"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 24/07/2011 3:05 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>> A 15% tip would have been 2.63. Round it up to 2.65 and that's plenty of
>> tip for schlepping a sandwhich to a table. Perhaps she wanted a tip for
>> each plate? They think that way. I get really tired of wait staff who
>> expect me to pay their rent for them just because they refilled my coffee
>> cup.
>>
>
> It's worse than that. They figure that if you can afford to go out for a
> meal, you can afford to tip. If you are in a nice restaurant with high
> prices, you can afford to pay an even higher percentage. It doesn't seem
> to occur to them that when you are paying higher prices and tipping the
> same percentage that you are already tipping more. As I said before, this
> is perhaps why they are destined to be waiters. It is not my nature to be
> rude and condescending to waiters, but some of them need to be tuned in.
>

It takes no more to serve a lobster thermadore than it does a PB&J yet they
expect a much bigger tip simply because the lobster is more expensive.

Paul