That’s amazing!

I have never seen one of these people in the wild but I know that, were I a server and I saw that? I’d consider the $5 forfeit and make their table my lowest priority. Congrats, dude, you just turned this Chili’s into the passive-aggressive version of Dick’s Last Resort.

These are the people who put out 5 1 dollar bills when the meal starts and make a show of removing one of them every time the server makes a mistake or anything otherwise happens that they don’t like - they love going out and making everyone else their servants. It’s not about the money, it’s about the power.

The added layer of problematic is that it’s not a specific mix in the stores, employees are combining the ingredients themselves to max batches which means the amount of caffeine actually in the drink can vary WILDLY depending on who prepares it.

Tipping is a dumb and exploitative practice that allows employers to underpay servers. There is no excuse for it. Abolish it and just pay servers a living wage!

Yeah fast food workers don’t get tips, they usually get higher than minimum wage whereas restaurant servers make the $2.95/hour or whatever it is and absolutely rely on tips to make any money.

Diners can opt to tip less if their finances can’t support it

My standard tip at a sit-down restaurant is 20%, and I very rarely go above or below that amount. I do recognize that when a dining experience is less than ideal it is not the server’s fault most of the time. Even when it is I prefer to cut them some slack unless they were blatantly rude. I figure that I get paid the…

I would ask what’s the difference between lemonade and the charged version.

The signage may not be universal and maybe they changed them after this event, but these pics I found are pretty straightforward:

We got a satellite for the first time when I was in, like, 4th grade and MST3K and the original British version of Whose Line became staples instantly. And man oh man, the fact you said Pod People... that’s literally my earliest MST3K memory. “Ooh, small potatoes.”

So I am going to be honest, aside from the big new yorker pizza, Pizza Hut pizza is kind of mid especially for the price. Dominos in my mind is the bottom of the barrel on cheapness, crappy crust with low quality toppings. weirdly if you get a stuffed crust from Little Caesars it pretty much decimates all the…

Cracker Barrell bad.

The benefit of the stainless steel tumbler is that metal keeps cold water cold for much longer periods of time

As much as I liked A League of Their Own, its characters being “I’m happy being a lesbian and it’s only outsiders who have a problem with it” really made the struggle of queer people in earlier times seem much too simplistic. I’m hoping that this is going to be a lot more complex, delving into the self-hate, the lies…

Boston cream pie is good stuff and having one at the Parker House might be something I will do on my next trip to Boston.

Just because tavern style is more common, doesn’t mean Chicagoans don’t eat deep dish.  That’s just as stupid.

Sometimes, they are even better...

I’ll have to keep an eye out for those.  Dots pretzel twists are also addictive.

Zapp’s VooDoo pretzel sticks are highly addictive.