January 25, 2024: Reader Tips

Reader Tips 68 Comments

Tonight we’re going to delve into one of the most controversial topics in the world today. That’s right, we’re going to talk about Tipping. Here are a trio of videos on the subject: 1 2 3. Do you have any memorable tipping experiences, no matter how uncomfortable, to share?

Your recent news tips are also much appreciated!

68 Replies to “January 25, 2024: Reader Tips”

  1. The only people who don’t tip when they get excellent service at a restaurant or bar are entitled Karen types.
    I think that every well-rounded man should spend some time as a bartender, and some time in the army.

  2. I worked at a few restaurants. From crappy greasy chain to fancy italian place. Stereotypes have some truth.

    Karens will tip 12% if everything is impossibly perfect.

    Black people do not tip. Old white people with gift cards and coupons tip like crap. Foreigners of all sorts likely to stiff you. Young people hit or miss.

    I don’t eat at restaurants anymore. Couldn’t work at one again if life depended on it.

        1. Or in Holland.
          My sister-in-law is a flight attendant for KLM and when first started visiting Canada, she never left a tip. My late wife and I had to educate her.

      2. GOOD I AGREE WITH THAT……….I FREAKING HATE TIPPING……THAT IS WHY WE RARELY GO OUT CAUSE TO ME IT’S LIKE “EXTORTION’ ESPECIALLY THOSE PLACES THAT HAVE A COMPULSORY % TO TIP……UP YOURS…..NEVER GOING THERE NO MATTER WHAT….well that just about does my RANT…..:)

  3. I have not been eating out at all – or ordering (I love cooking, so all home made meals). But in the old days, I always tipped 15 to 20% depending on service. I tip delivery folks 10%.

    P.S.: at the really, really old days, Pascal and her sister at the Power Plant at U of A always got 20%. But pitchers were “affordable” way back…

    1. I had a French class in a single room buried on the second floor of the old power plant in 1970. They must have been desperate for space. It had been replaced as central heating for the university but had no or few renovations.

  4. I’d almost always tip in a restaurant if waited upon. If I have to walk up and get my coffee or hamburger to go? Never.
    When I do tip, I’ll click on the “no tip” selection, then give a cash tip and tell them, “this way you don’t have to toss some of this into a tip pool, AND the gov’t won’t ask for their share”

    So be happy, if the wait staff agrees with not paying tax on this, they’ll give that knowing smile, If they disagree with my low value of gov’t in general, they can mail a check to PM Turd if they’d like. I doubt they will though….

    With the way restaurant menus are priced now, I imagine it’ll be “awhile” before I go to a sit down restaurant again. Some bars maybe, but sit down dine?

  5. Can any waiters or waitresses please tell me what an acceptable tip for evening dining is?
    I asked a waitress at the Erie Beach Hotel in Port Dover Ontario and she looked angry…
    By the way the Erie Beach Hotel is still my favorite restaurant on earth and the staff is great.

    Have the perch, celery bread and rice pudding 😉

  7. Very rarely eat in restaurants now. Usual tip is 15%. Pretty much done with Tim Hortons and McDonalds as well. Costs of fast food are too high and the service is usually dreadfully slow.

  8. Hey COLON…what happened, 7th Booster Git ya..??

    A Very informative INTERVIEW…if you have not listened to this one…grab a cup of Java..or 4 cubes n a dash of single Malt…!!

    Anyway, I thought of Colon after I listened to this Tucker Carlson interview of Col Douglas McGregor US Army. A most enlightening discussion on all things UKRAINE….and other pressing Global issues.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_glbBx4RrUI&t=715s

    1. Tucker agreed with the14 trillion dollars spent in Ukraine since 2010.
      $1400 retirement money, illegals get $2200 not working.

      Said Trump was waking us up.

    2. Like so many other here you’re confusing “informative” with “what I want to hear”. Yawn.

      1. Whatever.
        I’m much more inclined to buy what McGregor was selling than your constant Pro Zelenskyy Pro Globalist Bullshit.

        I’ve come to know for countless Decades that Fascist minds never change.

  9. Left a 5 dollar bill on the bust tray of a Japanese restaurant in Kokura Japan, fantastic food.
    Girl ran into the street, told me that I had left money on the table, before I could figure out Japanese to tell her it was a tip for cleaning up my area. She was gone.
    Felt like a dumb tourist.

    1. Looks liked the commenters have figured it out even If the “experts” have not. There will never be definitive confirmation that the vaxes precipitated this but the correlation is stunning. Doctors need to acknowledge the possibility or they lose all credibility.

      1. The vaxxes are the cause but admitting it puts you in a serious potentially damaging legal position. Hanging for crimes against humanity.

    1. Trudeaus Best Before date was when he gave Omar Khadr 10m of our Tax Dollars.

      He’s been a treasonous traitorous Fascist POS since.
      And don’t think Jagmeet will stop supporting the Libs regardless of who is in the PMO…He’s far too close to his Lifelong pension…

  16. Now that one Bezhani Sarvar was arrested for terrorizing Edmonton’s city hall, watch for our corporate media censor any further coverage of the Edmonton Man. He doesn’t fit the media narrative.

    1. A few more facts are dribbling out:

      About Bezhani Sarvar: “The statement said the accused shooter has been a Commissionaire since 2019 and had worked at a number of locations in the city, but was never assigned to security at City Hall.”

      About how Bezhani’s assault was stopped: ” The Commissionaire who detained the shooter has not been publicly identified but is a military veteran who served as an infantry soldier for seven years and has been a Commissionaire since February, the statement said.

      “We are very proud of him and thank him for taking such bold and brave action to protect the public.”

      Could it be that we have a new Canadian bent on terrorism being stopped by an old stock Canadian veteran? Now, that would certainly not be an acceptable narrative.

      https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-edmonton-city-hall-shooting-charges/

      1. Well Like I’ve seen written numerous times..

        “Import 3rd World – Become 3rd World”

        This is 100% on TRUDEAU’s plate. It is he who brings in this Filthy Middle Eastern Sub Saharan Low life.

        ….and they want us to hand over OUR Firearms..??

  20. I worked in a vegetarian restaurant during third year while at University of Manitoba in 1973-1974. My big take away was that NDP people and vegetarians are truly terrible tippers. I was making minimum wage of $ 1.12/hour. I worked from 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. In the afternoon I would clean the restaurant floor and wipe down tables because the Friday lunch crowd had left a mess, especially in the winter. I did it because the $ 12-$ 15 which I made plus the food I was allowed to take home, made all the difference to my budget. Back then, my apartment cost $ 120/month and groceries were generally $ 20/week (I lived very frugally!)

  22. Last Thursday, the Mrs. and I met up with long-time friends for dinner at a new place. I went to the restaurant’s website to check out the menu and pricing. There was a tab labeled “Service Fee”… WTH?!? [click]

    It was an illogical, woke, emotion-laden explanation of why they add a 20% service fee to every check. Everyone, deserves a living wage including their servers, regardless of how much the customers tip or how good the server is, so you’re gonna tip 20%. Oh, and you are welcome to add a tip if so inclined. Tipping is optional, but a 20% ‘service fee’ is included. [eyeroll] Got it.

    Their explanation also stated that they were not competing with other restaurants for servers, but with all other employers for workers. [eyeroll] Umm… no they are not. If their servers want higher pay and not to depend on tips, they can get a job that straight up pays more per hour than a server gets. If there are no openings for jobs with better, fixed wages there is always the restaurant biz that’s always hiring servers. You are competing for servers from a pool of job hunters who need the flexible hours, often students, or where being a server is the only option left.

    The analogy they used as justification was the commission car dealerships pay their employees. Regardless of the deal, good or bad, that you got on the car, the salesweasel got the same commission. Bad analogy.

    If I am going to pay the commission [tip] to the car salesweasel [server] regardless of the deal [service] I got, then shouldn’t I be able to negotiate the menu prices just like I do at a car dealership? If you don’t like the deal offered, you can always walk.

    My wife was all for negotiating menu prices, but sadly, we were with that other couple, and I thought it would be rude to start negotiating the menu prices and get us all thrown out.

    And as you might have already guessed, the service was subpar. The food was good, not great given the prices, but our server was, to be generous, lax. Why bust your tail when you are going to get 20%?

    And the restaurant is getting screwed by their own policy. My wife ordered a cocktail. The Mrs. half of our friends had a glass of wine. The server never showed back up to ask if they wanted another one, which they did. Lost revenue.

    When we finished dinner, our server finally showed up… with the check. He didn’t even bother with the usual suggestive sell of, “can I bring you the dessert menu?” Lost revenue. Could have sold two desserts at our table.

    And more lost revenue. We’re never going back, and we don’t mind telling our friends and acquaintances about the subpar service with an automatic 20% tip for it, a bit overpriced menu, and no signature or special “wOw1” dishes to make you want to return.
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    Tips work. Outstanding waitstaff can make really, really good money. Smart servers learn what it takes to get great tips and then do it. Yeah, there are poor tippers out there, but there are a lot of average and good tippers that will kick in extra when they get superior service.

    1. If that question was aimed at me, Steakman, it was The Living Room in Dunedin, FL.

      If you want to see the explanation of the 20% service fee, hit this link. It’s up at the top at the RH end of the page options.
      https://www.tlr.restaurant/

      The food was good, though IMO a couple of bucks high for each menu item. The atmosphere and decor were fine and dandy. The service was subpar. Left to my own devices, the server would have been given 15%, a bit grudgingly. It’s tough out there in the restaurant biz with fewer customers showing up at all restaurants. So, lately, I’ve been a bit more generous with tips.

  26. Toronto Star Columnist Says Anti-Israel Activists Are The Real Victims
    https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/toronto-star-columnist-says-anti-israel-activists-are-the-real-victims/

    In his January 20 opinion column in The Toronto Star entitled: “Toronto police banning protests on Avenue Road overpass will create a dangerous chill,” Krisna Saravanamuttu, a community organizer and criminal defence lawyer, argued that when Toronto police eventually prohibited anti-Israel gatherings from a major highway overpass adjacent to a significant Jewish population, the real victims were the pro-Palestinian demonstrators…

    Should you ever want to hire this criminal lawyer you can find his page at
    https://www.rudnickilaw.com/krisna-saravanamuttu

    1. Isn’t keeping records a sign of the male cis-gendered hetrosexual White supremacist capitalist hegemony or something like that? 🙂

    1. Wow, thanks!
      Mark Steyn will cross examine Michael Mann tomorrow.
      12 years we’ve been waiting.

  37. Unprecedented level of secrecy surrounds costs and work on $80B warship project
    Liberal government has invoked a shroud of secrecy around a controversial warship project estimated now to cost around $80 billion

    https://archive.is/c5maz

    1. Presstitutes at Post Media conveniently left out Lametti’s role in the Convoy and the illegal application of the EA.

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