See, I'm not normally particularly cheap, but with restaurants I'm ESPECIALLY not cheap because I worked as a waiter for a couple of months in England and realized just how hard of a job it is to do well (for the record, I did NOT do it very well, since I have very little confidence when dealing with strange people; I got busted from waiter down to part-time waiter/part-time busboy because I sucked so badly at it), and so I appreciate the skill involved and how important tips are, having cursed customers of my own who didn't tip.
(And actually, tips are more important here in the US than they ever were in England; there we were required by law to be paid minimum wage, and got tips on top of that, whereas here waitstaff can be paid much less than minimum wage with the expectation that they'll make it up in tips. I think minimum wage in the US for waitstaff, last I heard, was less than $3/hr.)
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Date: 2008-07-05 07:17 pm (UTC)(And actually, tips are more important here in the US than they ever were in England; there we were required by law to be paid minimum wage, and got tips on top of that, whereas here waitstaff can be paid much less than minimum wage with the expectation that they'll make it up in tips. I think minimum wage in the US for waitstaff, last I heard, was less than $3/hr.)