[thoughtsimple]

I tip more than 20% because the server minimum wage in Massachusetts is $2.63/hour. It is that simple. You would be surprised the number of people who think that a server is getting $8/hour with tips added on top.

I'm a heterosexual male in the age range that this guy is remarking on but I tip male servers and older women the same as I tip younger women. He is stereotyping. No doubt there are some who see tipping as a sexual power trip but probably in no higher percentage than any other endeavor.

[jere]

Just because you're being altruistic doesn't mean everyone else is.

>No doubt there are some who see tipping as a sexual power trip but probably in no higher percentage than any other endeavor.

I don't follow you. In what other aspect of everyday life is someone forced to converse with you, meet your every whim, and then afterwards you get to decide how much money they take home?

[Fuzzwah]

Have you read the previous articles?

[vacri]

"He’d be the one person in a thousand, or in ten thousand, who’d get angry about our fixed service charge."

He's not stereotyping much.