The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 10, 2012

Moral: Don’t hire high school students to wait on tables.

With how much black pepper I put on stuff this works for me too.

Don’t play with matches. Check on a job that dosen’t depend on tips. I tip heaviest at places like Waffle House. My people.

I prefer to pack my own take-home (doggy bag); you never know what happens to the food if they take your plate back to the kitchen to do it. Once, after checking the box and noticing that some of the meal that I wanted to take home was missing, I went to the kitchen myself and told them that I would take what I wanted and not what the waiter assumed I wanted. Since then I always insist that the waiter bring the box to the table and let me pack it myself.

I believe attitude is the key here. I prefer to use the pepper mill and fill my take-home box myself, but the waiter/waitress had better show some class, respect, tact, etc if they expect a tip from me!