Posted on 02/27/2012 12:04:08 PM PST by Repeat Offender
Just when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and the 1% was dying down, it may have been reignited. A wealthy banker left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch at the True Food Kitchen restaurant in Newport Beach, California.
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I suspect the best tippers are other folks who worked in food service.
I give a good tip as long as the service isn’t bad, and I try to take into account conditions not under the waiters or waitresses’ control.
“How do they know the patron was wealthy?”
Quite true; after reading the story and thinking about a “$133 bill for lunch” that’s either a lot of people, or an outrageously expensive restaurant, even for California. The tip could be a protest at being gouged by the bill.
if it is illegal... then what do they do with it? charity box?
Singapore comes to mind. Its added into the bill. I don’t know about others, but I always thought it odd that the cook is usually the one where the dinner is either good or bad. The waiter usually runs interference.
25 years in the restaurant business taught me one thing. I would much rather wait on a cab driver over a doctor, lawyer or celebrity any day of the week!
25 years in the restaurant business taught me one thing. I would much rather wait on a cab driver over a doctor, lawyer or celebrity any day of the week!
IF true, she probably didn’t deserve the entire $1.33.
If I have truly bad service, I make a point of leaving a very small tip, as I don’t want them to think that I just forgot.
I once left 25 cents on a credit card bill of $70+ to make a point. I also talked to the manager on the way out.
In 2010, the 1 percent income level was $380,354 and up. It’s entirely possible the banker is in the top 1 percent.
That's because in Australia waiters are guaranteed a minimum wage of about $15/hr. Here the system that has emerged over the last hundred years is that waiters get a crap hourly wage and work for tips. Now, which country has a greater incentive for good service?
The system we have works the best. i.e. tipping. It ensures the waiters have an incentive to serve you promptly.
Waiters in my state usually earn about $3.00 per hour and the rest are tips. They can get rid of tipping and charge you $18 for that meal that currently cost $10 and you will probably get more crappy service as a result.
People that do not tip are moochers of the rest of the people that do tip as a certain cost of your meal is via tips.
Ancient American custom.
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My favorite aunt was a hair stylist when I was a boy, and she would frequently favor me with a large handful of the coins she received as tips. I've been conditioned to think well of tipping :)
In Costa Rica, they just refused to accept it. Like I said, when I tried to leave it, the girl chased me down to give it back. There’s a 10% service charge (by law) on all restaurant food their though, so it’s possible that people don’t try to tip often, and like I said, it’s now becoming more common. Back when I first lived there, there weren’t many tourists like today, lol. Oh the stories I could tell.
... or an Australian!
Awful convenient story coming from a bunch of people known for lying and exaggerating....
My biggest concern is that a higher-up in the banking industry couldn’t figure out he should have rounded up to $1.34.
that pic is telling...ant ‘banker worth his salary wouldve been educated in ‘rounding’ and wouldve tipped 1.34, therefore i believe this story to be an ows prop...
Lots of people. Good waitstaff and barstaff make good money in tips.
Then you add on the fact that not only are they taxed on the $2.13 an hour (I was paid $2.33 my last waitress job) they are also taxed on their "sales." The last I knew the IRS considered that most wait staff would make 8% in tips on total sales and thus their weekly paychecks not only reflect the tax with held on the hourly wage, but also on 8% of their "sales."
I RARELY tip 20%, and only then if the service is OUTSTANDING. (A real rarity, anymore)
I grew up being told that 10% was “Customary”. Where did this 20% BS come from?
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