Posted on 05/29/2012 11:46:03 PM PDT by dr_lew
You got that right!! But a whole boatload of black basketball players who made millions (back in the day) are now bust wonder how that happened?
Correct! Zucky read the wrong tourist guide plus with FB going down he was in pain due to being worth one billion less than the day before
BINGO! My rich uncle, a banker and friends with Bebe Rebozo and Dick Nixon, has probably NEVER left a tip in his long life.
“Joe” to “Mr. Pink” ...
“Cough up a buck like everyone else you cheap pri—!”
Tips are included in Italy.
They often also charge a ‘coperto’, or ‘cover charge’.
Just liberal journalists attacking successful Capitalists.
Let’s see a list of tips left in Rome by big government liberals...
15% tip is included in most continental eateries tabs except in an American style restaurants.
I hate the expectation of tipping. Just charge me what it costs and forget the gambling game.
There is no tipping in Italy. Service is already included in the bill.
“Italians don't generally tip huge amounts, that's if they tip at all. In fact, a quick way to make friends in Italy is to leave a tip. I have heard a similar story from many of our clients in which they left a tip on a table as they left a restaurant only to be stopped a few seconds later by an out of breathe waiter waiving money at them - "Madam you left this on the table".”
“In many establishments they don't even give you the option to tip someone, thy already include in your bill in the form of service and cover charges that can increase the cost of your meal by 20% or more. Some people think that the service charge goes to the people who wait your table, unfortunately in the majority of cases it goes straight to the owner.”
http://www.tours-italy.com/italy-about-tipping_italy.htm
Some years ago I took a class in conversational Italian for a trip that sadly I haven’t been able to make yet. The instructor was a most interesting man who was born in Italy but came here after WWII working as an engineer for the US Army. He imparted a lot of good and practical travel advice in addition to the language lessons. I recall him talking about tipping in Italy and how it is frowned upon in some restaurants. For instance, if you are eating in a small family owned restaurant and waited on by the owners, they might find it insulting for you to tip them. Also in an upscale restaurant, and in fact in many restaurants there, the servers are paid very well and consider themselves “professionals” and unlike here, they aren’t paid a small minimum wage and dependent on tips to make a decent living.
He also said that if you feel compelled to tip for exceptional service, what is often appreciated is tipping with US dollar coins instead of Euros, which is what he said he does when he travels back to Italy.
We were there a while back and tipping is not customary, at least in Northern Italy.
Yup no Jewish children from this marriage. Zucky should tip (donate) Isreal one billion in devalauting FB stock just for inheriting his yiddishe kopf from his forefathers but of course he won’t this effin Obama arse smoocher
He already married a shiksa. He's dead to us.
It is for comments like this that I wish FR had a "Like" button!
Only problem for these cheap bastards is that it can come back and bite them on the internet these day or the NY Post which likes these accounts. So the fear of publicity makes them fork over what nice and normal people do
Interesting story about the reality of tipping in Italy. In my experience over 30 years ago, the same expectations apply generally throughout Europe. The one exception was the mostly Italian wait staff in the local American military officers’ club in Wiesbaden, W. Germany.
tanks!! You get it (you being) a longtime FR poster made my day or at least my morning
“the kosher restaurant in Rome's Jewish Ghetto – a historic quarter in the centre of the city”
Or perhaps they were touring the historic area, just like I imagine a lot of other people, Jews and non-Jews do and this was a good place to eat. Jeeze, I like Thai and Indian food but eating at my favorite Thai or Indian restaurant doesn’t make me a Buddhist or a Hindu. And one of my favorite places to have breakfast was a Jewish restaurant in the Pikesville area of Baltimore; The Suburban House that sadly burned down in the last few years but they’ve reopened since I moved away. While the restaurant served both Kosher and non-Kosher food (from separate kitchens BTW) sometimes I would order off the Kosher menu just because I liked the food, not because I was keeping Kosher for religious reasons.
IF there was even 1% of truth to the movie Social Network, I wouldn’t trust this punk zuck with a penny of my money. Investors of FB will be fleeced until this ponzi scheme unravels.
It doesn’t thrill me,either.
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