Recent content by SteakPhish

I have "eros" and "thanatos" (in greek) tattooed to my wrists. Thought about getting them for years and finally did last April. No regrets. I want more. Just make sure they're in a spot you can cover up for work or whatever.

What principles would those be? We aren't asking you sacrifice a goat or something. It's chipping in a few dollars after a meal. Again, saying we don't "deserve" the extra money is basically saying we deserve the crappy money that we make for doing more work than people who do make minimum wage...

It's easy to justify being selfish when you don't legally need to act otherwise. No tipping = Servers don't make money Servers don't make money = Servers quit jobs No servers = No restaurants Anton made a good point. If restaurants had to revert to paying their servers minimum wage...

I'll reiterate I'm not sure how it works in the U.K., if it's even at all different than in the U.S. Tipping isn't mandatory in a legal sense, but it might as well be. I wouldn't be able to support myself working 50 hours a week if I was only making $4.50 an hour. The reason restaurants are...

It's kind of up and down. Blue collar people tip pretty well, but broke-asses (i.e. teenagers) usually tip for shit, although I've been surprised before. Rich people will tip well if your service is phenominal, but otherwise will hover around the 15% range. To me, good service is getting...

I don't know how it works elsewhere in the world, but in the U.S., most servers get paid sub-minimum wage because our income is supposed to be through tip money. I am a server, so of course I'm biased and I think if you don't tip, or tip poorly, you're a cheap SOB who deserves the worst kind of...

About 4 years ago, I had a good ol' fashioned Half Life 2 deathmatch on the Nova Prospekt map, about 8 people of mixed skill levels, 100 kills. Final score: 101 / 25ish with a double kill at the end. Not balls-to-the-wall amazing but I smile when i think of it... In BF2 I got a triple...