Tipping & Etiquette
BASEBALL DINERS STRIKE OUTThis is a quick tipping story, meant more as an admonition to those attending sporting events than to trash anyone. If you happen to attend a major league baseball game where in-seat wait service brings food from a menu, as opoosed to the usual vendors selling one item, please realize we servers are working for tips, even though we're not quite the same as waitresses in a restaurant. I was a server in such a ball park for a number of years. A fellow server of mine had a group in his section who ran up a tab of $130, charged it to his corporate AmEx, and left a tip of...$0.
Now, it's true that the policies are different in different ballparks. For example, at Safeco Field in Seattle, the tip is automatically added to your bill (19%), and pooled among the wait staff, just to prevent situations like this. And at Oriole Park in Baltimore, the lady that takes your food order and the guy that brings it don't share, pool, or split tips. But folks, those people (beer vendors too, for that matter) are running up and down stairs all night, in the summer, in blazing heat (except in Minneapolis), working their buns off. A $0 tip is just gauche! 5/08 Signed, Robin | <<Latest Stories
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