Ten!? Holy shit. I thought ours was high. It's 7.25 here, 7.5 down the road, and 7 the other way. State is only 5.25 but everyone seems to have their hand out.
Yeah that makes sense. I'd happily pay a little more sales tax with no income tax. I'm paying about 20-25% with city, school district, state, and federal tax plus 7.25% on everything I buy. Luckily I don't own property at the moment. I know there are cities/counties where it can be as high as 40-60% or more all together.
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Yes!!!! Especially #14! There's so much sugar in their bread but almost NONE in their chocolate! It takes like shit!
I think friendliness can depend on the region of the country. I'm in college and I've met lots of people from different parts of the country and the world. One girl I met is from New York and moved 11 hours away from home and said she's so surprised how much nicer people are here.
Yeah but it's not like "I should be taking this. So prescribe it to me." It's "Should I be taking this? What do you think with your professional opinion?" There's nothing weird about thinking a certain medicine might help you and asking your doctor about it.
The problem is that America is so lawsuit happy that doctors always refer you to specialists to avoid being sued. That means that general practitioners don't know much anymore. Most really don't know about the different drugs on the market so the drug makers advertise directly to the consumer. If doctors do suggest a drug it's because a salesman told them it's great.
Actually, even if we didn't invent these things we made them our own and improved them. You could say we "Americanized" them like all the immigrants who became Americans.
You are as American as apple pie, as baseball, as hotdogs. Hell, you're as American as fortune cookies!
i know in medicine a lot of businesses were taken in to help manage money but ended up steal the rug from under their feet. So unless they're private practice, there is a lot of random messed up shit businesses are doing
I've noticed 11, I can get why 12 is confusing but I 100% agree with #10. People always freakin looked at me through the things when I was takin a poops at work when I cooked at applebees.
Tipping isn't hard. You figure out 20% of your bill amount and leave that number for the server who makes $2 an hour to bring you your food and drinks.
That is ABSOLUTELY false.
*First of all, no one is forcing the customer to pay anything, and not everyone tips their server.
*Second, most normal, decent human beings appreciate going to a restaurant and having someone else do all the work and take care of them. Decent human beings show their appreciation for being taken care of. The easiest way to show your appreciation is to give your server a tip.
*Third, most normal, decent human beings tip their servers. Speaking as someone who has managed a restaurant, paying employees is VERY expensive and costs a business a lot more money than just what you see in your check. Since the servers are going to get tips from most normal, decent human beings, yes it only makes sense from a business standpoint to pay servers a little less base pay.
*Fourth, servers work hard and usually deserve extra tips, but the kitchen staff work hard too and don't get tipped; is it fair to pay the servers the same base pay and then all the extra tips too?
*Fifth, as someone who has not only managed multiple restaurants but also has been a server I can tell you that any halfway good server makes much more than minimum wage even with a lower base pay. So much so that we used (and many restaurants do) the servers' reported tips as a guage for how good or bad a server was, and would fire any server who didn't consistently make well above minimum, because that meant they weren't taking good care of our customers.
*Sixth, if you have such a poor attitude towards tipping your servers I suggest you avoid restaurants that take care of you and stick to McDonald's.
I was saying a system were they are paid normally and it isn't socially required for you to tip would be better. And they're just doing their job, you wouldn't tip a pilot for flying you somewhere in a commercial plane. A business should pay it's employees, and not have the servers rely on random chance that they'll get decent tips, shouldn't they?
Servers do not rely on random chance for tips. Most people tip their servers out of gratitude. If a server does not make at least minimum wage with their tips, the restaurant pays them more to make it up by federal law.
And comparing airline pilots to servers is apples and oranges. Usually only employees who handle cash get tips because money is being exchanged in the equation anyway, so giving extra money is the easiest way to thank your server.
Waiters and waitresses are not the only jobs that get tips either. Bartenders do, delivery drivers, bellhops, valets, taxi drivers, hair stylists, and on and on.
Crap, I was typing that reply as you were that second one and didn't see it before I wrote that. You obviously know much more about what you were talking about and I'll admit I was wrong. I was under the impression that some servers were not paid well. I still think, however, that business really should pay employees for their job. I'm not a stingy bastard and of course I'll tip servers to show appreciation and because they rely on them, but it doesn't make sense to me for a customer to pay the employees. Edit: typed this also before I saw your reply because you're replying so quickly.
That's why I put the edit, I hadn't seen that when I wrote it. As I said, I was wrong. Thanks for enlightening me and ridding me of that uninformed opinion
It's perspective, and partly ignorance. (Ignorance as in simply not knowing, not that anyone is stupid)
Yes servers rely on tips as part of their income, but only because they expect it, the same way a well paid executive relies on bonuses as part of their income.
As I said, servers generally make relatively good money, and those that don't are terrible servers. When I was a waiter I rarely left at night with less than $50 to $100 in tips in addition to my base pay. Divide that by a typical shift of probably 4 to 6 hours and that's not terrible.
Of course there are exceptions, and not every server at every restaurant makes really great tips because of poor location, less affluent clientele, hours worked, etc. But as I said, even bad servers or those in bad neighborhoods make at least minimum wage by law.
I also knew someone that worked as a server for a long time but was struggling, I guess that helped me come to that conclusion. Now that I think about it though, that particular relative does have pretty extravagant taste
Like I say, there are neighborhoods/cities where the local economy may be poorer or maybe the restaurant is less busy or just attracts a poorer customer base, where even a really good server just can't make as much. Sometimes customers look at what they are charged and just assume a higher bill means the server is getting paid more, too. For instance, I used to work at a pizza restaurant and we had a lot of delivery customers who assumed the delivery charge was a built-in tip for the driver. I would explain to the ones that asked that it was a charge that went to the company for the extra labor and for fuel, not a tip for the driver, and they usually understood and tipped the drivers.
Oh I forgot to make a point for everyone. Please tip your server (or don't tip your server) according to his or her performance at your table, not according to whatever else happens at the restaurant. For instance, if the food just isn't that good or you have to endure an annoying child at another table it is probably not your server's fault. But if your drinks don't get refilled or he/she forgets to bring your food, that is their fault.
I have had some really not great food but awesome service and still tipped well. I complained to the manager, but it was a kitchen problem and the server was still really great. Likewise I have had just exquisite meals and didn't leave the server a penny because they were terrible, had to ask for refills, someone else had to get our food for us because the server wasn't around, etc.
How's the weather up there on your high horse? There's nothing wrong with being American. We have awesome holidays, and are in the process of playing the biggest prank on the world that has ever been done. Donald Trump for pres. It's a prank, right? RIGHT?
Maybe you're american as a Big Mac
Big Macs are French. You never seen Pulp Fiction; le Big Mac?
But we actually made it work so we got that going for us, which is nice. Lol
You are as American as apple pie, as baseball, as hotdogs. Hell, you're as American as fortune cookies!
*First of all, no one is forcing the customer to pay anything, and not everyone tips their server.
*Second, most normal, decent human beings appreciate going to a restaurant and having someone else do all the work and take care of them. Decent human beings show their appreciation for being taken care of. The easiest way to show your appreciation is to give your server a tip.
*Third, most normal, decent human beings tip their servers. Speaking as someone who has managed a restaurant, paying employees is VERY expensive and costs a business a lot more money than just what you see in your check. Since the servers are going to get tips from most normal, decent human beings, yes it only makes sense from a business standpoint to pay servers a little less base pay.
*Fourth, servers work hard and usually deserve extra tips, but the kitchen staff work hard too and don't get tipped; is it fair to pay the servers the same base pay and then all the extra tips too?
*Sixth, if you have such a poor attitude towards tipping your servers I suggest you avoid restaurants that take care of you and stick to McDonald's.
And comparing airline pilots to servers is apples and oranges. Usually only employees who handle cash get tips because money is being exchanged in the equation anyway, so giving extra money is the easiest way to thank your server.
Waiters and waitresses are not the only jobs that get tips either. Bartenders do, delivery drivers, bellhops, valets, taxi drivers, hair stylists, and on and on.
Yes servers rely on tips as part of their income, but only because they expect it, the same way a well paid executive relies on bonuses as part of their income.
As I said, servers generally make relatively good money, and those that don't are terrible servers. When I was a waiter I rarely left at night with less than $50 to $100 in tips in addition to my base pay. Divide that by a typical shift of probably 4 to 6 hours and that's not terrible.
Of course there are exceptions, and not every server at every restaurant makes really great tips because of poor location, less affluent clientele, hours worked, etc. But as I said, even bad servers or those in bad neighborhoods make at least minimum wage by law.
I have had some really not great food but awesome service and still tipped well. I complained to the manager, but it was a kitchen problem and the server was still really great. Likewise I have had just exquisite meals and didn't leave the server a penny because they were terrible, had to ask for refills, someone else had to get our food for us because the server wasn't around, etc.