Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

54 high of 80 today still cloudy now. No mention of rain for 7 days. Lots of critters in yard yesterday deer turkey no bear

Prayers for all our Country

 

[ronjhall]

Interesting to note that although prices of food has increased there is little to no recognition that such increase results in increased tip. In the past, I would add 20% of the total rounded up to next full $. That meant the tip included 20% increase due to tax. Now I’m taking my calculator and tipping on the base total.
Seems to be a rash of tip shaming lately. Many based on these tables and suggestions that get published.
Recently, I begun to reevaluate the cost of something special at the market versus cost of that item at a restaurant. Wife has been very encouraging to get it and eat at home. Still nice to go out, but restraint maybe increasing.

Tip - 20%
Tax - 4.72%
CC - 3%

So, printed menu price isn’t even close to reality.

Eating out anymore is very low on my list. Saves a lot of money.

 

[Buppies]

We eat out once a day spend about what we would spend at home but neither of us eat a lot it’s just easier

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

62.0F, going to low 80s, mostly sunny with the “Hey -it is THAT TIME OF YEAR” ever-present chance of isolated afternoon T-Storms.

Mrs insists upon “Portrait” not “landscape”

Today is a combination of getting blood drawn (because I forgot to fast before the doctor last week, and running mom around on some errands, then Mrs goes to doctor because they couldn’t schedule us together last week…

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[Buppies]

Good luck at doctors Kilroy

 

[KilroyJC]

Good luck at doctors Kilroy

TY!

Shouldn't be any big thing, we are getting a new provider, so needs fresh blood test. Last blood test with old doc had everything in the middle of the bell curve, I don’t expect any major changes since February.

 

[daugen]

David/Sodamo,
did you ever consider getting an EV car that you could charge from your existing setup?
range isn't an issue for you. Do you have enough excess output to do this?

 

[m7040]

good morning, 53 going to 76 no rain

Grass is not growing much and brown spots showing up

Will see if wife is up to try to give me a hair cut

We have not gone to restaurants for a long time
We were usually disappointed when we went in the food quality and service although kids tells us we are too cheap and go to more expensive places.

Some countries include a service fee on the restaurant bill and no tipping is expected but sometimes done on top of that for extra good service. This may catch on here in some places

 

[KilroyJC]

I have always been a generous tipper, i have a general baseline and I deduct for lousy service. Extra-good service gets a bump.

if the service is good but the food is problematic, I tell the sever and tell them to deduct from the kitchen split.

I always tip in cash, I don’t pay by CC in restaurants anymore due to fraud, but when I did i STILL tipped in cash. Then they can report what they want.

 

[m7040]

this morning was asking our waitress daughter how the tips were working at her new restaurant after being there for a little over a week

Most tips were around 20 percent with some as high as 30 percent
Best tips were tables where she plays with the guests and jokes and makes it a fun experience.
Busing the tables she hunts down the people doing it to turn tables quickly.
She upsells the orders with add ons a lot and upsells drinks
She was top revenue seller for the weekend.
Owner wants her to train to be a bartender
She does not want to be manager because it does not make as much money.
But she offered to be adviser to managers because she can see what is lacking

 

[txdon]

Good Morning! The Rechargeable fan passed. I tried it on different locations. The front location on the canopy really shook the fan but the clamp held good. I ended up putting it near the rear of the canopy to blow on the back of my neck, which seemed to be the coolest. For 3.5 hours on high continuously it only used 1/3 of the battery and recharged easily last night. A Keeper.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
52 and won’t quite make it 75 today. Another sunny day without rain.

Yesterday I finished up the model airplane, but didn’t fly it, that will likely be today. Did a batch of chores, but stayed low energy, except for playing with Zoe outside.

Today will start with going to bank and buying a CD at over 5%, then maybe a Costco run. Got a dead ash to cut down, might be a good day for that. Still wrestling with cough and congestion, but not enough to be much more than an annoyance.

 

[Buppies]

That junk is really hanging on PopG hope it leaves soon

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 52 going up to 77 and sunny, still dry
Did some weedwhacking and general cleanup around the yard and pool.
Dog walk at peddlers village.

Careful with the Ash Paul, I only use plunge cuts now and watch for falling branches. I had too many barber chairs and flying pieces. I have about 20 smaller ash I need to take down, will be using 200' bull rope, some of these trees break up while I am cutting them, rather be far away with a rope and pulley.

Be well,

Next mini project, umbrella stand sand, clean, repair and repaint

Sand Castles are back at peddlers village, looks like fairy tale theme

With lot of sandboxes for the kids to play in

 

[kenmbz]

Drew - RV needs a band aid bumper sticker.

 

[daugen]

my first job "off the farm" was at age 12 cutting Christmas trees for good friends of my parents.
50 cents an hour, and maybe a tip. Not sure I understood the tip angle at that age.
Next job was age 16 bussing tables at local French restaurant called Odettes.
Tips were split by some formula with wait staff and I went home with more money than I had ever seen.
80 bucks in cash in my pocket in 1966 was a lot of money.

waiting on tables was when I learned the issues of service.
And dealing with the general and not always nice public.
But every Saturday night when Benny Sidon, who with his wife Sarah owned the town's small drug store,
would have a table seat in the bar area. And they smoked, as so many did then. I learned early on that even if I wasn't
handling their table, if I walked by and cleaned out their ash tray, a dollar bill would miraculously appear.
A lesson was learned. Give good service and be appreciated for it. And the Sidons knew exactly what I was doing, I was coming to pay my
respects since every Saturday morning my father did the same thing by visiting their drug store.
Small town stuff, and that guy had the cleanest ash tray in town.

95 percent of the staff at Odette's was gay. What an education.
I got kidded with a lot but never touched. They knew who my father was...and he tipped well.

food has gotten more expensive so it seems to me 20 percent is applying to an ever increasing number.

I guess we have a choice.
We pay ten bucks for a burger and tip the wait staff 25 percent,
Or
we pay fifteen bucks for a burger from restaurant paying their staff a good salary and full benefits.
which is hugely expensive to the business but can be done. And no tipping.
So the wait staff gets crappy benefits because we are paying less for our food.
We try to make that up by tipping well.

I wonder if some restaurants today won't let you put tips on the table anymore.
all monies shall be tracked...and taxes paid.

 

[scott_vt]

Do you rivet your own a s b e s t o s to the shoes?

Good Morning KilroyJC,
No I bought new shoes along with cast iron drums, very expensive ! But I was not comfortable driving the car with the way the brakes performed ! I really needed to anticipate my stops well in advance, not fun ! I never drive the car faster than about 45 mph, but even so, it can get exciting very quick !

Its a fun car to own, but it can get expensive very quickly ! I would love to put a new Burtz motor in it, but I think it would be cost prohibitive for someone retired like myself, at least until I win the lottery !

For the amount of time I drive the car, a few car shows, and maybe an ice cream run occasionally, it mostly sits in the garage ! Also gets some lawn ornament work along with my 1949 Farmall Super A !

 

[Buppies]

Great picture of sand castle Ken

 

[m7040]

remember a long time ago that a car from a big estate that came in to be serviced. It was a ford A with rumble seat that had been in storage since new. It was in pristine new condition as if it just rolled off the assembly line

 

[kenmbz]

my first job "off the farm" was at age 12 cutting Christmas trees for good friends of my parents.
50 cents an hour, and maybe a tip. Not sure I understood the tip angle at that age.
Next job was age 16 bussing tables at local French restaurant called Odettes.
Tips were split by some formula with wait staff and I went home with more money than I had ever seen.
80 bucks in cash in my pocket in 1966 was a lot of money.

waiting on tables was when I learned the issues of service.
And dealing with the general and not always nice public.
But every Saturday night when Benny Sidon, who with his wife Sarah owned the town's small drug store,
would have a table seat in the bar area. And they smoked, as so many did then. I learned early on that even if I wasn't
handling their table, if I walked by and cleaned out their ash tray, a dollar bill would miraculously appear.
A lesson was learned. Give good service and be appreciated for it. And the Sidons knew exactly what I was doing, I was coming to pay my
respects since every Saturday morning my father did the same thing by visiting their drug store.
Small town stuff, and that guy had the cleanest ash tray in town.

95 percent of the staff at Odette's was gay. What an education.
I got kidded with a lot but never touched. They knew who my father was...and he tipped well.

food has gotten more expensive so it seems to me 20 percent is applying to an ever increasing number.

I guess we have a choice.
We pay ten bucks for a burger and tip the wait staff 25 percent,
Or
we pay fifteen bucks for a burger from restaurant paying their staff a good salary and full benefits.
which is hugely expensive to the business but can be done. And no tipping.
So the wait staff gets crappy benefits because we are paying less for our food.
We try to make that up by tipping well.

I wonder if some restaurants today won't let you put tips on the table anymore.
all monies shall be tracked...and taxes paid.

Shame only the front entrance of Odettes still exists.
Leaving cash on the table is still a thing, but we talk to friends whose kids get tips, they consider the credit card tip normal and don't seem to mind it gets counted , since it gets them more tips it seems than people leaving cash did.
Wonder of anyone did a study on cash vs. credit tips, probably a goverment study somewhere...