Comments on: Duke City Dialing Disasters

By: Food Hound

Food Hound — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:12:35 +0000

I agree 100% with your comments about Tip pooling. It gives everyone the same amount, but does not reward, acknowledge, nor encourage excellence. I HATE IT!

This blog helped shine a light on a similar situation! It seems like the Government is trying to Tip Pool us as well. I am afraid that if taxes on the rich are increased to shore up our economy, a degree of this will happen in America – tax the wealthy more (not all of them are crooks) who have worked hard to achieve excellence and give it to lower income folks (some who need it, but others that are under achievers, just like the waitress you mentioned that disappears from sight or forgets your order.) Sounds like Tip Pooling to me! Too bad we can’t increase taxes on the crooks.

Granted, some folks did not have the opportunity to achieve greatness, or had unfortunate circumstances (someone who was paralyzed, for example) are at a disadvantage. However, it seems that many of those who have achieved excellence and wealth (Monitary and Spiritual) were folks who had the most adversity. To raise thier taxes would be ludicrous, just as taking the extra tip that an excellent waitperson earns and splitting it with an underachieving waitperson.

By the way, I try to tip a great waitperson personally. I’ve even been know to tip a busperson separately so they wouldn’t have to share the tip with the horrible wait person they are unfortuante enought to wait on.

Great Blog – Keep em coming!

By: Susan Simon

Susan Simon — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:21:28 +0000

Andrea: I left a post on Chowhound on the Southwest board hoping you would comment. I saw in an earlier thread that you said “the beet appetizer at the Standard Diner rocked your world.” If that is the same thing as the Standard’s beet box with fontina cheese that I saw on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives recently, I hope you might comment either here or on Chow about how it’s made. I’m trying to replicate it, but it flew by so fast on the screen that I don’t know what is in the fontina mixture. Any help would be appreciated. I’ll check back here to see if you replied. Otherwise, I’ll watch on Chowhound. The title of my post is “Beet Box at Standard Diner Albuquerque NM.” You may have to scroll down a bit. Sorry to have tracked you down to your blog, but I’d really appreciate your input. Thank you. Susan

By: Andrea Lin

Andrea Lin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:09:13 +0000

Thanks, Sophie. I guess I’m “spoiled” by having Albuquerque as my main experience with city dining, so the service doesn’t seem that bad to me, generally speaking.

I ate at a wonderful sushi place in LA last week and recieved curt, unfriendly-yet-not-unprofessional service. The bill was huge so of course they still ended up with a sizeable tip. We don’t have a monopoly on indifferent service.

So, I tipped the AWESOME server who catered to our table of over a dozen at Zinc on Sunday 4 bucks on 18, while others around me were asking each other, “3 dollars is ok, right?”. I just hope Zinc doesn’t tip pool – this woman deserved my extra dollar.

By: sophie

sophie — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:52:23 +0000

Wonderful, wonderful post.