Aug 3, 2010
Tipping
To tip or not to tip? When do you ever stiff a waiter/waitress? The other day we went out to eat at a fairly priced restaurant, to celebrate our birthdays. There were 7 of us. We ordered appetizers and entrees along with our non-alcoholic drinks. When the bill came, there was an automatic 18% gratuity added on. Our bill was about $160.00.
What bothers me about this, is the fact that our server didn't deserve 18%. Granted, the standard is 15% for decent service and to me, that's what I would have left him. Are we obliged to give the one server 18% tip even though he wasn't a great of a waiter?
He was an OK server, but at times took too long to come to our table to ask for another drink. He disappeared too long, and forgot a side dish we also ordered.
Bedbugs in New York City - Yikes
Recently, I have been researching and mapping my way to Niagara Falls
on the New York side. I've been there twice only thru the Canadian side, but since we don't want to spend the money on new passports, we thought we'd drive over there from Illinois to New York staying within the U.S.
Upon reading a breaking news today on the Yahoo! website, about an outbreak of bedbugs in NYC, forget it. I'm kinda paranoid about staying in a hotel now after reading this story.
Dead bedbugs on paper towel from picapp.com |
Apparently, there's been an outbreak of these critters on the west coast too! It's bad enough that we worry about safety issues when traveling, but not being able to sleep in peace andbeing the food for theses uninvited guests, uhh, I think we'll just stay home this year.
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