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Papersatan:
--- Quote from: Grognard on 11 Sep 2013, 12:48 ---Awesome Service + I'm Drunk + You're Cute: I don't recall the cost, I just tipped her $50.
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--- Quote from: Nikolai on 11 Sep 2013, 14:20 --- Increases for quality food, service, and attractiveness, of course.
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While this is a common practice, I would like to point out just how fucked up it is. Most wait staff are female and a system of tipping in which (mostly male) customers base the wage they give on the attractiveness of the server forces servers into an awkward position. If they want to make a decent wage they have to make sure they are sexually attractive, which is not their job. It also means that waitresses who are not white, or thin or otherwise "conventionally" attractive, get paid less for the same work.
If you take 3 minutes to really think about what you are saying, you are either saying that you think that being sexually attractive you to is a part of that waitress's job, or that you are entitled to give any woman money as a reward for being sexually attractive to you . This attitude makes waiting tables have a much higher rate sexual harassment than average, and the workers frequently have to tolerate it if they want to get paid. ( here's a nice Slate article which mentions the problem)
Valdís:
Yeah, tipping is a super weird practice. Ya weirdos.
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 11 Sep 2013, 20:48 ---$2.50 is the usual wait staff minimum wage.
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It's been $4.00 something in most of the states I've been in, and I have been in many states.
ackblom12:
That's fine, but I'm just stating that it's not actually accurate for many states. Double checking it, the Federal minimum wage for tip based waitstaff is actually $2.13. Seems as if most tend to stick to $2.13 - $4, some going up to $5, with a few not actually allowing below minimum wage for tip staff.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 11 Sep 2013, 13:50 ---I was speaking to a Canadian recently who, as far as his Danish Grandmother-in-law is concerned, is as good as American. She politely enquired early on in his marriage whether he had learnt to use cutlery yet.
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Canadians know all about cutlery.
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