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We eat out a lot....my hubby's dad is a cheap cheap old man.
He was not one to leave much of a tip....if he left one at all.
So, went we went out with then....some how....some way...this would cause a problem.
If we left a tip.....he would say it was way to much......if it was their turn my husband would add to the tip he left.....and that too would cause a fight.
I was best man in a friend's wedding some 30 years ago down in Winston-Salem, NC. We were out for the rehearsal dinner with a party of about 10 and I left the waitress what I though to be appropriate - 20% of a $200 tab. My buddy who was getting married lived there and was shocked to the point of telling me it was too much and tried to pick up half of it. I smacked his hand and told him to leave it. He wasn't paying anyway.
He was/is a country bumpkin who never did much in life so $40 was a lot to him. It was probably half of the cute little waitress' tips for the night.
I never knew the word "shrimp" had 3 syllables until she said it.
I was best man in a friend's wedding some 30 years ago down in Winston-Salem, NC. We were out for the rehearsal dinner with a party of about 10 and I left the waitress what I though to be appropriate - 20% of a $200 tab. My buddy who was getting married lived there and was shocked to the point of telling me it was too much and tried to pick up half of it. I smacked his hand and told him to leave it. He wasn't paying anyway.
He was/is a country bumpkin who never did much in life so $40 was a lot to him. It was probably half of the cute little waitress' tips for the night.
I never knew the word "shrimp" had 3 syllables until she said it.
Think the old man would have tried that if he were fast enough.
People also seem to forget that many (read: servers) would automatically, with their innate bias, see minority customers as ''different'. Blacks can be very sensitive to how they are treated.
Yup some of the servers at the restaurants I worked at would pay off the hostesses not to seat Blacks in their section. They often did this towards the end of the month when they needed to make rent.
I've often suspected that the inability of Black patrons to tip decently impacts the decisions of restaurants locating in Black areas. This was a common complaint from PG County residents.
Have you not seen the unemployment rate for blacks in this country?? Maybe they tip less, as a group, because they are experiencing real economic pain under the era of Obama's war on the economy.
People also seem to forget that many (read: servers) would automatically, with their innate bias, see minority customers as ''different'. Blacks can be very sensitive to how they are treated.
The findings were the same even when the server was black.
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Have you not seen the unemployment rate for blacks in this country?? Maybe they tip less, as a group, because they are experiencing real economic pain under the era of Obama's war on the economy.
No state allows servers to earn less than minimum wage.
Wyoming only guarantees $5.15 an hour for tipped workers. Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee have no minimum wage guarantees. Georgia specifically exempts tipped workers from any minimum wage requirements. So yes, there are states that are willing to allow servers to earn less than minimum wage. Fortunately, most are also covered by federal laws - but not all are.
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