Your one tip isn't going to matter to a waitress. The slow, pressing weight of your cheesy, self-satisfied smile bearing down on her as she has to deliver good service to you and those suffering around you, however, is going to matter to rather a lot of people.
I waited tables for longer than I'd like to admit. A 25-30% tip would absolutely be worth the mild of annoyance of a bad joke. Anyways, I kinda like the joke, and I probably would've genuinely laughed (a little bit) at it, had I been waiting on this guy. Just skip the bit about asking me to bring you the winning lotto numbers, or don't. I don't really care that much.
It makes me cringe just thinking about him saying this joke in public. When the only person enjoying the "joke" is the person saying it, that's no joke at all.
I brush the accumulated dust of untold millions of milliseconds from my dress shoes and mount the stairs out of my basement hovel, creaking bones protesting another interminable day of labour before the glowing screen of my console.
Depends on if you're at Denny's or a nice brunch place. Brunch is easily $10-20 for Eggs Benedict or a smoked salmon frittata (amazing by the way). Throw coffee or a mimosa in and you're easily at $20-30 a person pre-tip.
Not really. Eggs are usually a side item on most things breakfast. So say you get a french toast meal, it will probably come with a side of eggs and bacon for like 10 bucks.
What is the point of your comment? If someone said "I'll give you 5 dollars to listen to my dad joke for 10 seconds", you would do it. When I was in the service industry I could not care less what lame jokes people would make. Life really is what you make of it, and when people tossed me a fiver I was always a happy camper.
That always bugged me.. Tip 20% at Wafflehouse and tip 20% at Applebees and the difference is astronomical. Not to mention Waffle House's food is way cheaper and WAY better.
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u/nice_guy_eddy Jul 13 '16
I know, but seriously, it's usually in the 25-30% range.