Mr. Goodcents is about as good of a sub as you can buy for the money. It puts Subway to shame. If you don’t have one in your city, I pity you. That being said, Mr. Goodcents puts a tip line on your credit card receipt, hoping to guilt you into poneying up a tip for someone who prepared your food. Fancy restaurants don’t offer a chef tip line on the receipt, so why would a sandwich shop? Asinine.
Meanwhile, the Red Balloon karaoke bar has a tip jar for the DJ. During karaoke Wednesday night, the bar’s other DJ got up to sing a song, and scolded the crowd for scant tipping. First off, don’t you tip at the end of “service?” Shouldn’t you tip when you leave, if you were to believe a karaoke DJ does anything to justify a tip? I’m fine with someone bribing their way to the front of the karaoke list, but the dude is still just changing out CDs.
The tipping culture in this country needs a serious readjustment.
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The tip line for Goodcents is for the drivers. They bring you the same receipt to your door as you get at the counter. Drivers who work at places w/o that option often get screwed out of tips.
Posted 29 Aug 2008 at 15:04 ¶Karaoke, that’s a different story, and just plain dumb.
Ah, I hadn’t thought about the delivery aspect. Good call. Thanks for restoring my faith in the perfection of Goodcents.
Posted 29 Aug 2008 at 15:13 ¶You know what I think of tipping…especially to people who are in the service industry and believe that they will get a tip no matter the quality of service. They have yet to wait on me….
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