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6158245 No.6158245[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>Feeling good about yourself for tipping your waiters

Good job on prolonging the entitlement of the lower-class so that they'll forever have their hands out instead of working towards bettering themselves. You wanna help someone, leave them to the wages they deserve.

>> No.6158251

Most of the time when a waiter (more often waitress) gets chatty with me, she's an aspiring actor or musician or whatever. Occasionally, she's going to community college. They're almost never over the age of 30. I can only assume that they're consistently pulling themselves out somehow or another, by the time they reach 30.

So yeah, I guess I'm "helping" them, or as I see it, paying the actual cost of the meal.

I bet you're the kind of guy who makes an unholy mess in the public toilet because it's "someone else's job to deal with that"

>> No.6158258

>>6158245
Everyone listen to Edgy McLibertarian here claiming that other people are leeches when he doesn't want to pay for services rendered.

>> No.6158282

>>6158251
>The actual cost of the meal

On average a meal at a restaurant should be 4 times the price of the ingredients used. The businesses take labor into account for this. Anything extra just keeps them in a limbo where they'll be happy with the mediocrity they've achieved because of the expected revenue stream coming on the back of 'kindness' where in reality it's a social requirement lest you look like a dick

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6158290

>>6158282
>the cost of the meal is the cost of the ingredients

This is what people who can't afford to eat out ACTUALLY believe

>> No.6158300

>>6158290
Enjoy your Golden Opulence m'lord, there is literally nothing wrong with expecting a meal to cost less than 25-50 bucks. Protip: food doesn't taste better because it costs more.

>> No.6158312

>>6158300
>tipping appropriately is GOLDEN OPULENCE
>anyone who eats anything slightly better than McDonalds must be going to Alain Ducasse restaurants all the time

The basic middle class existence must seem so far away to you ;_;

I'm sorry

>> No.6158338

>>6158290
...but that's the opposite of what he said.

>a meal at a restaurant should be 4 times the price of the ingredients used

>> No.6158339

>>6158282
>On average a meal at a restaurant should be 4 times the price of the ingredients used.
This is true. Same goes for wine. The prices on the wine list are usually 4x the wholesale price, or just under three times the retail price. Knowing this makes it easy to spot bargains. If you spot a good wine on the list for twice the retail price (or less) the som put it there because he got a good deal on a big drop, and he's passing the savings on as a reward those smart enough to recognize it. Sometimes chefs will do something similar with specials - they'll put up a dish using expensive ingredients at less than 4x mark up as kind of a thank you to their regular diners.

These kinds of deals are worth keeping a lookout for. You won't find them often, but it's nice when they're there and you're capable of recognizing them.

>> No.6158368

>>6158245
Okay Ebeneezer. Now, be a good boy and go back to the 1870s industrialized classism from which you came. Don't you have a debtor's prison to be running?

>> No.6158376

>>6158368

He thinks he would be running a debtor's prison, but in reality op would be poor in the 1870s just as he is in the 2010s

The most ardent hatred of people in the service industry comes from poor people not in the service industry. It's a face they can put on their own struggles.

You should know this by now.

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6158378

this isn't food and cooking, this is /pol/shit

>> No.6158384

>>6158376
Yeah, but that doesn't paint as colorful of a picture.

>> No.6158396

>>6158376
Exactly right, anon. The poor are often the most biased for some reason.

>> No.6158400

>>6158396

It's the same kind of nihilism that draws sexually frustrated muslim kids to jihad.

They look around and they don't see a perfect solution to their problem in the real world, so they buy into dogmatic garbage pushed by charismatic talking heads. Because if complicated solutions are too difficult to understand, simple angry ranting about leechers/moochers/kuffir infidels must be the way to go.

Trickle down chicago school reagan/thatcherites are the al-awlakis and bin ladens of the west.