. Now, let's say the service was fine but nothing exceptional. I'll know I want to leave a tip of somewhere between six and eight dollars. If I'm paying cash, I may just leave $45 total for the tab (I try not to sweat the change - I figure it all evens out in the end). If I'm paying by credit card, I might just round the tip to the nearest dollar or I might do the hard math and leave the actual % tip I meant to give.
Now some people don't think it's right to tip the tax. Others think you shouldn't tip the drink - only the food. I'll let them whip out a calculator and do the math themselves if they feel that way. The only thing I usually exclude would be on those rare situations where I buy a gift certificate. I figure the gift recipient would be the one tipping.
That's what I say --- if you don't want to pay someone to wait on you --- stay home and wait on yourself. Who expects to have something for nothing? I can see how liberals are less likely to tip.
I think sometimes with fine dining upscale restaurants, the diners take much longer (low table turn-around) and the waiters actually might make more in a fast turn-over cheaper place where people just come, eat, and leave. The same table might have 5 different parties in a cheaper place and only 1 or 2 at the expensive place. Some of the lower scale diners can bring in enough money for the staff.
You are either deliberately misunderstanding or you are a moron. The gift is the tip, given FROM me TO the server, not the other way around.
In fact, dictionary.com defines 'gratuity' as: A favor or gift, usually in the form of money, given in return for service... Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
Now, having established that a tip is a gift, I assert that nobody has a *right* to a gift. Beggars can't be choosers.
First, I don't believe you've ever waited tables before because the tips are split between the hostess, bartender, busboy and wait people. Second, if you have a large party, usually 6 or more, they usually occupy more than one table in your section, therefore, lowering the number of checks of which you're getting a percentage. If you have 2 large parties that think 8-10% is a decent tip for a large check...you see my point. BTW-more expensive establishments usually assign smaller sections (less tables) to ensure the customers never have to wait for anything--the 15-20% of a larger check will make up for the smaller number of customers. I think that a diner knows the expectations when he chooses to eat at a restaurant with service. If he doesn't want to compensate for the service, then he should go somewhere he can serve himself.
I did not wait tables at a buffet style restaurant but I think 10% is acceptable there. Same for cocktails. Is this right, anyone?
I always thought 10 - 15% was standard unless the service was very bad, so you might leave less, or great, so you might leave more. I was a waiter while in college, by the way.
This professor (tipped $1) is a Marxist liberal who has written 3 books on Marxist critical theory!
I personally find liberals to be hypocrites on just about everything. "Say one thing and do another" seems to be their motto in life.
Further, if you try to do a business deal with a liberal or democrat, you should start with the assumption that they are not telling you the whole truth and are trying to cheat you. You need to do extra due diligence if you even suspect they are a democrat. This is my personal experience.
With conservatives or republicans, I find the business negotiations are tough, but are on the up and up.
I think liberals as a people may be screwed up in the head and it is not just that I don't like their ideology. For most liberals, I don't like them as people and all this discussion about how they screw people when tipping, does not surprise me at all.
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