Tipping in USA/Canada
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From: Robert Cohen on 9 Nov 2007 22:41 On Nov 8, 8:13 pm, Hatunen <hatu...(a)cox.net> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:35:09 -0800, Robert Cohen > > > > > > <robtco...(a)msn.com> wrote: > >i suppose one > > u.s. dollar per customer at a non-pretentious dinner or at a now > >very common buffet restaurant is reasonable, or > >in other words, two dollars per couple, et cetera-- > > >you can certainly eventually get sick of 'em, but ryan's and the > >other buffet restaurants convey unlimited and many varities of food, > >and i bet few places in the world are this way, ten dollars or less > >person, unlimited goood food > > >at the fancier class restaurants, tip at least ten percent of the > >total bill, and of course many or rmost people leave 15 percent or > >twenty percent or more > > >you'll feel ripped-off at yuppie places like ruby fridays, so wendy et > >al fast food and those amazing buffet places are best for budget > >traveller > > >for clothes and chotskies go to the tangar shopping outlet places > >and several other factory outlet places is where the people genrally > >seem to be especially on weekends > > >the u.s.a. is pndeed complex, so a guide book wouldn't hurt > > >if one is not affluent, one goes to wendy's etal > > You can't kid me. You're really Archie the Cockroach, aren't you? > > -- > ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatu...(a)cox.net) ************* > * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * > * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - fyi and rationalization and in the vein of frommer's europe on five dollars per day: there is that declasse underside of the continent that the usual tourist guidebooks probably ignore
From: Robert Cohen on 9 Nov 2007 23:00 On Nov 8, 8:21 pm, Craig Welch <cr...(a)pacific.net.sg> wrote: > Robert Cohen <robtco...(a)msn.com> said: > > >if one is not affluent, one goes to wendy's etal > > I would suggest that if one has no taste buds one goes to "wendy's > etal" [sic.] > > -- > Craig http://www.wazu.jp/ > 1,239 Unicode fonts for 82 written language groups: > Price your own web plan:http://www.wazu.jp/hosting/ imho, of course, when they actually get the order correctly, wendy's food taste is as good or better than too many pretentious places, and as i think more about it, an advertising agency should conduct a blind test
From: Robert Cohen on 9 Nov 2007 23:09 On Nov 9, 1:33 am, mrtravel <mrtra...(a)a.a.a> wrote: > Rick Blaine wrote: > > Qanset <Qan...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >>The wife and I are planning at trip to USA/Canada in the near future. > >>Is it true that the Yanks are really hung up on tipping, and that > >>FORGETTING to tip someone is courting disaster??? > > > The only time I've had retailiation for not tipping was in Vegas. A valet was > > pissed that I wouldn't tip him for lift bags out of the trunk at a hotel and > > passing them to another valet, so he misdirected one of the bags and it took 30 > > minutes to "find" it. > > Ah Vegas... > I once tried to give a cab driver $3 in quarters on a $10 fare and he > refused it. I didn't want to bother him with breaking a $100 bill, so he > got no tip. the cab driver wouldn't gladly take a generous thirty percent tip in quarters in las vegas--perhaps the cabbie ...is....uh... not thinking totally rationally
From: JohnT on 10 Nov 2007 08:08 "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1194699481.166415.288670(a)c30g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... > Here's the reality. Waiters and similar staff are paid close to > nothing. They depend on tips to live. Tipping is so complete and > common that the IRS assumes they're getting tips and taxes them for > it, whether they get them or not. > > That's just the way it's done in the US. If you can't afford it, stay > home. > Is there no such thing as a Minimum Wage in the home of the brave and the land of the free? Here in the UK, the legal minimum wage for workers over age 21 is GBP �5.52 per hour, which is the equivalent of US $11.60 per hour. -- JohnT
From: StephanieM on 10 Nov 2007 09:01
The part of the question I couldn't understand why is someone would be miserly not to tip when it is highly likely they are coming from a place where they are buying US dollars for cheap, that they would be offended by tipping. |