Opentable.com...more than meets the eye

xiggi
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:21:57 +0000

EK4, you are quickly developing the habit of misquoting me. I already corrected you about the expectation of 20 to 30 percent. Since you used post 53 to question my ability to understand that **WINE **is part of the dining experience, I’ll assume that you deliberately enjoy twisting my words.

If you have to be reminded, please note that this started when you wrote "You don’t tip 20%! and something along the lines of not eating out in nice places if I cannot afford it, which I assume you meant not be able to afford tips of at LEAST 20 percent.

In case you missed it, at no time did I hint to pay anything else than between 15 and 20 percent. This also means that I do not “punish” a waiter for poor service by leaving a uncommon lower tip on the restaurant bill. As I wrote before, I believe that waiters should be protected from predatory practices, and I would be happy to see fixed service charges added to all food bills. On the other hand, I do not need to hear people preaching that a 12 dollars bill plus 8 percent tax should be rounded to … 20 dollars, and that anything smaller would be an offensive and obnoxious tip.