My attitude is NOT free!

[Marc Chevalier]

I too am glad you shared the penny with the tip idea. There have been waiters I would of really liked to have known that they did an excellent job.

Yes, it's cool, but it's always much nicer (and more gracious) to actually tell the server, "Thank you! You really made it a great experience for us!"

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[Caledonia]

At your service, mademoiselle.

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Merci monsieur. Ai-t-je le dernier mot?

 

[Rosie]

I agree. Last year, I went to this great restaurant and our waiter was fantastic! He was very nice to us, never friendly and I didn't have to call him for anything. Whenever I would start to signal him, he was right at the table, ready to get whatever we needed. Needless to say we left him a great tip and I told him, thank you so much, you were great and made our evening so pleasant (or something to that effect). He responded, thank you for being such great customers. I don't eat out very often, but I've been back there three times just based on his service.

 

[jamespowers]

As a fur'ner, i really had trouble getting into the way of tipping.

So, i have to give a barman 1 dollar on a three dollar bottle of beer because he got it from the fridge and popped the cap? The very idea of tipping for such a service is ludicrous. That's not worth a dollar! But, as one of my fellow fur'ners found out, you get chucked out of the bar if you "didn't tip enough".

I see we have found ourselves someone who thinks cows and canoes are the only things that need tipping.

Regards,

J

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Exactly.

 

[mysterygal]

don't get me wrong, I do compliment great service...the penny idea is just something more to add to the fact that I liked how I was waited on.

 

[Caledonia]

Cows?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Cow tipping. A bit like lamping. But you don't kill the cow. You just tip it over. While its sleeping.

bk

p.s. I've never tipped a cow. But i know people who have. I know a chap who won the heart of his wife by drunkenly tipping a cow.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

I too am glad you shared the penny with the tip idea. There have been waiters I would of really liked to have known that they did an excellent job.

I would imagine that a lot of young servers will not know what this means; I knew about it because my mother and grandmother both worked in restaurants many years ago (my grandmother was a bartender in the 1950s-60s; my mother worked as a waitress in the adjoining restaurant later on.)

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Originally Posted by mysterygal
I too am glad you shared the penny with the tip idea. There have been waiters I would of really liked to have known that they did an excellent job.

Yes, it's cool, but it's always much nicer (and more gracious) to actually tell the server, "Thank you! You really made it a great experience for us!"

Because I know what it means, I can tell you that I love it when guests leave a penny along with their tip. Of course I like being thanked aloud as well, or if someone comments about my good service to the manager (actually, I once read a review about the restaurant I worked for, and the reviewers mentioned the great experience they had with the Betty Grable-look alike waitress—that was neat to read)--but there is a certain thrill in regards to finding that penny! And although this gesture is generally reserved for an older group, I have run across teenagers and young 20-somethings who knew what it meant!

 

[Caledonia]

And how many of you does this take, without waking the cow up. And I assume the lamp is needed at some point to make sure you're not tipping the bull. Nasty!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

And how many of you does this take, without waking the cow up. And I assume the lamp is needed at some point to make sure you're not tipping the bull. Nasty!

Hmm,.... I ought to know that being from a fairly rural cow-tipping area. But I never tipped one, (seems mean to me) and don't know anyone that did it either. But if I were to hazard a guess, I would say it takes two or even three guys to move an object the size of a cow. [huh]
fftopic:

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Fitz

In the Granada series 'Cracker', the protagonist says to a cab driver something like: "You probably expect a tip, huh? Plant your gardenias in autumn!"

Disclaimer: I have no idea about gardening, and don't remember the exact advice Dr. Fitzgerald gave.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Merci monsieur. Ai-t-je le dernier mot?

Why, sure. (These words here don't count.)

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[Caledonia]

And crowbarring it back onto topic - but whoever tipped the cow would tip it a good 15% over it's hourly rate just for putting up with you..... Sorry, End of fftopic: Line

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Tipping is fine; tupping is better! Just don't tup a cow. Trust me. (Any Shakespeare fans around here?)

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[Caledonia]

Why, sure. (These words here don't count.)

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[Sefton]

I recall seeing in an old films signs in restaurants that read "Tipping is Un-American". I think that this might have been during WWII? Anybody ever see that sort of thing?
The closest that I've come to actually seeing that was as a child, in a restaurant in Chinatown, San Francisco. For some reason I've never forgotten the signs in this Chinese restaurant that read: "Please Do Not Tip". Perhaps it is also un- Chinese-American...

 

[Caledonia]

Tipping is fine; tupping is better! Just don't tup a cow. Trust me. (Any Shakespeare fans around here?)

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Who needs to be a Shakespeare fan. Mr Chevalier, anybody thinking about tupping a cow is just plain boastful!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Don't think ye can tup a cow. It's a sheep term, ain't it? (rams called tups in my part of the worl)

bk

 

[jamespowers]

But if I were to hazard a guess, I would say it takes two or even three guys to move an object the size of a cow. [huh]
fftopic:

It only takes one guy. The cow is pretty limp when it is sleeping. One good shove and that is it. I saw it in a movie once.

Regards,

J