Things are feeling like...Christmas?
Seems like an odd title with Halloween coming up tomorrow but, there ya have it.
2 nights ago we got a foot of snow and then yesterday it snowed all day long. I mean all...day....long. So now today is bright and sunny and everything has the most pristine snow you've ever seen on it. Since the town is permanently decked out in Christmas lights and there is a Christmas-only store right across the street from work, things seem..well..Christmass-sy. Sorry, no camera.
Work has been going well. Still serving and making pretty good money, but I had my first dine-and-dash today. So annoying. Also, I'm fed up with people from cultures that don't tip that come here and don't tip. It's all fine to not do it at home, but there's a major problem with that here:
If I serve a table, and don't get a tip, I still have to tip-out for that table.
At the end of the night, I have to pay 4.5% of my total sales to the kitchen and bar. (i won't get into how big that number is in comparison to other places). So if a table orders $100 worth of food and drinks, and doesn't tip me at least $4.50, I lose that money. Considering that while serving, we all get paid a whopping $7/hour, that's an incredibly significant amount of money. Anyway, them's the breaks I suppose. It's made up for in tables, like the one yesterday, that tip more than the bill :D
Happy Halloween everybody.
2 nights ago we got a foot of snow and then yesterday it snowed all day long. I mean all...day....long. So now today is bright and sunny and everything has the most pristine snow you've ever seen on it. Since the town is permanently decked out in Christmas lights and there is a Christmas-only store right across the street from work, things seem..well..Christmass-sy. Sorry, no camera.
Work has been going well. Still serving and making pretty good money, but I had my first dine-and-dash today. So annoying. Also, I'm fed up with people from cultures that don't tip that come here and don't tip. It's all fine to not do it at home, but there's a major problem with that here:
If I serve a table, and don't get a tip, I still have to tip-out for that table.
At the end of the night, I have to pay 4.5% of my total sales to the kitchen and bar. (i won't get into how big that number is in comparison to other places). So if a table orders $100 worth of food and drinks, and doesn't tip me at least $4.50, I lose that money. Considering that while serving, we all get paid a whopping $7/hour, that's an incredibly significant amount of money. Anyway, them's the breaks I suppose. It's made up for in tables, like the one yesterday, that tip more than the bill :D
Happy Halloween everybody.
posted by Anonymous at 3:26 PM
6 Comments:
hmm... i don't know about a "christmasy" feel for me... ALTHOUGH my sunburn is most prominent on my nose, making me a prime candidate for everyone's favourite reindeer. *sigh*
in defense of the countries that don't tip...it's foreign to them!!! Let me tell you, after a year and a bit of NOT tipping, I'm going to have trouble remembering to do it when I get back to Canada.
When I first arrived here and me and my friends would try to tip, we had the pizza delivery guy either a) getting insulted or b) running away.
Anyway, I think that people moving from a non-tipping country to a tipping country would have a much harder time, as they just have no concept of it.
It's kinda like trying to absorb the fact that here, blowing your nose in public is extremely rude, but horking the hugest loogie and spitting it anywhere is perfectly acceptible. geeeew
i like slurping food better! or is that just in Japan? It's so funny to go to a fancy-ish Japanese restuarant and be overhwlemed with people slurping soup
NOAH!!! BOB BARKER JUST ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT!!!!!!!! i read it in a newspaper at a coffee shop this morning. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?!?!?!
*sob*
ooooooh, they slurp here too. And there' snothing half-assed about the way they slurp either...the noisier the better
my condolences about barker....
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