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You call me "tightwad" yet you starve? Again who's losing out on that deal? lol
Restaurants are a luxury not a necessity. No one starves for lack of a restaurant meal. Yes I call anyone too tight to tip their server a tightwad and a scumbag who deserves the waitstaff to store snot rockets in their meal.
Anyway, that math doesn't balance out. Adding 15-20% gratuity (which some restaurants do already) would not double the cost of the meal.
No, it wouldn't, but that's the point. If a restaurant has to pay a server $8/hour with no gratuity instead of $3/hour anticipating tips, that extra money has to be made up somewhere.
THey want the best of both worlds...the job of their choice...and to dictate how much of my money they think they've earned.
Problem is people have been brainwashed into gauging an individual's behaviour and outlook based on something so trivial as tipping. There's a poster who said it's the sign for the date of the opposite sex towards future misery.
You catch me on a bad day, I'll be walking out without tipping at all, becoz I pretty much dictate how much money I hand out or don't.
Is that a benchmark for me as a person? My character? Nope. As I once mentioned, I go through repetitive cycles of good crocodile bad crocodile. If you happen to come across me on the wrong cycle, it's your fault - bad timing.
Either that or go out of business because patrons would refuse spend twice as much.
Anyway, that math doesn't balance out. Adding 15-20% gratuity (which some restaurants do already) would not double the cost of the meal.
Btw, how exactly did 15-20% gratuity become the status quo?...Because the price of the food is clearly not proportional to the amount of work the waiter is subjected to. If anything, gratuity should be a flat fee.
Is that a benchmark for me as a person? My character? Nope. As I once mentioned, I go through repetitive cycles of good crocodile bad crocodile. If you happen to come across me on the wrong cycle, it's your fault - bad timing.
How is you being a dick at random because you're on some power trip the fault of someone else and not a benchmark of your character?
This insanely long thread (stupid tipping argument excepted) is why there are social norms. Etiquette dictates that whoever did the inviting does the paying. Why is that so difficult? OP, who did the asking? Even if it was from match.com, ONE of you had to say, "Let's meet for dinner." Who was that? Whoever it was should've paid for the entire bill. Period. End of argument.
But I must say, to the women on here saying that the man should always pay, what the he** is that all about? I am a woman, and I find that so offensive. Thank you for commoditizing us. No man is OBLIGATED to pay for my dinner unless HE asked me out. I don't understand the angst over opening up that cute little Kate Spade wallet and buying your date's dinner if you asked him out or suggested the date.
Btw, how exactly did 15-20% gratuity become the status quo?...because the price of the food is clearly not proportional to amount of work the waiter is subjected to. If anything, gratuity should be a flat fee.
On one of the dates which forced that 15% gratuity on me automatically, the imbecile did nothing but pour water on my glasses, three or four times. A lamp post could do that job. Well, actually a lamp post is stationary. You get the point anyway.
I didn't flinch. I just signed my autograph and walked out pretending like I wasn't miffed.
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