Tips greatly appreciated.

[Dale Floyd]

I hope somebody will answer my inquiry. I'm sincere about the question.

 

[Fernando]

I hope somebody will answer my inquiry. I'm sincere about the question.

Sounds like you can ask client to pay you $100 appraisal fee and get a $400 tip for your wonderful service.
That is if client will pay you the $400.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

You have to watch your ticket here. Sometimes the tip is already in the bill.

Gratuity.

I'm often shocked to realize that none of the last 100 servers with whom I tried to discuss the concept of a "gratuity" were even aware that the word exists--almost as though the concept of educated waiters and waitresses no longer exists--although I'm unsure of how StudsTurkel would clasify waiter service in the taxonomy of work..... BTW did you know that TIPS" is an acryonym for "To Insure [sic] Promptness." .... ...or that "Tipping is not a city in China" ....... flash forward to 2025 as my alterntive business plan unfolds to include the potential to revert back to white glove table service most recently practiced throughout NOLA circa 1985 .....

 

[Fernando]

I'm often shocked to realize that none of the last 100 servers with whom I tried to discuss the concept of a "gratuity" were even aware that the word exists--almost as though the concept of educated waiters and waitresses no longer exists--although I'm unsure of how StudsTurkel would clasify waiter service in the taxonomy of work..... BTW did you know that TIPS" is an acryonym for "To Insure [sic] Promptness." .... ...or that "Tipping is not a city in China" ....... flash forward to 2025 as my alterntive business plan unfolds to include the potential to revert back to white glove table service most recently practiced throughout NOLA circa 1985 .....

Why would you bother discussing gratuities to the waiters? They are too busy working and no time to deal with your gratuity concept.
In America, you're expected to pay tips whether service was good, average, or bad. For better or worse that's how it is and the price to go out to sit down restaurants.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Why would you bother discussing gratuities to the waiters? They are too busy working and no time to deal with your gratuity concept.
In America, you're expected to pay tips whether service was good, average, or bad. For better or worse that's how it is and the price to go out to sit down restaurants.

Don't get me wrong. I dig the concept, distinctly remembering the first supper table I ever waited on, in a German Country Inn, near Boonesboro, MD, circa 1980, when the nice couple left me a sweet $5 bill as a gratuity--$6 of which I spent that night on ice cold beer!!! LOL

 

[Mark K]

I do private work for free. If the owner chooses to give me a $500 tip, I'm very grateful.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Don't take wooden nickels
Plant corn early.
Don't roller-skate in a buffalo herd.
Don't tug on Superman's cape.