Justin Timberlake’s Dirty Tipping Secret
Waiters of the world, take note!
When Justin Timberlake comes into your restaurant, take your lunch break:
(He) chalked up a $150 bill, which the restaurant graciously gave to Timberlake on the house. However the US pop star forgot one important thing — to tip. Despite all his wealth and hailing from the land of the 20 per cent gratuity, he didn’t put his hand in his pocket at all.
But he isn’t the only one according to Katherine Taylor, waitress to the stars, who made a list of bad tippers and checked it twice:
“Gwyneth Paltrow came in. I wanted to tell her that I had been making a list and she was on it, but Gwyneth was not stingy, only stupid. I thought she probably couldn’t calculate 15%…Rupert Everett, Parker Posey, Madonna, no tip…Tobey Maguire… Barbra Streisand, Kelly Preston. Almost no tips at all,” she tells.
The reason for bad celebrity tips is simple.
They suck at math and fear literally tipping away their riches.
Sure, Justin Timberlake can sing songs someone else writes and produces for him. On stage, he has choreographers and dance coaches. In a restaurant, when the bill comes, he’s all alone.
Folks in the service industry shouldn’t suffer. They should automatically add the tip to the bill before giving it to JT for two reasons: It can save him embarrassment and their ability to pay the rent!
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November 9th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
This is what i hate. Tipping is for good service. If you get good service, then you get a good tip. Get bad service, then expect bad or no tip. Why MUST you automatically give a tip to someone that may, note i said may there, give you bad service? If however you do give good service and don’ receive a tip, then complain. Otherwise, chose another profession.
/rant
November 9th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Obviously you haven’t served. Nobody likes to serve. But sometimes it’s the only thing to fall back on. Most of the people who don’t tip, are WT (White Trash) or Mondays (because like with bad tippers, everybody hates them). Yes, most tipping is for good and/or great service. But did you realize that servers only get paid (in Missouri) half of minimum wage? It’s 3.50 to put up with peoples shit. Most people come in with no intention to tip, but make the server run their ass off for no tips. And because of that, the server actually has to pay to serve the table that didn’t tip. Make sense? I think not. Bottom line, if you don’t want to tip, eat McDonalds. Even for bad service, I still give 10 percent.