Salted lutefish in Minnesota; for outstanding service perhaps
a nice matjes herring on the side, with a hazelnut.

pavane

"joseph b. rosenberg" > wrote in message
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> I thought they were tipped in lutefisk or is that just a
Minnesota-Norwegian
> thing???
>
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> Joseph B. Rosenberg
> "Anders Tørneskog" > wrote in message
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> >
> > "potatoman" > skrev i melding
> > ...
> > >
> > > Anders,
> > > Do you know how servers are usually paid, pre-gratuity, in
Scandinavia?
> > > brian
> > Sure, found easily official figures from 1 October 2004 saying average
> > monthly salary for waiters, bartenders including the maître d' - is
> > 20.000-22.000 NOK, which would be 3300-3600USD.
> > Direct comparison with US salaries is a futile exercise, however -
levels
> of
> > taxation and prices are very different.
> > It makes more sense comparing to industrial wages which in Norway would
be
> > about 28.000 NOK a month, i.e. 4600USD.
> > Salaries in Sweden are about 20-30% lower, but so are the prices.
> > Anders
> >
> >
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