> Let's say, a restaurant has 20 tables and initially has 5 servers. This is already overstaffed and you are doing the math backwards. The place with 5 servers in the USA almost always has runners as well making total…
> In many USA restaurants, the waitstaff tips are also shared into a pool This doesn't change anything because the incentive is still to drive up the bill to drive up the tips. This is caused by the staff being…
What you are describing is not team service because the server "owns" the customer and are the one who will collect the tip from that table. What you are noticing is that many chains have a "full hands" rule: if any…
I live in half Europe for the past 15 years and have been to more restaurants than I can count. Typical service is courteous and efficient. Of course there are outliers, too. Repeat business is rewarded like in most…
I spend about equal time in the USA and split between France, Germany, and The Netherlands. Personally, I find the service in USA restaurants to be obnoxious, overly fake, and disruptive. I generally only go out to eat…
The biggest barrier to ending tipping in the USA is that restaurants are almost always over staffed there. The owner wants the maximum ratio of servers to customers possible. In the typical USA system, being paid…
Tom Jennings, the creator of fidenet, is producing a nice modern Z80 computer[0] 0. https://www.ebay.ie/itm/206496219323
This makes sense to me as a Kagi user. The chance that I'm going to subscribe to read an article I found via a search is zero.
Unless I'm your research assistant, why would I be asking AI questions for you when you could do it yourself? If you need an answer I already have I will gladly share it with you. If you need my help to find an answer,…
Used to travel for work 3 weeks a month and worked with a group of folks who took pride in traveling light. I learned to never pack for more than 6 days. After 5 days either do the laundry or use the hotel laundry…
> Basically, if you disagree with him about his quack medicine, you're a "pseudo-skeptic" just looking out for Big Pharma's bottom line. The hallmark of the anti-intellectual is to attack your motivation instead of your…
The author is a snake oil pusher so I don't expect anything reasonable or useful.
Wow, I never thought I would see the day that an article promoting something as widely discredited as homeopathy reach the front page. We can do better than this.
> Let's say, a restaurant has 20 tables and initially has 5 servers. This is already overstaffed and you are doing the math backwards. The place with 5 servers in the USA almost always has runners as well making total…
> In many USA restaurants, the waitstaff tips are also shared into a pool This doesn't change anything because the incentive is still to drive up the bill to drive up the tips. This is caused by the staff being…
What you are describing is not team service because the server "owns" the customer and are the one who will collect the tip from that table. What you are noticing is that many chains have a "full hands" rule: if any…
I live in half Europe for the past 15 years and have been to more restaurants than I can count. Typical service is courteous and efficient. Of course there are outliers, too. Repeat business is rewarded like in most…
I spend about equal time in the USA and split between France, Germany, and The Netherlands. Personally, I find the service in USA restaurants to be obnoxious, overly fake, and disruptive. I generally only go out to eat…
The biggest barrier to ending tipping in the USA is that restaurants are almost always over staffed there. The owner wants the maximum ratio of servers to customers possible. In the typical USA system, being paid…
Tom Jennings, the creator of fidenet, is producing a nice modern Z80 computer[0] 0. https://www.ebay.ie/itm/206496219323
This makes sense to me as a Kagi user. The chance that I'm going to subscribe to read an article I found via a search is zero.
Unless I'm your research assistant, why would I be asking AI questions for you when you could do it yourself? If you need an answer I already have I will gladly share it with you. If you need my help to find an answer,…
Used to travel for work 3 weeks a month and worked with a group of folks who took pride in traveling light. I learned to never pack for more than 6 days. After 5 days either do the laundry or use the hotel laundry…
> Basically, if you disagree with him about his quack medicine, you're a "pseudo-skeptic" just looking out for Big Pharma's bottom line. The hallmark of the anti-intellectual is to attack your motivation instead of your…
The author is a snake oil pusher so I don't expect anything reasonable or useful.
Wow, I never thought I would see the day that an article promoting something as widely discredited as homeopathy reach the front page. We can do better than this.