# Midnight Restaurant Customers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012 "2008-10-01T16:03:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/121 "2008-10-06T00:41:45Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Fairly understandable, (since many of us hail from countries with very different tipping customs to the US), but also completely indefensible; if I can’t drive on the left in the US why should I assume I would be correct to follow my native tipping customs and not the local ones? The local customs may be weird… (hell… I’ll even go so far as “bat-shit crazy”)… but they’re not that hard to learn. 😃 I just always assumed they were either ignorant of the American custom of tipping, or that they just didn’t care/couldn’t see the point of it/didn’t want to spend the money even though they were aware of the custom. Great fun to talk to, most of them, but not exactly profitable. _shrug_ What’s a girl to do? Get out of a tourist bar, that’s what. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/122 "2008-10-06T00:58:56Z")
> [@Audrey\_Levins](#): > > Get out of a tourist bar, that’s what. Or possibly get a job in a tourist bar in Europe where the Americans come in, as you will make out like a bandit. Well, unless the Americans are black, asian, brown, indian, white, old, young, single, coupled, teachers, male, female, or **Chefguy** ’s brother. Then you’re fucked. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/123 "2008-10-06T01:58:59Z")
I tend to agree with the founding fathers when they believed that tipping was an insulting practice that implied that the person you tipped was below you in social status. I wish that there was a set price for product/service X and that you just did your job and provided that service for the set price. I know that is not how it is, but… I go to church, and am good friends with a lady who cuts hair out of her home, no business, no tax, all cash under the table. I pay her $15 and she cuts my hair about every three weeks. Last week my wife told me that she was complaining that I never tip her. WTF?!? We are friends! Our children play together and spend nights at each others homes. Why would I tip her like a fucking shoe shine boy? If she needs more money than that, why can’t she tell me the haircut is $18? I would still go there. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/124 "2008-10-06T02:06:51Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > I wish that there was a set price for product/service X and that you just did your job and provided that service for the set price. > > … > > If she needs more money than that, why can’t she tell me the haircut is $18? I would still go there. Because you’re unique. Most people would see the higher prices, and go to the cheaper place that has tipping. That’s just the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![laughingboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@laughingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laughingboy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/125 "2008-10-06T02:36:58Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > “Uranian Slorbofart” Band name!!! ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/126 "2008-10-06T11:23:01Z")
Ehh, not so much a band name, strikes me more as the name of the rhythm guitarist’s name (not sexy or classy enough for the lead guitarist/singer’s name). Techno/World/Punk group? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/127 "2008-10-06T17:46:14Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > Ehh, not so much a band name, strikes me more as the name of the rhythm guitarist’s name (not sexy or classy enough for the lead guitarist/singer’s name). Techno/World/Punk group? Maybe he’s one of the members of a Soviet-era Eastern Bloc Government approved “rock” band. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/128 "2008-10-09T09:35:09Z")
> [@Belowjob2.0](#): > > You mentioned the Asian chick spilling her sauce. “Asian” doesn’t tell me much. As observant as you claim to be, you’ve got to be able to tell the diff between Hmongs on the one hand, and Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, etc.. I’m guessing the special sauce chick was Hmong, and the city you’re in is Minneapolis. How did you come to this conclusion? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MissIntent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@MissIntent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissIntent)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012/129 "2008-10-10T22:48:06Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > I go to church, and am good friends with a lady who cuts hair out of her home, no business, no tax, all cash under the table. I pay her $15 and she cuts my hair about every three weeks. Last week my wife told me that she was complaining that I never tip her. That’s funny, I have read and been told that you don’t tip the owner of the business. I wouldn’t tip her either. Guess we’re both cheapskates 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midnight-restaurant-customers/466012.md?page=6)