If you dine out, you should read this...

[RICHARD]

Strangely enough, I agreed nearly completely with your list of people in customer service.

Watch your step, missy....I can make you see cross-eyed if I want.

ES,

LOLOLOL,
Having closed MANY OFFICES with those huge Labor Rights and Minimun Wage limit posters, I did notice that they stated the MW was 6.35.

I thought, "Geesus, I am thankful that I earn quite a bit more than than.."

Really.

Blame them for not updating the poster.

I did read the sexual harrasment part and it said that I could not bash women...Ah, so is life.

[anna_66]

If the OP meant to educate others (me included) on how to tip more, well, as it relates to me, she failed.

Gosh, why am I not surprised by this

[Cataholic]

Oh, wait! Wait! I want to do rolly eyes, too!

[Blue_Frog]

I don't know how things are in Canada since from others' posts I see that wages and tipping work differently in different countries ...

Each province is different, but here in Ontario --

General Minimum Wage -- $8.00 per hour

Students under 18 and working not more than 28 hours per week during the school year or working during a school holiday. $6.40 per hour -- $7.50

Liquor servers $5.95 per hour -- $6.95 per hour

http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/...s/fs_wage.html

I'm assuming that Liquor Servers covers wait staff, since I know that they do get less than the general retail level minimum wage.

(edit: forgot to add the tipping info) I always used the 15% rule for tipping, which worked really well when our tax rate was 15% -- I just used that and rounded up to the nearest dollar. Now that its 14%, i just double whatever the 8% tax shows. Unless its really good service, then they get more, or its a restaurant that i regularly go to. Extra tipping goes a long way to becoming a 'preferred' regular, and can get you free Maki Rolls, Blooming Onions, and sometimes desserts



As a side note, a friend of mine manages a restaurant, and would like me to remind everyone out there with kids to please keep a close eye on them. A couple nights ago, they had a little boy, around 3 or 4 who was not being supervised by his parents go running around near the kitchen area and collided with a waiter bringing out a meal, who ended up dumping it on the kid. Thankfully it wasn't anything scalding, but he was covered in foodstuffs and it could have been much worse (especially since they routinely carry steak knives out along with the food if a customer orders a steak). Please keep an eye on your kids for their sake and for the sake of the servers (and for the people around who are out for dinner too).

[anna_66]

Oh, wait! Wait! I want to do rolly eyes, too!

I can't help it but you make me laugh! Thanks for the big smile this morning

[Edwina's Secretary]

LOLOLOL,
Having closed MANY OFFICES with those huge Labor Rights and Minimun Wage limit posters, I did notice that they stated the MW was 6.35.

I thought, "Geesus, I am thankful that I earn quite a bit more than than.."

Really.

Blame them for not updating the poster.

(

Sorry RICHARD....you cannot blame it on the poster. California minimum wage has never been $6.35.

January 1, 2008 $8.00 $7.50 $0.50 6.7 percent
January 1, 2007 $7.50 $6.75 $0.75 11.1 percent
January 1, 2002 $6.75 $6.25 $0.50 8.00 percent
January 1, 2001 $6.25 $5.75 $0.50 8.70 percent
March 1, 1998 $5.75 $5.15 $0.60 11.65 percent


So repeat after me....mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....

(and next time you accuse a politician of trying to weasel out of something....)

[jennielynn1970]

(and next time you accuse a politician of trying to weasel out of something....)

Who's the politician???

[shais_mom]

Do you really want to know what they did or didn't wear, lol!! Some things were very odd (napkin rings where I never want to see them stacked again, and clear plastic shorts... why??? ).

The funniest sight was the handy man who was also a member... steel toed boots, athletic socks, a tool belt with all the tools, and a baseball hat. And that was it! Oh, and a guy who had legally changed his name to Santa Claus... I thought that was just sick cause he looked like Santa, but rode around on a golf cart naked. Who wants to sit on THAT Santa's lap?! EEK!

this is off the topic - but I'll finish reading it and get back to it - but I had to say - was this in PA? One of my college professors was from PA and he worked at a hospital around a nudist resort, and he xrayed a guy that had shot himself in the knee with a nail gun. It went behind his knee cap and in front of the bone. My instructor asked the guy what happened and he had been roofing next to the nudist place and he asked Wil, have you ever seen anyone naked riding a 4 wheeler? and Wil said no he said yea well I hadn't either.....

[shais_mom]

I've read thru most of this thread and I'm really confused as what to say.
I don't even know where to begin. I'm amazed at the twists and turns that people have put on this, something that started out as a tongue-in-cheek guideline was turned personal and not eating at a chain where someone works.....
What's in the water here on Pet Talk?!?!?!
I've never been in food service, but I have worked on 100% commission. And I've had people try to get me to take $50 off a vacuum, and I told them, that was taking money out of my pocket and the guy said "no it isn't you get minimum wage" I said "No I don't - I get 100% commission and if I don't make enough to get $6 an hour THEY PAY ME $6 an hour BUT then I have to pay them back out of my next check, its called the draw system." One time I came home working 18 hours in a two week period with an $11 pay check....

I always tip well, I have the EZ tip calculator on my phone and use it as a base rate. I've never not left a tip for bad service. My sister had horrible service once and left a penny, b/c she thought that would make more of a statement than nothing at all.

I got some awesome service at Olive Garden one day and when I looked at my bill my server (male) didn't charge me for my soup ($5) I gave him like a $9 tip. So I really didn't get anything free, I just paid him for the soup instead of the restaraunt.
I've also laid down what I thought was 3 1-dollar bills and when I glanced again I saw one of them was a 10. That's too good of a tip when my meal was only $15. So needless to say I changed the 10 for a 1!!!
I eat out a lot of most of the time by myself, I take a book with me, and I think I get better service when I am by myself b/c I can talk more one on one with the person.
There was one time I was going thru Taco Bell and the girl in the window may have said something to me that didn't mean anything to her but to me, it made my day. She told me to drive safely and be careful and have a nice day. She didn't need to tell me that but she did.
A few weeks ago my parents and grandma went out for supper at a local restaurant. Our server was ehhh ok but there was a younger boy that worked there that kept checking on us, getting our drinks, talking to my dad. I felt HE deserved the tip b/c once the other waitress saw him doing that she only came to give us the bill. He even came over and said "is there something else I can do for you guys since my turd friend has seemed to forgotten about you!" My dad told the manager she better watch her job b/c that kid will take it from you someday.
I actually didn't even think anything of the OP b/c I knew it wasn't 'from' Anna that it was probably an email she'd received. If you think this is rude there's one floating around on the net from an ER nurse that is 100% worse. Maybe Anna cleaned up the language on this one but the ER nurse one has all kind of threats and foul language.
now
go find a furry animal and give them a good pat!

[RICHARD]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...310050002/1049



Probably didn't have change for a 1,000 dollar bill.

[RICHARD]

Sorry RICHARD....you cannot blame it on the poster. California minimum wage has never been $6.35.

January 1, 2008 $8.00 $7.50 $0.50 6.7 percent
January 1, 2007 $7.50 $6.75 $0.75 11.1 percent
January 1, 2002 $6.75 $6.25 $0.50 8.00 percent
January 1, 2001 $6.25 $5.75 $0.50 8.70 percent
March 1, 1998 $5.75 $5.15 $0.60 11.65 percent


So repeat after me....mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....

(and next time you accuse a politician of trying to weasel out of something....)

Beat a dead horse? I missed it by THAT MUCH (maxwell not so smart)

I'll leave poliiticians out of this one.

Let's dwell on the use of naplam in Iraq and other things.....

Does my underwear look clean?