Well, I don’t know about larger venues, but there are a few of those tiny little clubs in Atlanta where I’m almost certain that the bartender remembers me. I waited on/tended to folks for four years during college, and now I make more money and have a better place to live, so I feel like tipping’s my way of giving back to those people who might live without heat or air conditioning like I used to.
Sure, they may have just wiped the ice off a beer for you, but they also hauled the ice from the machine, cleaned the mold out of the bottom of the cooler, loaded the beer from the back room or hooked up the keg, wiped your ashes and spilled beer off the bar and later mopped the floor where your drunk-ass friend spilt her PBR all while trying to deny the fact that even in their most comfortable shoes, they have swollen ankles and knees.
Well, I don’t know about larger venues, but there are a few of those tiny little clubs in Atlanta where I’m almost certain that the bartender remembers me. I waited on/tended to folks for four years during college, and now I make more money and have a better place to live, so I feel like tipping’s my way of giving back to those people who might live without heat or air conditioning like I used to.
Sure, they may have just wiped the ice off a beer for you, but they also hauled the ice from the machine, cleaned the mold out of the bottom of the cooler, loaded the beer from the back room or hooked up the keg, wiped your ashes and spilled beer off the bar and later mopped the floor where your drunk-ass friend spilt her PBR all while trying to deny the fact that even in their most comfortable shoes, they have swollen ankles and knees.