Jeremy Piven: left a Entourage box set as a tip











Edited at 2013-07-25 01:32 am (UTC)

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I just want to know if he like carries around a few in his car just in case he goes out to eat.

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I'm imagining his backseat packed with Amazon boxes.

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I was wondering that too.. he had to have carried it with him unless he was just given it for whatever reason??

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I have no knowledge of him or his show past this line, but this is cracking me up

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lol

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lol isn't the story that the waiter followed him out and threw it back at him? lmao

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LMFAO

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I'd like to think I'm an okay tipper.

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if it's 18- 20% then you're all good

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Usually so!

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Since when has it jumped up to 20%?

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who's the guy with Taylor? Is that Austin Mahone?

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yes

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I would be fucking pissed if I got that as a tip.

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I mean obviously she's a vile human being for flaunting her wealth



rme

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because half the time people perceive problems in the kitchen as shit service and take it out on the waiter despite the fact that it's the Back of House's fault.



And even if the server is horrible, if you don't tip them then they essentially end up paying to wait your table.



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The idea is that if you're not gonna tip, you better also request to see management and report the shitty service. Stiffing the wait staff and not leaving a reason doesnt get rid of the problem.

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Not long ago my a group of some friends went out to eat and apparently got horrible service from their waiter, some of them were taken aback by his rudeness, yet all of them except one left him a tip, just because they felt like they had to. The one who didn't was like 'eff that he was rude'.

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You should consider that 15% part of the price of even mediocre service. If you can't afford it, stay home.

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tipping is always something that I'm not a believer in



Are you in the US

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Yeah here waiters and waitresses have to at least be paid minimum wage, which is exactly what I'm making. We don't have that "making up your salary in tips" mess in California so if I get shitty service I'm not going to tip. I've gotten such shitty service lately that I've stopped eating out altogether.

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I hope you never eat at the same place twice, tbh.

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So... you don't tip?

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holy shit you suck. tipping is what they live off of.







edit: you're not in the US? nevermind then.



Edited at 2013-07-25 01:38 am (UTC)

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I don't like the logic people use to encourage tipping. My customers don't care if I make a living wage, and I don't make them feel guilty about making shit money. It's up to my boss to pay me. I don't understand why waitstaff feel that customers are the ones who should make up for their employers' jerkiness. I still tip, but that attitude is annoying and hypocritical.

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Seriously, these people talking about tipping at least 20% for shit service... why should that person get as much as another person who actually did their job? I get that it's hard, people have bad days, etc... but, if I go out and get treated like shit, you're not getting much.

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I tip, but I think it's stupid. Just because you work at a nicer restaurant you get more tips because of the food price. I think it's a silly way to base the tip

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omg im cackling at all the Americans coming for you

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Yeah I got to Belgium quite often, and my friend there told me you never tip. They make a salary, and it's not the regular.



That being said, I have when I've spent a lot time at a location

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I completely agree. Yes I'm in America. And yes I've worked as a waitress, in NYC nonetheless. And if they're shitty, I'm not going to give them my hard-earned money for not even bothering to do their job well, are you kidding me?

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Tbh, I always see it as an american thing.

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mte

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if you ever visit the US, please please do tip. Most servers there do not make actual minimum wage, instead like $2 an hour because the government assumes they'll make it up in tips. Tips are not extra for American servers, they are the actual pay.

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lmao tipping is not something you believe in, it's a system in America. it's kinda fucked up but they're making $2.33/hr, which is why tipping has been around forever because that's not sustainable living.

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I only leave a tip if I'm happy with the service, I would never otherwise. I don't understand why it's even called a 'tip' in America if it's meant to represent the persons wage, just make it a compulsory part of the bill?



Here in the UK it's just an extra you leave as a thank you if you're happy with the service, the same way any other tip normally is. It's fucked-up making people rely on customers for their wages

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Yeah I tip when someone's been good service, not just because.

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....why. this is creeping up, before it used to be 10-15% tip. then it was 15-20%, but now people are saying 18-20%. i like tipping tbh, but the expectation for average service being 20% is a little absurd.

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I actually know the girl he left that to.



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I worked in a famous pizza place in Chicago for two years during college and the kind of shit I put up with from tourists trying to get sweet tea north of the Mason Dixon line, bitching about our seating methods (you had to put the order in before you got seated because it is DEEP DISH), and becoming riotously drunk in a tiny restaurant that has not been renovated since 1960, and doing it for a $2.00/hr base salary and the insecurity of whether or not these people know what tipping standards in metropolitan areas are has turned me into the best tipper ever.



If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to go out to eat, period.

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$2 an hour?!?!! How is that even legal?

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it's legal because it's assumed that a server is going to make enough tips to eventually average out to at least minimum wage.



What people forget when they're NOT TIPPING servers, as well, is that from their tip the server has to give money to the bartender (~2% of sales), the busser (~%2 of sales), the food runners (~1% of sales), and in my case, the lead cook (~1% of sales). That means that of your tip, 5-6% of it has to be paid to other people. If you tip LESS than 5%, or if you don't tip at all, basically your server is paying to wait your table.

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mte. that's disgusting

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I'm a waitress in Texas. $2/hr is my salary. It sucks having a slow day AND not getting tipped. Those $2 are all taken from taxes from my check, leaving me with $0 off check and living off tips, so..

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I made $2.16 when I was a server

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lou malnatis?

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If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to go out to eat, period.



real talk

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It annoys me when foreigners complain about tipping. I know it's not something every country does (mine does tipping differently too), but not because of that you have to be an asshole and leave a shitty tip/no tip at all. I'm sorry about your experience in the pizza place, that sounds frankly awful.

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actually it's not for you to say what people can and cannot do so...lol???

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Always knew I liked her.

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I don't even eat out anymore because I feel like the restaurant industry has really declined in service lately, but it's really nice that she tipped well.

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This makes me feel sorry for Usher. He clearly thinks it's still 1998.

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I usually give a 25% tip with good service. If the service is OK, probably 15-18%. If the service is horrible, I won't tip at all.

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ia i keep it around 20% no matter what

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me too

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im late, but without sounding like i'm attacking you, what is horrible service to you?? i've never been able to bring myself to not tip, but i also don't think ive ever had service so terrible it didnt deserve one so i'm curious

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David Letterman left a 1k tip for another waiter at a restaurant I worked out a couple of years ago. Worst tipper was Reese Witherspoon. :/

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why am I not shocked by Reese?

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maybe she was pregnant and she had to pee, ok?

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Worst celeb seems to be Reese Witherspoon.

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And no one is surprised about Reese.

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I'm cheap, but fair. If someone is excellent, I leave 20%. If someone is average, I leave 15%. If someone is terrible, I leave nothing. I never tip when I pick up the food (in takeout situations, calling in orders and going to the restaurant to pick it up). I would never leave huge tips, even if I was wealthy. If possible, I try to call-in my order for pickup so that I can avoid tipping.

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There's one local place in town that I pick up from occasionally and I still throw in a tip because I love the people who work there. The 3-4 people making food behind the counter always look up and say hi and ask how you are.



On the other hand, going to pick up a pizza from Dominos and having the machine telling me to add a tip, it's like... uh, no.

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I would never leave huge tips, even if I was wealthy.

why??? genuinely asking, not trying to be snarky or anything.

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