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Originally Posted by shmike
Black people don't tip.
Asian staff are too easily offended.
Kitchen staff don't work for tips.
Fuck the restaurant, the lady is in the right.
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Yes and no. I agree with you in principal, but I went to a NYC nightclub on Monday (The Bitter End), and they had a two-drink minimum, as well as a $10 door charge.
I was struck by the fact that I would be forced to consume food or beverage, when of course, they could just charge more for the door...but I am an old timer, and am intimately familiar with the two-drunk minimum.
Both the compulsory gratuity and the food/drink consumption minimums are rather sketchy means of charging people more, when you get down to brass tacks.
It's really not right. It may be the custom, or excepted norm for us, but it borders on wrong.