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Tips main source of income
for many waitresses, waiters
By MIKE DAVIS
Staff Writer
To Insure
Prompt
TIPS —
Service.
Tipping is a gratuity and gra
tuity is something given volun
tarily. Though tipping is a volun
tary act, many waitresses rely on
tips For their income and get of
fended when customers “stiff’
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“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
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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."
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of the Blest,” a number tin
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lions together. The songtolaofi
pelican that symbolized Chra
and his crucifixion.
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After the intermission, «ct on us,” said
trumpets, a tenor saxophonedBentof Dallas-b;
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upbeat song about living andtrlbc just one," Alb
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member of die Singing Cadi
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Cain, a soprano whowascdebn
ing her oirthday Friday night.
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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.
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three songs, one ol wnichwa!
humorous rendition of‘let!
Call You Sweetheart.”
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rus members presented bou(]ii
of (lowers to the conductor,F
ricia Fleitas.
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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
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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.
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