On 8/15/2016 8:49 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:07:10 -0400, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>

>> If it's an expensive buffet, the service is usually even more
>> attentive and I might think about leaving 15 rather than 20.
>> Again, the difference isn't life changing unless you are miserly.

> Your experience with buffets is very different from mine. I've been
> to many all you can eat buffets, from all you can eat for $3.99 to top
> enders at $15.99... and this is going back many years when Vegas had
> the best buffets. As I remember I entered, paid the cashier and got
> on line, grabbed a tray, got utensils, napkins, and a large plate...
> moving down the line I served myself. At the better buffets there'd
> be someone in a chefs get up slicing a roast... if there was soup the
> bowls would be by the soup and people ladled their own. There'd be a
> beverage and dessert station, people got their own. The only service
> was when you got up to get more you left your plate and utensils and
> got fresh, someone came around with a cart and bussed your table. I
> don't remember any tipping at any buffet.

It's no giant secret that I don't really do buffets, I like to
sit on my butt and have food brought to me when I eat out. My
experience is limited. I ate at Golden Corral just a little while
ago. Meal came to what, under $25? Somewhere in there. Yes, I
got my own food, but a nice lady came by to take my dishes away
and to ask it I wanted any more iced tea. She asked a few times.

Ron left a fiver and off we went. From the sound of it, maybe we
made that woman's day and she went out and ordered a Ferrari. Really,
she was nice, I didn't have to dig around for quarters, who cares.

Other than that, I used to go to a really fancy place once in a
while, they would refill your water glass and refold your napkin in the
time you were gone. And disappear. We tipped the usual there, too,
even though we got our own food.

Then there is the annual brunch buffet. You get most of your food but
they keep the tables bused and bring you drinks and eggs dishes if you
order those. Same deal with the tip.

If you never see anyone, I wouldn't tip either.

nancy