Where better to engage in an exchange with your neighbors than the front stoop? Where better to engage in an exchange on UPTOWNflavor? Our hottest topic this week was “Turning the Tables on Tipping.” Some of the comments after the jump:
Would Sheron love for me to critique the quality of service and food of her places compared to downtown? I can rip her a new asshole for sure.
What a joke. I’m going to email Sheron and let her know she just lost my business forever and I will spread the word to others to avoid her place(s) too. -Anon
Here’s a “tip:” treat your customers like they are welcome, and they will tip you! -RK
Some of these new business in Harlem operate under the impression that because they have a chic/soho/downtown-ish look that it justifies their imposition of a gratuity. TO be fair this also applies to many restaurant across the board. However, because these restaurants are in Harlem they assume an air of superiority basically saying “Hey, we put all these cool things in Harlem. You should be grateful…bow down!”. And this can particularly disturbing. If the the service were on par with the aesthetics then you can justify the gratuity. Sadly with respect to service there still remains a huge gap to be filled.-Hugo
It’s time for all restaurants to start paying their Wait Staff the hourly wage of $7.15 per hour, so the reliance on TIPS wound not be that great.-Nat
The system of tipping is the American way of rewarding good performance and encouraging good service. No tipping would get minimum service with a attitude.
The problem is not the system of tipping, but customers who are reluctant to participate.-Joe
I laugh at people who buy into the obligatory “tipping model”. When you buy into that, you’re a co-conspirator in the exploitation of workers. Business has an obligation to law to pay employees the legal minimum wage and not create a business model that transfers to consumers some of their burden.-Anon
I too must say I was absolutely amazed to read the comments of the Mobays owner.I had given her and her establisment so many tries-and that was the problem-my problem. So I simply stoped patronizing the restaurant. -Lovelyday
Posted on February 16, 2007 by D. Bell