Random Thread - Anything Goes
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At the bar where I regularly tip 50%, my wife and a friend were there once with a five hour wait to get in the door (I kid you not, five hours until you could be on the INSIDE of the building!) I had been there for lunch, my regular lunch waitress was there that day and I texted her, said my wife was outside in the five hour line. My waitress asked for her picture, I texted it to her.... she walked out into a standing room only parking lot with many hundreds of people, found my wife, walked her straight in, told the police that she was with her (the police were there because the bar was right at legal capacity and they were verify every in and out for fire code) and she had a seat in five minutes!!
That was the most extreme, but bypassing a 45minute to two hour line was normal.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Nicaragua has the easiest tip system that I know, every restaurant puts the expected tip right onto the bill so that there isn't a question of what the tip should be. It is 10% here which is easy to see on the bill and super easy to calculate.
Europe has the hardest tip system that I know of anywhere in the world. No one can agree on what it is but it is something like 10%, but only sort of, and is different everywhere.
I speculate that this is a programmable feature on US credit card machines as I have seen this option at some establishments... It's nice to have it.
I tend to start at the normal 15% and will go either way depending on service. Nice, friendly, attentive (not over bearing) will get up to 20%. Crappy service will get down to 1 or 0%...
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@gjacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Nicaragua has the easiest tip system that I know, every restaurant puts the expected tip right onto the bill so that there isn't a question of what the tip should be. It is 10% here which is easy to see on the bill and super easy to calculate.
Europe has the hardest tip system that I know of anywhere in the world. No one can agree on what it is but it is something like 10%, but only sort of, and is different everywhere.
I speculate that this is a programmable feature on US credit card machines as I have seen this option at some establishments... It's nice to have it.
I tend to start at the normal 15% and will go either way depending on service. Nice, friendly, attentive (not over bearing) will get up to 20%. Crappy service will get down to 1 or 0%...
In NYS we have 8% sales tax on everything... so my general rule of thumb is to double the tax and round up.
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@gjacobse said:
I tend to start at the normal 15% and will go either way depending on service. Nice, friendly, attentive (not over bearing) will get up to 20%. Crappy service will get down to 1 or 0%...
Yeah... I tend to look at how busy things are as well. If they don't totally forget about us, they'll get at least 18%... but like you said... depending on other factors, I'll swing either way... if I get just absurdedly bad service, I will go and speak with a manager.
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More random funnies from Spiceland...
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1226876-unplanned-prank
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Not long now until New Zealand and Tonga to head to head in their Rugby World Cup match.
I hope this is a good game. If it's anything like the beginning of their 2003 World Cup match, it's going to be great!
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This is both ridiculous and awesome:
http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/trailers/watch-first-trailer-for-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies
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@MattSpeller please find this and send me some.... the Boys made their own liquor.
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@RojoLoco 40% terrified to taste it 60% stoked it's a thing
I'll keep an eye out!
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@MattSpeller said:
@RojoLoco 40% terrified to taste it 60% stoked it's a thing
I'll keep an eye out!
I would say that ratio is inverted...
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@RojoLoco hopefully the shit winds were blowing in a favourable direction when they got baked, err baked the grain
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Have you ever seen a car deconstruct mid race?
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@nadnerB Owch. I bet the driver had fun. :-S Hope he was alright!
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True or False @scottalanmiller
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That pretty much sums it up. Today we learned what zapote fruit was.... when our street fruit lady made me eat some off of a knife that she was holding. Yeah, that's how we roll here.
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