At fancy restaurants, diners sit for longer and have more if an experience, and we’re not going to rush them at all. So, 20% on four (because each table needs more attention) $100 tables, two or three times a night.

Except $100 is low for even two people, and tables will often be four or even six. Figure $2K a night in sales and you’re closer to reality, $3K on the weekends or for a brunch shift. So at 22% (because anyone who can serve at that level pulls more than the 20% baseline) you’re looking at $450-650 in gross tips.

But because no one works alone at that level, expect that a third to half of that will go to tipping out the bar staff, bussers, food runners, and backwaiters, so more like $250-400 in a six-hour shift, or about $50/hr… plus wages. At a fancy place. Based on my experience.

If you’re slinging eggs at a diner you’re much more subject to walk-in traffic but less subject to high rollers. You’re also much more subject to the local cost of living, so here in Chicago you’re probably still making $20-40/hr in tips after tipout, but in South Dakota a lot less… and your wage will be lower, too.

I have to quibble with the idea that a fine dining server works no harder than an egg-slinger, though, as someone who’s done both. Fine dining takes a lot more attention, patience, and training; a lot of the work is preparation and goes unseen by the patrons — as it should be.

a rapidly descending point, you mean?

But not these ones, better ones.

panini press

20%, rounded up, plus $2 per messy kid at the table, though I may slip that directly to the busser who comes to clean it

BUT if I receive a discount I tip on the amount before discount AND the tip should be at least as much as the discount was unless it was to recover for server error

it is done

a large bottle of Yucateco Red Habanero and $75 in produce vouchers from the Green City Farmers’ Market

I do, but you gotta knock it off with the destruction/annihilation/elimination shit. PLEASE

That was a really great read. Thank you.

I can give you one if this doesn’t work, but:

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The country was founded on armed rebellion, and the framers recognized it might be necessary again in the future, so they enshrined the right to an armed populace almost immediately.

It’s hard enough to coördinate a team of five moderators.

As many as you want; the est practice is to link to your other accounts in the profile, though.

From the Greek for above and below, and also not in the general use. But I really appreciate seeing them in this discussion.

English and Spanish also feature “above” and “below”, sooooo

“unfortunate circumstance” is a wild way to describe deliberate actions taken in the past

The same as for finding Waldo.

Well, yeah. Populism is a necessary precursor to fascism. Because remember, populism isn’t giving the public what they need, or even what they want; rather, populism is feeding and glorifying the worst impulses of the public: tribalism, vengefulness, novelty-seeking, and other destructive behaviors. It’s a distraction from deteriorating material conditions and an outlet for the stress those conditions create at the same time.

someone definitely already did that one

dance like nobody’s watching, love like you’ve never been hurt, that kind of thing