MVP Meeting this week!

[Quantrill]

If the service is good, tip good.  If it's poor, tip poor.  If it's excellent, tip excellent.  It's my opinion that tips are based on quality of service.  If other people choose different methods (a flat rate, how much $ they have left, etc...) that is certainly their prerogative.

As for the meeting tomorrow, sadly I will not be in attendance.  Hope the open carry goes off without a hitch and lots of pictures are taken!

[toowm]

My "normal" tip is 15% before taxes, rounded up to the next whole dollar on the bill. Gives me a chance to quickly scan a credit card statement. My former employer bounced back any tips over 20%, which I do for exceptional service.

I guess my Midwestern roots are showing; 18% sounds high for normal service. But I can adjust for an exceptional establishment, as well.

[d_goddard]

My former employer bounced back any tips over 20%, which I do for exceptional service.

I often tip 20% or more when traveling, and simply pay the tip out-of-pocket cash for that very reason.

[Rosie the Riveter]

All this tip talk is very interesting.

I always get great service @ murphy's -- I also always try to learn the servers name and smile and make lots of eye contact while talking to them.

Example, I was wandering without a table @ murphy's on tues. and my favorite frequent server noticed me and offered to get my drinks and hold a tab open for me.... Could it be that I am friendly and a good tipper? I'm not sure usually a handsome guy pays my bill 

I hope everyone has fun with the open carry parade 

PS I would appreciate an owner asking me about the quality of the service if I left a small tip or no tip at all b/c if I did that I know  I'd have something to share with him.

[Lloyd Danforth]

  If it's poor, tip poor.

As I posted earlier, I aim for 20% due to my cab driving and pizza delivering careers. I used to have a wife.  She was a tightwad, but, after spending time with me and doing some waitressing, she got used to the tipping.
We spent some months in the southwest. While having breakfast in the Bright Angel Restaurant at the Grand Canyon she was given a mushroom omelet with canned mushrooms that didn't  taste good. She asked the waitress to take it back and either she or the kitchen refused, I can't remember. Svenja said she would be damned if she would leave a tip.  I pointed out that she would be more likely to remember us if we left a 3 cent tip.  I had already noticed that she had a fixed number of tables she 'served' and as bad as I felt for the people waiting to get in we, hung around and occupied the table for quite a bit longer, left the 3 cent tip and walked out for a hike down into the canyon

[mvpel]

Maybe you should start "The Ivy League Waitstaff School" and charge a hefty tuition...

[Dave Ridley]

Not to get this thread back on topic or anything...

Ridley said he wanted to do an open carry parade on elm street before the meeting.  Is anyone going to join him?

actually i just said i was willing to participate, it's not my idea and i wasn't planning to organizg anythinlg

i'm just plannin on showin up as usual

[Rochelle]

This thread makes me wish I got tips.

Sucky customers? Yes, I get them.

No motivation to serve them again when they come in? Yes, I get that.

No additional monetary compensation when I do give kickass service? Check.

I did have a really sweet old lady customer today. She was so wonderful and awesome I helped her with every thing she asked...she was just that nice and appreciative. Not all tips are monetary Just having someone be nice and friendly for a change is a big morale booster.

That was the whole point. Smiley If an attorney can't afford an 18-20% tip...

Hmm, I didn't get the impression Malum was actually a practicing lawyer?

And if I can't afford the tip, I can't afford to go out to eat...which in the Northeast costs an arm and a leg anyway. 

[Rochelle]

Oh, and I just had to comment:  nope!  Cooking is not a job, it's a passion!!!   Grin  And you all MUST buy my cookbook when I publish it!  hehehee!!

From what I've smelled you're quite good at it!

[CNHT]

b) NHLA at the Loudon International Speedway on September 16th

The 16th is the RP straw poll in Manchester but with a sign wave in the AM along the road to NHIS. People can work Saturday the 15th if they want, at NASCAR.

Then we also need tons of bodies for this stuff although the weekend of the 15-16 is shaping up:

http://www.nhlibertycalendar.org/promotional.php

[Tom Sawyer]

Hey Ratty Dog  I almost always enjoy your posts.

Don't waste any time on this guy... just another masterdebater that isn't even intending to come join the effort.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Ditto

[Nat F]

Just wanted to say I had a great time at my first MVP meeting today.  I got to put faces with a bunch of names here and elsewhere and enjoy the company of fellow liberty minded folks.  For those who I didn't get a chance to talk to I was the really big guy in the blue polo style shirt with a goatee.  I'm looking forward to meeting more of you.

-Nat

[Russell Kanning]

cool

I missed another new mover .... maybe next time

[Rochelle]

Well, one thing that seems almost guaranteed is that we will always have new movers