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On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 21:02:28 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2018-12-08 8:47 p.m., wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 18:23:21 -0500, Dave Smith

>
>>> There may not be a guarantee that they server would get, but you want to
>>> be able to hold the purse strings like you would the strings of a puppet
>>> to make sure they dance to your tune to get their tip. You want to be
>>> able to withhold the tip and deny them a good wage if your server gets
>>> stuck with a table of 15 that leads to the kitchen and wait staff having
>>> to deal with their orders.
>>>

>> Er no. I go for a meal and if the server is pleasant, does not
>> continually hover over me, but smiles and is just - nice - then I
>> leave a nice tip. If they are hung over, or sharp, or crash the
>> plates down in front of me, then I do not leave any tip.
>>

>
>Knowing that they are making minimum wage and expected to make it up it
>tips, you stiff them on the tip if you is something displeases you about
>the service?
>This is an example of the sort of thing that makes me question the
>tipping culture.


It's interesting that Lucretia has the right-wing view he Underpay
them and only if they please people enough, will they make enough to
live off.