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> "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
> news:485fcc63$0$18918>> You go into a a fairly chi-chi restaurant. You
> are waited on very well by
>> many different people. At the end of the meal, you make a generous tip
>> to either a) the head waiter or the b) maitre'd and indicate that the tip
>> be spread around accordingly. At a later date, you go to the same
>> restaurant, the head/maitre'd treats you well, but the rest of the staff
>> treats you as if you were dirt under their feet. You tip again, the same
>> way as before, but find out thru the grapevine (aka a friend of one of
>> you kids works there) that you 'stiffed' the staff twice in a row. The
>> only explaination is that the head/maitre'd is pocketing the quite
>> sizable tip and telling the others 'no tip for you'. What would you do?
>>
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> The only thing to do is tip people individually from that point on.
How are you going to hunt down 6 to 10 people who served, cleared, asked to
give them some little portion of youyr 20%? And what portion? That's why
restaurants have it worked out beforehand and why I wonder how the head
waiter got away with this, since he must pick up the folder a lot of the
time. Strange he should stiff the same person twice without giving the
staff a clue what he was doing.