(Administrative note: Today’s lunchtime post is a little late going up thanks to GoDaddy and its stupid 500 Internal Server Errors. Thank goodness I had a draft saved.)<\/p>\n
Yesterday evening I was at one of my favorite after-work watering holes.\u00a0A\u00a0woman came up to the bar and ordered $20.50 worth of food for herself and her friends. When the food arrived, I watched in astonishment as she handed the bartender a 20, then proceeded to fish around in her change purse for two quarters.<\/p>\n
Do you think bartending is volunteer work?<\/p>\n
Do you think you don’t have to tip because the bartender didn’t mix you a drink?<\/p>\n
The bare minimum I would have left would have been $24, which would be about a 17% tip. However, since I am a regular at this particular bar and the bartender is a friend of mine, I would have been inclined to leave something more like $27.
\nThe bartender makes $2.13 an hour. There’s no law saying you HAVE to tip, but not doing so is in extremely poor taste.<\/p>\n
The Cotton Museum will hold an artist talk with Lisa McCord this evening from 5:30 to 7:30. She will discuss her two new books of photography, Osceola and Highway 61. Free to the public and there will be refreshments and snacks.<\/p>\n
Memphis is a finalist for the location of the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. Get on Facebook and show your support for our city<\/a> and tell the people in charge that the Hall of Fame needs to be here.<\/p>\n Jay Sieleman will step down<\/a> as the head of the Blues Foundation in 2015. Jay has done an incredible job increasing awareness of the foundation and the blues. His successor will have big shoes to fill.<\/p>\n Matt Mullenweg is the head guy at WordPress, the CMS used to publish this blog and 23% of websites worldwide. WordPress was my BBQ team’s sponsor from 2009-13, and I still check out his blog from time to time. He blogged an interesting fact this week: No More Platinum<\/a>. Not one artist’s album has gone platinum in 2014. How the music industry has changed.<\/p>\n The MBJ has an update<\/a>\u00a0on Bass Pro construction progress at the Pyramid. The project is on-time (for once), and a new glass skywalk has been announced similar to the one at the Grand Canyon. There will be a restaurant and an aquarium inside the skywalk.<\/p>\n Restricting myself to a York peppermint patty for lunch today so I can talk to Shorty about a bowl of pasta after work. I’ll be out about 5:30 and we’ll see where the evening takes me. Possibly coming tomorrow: A sneak preview of my new book. We’re having an office cookout tomorrow for lunch so I probably won’t be doing my Friday update post until mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Administrative note: Today’s lunchtime post is a little late going up thanks to GoDaddy and its stupid 500 Internal Server Errors. Thank goodness I had a draft saved.) Yesterday evening I was at one of my favorite after-work watering holes.\u00a0A\u00a0woman came up to the bar and ordered $20.50 worth of food for herself and her … Continue reading “Tipping 101 and Thursday news”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15683,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682\/revisions\/15683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}