re: #341 Decatur Deb

Italy does not have a tipping concept, above leaving loose coins. Instead, it requires the waiters be treated just like…uh…citizens.

Tipping is both great and terrible. The best way to make big tips is to aggressively push high-shelf stuff on people, which I don’t really like doing. It’s like any other market; the highest reward doesn’t go to the hardest workers, it goes to the people who figure out the system and exploit it best.

Some people will die fighting for the tipping system because they like the illusion of control they have in declining to leave some poor overworked server whose manager just screwed him with a 7-top a tip. They’re idiots.