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Hank Rogers[_2_]
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To Tip - Or Not?
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> On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:34:06 -0500, Nancy Young >
> wrote:
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>> On 12/7/2018 12:14 PM, Pamela wrote:
>>> On 14:43 7 Dec 2018, Nancy Young > wrote in
>>> :
>>
>>>> We've eaten at restaurants a lot over the years. The vast majority of
>>>> the time, the service is just fine to really excellent. The worst
>>>> examples are along the line of lack of attention. No one's been
>>>> surly. And no one's bowing and scraping.
>>
>>> Many years ago I was eating at Blooms Restaurant in London and after we
>>> had eaten and left payment for the bill, one of the waiters came up to
>>> the table and said to me my husband "It's customary for diners to tip the
>>> waiting staff here, sir".
>>>
>>> Blimey! Such chutzpah, even for a Jewish resurant.
>>>
>>> I later learned the waiters at Blooms were known for their rudeness. It
>>> was actually said in a sort of polite way, if rudeness can ever be
>>> polite. Here are some newspaper comments about the waiters.
>>>
>>> --------
>>>
>>> "the sadly defunct Bloom's of Whitechapel, a restaurant of
>>> spectacularly rude waiters "
>>>
>>>
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodandd...r-cuisine.html
>>>
>>> --------
>>>
>>> "You didn't go to Bloom's for the food..... You went for the
>>> pantomime rudeness of the staff."
>>>
>>> "Of course, the staff were terribly rude but that was the point. It
>>> was a completely un-English experience.""
>>>
>>>
https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/feat...e-past-1.16195
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>> There are restaurants in the US that do the same schtick, people get
>> a kick out of it for whatever reason. The food would have to be
>> Really Good for me to bother with that particular form of dinner
>> theater.
>>
>> nancy
>
> And of course there is no such thing as a Jewish restaurant.
> It would be properly refered to as "kosher" or "kosher style".
> Anyone who refers to a Jewish restaurant is an anti semite.
> I wonder how they'd refer to a Cathelic restaurant.
> There's not one Jewish restaurant in all of Israel, nor is there one
> Cathelic restaurant in all of Italy.
>
> The rudest servers I've encountered were in Naples and in Paris.
> The most sincere servers/people were in Jamaica.... I loved visiting
> Jamaica.
>
Popeye, I bet yoose loved those jamaican boyz with the big dongs.
Yoose butt hole still quivers when yoose thinks about dem guyz.
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