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Airora Gardens Reserve your 3 bdrm 2 ba Duplex NOW! prices starting at: $350 Summer $480 Fall “If you get prompt service or good service, I think that a 15 percent tip is in order,” waitress Peggy Maher said. On the other hand, Maher said, there is no excuse for poor service. Though tips are a neces sity for the waitresses, tips should be earned, she said. Waitresses generally get paid about $2 an hour, Maher said, and are expected to make up the difference through their tips. “The government taxes me as if I were making $5 in tips per hour,” Maher said. So if a waitress does not get a tip, she actually is paying for the customer to sit in that restaurant, she said. Maher said because she works in a nice restaurant she usually gets the 15 percent gratuity, but waitresses in all-night restaurants usually aren’t as lucky. People should expect to tip at any restaurant, Maher said, or they shouldn’t eat out. “This is how we get paid,” Maher said. “It’s not like we’re doing it for fun. It’s a lot of men tal work and a lot of foot work.” Maher said waitresses are blamed if the food is bad or if the food is late, and neither problem is the fault of the waitress. Though graciously receiving complaints is part of the job, Maher said customers should have more compassion. Complaints with the food or service, availablity of the waitress and the mood of the customer all play a part in tipping, but Maher said there is no set pattern. Waiter Creg Able said, “Old people are the worst tippers — 60 years old and up.” Some students are good tip pers, whereas others aren’t, Maher said. “A lot of them tip well and a lot of them don’t tip at all,” she said. The only consistency about tip ping, Maher said, is that she usually gets better tips from male customers. Able said he gets bet ter tips from female customers. Bartender Laura Caldwell said, “It (her tips) depends on what I’m wearing to work.” Caldwell said getting good tips almost is an art. If you try harder, you get better tips, she said. Maher said waitresses have particular peeves. It’s infuriating when people leave a dollar after monopolizing the waitress’ time, she said. Able said the worst insult for a waiter is when people leave a little change or a dollar tip for a full meal. “You know they knew to tip, but they tipped that small amount,” he said. “That’s telling the waiter ‘you were sorry and we didn’t enjoy it.’” Able said one time a table ol drunks, after ordering an unusu ally large amount of food and en lightening him with their use ot various vulgarities, left his tip ($> 1.10) in a bowl of hot sauce. A second peeve is when people order large amounts of food or expensive dishes and fail to tip 15 percent. “If people can afford to order the most expensive thing on the menu, they should have brought enough money to tip," Maher said. Also, leaving a poor tip or no tip at all after occupying a table for an unusual amount of time makes waitresses cringe, she said. When customers “squat" it keeps the waitress from being able to serve more customers. That keeps the waitress from earning more tips, Maher said. "My main bitch about the stu dents who come into the bar... is pitchers of beer at our place are $2.85 and people who give you three bucks and keep the 15e to me are pretty poor," Caldwell said. “Fifteen cents doesn’t even buy a pack of gum any more, but if you add up the 15tf for us, it does a whole lot.” Maher said customers also should realize that waitresses of ten tip the bartenders and bus- boys l0 percent of the waitress’ tips at the end of the evening. “They are helping out tips by busing our tables," Able said. • Maher said the best customer to have is a waitress or waiter, "so mebody that does it for a living and knows what goes on in your mind and what goes on in the kit chen.” Chorus performs concert W/arpe< HiUO OFMctf WAS I srtEDIN OA SOMETHIN!? By KENNETH PEMBERftW Reporter Texas AX.M Women performed ils Spnti night in R The Chorus concert Friday Theater. 1 he concert contained a pourri of songs ranging frojj lively, upbeat tunes to slow, Iodic poems about love. The program opened with short song called “Now Well T hank Our Cod." The next piece was "ThePlitt of the Blest,” a number tin meshed peppy and brooding* lions together. The songtolaofi pelican that symbolized Chra and his crucifixion. 0< Rt Assoc I DALLAS — lepper says his < Ruld get a bo< An echo choir joined the 4»mary switch it i us lor a poem taken from itcBt. song “ 1 he Ft incess.” ■ “1 think it wi After the intermission, «ct on us,” said trumpets, a tenor saxophonedBentof Dallas-b; a trombone accompanied uB “Betore, thei women in "Feel the Power," B'la tastes out t upbeat song about living andtrlbc just one," Alb pei ieiicing God’s glory; B “It’s helping t ih the Halfway thr member of die Singing Cadi presented balloons to Rem Cain, a soprano whowascdebn ing her oirthday Friday night. The second half of thecona included songs about Broadwt a Simon and Garfunkel medlev song from the musical “Cats’a: a salute to America. Thesestm were intermingled withmoren gious numbers. Also, a quartet perform three songs, one ol wnichwa! humorous rendition of‘let! Call You Sweetheart.” At the end of the concert,d rus members presented bou(]ii of (lowers to the conductor,F ricia Fleitas. Isomething spt iaste,” he said. B Industry obst | that the in trod ICoke, which n more like arch drastically blur Sem Assoc Father of murderer writes to victims’ families • Vz mi. from campus • covered parking • w/d connections • 24 Hr Emergency Maintenance Visit our office for a personal tour. Hours: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday 1-5 p.m. Sunday 401 Anderson College Station 693-6505 Associated Press DALLAS — The father of con victed murderer Abdelkrim Belach- heb wrote a letter of condolence to the families of his son’s six Victims, according to a television reporter. Morning News reported Saturday. The younger Belachheb, a Moroc can national, was convicted in No vember of the shooting deaths of six people at lanni’s Restaurant Club in Dallas last June 29. "I feel for his parents because I know what they must be going through to think their son could do such a heinous act." tht aeoooooooeooooooaosoaocooooooooeoooeoooooooooooooos Battalion Classified 845-2611 SOGOOOOOOSOSOCOOOOOOCOOOOCOOOOOOCOOOOOOOO The letter was passed on by a repo-rter for ABC’s “20-20,” who met Behachheb’s father in Morocco while preparing a report on the mass shooting for an upcoming segment of the television program, the Dallas The letter, said one of the family members, “helps a little bit.” It “helps a little bit to know some one else is still thinking about it after all this time,” said Frances Wilson, ‘sister of victim Jan Smith. Another family member, mother of victim Linda Lowe, said she was touched by the letter. “He (the elder Belachheb) wanted for me to have this letter and tried in his own way to express love and kindness,” said Gloria Edge. “It goes to show us that other people’s hearts can t>e broken, too, and 1 apprcoj this precious soul writing this id But the families also acid edged that their loss will neverij lx* eased. "It was nice of (him) to do, la doesn’t take away what’s beenra said Ronnie Ford, brother of d Marcell Ford. “We’re stilljusltcl to get by." Belachheb is in a Texas d serving six consecutive life send for the murders. TAMU... TAMU... TAMU... TAMU... TAMU... TAMU... ; TAMU... TAMU... TAMU... TAMU... TAMU.. Pregnant? Undecided Abl Your Baby’s Future? [AUSTIN — pnal month tod ftsion in a testy ■Senators still lersy over state land oyster fishii fcei'i may vote i Blue_Liw. ■The Senate si it left off on Iasi an inland senatn Parks and Wildl ulhtory authorii loysters in Texas Mexico. 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