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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: the podcast on Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant
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Speaker 1: and uh, this is stuff you should know the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever waited tables? I did notice? Awful? How
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Speaker 1: long did you do it? I did it often on
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Speaker 1: for many years, but man, I was Yeah, I waited
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Speaker 1: tables for many years as well, in many uh several
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Speaker 1: different states, in different many different kinds of restaurants. So
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Speaker 1: I have a pretty wide range of experience with being tipped.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing? It's great? Now? Are you? Are
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Speaker 1: you trying to hurry this along? Here's a tip for
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Speaker 1: for for me to you steer clear that O J?
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Speaker 1: Guy pal, oh J. Simpson. Yeah, there's from a Dave
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Speaker 1: Letterman top ten from the nineties something about tipping, and
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Speaker 1: one of them was like, here's a tips, steer clear
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Speaker 1: of that, o J. Fellow Pal, I'm glad we're staying
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Speaker 1: relevant as always. I'm not trying to move it on.
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Speaker 1: I just thought, since you said he didn't have an intro,
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Speaker 1: I would document a little bit of my history as
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Speaker 1: a waiter, and he did great man. Remember what's his name,
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Speaker 1: the guy from Scrubs and Gardens State. For some reason,
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Speaker 1: I always think he was perfect at being that waiter.
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Speaker 1: For some reason, it was just like whenever I think
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Speaker 1: of waiters and then I think of l A, I
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Speaker 1: think of that character. Yeah, the scene at the beginning
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Speaker 1: and the end of it. I think that was really
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Speaker 1: based on his experience as a waiter. He wore a
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Speaker 1: lot of eyeliner in the early two thousand. Guyliner. So
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Speaker 1: what that's called? You never heard that phrase? No? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Uh so tipping, Josh, this was You've been pushing this
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Speaker 1: one for a while and it never got done for
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Speaker 1: various reason. And I'm glad we got around to it
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Speaker 1: because I will be one that people it's ubiquitous and
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Speaker 1: we'll get tons and tons of email about this, I
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Speaker 1: guarantee it. Yeah, and it's gonna be helpful because in
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Speaker 1: several points we tell you to go to trip Advisor
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Speaker 1: to look up tipping customs. So yeah, that's helpful. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's hard to cover tipping customs because they're different everywhere
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Speaker 1: and for each job, and it's gets so overwhelming you
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Speaker 1: just have to end up saying hey, if you're going
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Speaker 1: to this country, look it up, or apparently you need
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Speaker 1: to go through life like Jimmy Conway and Goodfellas and
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Speaker 1: tip absolutely every single person you see your mechanic. Did
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Speaker 1: you see that? Did you know you're supposed to tip
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Speaker 1: your mechanic bucks or more for jobs like, Hey, thanks
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Speaker 1: for overcharging me and exploiting my ignorance of my car
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Speaker 1: and how it functions. Here's an extra twenty bucks your mechanic. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: you know what since you brought that up. Uh, there
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Speaker 1: was a saw on ad you see questionnaire is tipping
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Speaker 1: out of control? And of people say it is. I disagree,
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Speaker 1: you don't think it's out of control. After reading this,
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Speaker 1: I was like, man, I'm way cheaper than I realized. Um,
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Speaker 1: and this is just a question I thought was interesting.
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Speaker 1: What services bother you the most that you were obliged
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Speaker 1: to tip? Of people said bathroom attendance. Oh, I don't
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Speaker 1: tip them. That's at the top of my list. I
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Speaker 1: don't want a bathroom attendance. Well, yeah, I can get
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Speaker 1: my own. Well it makes me want to not watch
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Speaker 1: my hands. It makes me just want to get out
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Speaker 1: of there. Uh. Take out food tipping it irks people
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Speaker 1: to pay for like when you get a takeout order,
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Speaker 1: like when you go there and they just turn around
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Speaker 1: and get your food and handed to you in a
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Speaker 1: bag you like when you call it in, I do?
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Speaker 1: Do you really? Yeah? Okay? What else? Salons? Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: of people don't like tipping the salon because women say
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Speaker 1: it's just endless because you gotta tip your colors and
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Speaker 1: the people who I can see that. And then the
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Speaker 1: tip jars at coffee houses. I rarely patronize those as well,
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Speaker 1: coffee houses or tip jars, And the reason being is, um,
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Speaker 1: I I'm sure I will be taken to task for this.
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Speaker 1: I don't think people in coffee houses are paid the
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Speaker 1: tipped wage. They're not, so I looked at it. I
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Speaker 1: might as well walk around with the tip jar and
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Speaker 1: ask people to give me their change. I'll even wear
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Speaker 1: a change belt. How about that. Don't make it easier
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Speaker 1: on you? Well, why would you even have a tip
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Speaker 1: jar there if you're not getting paid the tipped wage.
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Speaker 1: That brings up a big point because that is a
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Speaker 1: big controversy. People at Starbucks start out about eight fifty
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Speaker 1: to nine bucks an hour. Is that that's a minimum
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Speaker 1: wage that's above the minimum wage just I think is
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Speaker 1: a minimum wage. Now the tipped the Fair Standards and
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Speaker 1: Labor Act, the minimum federal hourly wage for tipped employees
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Speaker 1: is yes, yes, those people although usually getting tipped. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't know not necessarily. No. Well, most states have
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Speaker 1: their own and it's more than two thirteen. I didn't
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Speaker 1: get that most states too. I know. The pinnacle is
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Speaker 1: Colorado and they have like a minimum tipped wage of
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Speaker 1: four thirteen an hour, and that's what everybody's like, Wow,
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Speaker 1: Colorado is really killing it. UM. I know here in
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Speaker 1: Georgia it's the it's the federal minimum. And there's a
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Speaker 1: group called fairy eats dot org that's dedicated to UM
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Speaker 1: shaming restaurants that that just adhere to that by celebrating
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Speaker 1: restaurants that pay their employees more than the minimum federal
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Speaker 1: minimum tipped wage. Well, you're supposed to make up the
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Speaker 1: difference as a restaurant from what employees claim to the
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Speaker 1: I r S and their tipped money. If that doesn't
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Speaker 1: equal minimum wage, then the restaurateur is supposed to make
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Speaker 1: up that difference in wages. I would I would wager
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Speaker 1: that that does not happen. Well, I would wager that
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Speaker 1: not many tipped employees are reporting all of their tips either.
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Speaker 1: It's true too, so it's kind of like you have to,
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Speaker 1: you have to, and then both just kind of storm
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Speaker 1: away disgruntled. But you don't tip McDonald's and for the
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Speaker 1: same reason I don't tip people at coffee houses because
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Speaker 1: it's the same thing. You are putting your my order
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Speaker 1: in right into a cash register or cash register computing machine, um,
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Speaker 1: and you're turning around and grabbing my coffee or my
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Speaker 1: my fries or whatever, right, And I'm not demeaning or
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Speaker 1: diminishing that job whatsoever, Like I'm very happy that you're
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Speaker 1: doing that because I really want that. And you're standing
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Speaker 1: between me and the fries, right, so hand him over.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you this money. But you make like maybe
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Speaker 1: you got health benefits. Sucks. So in my opinion, we
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Speaker 1: can either entirely do away with tipping by raising everybody
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Speaker 1: to at least the minimum wage, and while we're at it,
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Speaker 1: let's also maybe double the minimum wage because it's laughable.
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Speaker 1: Will still right, um, and just do away with tipping,
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Speaker 1: just go totally Japan, or or we need to really
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Speaker 1: make it clear who's depending on tips and who's not,
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Speaker 1: And these jokers at coffee houses need to get rid
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Speaker 1: of the tip jar and they need to stop calling
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Speaker 1: it karma, which I think we went over in the
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Speaker 1: Karma karmajar or whatever. Yeah, that's kind of that's that's
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Speaker 1: so aggressive guilty, you think. All right, So that was
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Speaker 1: our intro tipping. So let's talk about where this often
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Speaker 1: vilely exploited act came from. Chuck, go ahead, Well, I
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Speaker 1: feel like I was on a rant. I was too.
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Speaker 1: I'm just joking, okay. Um, Well, let's see. Tipping they
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Speaker 1: think has its origins in about the sixteenth century in Europe,
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Speaker 1: where if you went and visited a friend, a relative
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Speaker 1: of colleague, you went to their house. Uh, you would
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Speaker 1: often tip their servants, especially if you got really drunk
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Speaker 1: and soiled yourself and they cleaned you up. You might
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Speaker 1: be like, here's a couple of pieces of gold, let's
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Speaker 1: just keep this between you and me, okay, and they would,
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Speaker 1: and over time it became much less of a way
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Speaker 1: to um show your appreciation as something that was expected
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Speaker 1: and depended on. Right. Once you start kind of giving
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Speaker 1: money in a customary manner, people start to include that
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Speaker 1: in their budgets, right, Um, So they think that that's
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Speaker 1: possibly where the custom came from, Right Yeah. I don't
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Speaker 1: even think that this acronym thing is even valid at all. No,
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Speaker 1: and it's not. There's a guy named Steve Doblonica who's
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Speaker 1: written books on tipping, and he's got some pretty good
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Speaker 1: research down. And you want to say the acronym uh
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Speaker 1: t I P two in ensure with an eye promptness,
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Speaker 1: but that's just there's no no, because number one acronyms
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Speaker 1: didn't really come into use until the nineteen twenties. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they weren't using acronyms in the sixteenth century. And the
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Speaker 1: word tip itself has been around for long before that.
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Speaker 1: And like you said, it should be it shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: tipped ensure with an eye, it should be ensure with
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Speaker 1: an E. So there's a lot wrong with that. What
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Speaker 1: they think is that tipping um originally came from the
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Speaker 1: uh this kind of word among thieves, which is how
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Speaker 1: we use it today, like you tip somebody off, that
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Speaker 1: it basically to give something right, and it was just
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Speaker 1: basically common thieves slang um. But then the act of
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Speaker 1: tipping itself also came from either the servants from tipping servants,
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Speaker 1: or it also was it grew out of giving money
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Speaker 1: to somebody who worked at the bar to buy their
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Speaker 1: own drink as well. Get a drink for yourself on me.
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Speaker 1: And in fact, the word tip in Slavic languages translates
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Speaker 1: roughly to drinking money. I like that one. The word
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Speaker 1: for tip in French is poor beer pour boi, which
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Speaker 1: means for drinking and um. Basically everywhere else except in English,
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Speaker 1: the word tip means drinking money. So that's probably where
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Speaker 1: tipping came from. I like that origin. Here, I'm having
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Speaker 1: a good time, I had a few drinks. Go by
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Speaker 1: yourself one exactly, it's just spreading the joy. Or I'm
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Speaker 1: at my buddy's house and I've drank until I soiled myself.
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Speaker 1: Here's some money for cleaning me up last night. I
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I don't know about the train spotting the
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Speaker 1: origin of tipping. Yeah, so this is this is probably
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Speaker 1: where tipping came from. And uh, a little more history
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Speaker 1: if you don't mind chuckers um, you can pretty much
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Speaker 1: pinpoint how tipping became accustomed in the United States because
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Speaker 1: it was all a raged In Europe, it was not
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Speaker 1: caught on here in the US. Even though a lot
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Speaker 1: of wealthy Americans were traveling to Europe and coming back
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Speaker 1: and tipping, people were like, what are you doing? Like, sure,
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Speaker 1: give me your money, but I'm not gonna do the
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Speaker 1: same thing until the Pullman Company, the Pullman rail car company,
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Speaker 1: figured out that they could grossly underpay their porters by
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Speaker 1: publicizing that they relied on tips to survive. And basically
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Speaker 1: the Pullman Company cut almost three million dollars in the
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Speaker 1: in the like late nineteenth century, there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of money from their payroll by basically relying on their
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Speaker 1: customers good hearts to take care of their porters for him.
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Speaker 1: It is when you think about it in those terms,
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Speaker 1: it is sort of a dirty business. It's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we don't want to pay our employees. They're serving you,
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Speaker 1: so you pay them. But like you're the one reaping
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Speaker 1: all the reward of the five dollar cup of coffee,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, And a lot of
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Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants, or a lot of people in
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Speaker 1: the on the restaurant side of this debate, say, well,
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Speaker 1: if we start raising their wages to like the minimum wager,
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Speaker 1: even like double the tip wage, Um, we're gonna go
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Speaker 1: wonder And apparently some studies have found that that's actually
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Speaker 1: not the case that they can come out on top
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Speaker 1: because restaurant owners spend so much money on training through
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Speaker 1: turnover because the wages are so low that people just
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Speaker 1: hop from job the job wherever they can get the
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Speaker 1: most tips. If you can offer a higher stable wage,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have much less turnover and ultimately in the
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Speaker 1: long run, you may come out on top as a
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Speaker 1: restaurant owner. It's so interesting. Possibly that's one sign. You know,
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Speaker 1: who pays the customer? Yeah? Us, because middle class you
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Speaker 1: pay the five bucks for a cup of coffee, which
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Speaker 1: the company gets they don't have to pay. Well, they
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Speaker 1: do pay their employee minimum wage, but that ain't much
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Speaker 1: and then they get the little tip on top of
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Speaker 1: that and you end up paying six for your cup
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Speaker 1: of coffee. And you know what now that you're you're
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Speaker 1: bringing this up, you mean I were at Caribou and um,
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Speaker 1: they have I love Caribou coffee, right, But they had
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Speaker 1: this promo where it was like beans for the Troops
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Speaker 1: or something like that, and it was like, hey, go
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Speaker 1: ahead and uh and buy this this fifteen dollar pound
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Speaker 1: of coffee and we'll send them to the troops. And um,
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Speaker 1: we asked if they were selling them at a discount,
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Speaker 1: like if the Caribou was doing anything. They were like, no,
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Speaker 1: this is a regular price. And we're like, so wait
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Speaker 1: a minute, you're exploiting Americans affinity and affection for the
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Speaker 1: troops as a way to you know, beef up your
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Speaker 1: on ground bean sales. That was disgusting. If you ask me,
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Speaker 1: it happens. That's gross. At that board meeting is the
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Speaker 1: gross part where that's decided, you know, where we can
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Speaker 1: really reckon right, all right, I knew this would be
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Speaker 1: a lightning rod. This is just us are going to get. Ohoy, Well,
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Speaker 1: since you brought it up, it is a lightning rod. Period.
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Speaker 1: If you go on the internet and you start looking
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Speaker 1: about tipping, you will find two camps. People that work
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Speaker 1: for tips that are outraged that people don't want to
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Speaker 1: tip or the under tip, and then people that say
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Speaker 1: it is out of control. Every you know, you go
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Speaker 1: on a vacation, you staying in a hotel and need
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Speaker 1: a restaurants, you're Jimmy Conway. I again, like I was
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Speaker 1: reading this, I'm like, oh man, dude, do other people
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Speaker 1: tip all these people because I feel like a real
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Speaker 1: jerk in some of these cases I do, and I
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Speaker 1: end up feeling like a sucker. And then you know
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Speaker 1: what I thought. I was like, well, I never carry cash,
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Speaker 1: it's all plastic, so surely plastic leading to a decline
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Speaker 1: in tipping. I did a search for that. No, No,
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Speaker 1: All I could find was that most people carry plastic
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Speaker 1: and a little bit of currency for tips. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: oh man, I really have to get on the ball here.
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Speaker 1: All right. They've actually done a lot of studying about tips. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: why do we do this? That's the psychology tipping, as
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Speaker 1: it were, Well, um, one is out of guilt. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: wasn't that one of the reasons. Uh well yeah not supposedly.
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Speaker 1: If you think about tipping, the whole idea is that
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Speaker 1: you're doing it out of gratitude, like you did a
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Speaker 1: really good job, and I want to make sure that
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Speaker 1: you have, um, this extra little bit go buy yourself
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Speaker 1: something nice on me, or I want to ensure because
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Speaker 1: I come back to you that I will get same
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Speaker 1: service when I come back. Right, So really it's um
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Speaker 1: what they're finding is that it's guilt and fear, Like
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Speaker 1: you know that people rely on these tips, and part
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Speaker 1: of your role as customer in some circumstances is to
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Speaker 1: pay these people their salary that they're depending on the tips.
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Speaker 1: Or you're afraid that they're gonna pe in your soup
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Speaker 1: and you're basically saying, here's some money, um, please don't
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Speaker 1: pe in my soup, and they say, all right, that
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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. That that that takes care of
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Speaker 1: the no pea soup levy. Yeah, but the tip comes
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Speaker 1: after the soup. Yeah, but you may be back there again, okay, right, Yes.
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Speaker 1: The Center pro Hospitality at Cornell University, UH, they've done
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Speaker 1: some research there and I thought this was fairly interesting.
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Speaker 1: They found the US leads the world in uh being
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Speaker 1: neurotic and being extroverted, and those are two traits that
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Speaker 1: lead to big tips because you're neurotic, so you feel like,
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Speaker 1: of course I have to leave. You know. Any and
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Speaker 1: has ever seen the Curb Your Enthusiasm tip episode? That's
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Speaker 1: like tipping neuroticism and its finest portrayed. You want to
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Speaker 1: tip as much as your friend. You don't want to undertip.
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Speaker 1: You want to tip just you don't want to overtip.
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Speaker 1: You want to tip just the right amount. I don't
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Speaker 1: mind over tipping, especially when it's like it's really good service,
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Speaker 1: Like I'm happy to overtip, and I prefer to air
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Speaker 1: on the side of overtipping. For sure. Extroverts are outgoing
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Speaker 1: social folks, and they see it as an incentive to
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Speaker 1: get a little extra attention, like make a big show
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Speaker 1: about me, party of Benjamin, party of four, Benjamin Franklin,
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Speaker 1: party of four. I never heard that. Yeah, Uman's got
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Speaker 1: a story about this one. Dude, Wow, you won't tell it. Well,
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Speaker 1: that was pretty much it. They were she and her
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Speaker 1: boyfriend at the time and his friend were at this
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Speaker 1: restaurant and um, the guy actually said uh Franklin party
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Speaker 1: of four, and she said it worked. She couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: She was like, I felt bad about the guy we
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Speaker 1: were with and the guy who took the money, but
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Speaker 1: it was a good, interesting, good meal. I've never agreased
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Speaker 1: to palm for like a table. I haven't either. That's
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Speaker 1: a good move, though I wish I'd like to do that.
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Speaker 1: It is, but really it's kind of like, man, you
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Speaker 1: you give up a lot of any claim to the
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Speaker 1: even if you don't make that much money. If you're
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Speaker 1: walking around doing stuff like that. You know, speaking of
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Speaker 1: did you see the internet meme going around about the tipper, yes,
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Speaker 1: which apparently is totally unfounded. Now I don't. I think
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Speaker 1: it's sort of unfounded. I thought he was a tipper.
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Speaker 1: He's a one percent temper because he is part of
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Speaker 1: the one percent. And from what I understood was the
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Speaker 1: tip was real, but what he wrote on there was fabricated. Well,
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Speaker 1: or that they didn't even know for sure he was
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Speaker 1: a banker, then the whole thing is fabricated. I did
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Speaker 1: see that though. By the way I mean this, this
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Speaker 1: is breaking news, is like yesterday for four weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: So can we go back some some of the interesting
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Speaker 1: studies about how you get good tips. This is Josh
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Speaker 1: and Chucks. If you're a waiter or a waitron, here
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Speaker 1: are our tips for you to increase your tips and restaurant.
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Speaker 1: This isn't just us in our observations. This is again
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Speaker 1: Cornell has put a lot of thought and energy into it.
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Speaker 1: I believe in real research. There's been a lot of
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Speaker 1: studies about how and why we tip. One of them
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Speaker 1: is touching, Like if you are a server and you
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Speaker 1: touch the your customer, you will increase your tip and
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Speaker 1: it's not just lonely horny men. Um Men and women
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Speaker 1: of all ages um will increase their tip with just
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Speaker 1: a brief touch on the shoulder from eleven point eight
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Speaker 1: percent to fourteen point eight percent. I, however, do not
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Speaker 1: like to be touched. I don't either. I'm glad you
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Speaker 1: said that the other day and I was just like, like,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? It didn't freak me out, like
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Speaker 1: it's not something I don't know. You you don't know me.
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Speaker 1: Let's just keep our hands theirselves, okay, and then we'll
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Speaker 1: see where your tip goes. Did his tip go down? No,
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Speaker 1: of course not. You should have punished him severely. How
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Speaker 1: god do you so much? Former waiter guilt tip on
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Speaker 1: bad service as long I do. As long as you
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Speaker 1: have the right attitude, that makes the biggest difference. If
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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, really sorry and it was bad service
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Speaker 1: and you said I'm sorry, guys, I you know I
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Speaker 1: let you down the night, unless you're being manipulative by
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Speaker 1: doing that, and you really just couldn't have cared less
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Speaker 1: you phoned it in and then you said, oh really sorry,
19:33
Speaker 1: I can't too. Yeah, intentions go a long way with me,
19:37
Speaker 1: all right. Squatting and This was my big move when
19:40
Speaker 1: I was a waiter because at my at my at
19:43
Speaker 1: the nice restaurant I worked at, it was my big move.
19:46
Speaker 1: I would kneel down next to the table A lot
19:48
Speaker 1: of times. You get that eye contact going on, and
19:51
Speaker 1: your tips are gonna go up from fourteen point nine
19:54
Speaker 1: percent to seventeen point five. Okay. I would also like
19:58
Speaker 1: to add a caveat to this. However, if you actually
20:00
Speaker 1: get into the booth or take a seat at the table,
20:04
Speaker 1: you've crossed the line. Well I I used to do
20:06
Speaker 1: that at Mexicali, though, but that was a college atmosphere
20:09
Speaker 1: and that that would be acceptable at certain times. You've
20:13
Speaker 1: been in college at Mexicali. No, no, no, that was
20:15
Speaker 1: over the line. No no, no, no. It was fun
20:18
Speaker 1: girls drinking margharita's. I would sit down and flirt and
20:22
Speaker 1: would your tip go up? Yeah, and occasionally would get
20:25
Speaker 1: a phone number out of it. Oh and free margarita
20:28
Speaker 1: that that well I had. I worked there. I got
20:30
Speaker 1: all the free margarities I want them. I didn't realize
20:32
Speaker 1: they gave free margarita to employees at MEXICALI. Well they
20:35
Speaker 1: didn't officially anywhere supposed to have them. While you're working
20:39
Speaker 1: either those were the old days. Giving candy to uh
20:45
Speaker 1: to your customer will jump your tip up from fifteen
20:47
Speaker 1: point one to seventeen point eight. Giving two pieces of candy,
20:52
Speaker 1: one initially and one spontaneously like here have another jumped
20:57
Speaker 1: it from nineteen percent to twenty one point six percent.
21:00
Speaker 1: So long as you didn't end it with chumps. I'm
21:03
Speaker 1: sorry that jumped it when it was the spontaneous secondaries
21:07
Speaker 1: chumps by being like, oh, well, you know what here
21:10
Speaker 1: take two and we're talking like the starlight peppermints here, Okay,
21:14
Speaker 1: it's not like good dive at chocolate. Yes, thank you
21:19
Speaker 1: for rescuing me, because I almost said snickers. I'd be
21:22
Speaker 1: nice too. I had a waitress recently give Emily and
21:25
Speaker 1: I the pen that she gave us to sign the
21:29
Speaker 1: bill with because I'm a big pen guy, so as
21:32
Speaker 1: Emily and as far as having like the perfect pen,
21:35
Speaker 1: and I signed things like, oh my god, feel this
21:37
Speaker 1: pin and it was a combination of the pin on
21:40
Speaker 1: that that slimy paper that they give you and it
21:43
Speaker 1: was amazing. And Emily said something that she was like,
21:46
Speaker 1: I agree. I keep them in my car so much.
21:48
Speaker 1: Go ahead and keep that one and how much of
21:51
Speaker 1: a tip you leave her? I left her my pen.
21:54
Speaker 1: No I'm kidding. Oh yeah, sure I tipped her. No,
21:59
Speaker 1: it's always like, so the highest you goes twenty five. Yeah,
22:05
Speaker 1: I mean I I go, I go twenty, and I
22:07
Speaker 1: round up. No matter what I noticed, especially before the
22:12
Speaker 1: um uh well, no, I guess it would have been
22:16
Speaker 1: even after the economic collapse, the global catastrophe that we're
22:20
Speaker 1: in the midst of. Still um that it was moving
22:24
Speaker 1: very clearly towards across the board was the new percent,
22:30
Speaker 1: and then the economic meltdown happened, and all of a sudden,
22:33
Speaker 1: now it's back to fifteen percent and percent if you're
22:35
Speaker 1: doing good. It seems like, am I wrong? Am I
22:39
Speaker 1: just fantasizing here? No? I think it used to be ten,
22:41
Speaker 1: that it was like twelve and fifteen and then twenty
22:43
Speaker 1: and then Yeah, you're right, with the economic crisis. I
22:46
Speaker 1: did read articles that people said, our tips are going down.
22:48
Speaker 1: But it's a collective movement, you know what I'm saying, Like,
22:51
Speaker 1: you can be the nice guy in tip twenty all
22:53
Speaker 1: the time or whatever, but you're also kind of pushing
22:56
Speaker 1: everybody else forward by doing that. Yeah. I also did
22:59
Speaker 1: the deal to you where you know you go out
23:01
Speaker 1: with certain people and you wh whoa, whoa? What does
23:07
Speaker 1: that mean? I've got like eight different homes. I don't
23:09
Speaker 1: want I don't want to call out any any person
23:12
Speaker 1: or even are you talking about a specific buddy of yours? No,
23:15
Speaker 1: not buddy, just you know, could be family members, could
23:17
Speaker 1: be certain friends, just you know, when someone picks up
23:20
Speaker 1: the tab, I always do the thing where I look
23:22
Speaker 1: to make sure that they were properly compensated. Then on
23:24
Speaker 1: the way and I was like, oh, I gotta use
23:26
Speaker 1: the bathroom. I'm gonna put more money in there. Oh
23:28
Speaker 1: you're an underminer. Huh yeah. Because certain people. Oh man,
23:32
Speaker 1: I wish I could say who. I had a friend
23:35
Speaker 1: whose father was in a very rich dude, and he
23:39
Speaker 1: was a bad tipper and embarrassed the crud out of
23:41
Speaker 1: me when we would go to these nice places and
23:43
Speaker 1: he would pick up the tab and leave like a
23:45
Speaker 1: eight to tip. And so I always need to bring
23:47
Speaker 1: cash to leave in the thing. Jared Hess's dad. No, No, uh,
23:55
Speaker 1: all right, so that's it. How to increase your tips? Oh?
23:57
Speaker 1: Tell him it's sunny outside. Yeah. The psychology of weather
24:01
Speaker 1: strikes again, where the study was conducted where if m
24:05
Speaker 1: a in a windowless room, right, yeah, uh, if the
24:09
Speaker 1: waiter described it as being rainy out, the tips were
24:12
Speaker 1: something like nineteent. This isn't too bad. But if the
24:15
Speaker 1: waiters like, oh, it's so sunny and beautiful out, then
24:18
Speaker 1: tips average. So squat at the table, touch him on
24:23
Speaker 1: the shoulder, give him candy, Give him candy, and then
24:26
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you've got two pieces of candy,
24:28
Speaker 1: and uh, give good service, and then tell them it's
24:31
Speaker 1: sunny outside and you will be rolling in the dead
24:34
Speaker 1: makes like a million dollars table, thank us later, and
24:37
Speaker 1: tip on the original amount. By the way, that's a
24:40
Speaker 1: waiter thing. It's a big one. If you if you
24:41
Speaker 1: got coupons or you do the scout mob thing, be
24:44
Speaker 1: aware that you're you should tip on the original amount.
24:46
Speaker 1: You kind of have to. It's not the waiter's fault.
24:49
Speaker 1: You had a coupon. Yeah, I mean that is really
24:51
Speaker 1: bad if you don't know that at this point, especially
24:53
Speaker 1: with how ubiquitous those those deals are getting these days.
24:57
Speaker 1: You know, um, but chuck. On the other hand, you
25:02
Speaker 1: can make a pretty strong argument that, um, if you
25:05
Speaker 1: order a hundred dollar bottle of wine. Do you that? So? Why? Why? Yeah? Why?
25:15
Speaker 1: I like some nice wine, and that is a bone
25:20
Speaker 1: of contention that I swallow, and I just still tip
25:22
Speaker 1: on the total amount. But yeah, you're right if you
25:25
Speaker 1: let's say you just order a bottle of wine, like meaningmly,
25:28
Speaker 1: we're just gonna go have a bottle of wine one
25:29
Speaker 1: night because we ate dinner somewhere else, or maybe we
25:32
Speaker 1: gotta have dessert somewhere and we get a nice bottle
25:34
Speaker 1: of port and it's like eighty bucks. You guys drink
25:38
Speaker 1: a whole bottle of port, And no, of course not.
25:41
Speaker 1: Let's say with a group or whatever, we drink a
25:42
Speaker 1: whole bottle of port, a group of what like twenty
25:47
Speaker 1: you're drinking a whole bottle of drinking glass of port,
25:50
Speaker 1: and there's like five glass like that small, it's like
25:53
Speaker 1: a regular wine glass. What do you drink brandy like that? No,
25:57
Speaker 1: because that's liquor poored is wine? No, brandy is a
26:00
Speaker 1: type of wine anyway, do you you're like Homer Simpson
26:06
Speaker 1: when he was baby sending Mr Burns house when he
26:09
Speaker 1: like pours himself like a whole sniffer brandy and drinks
26:12
Speaker 1: the whole thing and when when gulp and then just
26:14
Speaker 1: falls right over. My friend Timmy's wife one time asked
26:17
Speaker 1: for a bourbon on the rocks at her house, and
26:19
Speaker 1: she bought me like seven ounces of bourbon on the rocks,
26:23
Speaker 1: and I was like, what are you trying to do
26:25
Speaker 1: to me? That's awesome? No, but porchs not. You're not
26:27
Speaker 1: supposed to be a little It's not like sambuca. I
26:29
Speaker 1: mean ports like a regular glass of wine. Right, I'm
26:33
Speaker 1: mistaken then, because every place I go they pour your regular,
26:36
Speaker 1: regular glass. No it's a little tiny like it's like
26:38
Speaker 1: a cordial wine glass. No, no, no, no, no, I promise,
26:41
Speaker 1: all right, you're gonna be wrong regardless. You drink expensive
26:45
Speaker 1: wine and how how much do you tip? Well, But
26:48
Speaker 1: it does cross my mind, like, man, I'm giving this
26:50
Speaker 1: guy like fourteen dollars for bringing me a bottle of wine.
26:54
Speaker 1: It's a good point, and I think even the average
26:56
Speaker 1: server would grudgingly agree. Okay, all right, maybe maybe not
27:01
Speaker 1: this one. But it's not just the waiter that you
27:03
Speaker 1: want to tip in the restaurant, surprise, surprise. Depending on
27:06
Speaker 1: where you go, you need to be prepared to tip
27:09
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Yeah, that the person who see
27:12
Speaker 1: it's a really nice place the matri d. If the
27:14
Speaker 1: matri d goes out of his way, um to get
27:16
Speaker 1: you a very nice table, or you feel like he's
27:18
Speaker 1: he or she is doing something um very just kind
27:22
Speaker 1: of above and beyond, you might want to slip from
27:24
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty bucks. There's a lot also if the
27:29
Speaker 1: Somalia comes over to your table and tells you a
27:32
Speaker 1: bit about the wines, especially if you solicited this advice. Yea.
27:37
Speaker 1: In reading this article, I realized that I have stiffed
27:39
Speaker 1: at least one Somalia in my life, and now I
27:41
Speaker 1: understand why he's looking at me weird when he finished.
27:44
Speaker 1: Um uh, you you want to give them anywhere from
27:48
Speaker 1: ten to twenty bucks, depending on how in depth the
27:51
Speaker 1: recommendation is. And usually when you're talking tips at least
27:54
Speaker 1: in this article that we're working from from how stuff
27:57
Speaker 1: Works dot com, um, there's a eyeing a low yeah,
28:02
Speaker 1: And it's basically the discrepancy is based on just how
28:05
Speaker 1: much effort this person is putting into it, how much enthusiasm, um,
28:10
Speaker 1: but and just how much out of their out of
28:12
Speaker 1: the way of their normal duties are they going. See
28:14
Speaker 1: here's my deal, dude, I don't want a big show.
28:17
Speaker 1: I want genuine good service and and to be left
28:20
Speaker 1: alone because you you can. The tip won't go down
28:23
Speaker 1: because I just have the guilt. But you can go
28:25
Speaker 1: down in my mind if you're just too like, just
28:30
Speaker 1: too much, don't work too hard, don't give me a
28:32
Speaker 1: big show. Apparently they can do whatever they want to
28:35
Speaker 1: and they're still gonna get the same amount of money.
28:37
Speaker 1: Do you know what, chuck? You know where you would
28:39
Speaker 1: do well, then buffet's. At a buffet, you serve yourself
28:44
Speaker 1: and you just leave your plate and it mysteriously vanishes.
28:47
Speaker 1: But that's a person behind the kidnapping of that plate,
28:50
Speaker 1: and you want to leave them about ten percent as
28:52
Speaker 1: the recommendation, So you want to leave them thirty five
28:55
Speaker 1: cents at your buffet. I don't go to buffet's, but yeah,
28:59
Speaker 1: if you don't go to buffet, No, I don't understand
29:02
Speaker 1: the existence of cafeterias. Since there's buffets, it's the same
29:07
Speaker 1: exact thing, except buffets are all you can eat, and
29:10
Speaker 1: cafeterias like, here's a little ramikin of the same thing
29:12
Speaker 1: you can have ten helpings of if you want for
29:14
Speaker 1: the same price. Well, you don't see a lot of
29:16
Speaker 1: cafeterias anymore, you do, you do? Yeah, there's at least
29:19
Speaker 1: as many cafeterias as there are buffets. Oh no, yeah,
29:23
Speaker 1: I think the Chinese food restaurants have made that a
29:26
Speaker 1: null and void comment. The Chinese food Okay, alright, so
29:31
Speaker 1: though they exist outside of this realm, I'm talking more
29:33
Speaker 1: like country cook and buffets. Yeah, yeah, there's almost one
29:36
Speaker 1: for one all right. Uh. And by the way, most
29:40
Speaker 1: most nicer restaurants pulled their tips. Um like in Mexicality
29:44
Speaker 1: was every man for himself. You know, the bus boy
29:47
Speaker 1: didn't get tips or actually we kind of bust our
29:49
Speaker 1: own tables. But most restaurants will pull their tips in
29:53
Speaker 1: the the that's usually not a matre d at that point.
29:57
Speaker 1: It's just the host or hostess they'll get a cut,
30:00
Speaker 1: and like the bartender and the bus boy, they'll they'll
30:02
Speaker 1: get dishwasher. They'll all get a cut. So just remember that.
30:07
Speaker 1: But some places it's every man for himself too. Uh.
30:09
Speaker 1: If speaking of bartenders, you are at a bar, I
30:13
Speaker 1: usually tip a buck of drink for the first few drinks.
30:15
Speaker 1: That's what I do. Unless it's a very if it's
30:18
Speaker 1: like a complex, complicated drink, which I tend to prefer um.
30:23
Speaker 1: It will be like a percentage to the bill. If
30:25
Speaker 1: there's really muddling going on. Yes, once you start muddling,
30:28
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, here's some extra money. I don't
30:30
Speaker 1: tip on the bill because I will usually just say
30:33
Speaker 1: give us six BBRs for my friends and I and
30:36
Speaker 1: we then tip a bucket. Even if the beer is
30:39
Speaker 1: a dollar, I'll give a dollar. It's very nice of you,
30:41
Speaker 1: you know, because it's like, what am I gonna like
30:43
Speaker 1: fish around for fifteen cents? That's just ridiculous. But you
30:48
Speaker 1: know we're rich, we're high rollers. You're tipping a buck
30:52
Speaker 1: a buck for a dollar? Beer chuck wow? Podcasting business Uh.
30:58
Speaker 1: Cafes and coffee houses. I think we kind of covered that.
31:02
Speaker 1: I tend to tip out of guilt there. But I
31:04
Speaker 1: don't go to a lot of coffee shops because I
31:05
Speaker 1: don't drink a lot of coffees. Do you really see
31:07
Speaker 1: look those guys in the eyes while I'm not tipping them.
31:11
Speaker 1: Do you what the worst is? Checking out the grocery store,
31:13
Speaker 1: they're like, would you like to give a dollar to
31:15
Speaker 1: the you know whatever foundation? That's fifty fifty for me?
31:18
Speaker 1: Depending on my mood. Really yeah, I mean like I
31:22
Speaker 1: should do it every time, but um yeah, and that's
31:26
Speaker 1: sad that helping out kids with muscular distrophe is equated
31:29
Speaker 1: to tipping. Well it's not, but yeah, I know what
31:32
Speaker 1: you mean, um holiday tipping, which was a big part
31:36
Speaker 1: of that Curb Your Enthusiasm Enthusiasm episode when you do
31:40
Speaker 1: this when you were have money. I think it's generally
31:43
Speaker 1: for people that have a little more money and they
31:45
Speaker 1: live in places where they know the service people helping. Yeah,
31:48
Speaker 1: like they got the country club and the guy you
31:50
Speaker 1: know this and that. But you can deliver your newspaper
31:54
Speaker 1: or your garbage collector your newspaper delivery person. You can
31:58
Speaker 1: tip your mailman. My brother used to when he worked
32:01
Speaker 1: at uh the movie theaters would give every holidays he
32:04
Speaker 1: would give out movie tickets, yeah to like the mailman
32:09
Speaker 1: into the garbage person and stuff like that. Um, fifteen
32:12
Speaker 1: to twenty five bucks they say for your garbage collector,
32:16
Speaker 1: your dog walker, your nanny, your cleaning service, they say
32:20
Speaker 1: one week's pay. I save a lot of money every
32:22
Speaker 1: year by not having those people set up to tip them.
32:25
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, manicurist, you have manicurist supposed took them ten
32:29
Speaker 1: to fifty. I do. And you know the way around this,
32:32
Speaker 1: go to different manicurists every time, so that you're not
32:35
Speaker 1: you're not you're not a common enough customer that you
32:40
Speaker 1: feel like you need to tip them at the holidays.
32:42
Speaker 1: Hairdressers women obviously the ones who are probably been in
32:45
Speaker 1: the big bucks at the hairdresser, they say hundred and
32:48
Speaker 1: this is for the holidays. You understand, it's not each visit.
32:51
Speaker 1: This is hey, it's Christmas. You also have to tip
32:54
Speaker 1: them each visit. I get a fourteen dollar haircut, I
32:57
Speaker 1: tip six bucks? What well? Because what am I gonna
33:02
Speaker 1: give them? Nineteen dollars? Wow? Or two dollars? Okay? That
33:09
Speaker 1: just seems really cheap to me to say, like, thanks
33:11
Speaker 1: for the great haircut that's gonna last me three months.
33:13
Speaker 1: Here's eight quarters. Huh. I tipped my haircut lady all
33:20
Speaker 1: over the place. What I kisses and hugs stuff like that.
33:24
Speaker 1: You may cut your hair um hotels. Uh, you're This
33:29
Speaker 1: is something that I have just recently learned. I didn't
33:31
Speaker 1: know you're supposed to tip the maid service. I knew that,
33:36
Speaker 1: but I thought that was something from maybe the fifties.
33:38
Speaker 1: And that's how I like, um, comforted myself by not
33:41
Speaker 1: kipping the maids. But yeah, apparently we're supposed to be
33:44
Speaker 1: doing that a lot. One to ten dollars per night,
33:47
Speaker 1: depending on the mess you make. I am extremely clean
33:50
Speaker 1: and I clean up before I leave. It depends on
33:53
Speaker 1: if they change you, if you soiled yourself the night before.
33:57
Speaker 1: Bell hoops a dollar per bag if it's bull key
34:00
Speaker 1: and large or heavy and awkward, maybe a little bit
34:02
Speaker 1: more of that. Yeah, more than a buck That one
34:05
Speaker 1: I totally get. Still don't do it because I frequently
34:07
Speaker 1: don't use bell hoops to do it myself. But um,
34:10
Speaker 1: I hate that when they force you to like walk
34:12
Speaker 1: you into the room and show you around and stuff.
34:14
Speaker 1: I would much rather just carry my own bag, just
34:17
Speaker 1: give me my key card again with a big show.
34:19
Speaker 1: I don't want a big show, right Well apparently though,
34:22
Speaker 1: Remember that one study found that bell hops who do
34:25
Speaker 1: make a big show of things by showing people how
34:28
Speaker 1: to how to operate the thermostat on the TV and
34:30
Speaker 1: opening the drapes and offering to fill the ice bucket,
34:33
Speaker 1: they almost doubled their average tip. But I wonder if
34:36
Speaker 1: it was people who are like, here's some money, just
34:38
Speaker 1: please go away, which is one of the words is
34:42
Speaker 1: a tipping to remember, throwing money for uh concierge five
34:47
Speaker 1: to ten dollars depending on how helpful. Remember when we
34:51
Speaker 1: were at the Pittsburgh Fairmont and our buddy Chad give
34:54
Speaker 1: the concierge like ten bucks for a wreck and it
34:56
Speaker 1: turned out to be a bad recommendation and he was
34:58
Speaker 1: on man, he wanted his money back. What was the recommendation?
35:01
Speaker 1: I didn't go. I was eating Indian food by myself
35:03
Speaker 1: in my room. The whole thing. It was for a
35:05
Speaker 1: restaurant that was either closed or it was like it
35:08
Speaker 1: was just a bad tip. And he was like, did
35:11
Speaker 1: he get his money back? No, of course not. I'll
35:13
Speaker 1: bet he did not stop complaining about it. That he
35:17
Speaker 1: kept going and going. Uh. And I didn't know until recently,
35:21
Speaker 1: you're supposed to tip the concierge. I'm a dummy. I
35:24
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Well, I mean they help you out,
35:26
Speaker 1: and depending they were, how much help they are? Yeah,
35:30
Speaker 1: I mean like they concierge. And I've never had one
35:33
Speaker 1: do this for me. I've never really needed the services
35:35
Speaker 1: of concerts, but concierges can like really go to town.
35:40
Speaker 1: I'm making your life easy. They can get you tickets
35:44
Speaker 1: to a show, like all sorts of things. They can
35:47
Speaker 1: buy your kid a toy. If you're staying at a
35:49
Speaker 1: nice enough place, oh and you're busy or whatever shopping,
35:52
Speaker 1: the least they can find your shopper. This is, you
35:57
Speaker 1: know what, in the in the spirit of keeping the
36:01
Speaker 1: tradition of facts alive. I made that last part up,
36:04
Speaker 1: but it seems like a say that's something. Oh sure
36:06
Speaker 1: they would, okay, uh doorman, tip your doorman if they
36:10
Speaker 1: if they hell a taxi, tip them a buck. A
36:12
Speaker 1: lot of them aren't allowed to accept tips, so don't
36:14
Speaker 1: be surprised if they hand it back. Really all right,
36:18
Speaker 1: deliveries this is a big one for me. I get
36:20
Speaker 1: Chinese food delivery. It's about the only delivery I get.
36:23
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, maybe the occasional pizza where you order from.
36:26
Speaker 1: I order from a place indicator of Chinese food place. Yeah,
36:30
Speaker 1: it's good, but they take forever. Yeah. See, that'll cut
36:34
Speaker 1: down on a tip with me. Well, especially if I'm
36:37
Speaker 1: really hungry when I order. Yeah, we've learned to order
36:40
Speaker 1: before we're hungry from this place. It's smart like Tuesday,
36:43
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, they say to tip two to five bucks
36:46
Speaker 1: on your on your food delivery to your home, depending
36:48
Speaker 1: on the weather, m the amount of danger depending on
36:52
Speaker 1: the neighborhood you live in. Yeah, my neighborhood's dangerous. I
36:57
Speaker 1: was not talking about your neighborhood. It's really not that been.
37:00
Speaker 1: Flower deliveries one to ten bucks, depending on the arrangement.
37:03
Speaker 1: I spent a little time as a flower delivery person,
37:06
Speaker 1: and I can tell you that most people don't tip
37:09
Speaker 1: their flower delivery guy, even though they're bringing this bit
37:12
Speaker 1: of sunshine into your life. Assume that goes for fruit
37:16
Speaker 1: delivery too, with those silly fruit displays, unless ironically, you're
37:21
Speaker 1: dressed like a piece of fruit while you're delivering it.
37:23
Speaker 1: Then the tips to start pouring out. Furniture delivery like
37:27
Speaker 1: large things. I can tell you I did that as well,
37:30
Speaker 1: Very large furniture among the heaviest arm wars you can
37:33
Speaker 1: possibly conceive of our fabrics. If you delivered to the
37:37
Speaker 1: home of like someone aged sixty five or older, there
37:41
Speaker 1: was about a sixty percent chance they were gonna tip you.
37:43
Speaker 1: Anybody below that was like, hey, thanks, thanks for coming.
37:47
Speaker 1: Don't don't get hit by a car on your way out.
37:49
Speaker 1: See my history with tipping with the elderly as they
37:52
Speaker 1: don't tip as much. It depends, It depends, It depends
37:56
Speaker 1: on the industry. You're in restaurant because tipping, I think,
38:00
Speaker 1: and it used to be a lot more ubiquitous than
38:03
Speaker 1: it is now. Right. So yeah, so like furniture delivery,
38:07
Speaker 1: like that's why the older generation I would get a
38:10
Speaker 1: tip from him more frequently, because there was a time
38:13
Speaker 1: when you tipped everybody like that. Our generation wasn't raised
38:17
Speaker 1: like that, right, I mean, do you tip the furniture
38:19
Speaker 1: delivery guy. I pick up my own furniture buddy, Okay,
38:22
Speaker 1: but you probably wouldn't like the mover, Let's say, like
38:26
Speaker 1: the people who help you move. I think it's expected
38:29
Speaker 1: you pay the big, huge moving costs and you tip
38:32
Speaker 1: the guys on top of that. Man, I've got a
38:35
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of self reflection. Sky Cap. I
38:39
Speaker 1: took five bucks a bag for sky Cap. I must
38:41
Speaker 1: be a sucker because it saysn't here two dollars a bag?
38:44
Speaker 1: Very good? What's next? Um? Shuttle drivers at the airport?
38:49
Speaker 1: I didn't know you're supposed to tip them. You're not.
38:51
Speaker 1: This is all made up, Cabby. In New York, they
38:56
Speaker 1: make it very easy on you know. You just put
38:58
Speaker 1: in the percentage you want in the little computer and
39:00
Speaker 1: it'll add it to your to your credit card, which
39:03
Speaker 1: is great valet. If I like you, which is frequent,
39:07
Speaker 1: you get two bucks. If I don't like you, you
39:09
Speaker 1: can get as little as zero dollars. I try to
39:12
Speaker 1: get to UM. I feel bad though when I don't
39:14
Speaker 1: have it, and I'm just like a man, and sometimes
39:16
Speaker 1: I'll say, can I go get my own car? Dude,
39:17
Speaker 1: I don't have any cash. Yeah, I'll say that too,
39:19
Speaker 1: and they say, no, we'll go get it. There was
39:22
Speaker 1: an I'll fart in it, you know they will? Oh
39:26
Speaker 1: they will, Yeah, I'll soil myself in your car. Uh, mechanic,
39:32
Speaker 1: I had no idea. That's this is why it's made up.
39:34
Speaker 1: You don't tip your mechanic. Who what are they talking about?
39:39
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I think this is from like
39:41
Speaker 1: the Gentleman's Guide to Life edition. Tip your mechanic ten
39:46
Speaker 1: to twenty dollars for any job over five. I had
39:49
Speaker 1: no idea. Gas station attendance like they exist anymore or
39:55
Speaker 1: Oregon or wherever. If you if if they voluntarily check
39:59
Speaker 1: your luids, meaning the ones in your car, uh, you
40:03
Speaker 1: should tip them one to two dollars? Is it Oregon?
40:07
Speaker 1: You do? You have to get your gas pumping. I
40:10
Speaker 1: remember in New Jersey. I think I've even told you this.
40:12
Speaker 1: My girlfriend had never pumped her gas. She was like,
40:16
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, Well our friend Van Nostrian, he lives
40:19
Speaker 1: in Washington, which is nearby Oregon, so he probably knows
40:22
Speaker 1: about that. We should ask him. Um so international tipping,
40:28
Speaker 1: it's way way too much to go over and we
40:31
Speaker 1: hate to cop out, but you really do need to
40:33
Speaker 1: go online because there's tons of information. When you go
40:36
Speaker 1: to visit a country, it's all different. Look it up
40:40
Speaker 1: before you go so you don't look like a schmuck. Yeah. Um,
40:44
Speaker 1: there are a couple of rules of thumb. You should,
40:46
Speaker 1: like you said, familiarize yourself. You know, not knowing the
40:49
Speaker 1: value of the currency is not an excuse. Um, and um,
40:53
Speaker 1: don't use US currency. Yeah, that's a here's a couple
40:56
Speaker 1: of American dollars for you, Mr Costaagan. Don't just red
41:00
Speaker 1: your g d P. Yeah, that's that's cop out. That's
41:04
Speaker 1: bs to convert it and give them their currents. Yeah,
41:07
Speaker 1: because they have to go to an exchange place, and
41:09
Speaker 1: you know, everybody has a cameo in their in their
41:12
Speaker 1: neighborhood or and you know, I guess some countries I think,
41:15
Speaker 1: like like Puerto Rico and stuff like, they can use
41:20
Speaker 1: American dollars because it's in American territory well now, and
41:25
Speaker 1: I think even like Jamaica, in a lot of these
41:27
Speaker 1: places close to the US in the Caribbean, I think, well,
41:32
Speaker 1: they can use American dollars as well, so it's not
41:34
Speaker 1: so obnoxious. Can we go over some people who you
41:37
Speaker 1: don't have to tip? Which I was very relieved to
41:39
Speaker 1: hear some of these are are there? Is there anyone
41:42
Speaker 1: that you don't have to tip? Restaurant owners you're not
41:45
Speaker 1: supposed to tip. Salon owners, and basically any owner of
41:49
Speaker 1: an establishment you don't tip unless they're the ones providing
41:52
Speaker 1: the service to you. Um food deliveries under thirty bucks.
41:58
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. That doesn't make any
42:00
Speaker 1: sense to me. Here's my favorite. I was so glad
42:03
Speaker 1: to know that I don't. I can go ahead and
42:05
Speaker 1: stop tipping. Flight attendants. You don't have to tip flight attendants.
42:09
Speaker 1: Did you know that? I did not know anyone would
42:12
Speaker 1: do that. Bus drivers, theater rushers, you have to tip,
42:16
Speaker 1: shuttle drivers, but you're not supposed to tip bus drivers.
42:19
Speaker 1: This place is crazy, that's I'm saying. The rules are
42:22
Speaker 1: so like you you don't tip McDonald's, but you do
42:25
Speaker 1: tip the coffee person even though you can get a
42:26
Speaker 1: coffee at McDonald's. Salespeople you don't tip them. And employees
42:32
Speaker 1: at fast frid restaurants, air airline flight attendants. I can't
42:36
Speaker 1: believe someone actually wrote down that you don't have to
42:38
Speaker 1: tip them. So, Um, there's a lot of federal stuff
42:43
Speaker 1: going on right now, my friends. Uh, there's something up.
42:46
Speaker 1: So the the federal tipped minimum wage has been the
42:50
Speaker 1: same since it's a two hour because of inflation. That
42:55
Speaker 1: whole concept was created in nineteen sixty six because of inflation.
42:59
Speaker 1: It's never been less valuable than it is right now
43:02
Speaker 1: relative to the cost of living. So it's a big
43:05
Speaker 1: deal for people who make their living, you know, in
43:07
Speaker 1: service industries. Um, before Congress right now, there's Hr. Thirty one,
43:12
Speaker 1: the Working for Adequate Gains for Employment and Services or
43:16
Speaker 1: the Wages Act. Congress is so clever. Um, but basically
43:20
Speaker 1: it would tie the federal tip minimum wage to six
43:23
Speaker 1: of the federal minimum wage. So every time there's a
43:25
Speaker 1: hike it would also be a hike in the federal
43:27
Speaker 1: tip minimum wage, and that act would raise it right
43:30
Speaker 1: now to four thirty five an hour, which is, you know,
43:33
Speaker 1: double what they're making, but still way below just over
43:36
Speaker 1: half of you know, the federal minimum wage. And if
43:41
Speaker 1: you want to go join a group that lobbies on
43:43
Speaker 1: behalf of people who should make a decent wage in
43:47
Speaker 1: the service industry, you can check out fair eats dot org,
43:50
Speaker 1: I F A I R e A t s dot org.
43:53
Speaker 1: And that Buddy is a local group there. Atlanta based
43:57
Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants here. I have a list, Josh
44:01
Speaker 1: of best and worst celebrity tippers. Oh nice. Yeah, this
44:05
Speaker 1: is very TMZ, although it wasn't from TMZ. And I
44:09
Speaker 1: hesitate to even read these because take it with a
44:11
Speaker 1: grain of salt. A lot of these stories I don't
44:13
Speaker 1: know for true, and I'm not gonna get into the stories.
44:16
Speaker 1: But you'll be pleased to know that our ghostbusters Dan
44:20
Speaker 1: Ackroyd and Bill Murray are legendary good tippers. Awesome, you
44:24
Speaker 1: would think Drew barrymore great tipper. Russell Crowe kind of
44:28
Speaker 1: surprised me tipper. Apparently he's a really good tipper. I
44:31
Speaker 1: would not have guessed that, and the whole smashing your
44:34
Speaker 1: face with a phone incident was out of character for him. Wait,
44:36
Speaker 1: I thought he like in fights all the time. I
44:39
Speaker 1: don't know, huh. Drew Carey good tipper, Hulk Hogan, Charlie
44:44
Speaker 1: sheen I'll bet Charlie sheen Ley's more than just money
44:48
Speaker 1: as tips. David Beckham, Johnny Depp apparently really really good tipper.
44:53
Speaker 1: And then I cross reference the list of worst tippers
44:56
Speaker 1: on because there's all sorts of sites where people where
44:58
Speaker 1: you can go as a waitre on and say so
45:01
Speaker 1: until came in my restaurant last night and they did X,
45:03
Speaker 1: Y and Z, so I did cross reference some of these.
45:05
Speaker 1: Mick Jagger, the rock Bill Cosby Is was on every list.
45:10
Speaker 1: I'm sad to say I am not the least bit surprised.
45:13
Speaker 1: Kirsten dunst Weird Madonna Tiger Woods was on every list. Usher,
45:20
Speaker 1: Britney Spears and Jeremy Piven was on every list. Sean
45:26
Speaker 1: Penn really yeah, David Burne, Dude, this is so disappointing
45:31
Speaker 1: if it's true. David Byrne of The Talking Heads is
45:34
Speaker 1: considered one of the worst tippers ever because apparently he
45:38
Speaker 1: does not tip period, Like, oh yeah, I don't tip.
45:44
Speaker 1: That is two episodes in a row that future rose
45:47
Speaker 1: Board dogs Michael Moore supposedly. What wait a minute. If
45:54
Speaker 1: this is true, Michael Moore, and you are a friend
45:58
Speaker 1: of Michael Morris who listens and stuff, you know, please
46:00
Speaker 1: play this for him, you should be ashamed of yourself,
46:03
Speaker 1: Sir ashamed. It said once less left than left left
46:08
Speaker 1: less than twenty dollars on a four fifty dollar bill.
46:11
Speaker 1: And see all these though. I say take with a
46:13
Speaker 1: grain of salt, though, because because I could just be
46:16
Speaker 1: the ones and the ones not had any money. Maybe
46:18
Speaker 1: the maybe the server was a big Republican jerk that
46:21
Speaker 1: he didn't like because it is Michael Moore. Remember that
46:24
Speaker 1: part did you see Capitalism a Love Story? Yeah? And
46:26
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I'm looking for some some advice. And
46:29
Speaker 1: one of the traders was like, stop making movies. It
46:32
Speaker 1: was ame alright, So I'm not gonna embarrass any more
46:36
Speaker 1: of these people like Molly Ringwald and Ricky Lake being
46:42
Speaker 1: really worried about like her her finances, and Rachel Ray
46:46
Speaker 1: she was on a bunch of the sites too. They
46:48
Speaker 1: said she's cheap. I could see her being cheap too.
46:50
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not surprised by all them. Don't
46:52
Speaker 1: be cheap people. I mean, you make tons of money,
46:55
Speaker 1: spread it around and I'm no socialists, but come on,
46:58
Speaker 1: just bring a little joy in someone's life like Bill
47:00
Speaker 1: Murray does. Yeah, but not Bill Cosby. Be more like
47:03
Speaker 1: Bill Murray, not like Bill Cosby. Okay, yes, all right,
47:07
Speaker 1: what's our big takeaway? That's it for our list of
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47:41
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47:43
Speaker 1: a bit on how they were handled in Nordic countries
47:47
Speaker 1: back when they were pillaging the rest of Europe and
47:49
Speaker 1: ber jerking at every opportunity Despite the outward appearance of
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Speaker 1: being crazy ax wielding pirates. The Vikings prefer to keep
47:57
Speaker 1: things civil on the home front. Thus the concept of
47:59
Speaker 1: home aang was created. A home is a small island
48:03
Speaker 1: and gang means to go. So when two parties or
48:06
Speaker 1: odds over an insult a woman or property, they would
48:10
Speaker 1: go to a tiny island or the tip of a peninsula,
48:13
Speaker 1: or some similar isolated area to duke get out. Viking style.
48:17
Speaker 1: They would take a three by three meter square of
48:19
Speaker 1: ox hide, spread it on the ground, and stake each
48:22
Speaker 1: corner uh and rope between them, much like a modern
48:25
Speaker 1: boxing ring. Each home gunger typically wielded an axe or
48:31
Speaker 1: a heavy sword and had with him three wooden shields.
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Speaker 1: The challenging party I'm sorry. The challenged party would have
48:38
Speaker 1: first strike, and they would then proceed taking turns to
48:41
Speaker 1: hammer away at each other's shield broken shields being replaced
48:44
Speaker 1: with the two spares along the way, and the first
48:47
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