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NotFromHere · 09-12-2006, 11:53 PM

NEW YORK - After finishing dinner at a Connecticut restaurant, two diners got more than a butter mint when a waiter, apparently miffed by a $2 to $3 tip left on a $50 check, attacked them with a knife. They only suffered minor injuries, but no doubt tipped much better after that. (Probably not - those kind of people never do.)

While violent cases of waiter rage are rare, the 1989 incident points to waiters' sticky reliance on tips for income. In some states, restaurants are only legally required to pay as little as $2 or $3 an hour. So if a server earns $30 in tips on a bad night, he could feasibly walk out having earned less than minimum wage after tipping out the bartender and busboys (a common practice in most restaurants).

To level the playing field, waiters are taking action. Some are resorting to guerrilla tactics — it's not uncommon for waiters to personally confront stingy tippers, or to blog about them on sites such as WaiterRant.Net.

(I'm a good tipper, hopefully I'm not on that site.)
One former waiter, Yakup Ulutas, is proposing restaurants change the system. Ulutas, a 36 year-old restaurant manager in Atlanta, founded a nonprofit organization, Fairtip.org, to persuade restaurants to implement an automatic 20 percent service fee on every check. He estimates 2,500 waiters have joined.

Which, in my opinion, is a shitty idea. When you go to places where they automatically charge the 20%, the waitstaff has absolutely no incentive to earn it. You will never get a second (or maybe first) glass of water, cup of coffee or anything. Plus it takes away the ability to stiff a particulary shitty waitperson. Which we've all had. I've never actually stiffed a person, but I will leave an unusually low amount if I'm mad. I have a friend who used to date this guy who never left a tip on the premise that "they get paid to work here, nobody tips me at work." She couldn't take it, she used to sneak money under the plate and stuff, but eventually she ended it with him. It's a bad precedent for other things, like Christmas and birthday presents. He was opposed to buying flowers too because it was just a ruse to spend money on dead plants.
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Penske_Account · 09-12-2006, 11:57 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't think I said you were starting it, but maybe the problem is that the on-line you has a chip or two on its shoulder. Since you're suggesting that the on-line is different from the IRL you, maybe you could just take it in a different direction. Since my on-line personality is every bit as dull as the IRL me, I'm not sure how you do this, but I hear Penske just pretends that he's wearing only socks, and takes it from there.

I live a varied and dynamic lifestyle. I dumb it down here because the bar to entry has been set so low and I know the IT guy knows the number for the Bar's disciplinary committee.

taxwonk · 09-13-2006, 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it's really just water under the bridge.

it is what it is which makes nosense but. that won't keep me from repeating it likie an autistic. In a fugue state.

Penske_Account · 09-13-2006, 12:20 AM

Tables R Us!!!

Welcome newber!!!

I expect big things!!!!

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NotFromHere · 09-13-2006, 12:27 AM

I am at work for the second night in a row. Which sucks. I missed football last night, and tonight I'm going to miss the season finale of Big Brother. If I wanted to, I could just click on the link and find out. But I won't. I don't know why. Plus, I'll miss Rock Star tonight. I won't get to bitch about who sang shitty, but I hope it's Pepe LePew.

That is all.

Flinty_McFlint · 09-13-2006, 12:27 AM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
No RT I am telling you how my electronic personality comes across. In real life I am much more flexible and apathetic. surely.

Don't take this the wrong way, but your internet persona is a fucking cunt. I will grant you the well dressed part. Do they charge extra for the extra fabric?

No offense.

NotFromHere · 09-13-2006, 12:36 AM

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Don't take this the wrong way, but your internet persona is a fucking cunt. I will grant you the well dressed part. Do they charge extra for the extra fabric?

No offense.

potty mouth.

sebastian_dangerfield · 09-13-2006, 01:05 AM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
it is what it is.

I love this phrase. It says so much, without saying anything. And you can apply it everywhere, and its always true.

It's a rare and perfect thing, like Deep Purple's "Machine Head," peanut butter cups, a high fiber bowel movement...

or Friendster

sebastian_dangerfield · 09-13-2006, 01:09 AM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
I am at work for the second night in a row. Which sucks. I missed football last night, and tonight I'm going to miss the season finale of Big Brother. If I wanted to, I could just click on the link and find out. But I won't. I don't know why. Plus, I'll miss Rock Star tonight. I won't get to bitch about who sang shitty, but I hope it's Pepe LePew.

That is all.

I am drunk. I just ate a steak salad. I'd jerk off, but the beer's made me tired.

I just farted into the couch.

ltl/fb · 09-13-2006, 01:18 AM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
Ty, TM and NCS and BnB are "all about" bombast. why don't you call them on that as well?

I am hurt not to be included.

So, I was on the elevator up to my apt, and a guy got on at the level above where I park my car, and he was a delivery guy for Dominos, and he wasn't even going to my floor, and he wanted to know if I wanted help with the stuff I was carrying.

I.

Am.

Smoking.

Hottttt.

09-13-2006, 01:30 AM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Do you honestly think a single person on this board cares about your attractiveness, Thurgreed critique or any other poster's opinion of same?

I care a lot. In fact, I'm up late tonight pondering it now.

sebastian_dangerfield · 09-13-2006, 01:47 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I am hurt not to be included.

So, I was on the elevator up to my apt, and a guy got on at the level above where I park my car, and he was a delivery guy for Dominos, and he wasn't even going to my floor, and he wanted to know if I wanted help with the stuff I was carrying.

I.

Am.

Smoking.

Hottttt.

Get some?

ltl/fb · 09-13-2006, 01:53 AM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Get some?

I turned him down. No straw for me, sir, thank YOU!

Fugee · 09-13-2006, 02:14 AM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
I am at work for the second night in a row. Which sucks. I missed football last night, and tonight I'm going to miss the season finale of Big Brother. If I wanted to, I could just click on the link and find out. But I won't. I don't know why. Plus, I'll miss Rock Star tonight. I won't get to bitch about who sang shitty, but I hope it's Pepe LePew.

That is all.

I was so disgusted that Scrubika and Boogie were the final two that I boycotted all but the last few minutes of the finale to see who got the viewers' jury award.

I am absolutely not going to watch Big Brother anymore (assuming there is another season). I have hated the final two for at least the last two seasons and am sick of it. Please remind me of this if I get sucked in next year.

On Rock Star, all 4 sang well. My prediction from the comments is that if Magni is in the bottom two, they'll cut him.

I can't stand watching Lukas perform. He lurches across the stage like he's spastic and does the demented chicken head move. That being the case, I hope Supernova picks him because I would go to hear any of the other finalists (and Storm) sing but have no desire to go see Supernova.

Fugee · 09-13-2006, 02:17 AM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
TM, you are misogynistic and abusive and nasty and I am thisclose to placing you on ignore.

Please do.