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Old 01-16-2005, 05:25 PM
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Hell no. No tip necessary there.

Never tip the owner either.

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Old 01-17-2005, 03:20 AM
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A tip for carry-out? Never.

I would have shown her the tip......of my middle finger.

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Old 01-17-2005, 01:27 PM
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Thanks for the carry out. Here, let me give you a tip. "Always look both ways before crossing the street!"

TIP= To Insure Promptness and was given before the service.

Ask her if she tips the person who rang up her groceries and gave her a receipt, or the salesperson at the Gap, or the front desk clerk that checked her in, or the mechanic that fixed her car etc.?
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Old 01-17-2005, 01:45 PM
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With the exception of fast food joints I always tip, when grocery baggers or pizza guys ask for a tip they get a whopping dollar the polite ones get a 5.

I tip my garbage man, how bout you guys?
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Old 01-17-2005, 02:34 PM
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With the exception of fast food joints I always tip, when grocery baggers or pizza guys ask for a tip they get a whopping dollar the polite ones get a 5.

I tip my garbage man, how bout you guys?
At Christmas
The garbage man got a bottle-but I know his pleasure. he takes all kinds of weird stuff that I set next to the can. The mail carrier rcvd. a giftcard for a local steak house.

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Zilch for carryout
Always for delivery and dine in.
5-10% for buffet
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Old 01-17-2005, 04:44 PM
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Back in the 1980's there was a taco stand in Pearl, adjacent to a junkyard and some borrow pits. I was working on a wetland delineation project over there and stopped by that stand for lunch every day. Lunch was cheap. Never saw stray animals.

In Picayune there was a Chinese restaurant that was closed by the health dept. We all wondered how in heck a restaurant can be so bad as to be closed in rural Mississippi. Even now, thinking about it is scarey.
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Old 01-17-2005, 08:00 PM
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No tip for Star Bucks!

No tip for Star Bucks... If they have the balls to charge me $6.00 for a large Mocha Latte, with an extra shot, then I figure their tip is already built-in to the price. C'mon, their making coffee and steaming milk. Doesn't get too much easier. Bartenders are different... They control who gets how much and how fast. They are GOD! This method works most of the time (I know because I tended a fast bar while in college)- First drink, tip them $5.00 (make sure they see it's a five and that it's from you) that gets their attention and usually a "thanks", it also sets YOUR face in THEIR mind. On all drinks after that $1.00 a drink is good. I drink Makers Mark Bourbon on the rocks. The difference between a good pour and a really good pour, times how many you drink all night, much more than makes up for your good tipping! Plus, when the bar gets four deep in people, the bartender usually points at me to get my drink first. Worth it? You bet!
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Old 01-18-2005, 07:19 AM
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Old 01-18-2005, 03:38 PM
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In such a situation, I use a tip jar for my own benefit. If the coin change is just going into my pocket to go home to the dresser to take up space..... then I dump it in the tip jar. Yes, they did 'nothing' to deserve it, but if the food order had been 60 cents higher, I'd have paid it without thinking a thing of it. Yes, it's 'begging'; yes, it might be mild extortion; yes, today's youth don't understand the value of work, blah blah blah.... but neither did 'my generation'. And food service is a lousy job when dealing with people like us-
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Old 01-18-2005, 03:48 PM
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May I make a toast to "El Presidente"? "May you always drive your Mercedes fast and love many more beautiful women". *** CLINK*** (sip and savor the flavor, life is good).

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