NOW WAIT ONE SECOND! My beverage of choice is being labeled as ‘cheap ass’ and getting compared some imported, high falutin to single-malt Scotch Whiskey! The only thing that would insult me more is if you described my family or my favorite brand: IW Harper (which the Japanese have an export only restiction on).
A Little Friendly Advice (Especially for those moving to the Lonestar State): Only speak ill of imprted brands; like Grey Goose Vodka from France. If you must disparage a brand of bourbon - stick to the rotgut brands…like Fighting Cock.
Is there a law against tipping real value of service here? Will the tip police come and take me to the cheaper bar for not conforming to the localized, highly inflated
bar?
You clowns don’t get it…there is a motive behind comping drinks and it isn’t hoping for a double tip; the owner is banking on better returns by keeping the Bush girls there and drum up business with other patrons that want to hang in the bar with the Busheritas.
As a patron, you are tipping the service, not the product itself, otherwise you’re a tip lemming.
The business has a right to refuse service to anyone (even if they are lousy tippers)…but if the Bush girls show up for a second drunk-fest, I bet the owner would not let them go to a cheaper bar if he/she had something to do with it.
I’m sure the server is relieved of the tax charge when it’s comped…otherwise, the owner is an asswipe.
Casinos operate the same way, folks…deal with it.
I wish I could stick around for the following mud-slinging, but I gotta chase a plane and be gone for a week. My apologies ahead of time.
Dude, still not getting it. The hot spots are hot spots largely BECAUSE they charge such high prices. Can’t afford it? Don’t go. There’s a Cerveza Fria a few blocks away.
No, everyone gets that. But why screw the poor server who was unlucky enough to get stuck with the Bush girls (Kerry sisters, Olson twins, Hilton skanks, whomever) instead of the manufacturer from Boise who’s slinging around cash trying to impress his date.
Do you tip the exact same amount for the $3.99 breakfast special at the truck stop as you do the elegant brunch at the town’s nicest hotel? If you do…well, there’s no sense arguing with you.
Sure, the truck stop waitress works just as hard as the server at the hotel, but so does the cashier at Burger King and he doesn’t get any tip at all. You can argue that tips should be factored solely on service, not price ranges, but that’s just not how our economy is set up at present. Truck Stop Trixie is resigned to the amount of tips she brings home, and budgets her life accordingly. Same as the Avalon server.
I’d like to know what procedure is typically followed when people are comped. Any servers past or present have stories?
I think they were trying to prove a point about tax reform … Obviously, if the President’s tax cuts were made permanent, and the capital gains and death taxes abolished, those two upstanding, young Christian ladies would have been able to afford to “trickle down” a few extra bucks to their servant. But liberals don’t want people investing in the well-being of their community.
Any schmuck can throw up a web page. Here, check out this one:
He goes on to recommend 10-15% of the bar bill as a tip for bartenders, which is a fine guideline if your drinks are running around $10 each; that still works out to around $1 per drink.
But I can’t for the life of me understand why I should tip more just because the contents of a particular bottle are more valuable. Unlike a restaurant, where a larger bill will roughly equate to more dishes being served, there’s no additional effort on the part of the bartender in pouring a glass of the expensive stuff. So why should I tip him more than I would if I was drinking a more garden-variety liquor?
Are the Bush twins allowed to take a $4,500 gift like that? If there activity was at all campaign related (and seeing as it was the RNC it seems likely) couldn’t this fall under some restriction?
Is it common practice for even a swanky hotspot to give out $4,500 in free booze? It seems unlikely that a one-time appearance by the Bush twins could be expected to generate anything like $4,500 in additional revenues.
Someone said: “The general etiquette on comped hospitality bills is FULL TIP AMOUNT TIMES TWO.” Why should the wait staff be tipped more because the food is free? How does this effect the amount of work that they ahve to do? I generally tip a bit more than normal since I’ve more money to throw around, but unless the person being tipped is the one who made it free, double seems extravagent.
If the drinks were comped, how would whoever threw down the tip know how much the cost was? If they were drinking $90 martinis, did they know they were that much?
If the drinks were comped and it was a group of 25 people, did whoever was tipping have any sense of what people were drinking and how much they’d been drinking?
Do we know that the Bush twins were the host of this party or just part of it? Are they the cheapskates or someone else in the party?
If you walk into a bar and ask the bartender to bring 15 bottles of vodka to your table and then pour your own all night. And the total value of those bottles is $4500, should you still tip $900? (I don’t even know if this is legal in bars.)
It is of course completely possible that they just suck as tippers. But reading a recap of a (probably) blind gossip column item leaves me with questions.
Celebrities get comped all of the time: free booze, free meals, even free clothes.
When I get a free drink from the bar, it’s usually a gift from the bartender or server, so I do tip extra as a thank-you. I don’t think extra tipping is necessary if the order to comp comes from above
Here’s a recap of the night in question. The story doesn’t mention tipping, but yes, it was their party, and they have a personal assistant called Katie who made all arrangements. I guess Katie should be blamed for the lack of tip (yes, Lib, that is if the tip story is true). And the story mentions waitresses, so the $48 was split between two or more workers.
Note that Avalon set up a make-shift private party room for the group (and allowed them to smoke. The club risked a pretty big fine for that, right?) These people weren’t just standing at the bar ordering drinks; the set up meant extra work for the crew. So much for the “tip according to work; not according to price” argument.