In this segment of our broadcast, I like to answer questions asked by the audience. Also questions asked by no one, as is the case in this one. This particular post is dedicated to waiters\/waitresses\/ waitrons\/servers\/people-who’ll-be-taking-care-of-you-tonight and contains a few brief lessons on how to tip them.<\/p>\n
Step 1: Tip them.<\/strong><\/p>\n That’s right. We live in America. I don’t care if you’re from another country, or your mama raised you thrifty, or in your American subculture “we don’t tip”. Tip the damn waitress.<\/p>\n Maybe you think you don’t need to. Waiting tables is not that hard, right?\u00a0Well, other than being personable, remembering orders, entering them into a computer, dealing with kitchen staff (which can be a challenge, cain’t it, Margo?), delivering food and drinks, making sure the customers’ needs are met, and being on their feet all night, you’re right. Nothing to it.<\/p>\n Step 2: Tip them 20%.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n That’s right. We live in America. A standard tip is now 20%. If the service is truly shitty, talk to the manager. Otherwise, look at the total on your bill, shift the decimal one place to the left, and then double that amount.<\/p>\n Maybe you think you don’t need to. They get a paycheck after all.\u00a0Yes. Guess how much the hourly wage for a server is in NC. Two dollars and thirteen cents an hour.<\/p>\n $2.13<\/p>\n Employers are allowed to do that because it’s assumed waitstaff will receive tips. (See Step #1.)<\/p>\n [If at your Sunday brunch you think, “It’s a buffet! They don’t have to do that much!”, remember they still have to be there, and they’re still getting paid $2.13 an hour.]<\/p>\n Step 3: Tip them cash.<\/strong><\/p>\n I know, I know—we live in America. We like to pay with plastic. Pay the tip in cash.<\/p>\n Maybe you think you don’t need to. But sometimes, when the customers have been drunk and belligerent, and the kitchen has screwed up a couple orders, and the servers have had to bus and reset all their own tables the whole shift because\u00a0the busboy got busted for having a pound of weed in his Tercel, that wad of cash is the only thing that’ll make them get out of bed and serve your ass again the next day.<\/p>\n There you go. You didn’t ask the Avid Bruxist, and I graciously answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this segment of our broadcast, I like to answer questions asked by the audience. Also questions asked by no one, as is the case in this one. This particular post is dedicated to waiters\/waitresses\/ waitrons\/servers\/people-who’ll-be-taking-care-of-you-tonight and contains a few brief lessons on how to tip them. Step 1: Tip them. That’s right. We live … Continue reading Ask the AB: How to Tip Your Waitress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-the-ab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}