Not Q tips or Tri Tip or travel kind.
But this whole begging epidemic that has gotten out of hand. That is how I view it. The developed world's way of begging with or without a bowl in some cases.
Have you been to a Starbucks lately. On the off chance that I feel like a masala chai the closest beverage to satiate that thirst is a Starbucks concoction that does hit the spot. As I was ordering this beverage there it was - a conspicuous tumbler beside the cash till with TIPS scrawled on it.
I mean if someone was feeling that generous about their barista or thought they had done what was truly exemplary and above and beyond their green vested job asked of them - please go give them a hug and buy them a drink dude.
But to unabashedly display that at the till and indirectly expect a customer to fork over a surcharge - RIDICULOUS!
So from the most demanding to the most obvious service there is an expectation of tipping - some go as far as doing the math for you based on a undocumented standard that the tip should be 15% of the tab. So if I order an expensive dish at a restuarant vs. a cup of coffee or a grilled cheese that costs 1/10th the value of the high end dish - the dude serving me has to do what exactly? Nothing other than taking the cook's production and walking 29 steps to the table I am sitting at.
If that is true then why is 15% of that $50 steak more tipping than 15% of the $8 grilled cheese? Did this guy during his little walk exert more to haul the cow than the sliced bread? What the heck is going on?
But this whole begging epidemic that has gotten out of hand. That is how I view it. The developed world's way of begging with or without a bowl in some cases.
Have you been to a Starbucks lately. On the off chance that I feel like a masala chai the closest beverage to satiate that thirst is a Starbucks concoction that does hit the spot. As I was ordering this beverage there it was - a conspicuous tumbler beside the cash till with TIPS scrawled on it.
I mean if someone was feeling that generous about their barista or thought they had done what was truly exemplary and above and beyond their green vested job asked of them - please go give them a hug and buy them a drink dude.
But to unabashedly display that at the till and indirectly expect a customer to fork over a surcharge - RIDICULOUS!
So from the most demanding to the most obvious service there is an expectation of tipping - some go as far as doing the math for you based on a undocumented standard that the tip should be 15% of the tab. So if I order an expensive dish at a restuarant vs. a cup of coffee or a grilled cheese that costs 1/10th the value of the high end dish - the dude serving me has to do what exactly? Nothing other than taking the cook's production and walking 29 steps to the table I am sitting at.
If that is true then why is 15% of that $50 steak more tipping than 15% of the $8 grilled cheese? Did this guy during his little walk exert more to haul the cow than the sliced bread? What the heck is going on?
It pays to ignore 'gratuitous' advice.
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