Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 11, 2012

Sometimes you have to be subtle to make your point.

Or, Marge could simply put a coin lock on all the doors during 1/2 price beer happy hour. $5 to get into the toilet, $2 to get out to the street.

My friend bought a persuader shotgun. The name says it all.

i wonder if she owns the book “how to serve man”

She panned his performance.

In other words, tip or else!

Um, the cook, in the diner, with the tomato surprise,….

I hope he was spatula slapped…Federal minimum wage for waitresses. $2.13……Michigan, $2.65…AZ, $4.55, Idaho, $3.35…$2.77 in Washington D.C. But those guys don’t just give a tip, the give you the whole thing……repeatedly……from behind…..

Seriously, waiters and waitresses and bartenders are the best folks in the world. (Especially bartenders…urp!) Most of them are putting themselves through school, or putting shoes on their kid’s feet….Hearts of gold folks…please tip them well. Remember, instead of sittin’ around waiting for a hand out, there they are, .serving you. That’s right. SERVING YOU your breakfast in the morning, when it’s still hard for you to focus….Please tip them well, not only do they deserve it……….I’ll be watching………………..with my spatula….

It seems that somewhere along the way, someone required the enhanced version of persuasion.

Is this Tipper Gore’s place?

Not getting my email!

Reminds me of “Support Your Local Sheriff”. The Sheriff (James Garner) couldn’t afford bars for his jail cells, so he dribbled red paint on the floor. When the bad guy asked what the red stain on the floor was, he was told, “That’s the last guy who tried to escape.”

I think you meant, “commensurate”. Although, come to think of it, we might commiserate with the wait staff and tip them as we would like to be tipped.

I’m surprised Archie McPhee’s doesn’t sell a Tip Meter. It’s like a taxi meter only the price goes in reverse, displayed under a sign saying “Your tip.” Bet it would be a big hit in the really fancy restaurants.

encouraged, as in “do it or die!!!”

What’s the difference between a cheapskate and a canoe? A canoe tips.

Nothing like good old cast iron to get someones attention!

I grew up working in my folk’s restaurants, and cooked for cash until I went in the Army. I only tip appropriate to the SERVICE. If it’s good, I tip VERY well, if not ,well: once got TERRIBLE service, the change from dinner for four was two cents. I left it on the table and the “waitress” bitched about her “tip”, I just told her, “It’s twice what you’r worth”.

It DOES mean “To Insure Proper Service”.

i think you mean commensurate – otherwise they’re just crying together

well at the least the Restrooms sign isn’t in some silly theme code

Can’t resist commenting on the WORST service I ever got,about twenty-five years ago. (Usually my servers are great.) A young man who looked like the son of the manager or something took my order for spaghetti and water. (Usually I got minestrone, but felt flush.) Then a large party of young people came in and ordered. He got the spaghetti to me, but not the water. The young people got their wine and food in abundance. Later he came to check on me and asked if I needed anything. I said, pleasantly enough, I hope, “Some water would be nice.” No water. Finally I went to the kitchen, peered around the corner, and there he was. I said, “Can you PLEASE bring some water?” Of course he couldn’t. When I left I sought him out and gave him down the country, and didn’t leave any tip (wish I’d left a penny). I also wish there’d been the Internet back then. Guess I ought to give it up and let it stop poisoning my soul.

When I was ‘coming up,’ I did the food service route and served people well. Nowadays, when I go out to eat with company, I let the server/waiter/waitress know that I’ve walked in their shoes and “please don’t ‘hover’ ..if something’s wrong, you’ll know soon enough.” Just to catch their eye and a head-nod is signal enough. And at gas prices these days, a 20% tip is enough to cover their “getting to work tomorrow” expense. What they get for “going home” is how good they serve today’s specials. For the record, I still don’t like those ‘dollar an hour’ wage dictates.

Some years ago, I was at a cafeteria-style restaurant that also had a wait staff to serve drinks and such. I asked the waitress if they accepted tips. She replied, “Very gratefully.”

Yes, pay appropriately for the service. Just doin’ the job, 15%. (It brings them up to normal minimum wage)If they are helpful, sincere, do their job well and make you feel welcome with a smile, 20%. It they enhance the experience, are extra helpful, and make us laugh at least twice, 25%. But that’s just me. The thing to remember, is the extra 5% is usually just a couple bucks to me. It’s the rent, tuition, or kids shoes to them…

Let’s talk about morning waitresses…..Don’t they come to the table and bring you specific things the same amount of times a night waiter does? Is bringing bacon and eggs, coffee and a glass of milk any different than bringing the surf and turf with a hundred dollar bottle of wine? No. They both work just as hard….guess who gets tipped less…….I won’t make recommendations on this issue, just think about it is all I ask….Is that extra 1 or 2 dollars that precious to you?

Wow, so much ignorance here it is hard to know where to start; so I won’t.

I think waiting tables should be a mandatory rite of passage, like military service is in some countries.If everyone waited tables for a year or two of their lives the world would be a much better place.If you have never waited tables, this may seem a silly idea;If you have, you know just what I mean.