DU tipping guide

10% - cheap
15% - standard
20% - good
63% - Hillary Clinton! :bounce: :toast: :party: :thumbsup:

This is PROOF!

to each individual server, personally, which everyone knows is the proper tipping etiquette, instead of just leaving it on the table.

:sarcasm:

"I didn't want my $100 donation to be given to some waitress!"

Hey, turns out that I was right. That's OK, no need for you to say it. :)

Go figure.

Those that were say otherwise.

Try actually reading the story. The tip was confirmed, there's a receipt, etc.

Denial is a wonderful thing.

Of course, the tip is not the story. The smear tactics from the Hillary people is the real story.

A Hillary staffer brought out $20 yesterday (11/8/07) to the waitress at the Maid-Rite in Toledo after the story broke.

Clinton's original version was that the bill was paid with a credit card and a $100 tip was added on. The manager at the Maid-Rite pointed out their old credit card machine doesn't allow them to add tips. Then the Clinton campaign produced the alleged receipt showing the tip. Then the manager said that maybe the other employees pocketed the entire $100 tip. The waitress in the story said she has worked with some of these people all of her life and they would not pocket $100 without sharing with her. Then Thursday, the Clinton staffer shows up with $20.

NPR's reporter was drilled by Clinton's staff because he did not "vet" the story with them before going on air.

The truth is that the woman who waited on Hillary did not get a tip until yesterday, after the story broke. The rest is spin and intimidation by the Clinton organization when they made a mistake.

We do not need a nominee or a president who refuses to admit mistakes and then pulls a Nixon cover up and intimidates people who report the mistake. We have lived through that nightmare! Enough!

Hillary go back to New York!

And I bet your really proud of yourself about that fact, aren't you?

Amazing. It's a good thing that there are no important issues in this campaign like health care.

You should actually read a few articles before pretending to know something.

From the NPR story:





Was there another receipt you were referring to?? Or were you planning on mentioning more things that show the exact opposite of what you're trying to prove? :rofl:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003670383




Spin that one

There was no tip left. The waitresses aren't lying ... though they may be unemployed soon. :eyes:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3701213

"They all paid their bill and they left a tip."

Those that were say otherwise.

There's a receipt. Care to talk your way around that?

I'm no Hillary supporter, but Jesus Christ is that a dumb analogy.

It's a non-story that became a story through Hillary's clumsy attempts to cover it up and smear working Americans as liars and thieves.

R I G H T

WI N G

C O N S P I R A C Y !

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

:sarcasm:

I tip pizza deliverers AT LEAST 10000000000%. Anything less, you might as well be a Republican scumbag.

I tip a hundred gajillion dollars!

but Bush denies millions of children health care. HHHmmmmmm.... The media's gotta get their asses out of their mouths.

Anybody else remember a presidential candidate or president deny making a mistake, change their story, cover up, and then intimidate the press when they reported the mistake, the denial and the cover up? Nixon? W?

Clinton's response horrifies me. If this woman becomes president, we will see the abuses of power by W perpetuated, not reversed. God help us if we have eight more years of secrecy, censorship and intimidation of the press.

in her first campaign for the Senate. Waitress was stiffed and HRC campaign handled it badly. Is she trying to get working class voters to vote for someone else? If not, she needs to get her campaign better organized about paying bills and tipping servers when she eats in restaurants.

They are almost genetically unable to let any negative impression of Hillary float around uncontrolled. They went after this one with their usual tactics and it came back to bite them in the ass.

great post, LoZoccolo.

and I live in an area where the cost of living is a lot less than the Northeast or West Coast.

Gotta love those "New Democrats". :eyes:

an expensive meal with wine doesn't warrant more money than a more affordable meal. The servers at the more affordable places work just as hard. The tip should be related to the service. Poor service means less tip, great service means more tip.

but don't tip less than 20% unless the server is rude, and then you should talk to the manager.

If service is slow or you get the wrong food, that's probably the kitchen's error, not the server's. An expensive meal with wine does warrant a bigger tip than a more affordable meal. If you can afford that expensive meal, you can afford the 20% tip. Don't be a cheapskate. Servers in expensive restaurants have to buy more expensive uniforms and know more about formal serving so they have extra skills and extra investments in their work.

what if it is in the same restaurant. I don't think opening up a $100 bottle of wine warrants more tip than opening a bottle of $10 wine. And I'm sure mixing up a bunch of martinis is more work than opening bottles of beer. And I do realize that the server shares the tip with the busboy and bartender. I worked in a restaurant and know how much work goes into it. There has to be an incentive for good service. Otherwise, what's the point in tipping?

Maybe I am a cheapskate, but I gently persuade my girlfriend that a nice candle-lit meal we cook ourselves with store-bought wine is more romantic than any restaurant. She's the one who wants the expensive restaurants with overpriced wine.

but not as good as Gore's!!

:rofl:

sorry I crack myself up :D

Actually I find myself dumbfounded by what "sticks" to HRC in the media.