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Even Obama isn’t vote blue no matter who. respect.

 

Please don’t get me started

 

They should add another year onto high school where you just work at a high volume restaurant, you get to choose front of house or back of house but it has to be one or the other otherwise you won’t graduate. Society would be a lot better.

 

I watched someone tip my trainer 0 dollars on a 120 dollar check at the fucking f*ur s*asons hotel today society is cooked (it didn’t matter because she had a 15 top that spent 1400 dollars from Nestle and people tip like crazy with the company credit card. Also a few people higher up from the ritz Carlton were dining with us because they like our service better lol I saw that black Amex and went fuuuuuck)

 

surprised that someone who works for Nestle has no morals

it was an easy layup I know

 

My mom had me when she was very young and she raised me and my siblings from the money she made as a server. She also tips higher than anyone I’ve ever met so it’s been implanted in me that, if you’re doing OK and you have the money, those extra five dollars are worth more with your server then just going back into your wallet. When I stumble upon anti-tippers on Reddit every so often or read about people talking about servers In an adversarial tone, it reads as very antisocial and creepy to me.

 

If I’m reading it right, they tipped a lot.

 

It wasn’t the nestle people that didn’t tip it was some rando the nestle people left like 300 dollars lol

 

I tip anywhere from 30-50 percent every time I dine out depending on my financial situation lol. never ever ever ever lower than 25%. my parents don’t even tip less than 25% anymore

 

my b good use of their blood money

but yeah not tipping is inexcusable

 

If I feel good about myself for any reason, I am a pretty good tipper. I never tip less than 30%. If I’m having a week or two where I’m too broke to leave a good tip, I don’t go out to eat. Chicago is pretty good about adding gratuity to bills on top of that, too.

On a related note about people being weird in America: my wife has a childhood friend who is a server, and a very weird thing is going out with her and watching her be a real dick to other servers. I’ve been out with her well over a dozen times and she never hasn’t been kind of a jerk. Feels like she’s misplacing some anger based off how they’ve been treated by customers themselves. Like “oh sick, now is my turn to be a tyrant.” We’ve recently decided we can’t go out with her anymore. It’s very different than most of our friends who work in the service industry, who have a real sense of solidarity.

Third thought on the service industry: we went to Portugal for vacation earlier this year, and one thing i read online was so many people being like “we loved it here but ugghh the servers take so long to bring you your check” and turns out that the custom there is for them to wait for you to ask for the check. Just feels like it’s probably a uniquely American thing to expect that you’ll get pampered and have all yours needs anticipated.

 

If I'm at a place where I am a regular and I know the bartenders on a first name basis I sometimes tip 45-50%. I also help stack chairs and clean up garbage outside when it's close to last call. Bartenders love me.

 

As a long time former kitchen worker and bartender I can confirm you are loved

 

Have you ever been to Monteverde in Chicago? Just curious lol I saw you mention Chicago, my partner works there

 

I’d pay your tab every other time you came in if you were my regular lol

 

my brain goes “time to post run on sentences let’s gooooooo” and just takes off sometimes

 

I have been to Monteverde once and it is a straight ripper. Been trying to go back, but in my limited experience of trying to make a reservation as soon as the booking window opens, it fills up fast

 

I don’t go to West Loop enough, so no I’ve not been there. But a friend of mine loves it. I’ll put it on the list!

 

She’s training to bartend right now after serving for a year, I haven’t been yet but next time I go up to see her I’m gonna try it out, I’m very excited