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To: c.hinton who wrote (236104)	7/18/2007 11:27:19 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

".....have you ever tried to not tip the standard 16% in a restaurant in NY?" I attended a conference in San Francisco with a Norwegian, 2 Swedes and a Dane. They wanted a big American breakfast so I sent them across the street to a pancake house. They came back and raved about the place. I was trying to loose weight so I stayed with a light breakfast at the hotel. The next day they went back and they didn't get served. They waited and waited and nothing happened. After they came back and told me the story I asked if they had tipped. Tip? What's that? In Denmark, Norway, and Sweden the tips are included. So I explained that in the US waiters earn their salaries through tips as Scandinavian waiters do but the tipping is "voluntary". They picked up a continental breakfast on the run as we went to the conference. Next time we went out to dinner they tipped.