I prefer to tip in cash. I like to know that my server is getting the tip I intended. Especially delivery drivers.

I do prefer to leave cash tips, but I also aways tip 20%, so it can be difficult if I”m leaving $8 or $17 or what have you. I try to carry lots of denominations so that I have enough. I also round up to the nearest dollar so as not to have to carry a ton of change.

Servers ABSOLUTELY want cash tips instead of credit tips. Here’s why. You have to declare your tips when you log out at the end of the night. You’re supposed to declare all of it. But nobody does. If you do, you’re doing the right thing but you’re also a fool. You have to declare all of your credit tips. They leave a…

I used to work at a Chil...Very Hot Pepper’s in Texas. They made us claim our tips because taxes. I figured that “The Man” could figure out i was lying if i didn’t at least claim the Credit Card tips, so I only claimed those. Because of that, I encourage people I am with to tip with cash.

Debit cards have the VISA logo so you’re not paying interest, just taking it straight out of your bank account. I waited tables many eons ago and never had trouble with the credit tips. I hear ya on it being nicer for the server, but I’m terrible at carrying cash though!

It’s not strange and it’s cool to do cash tips.

I LOVE CUSTOMERS LIKE YOU! I’m a server and there’s nothing nicer than an easy-to-find, nicely placed ticket and CASH. Cash helps us out so much, and the time you took to do that will probably make your server smile.

I will straight write CASH on the tip line if I have an appropriate amount. Imo it’s reinforcing that there is a tip, it is in cash monies and that I’m not going to have someone think that I stiffed them if the cash isn’t immediately visible in the bilk folder.

My girlfriend does this. It’s not typical, but I wish I had the discipline to do this myself.

I’ve been working in the service industry for 17 years and I try to always tip in cash. Most people I know in the service industry do, for various reasons. Cash in hand is always preferable. A lot of people, myself included, will write “cash” on the tip line, rather than leaving it blank or writing a zero. I try to…

They’ll have stopped nursing by now and are in the learning by watching Mama forage phase. As long as the runt pays attention and isn’t too dumb s/he should be able to get by food wise.

Fair enough.

Actually, we have a lot of thoughtful and talented food bloggers, writers and food scene chroniclers here in Portland. It is a very small city with an amazing food scene of chef-owned restaurants who support each other and care about quality. This is why Golden stands out as a loud-mouthed drunken fool. And, yes, you…

I hope their beards and food are better than their douchebag bios and attitudes.

Actually, they have beards AND a James Beard award nomination. They aren’t dicks, they are hard-working chefs who’ve put in a lot of dues and are really nice guys. John Golden has a reputation here in Portland, Maine as being an loud, entitled, talentless hack who picks fights with chefs and bartenders because he…

They’ve been running Hugo’s and Eventide for three years or so now to great success. They’re very much fixtures in the Portland food community.

I visited some people in Chile and they said we were having tomato salad, and I was kind of... err... because I hate watery, snotty tomato seeds and muck. And they bring it out, and it’s these beautiful tomatoes that have had all the nasty goopiness taken out, and they’ve been sliced where they almost look like strips…

I’d bet that most adult food dislikes are based on texture, not taste. A lot of uniformly disliked foods seem to be noticeably slimy, slippery, mushy, etc. in a way I can notice even if I like them. I think I’d like squash casserole, for instance, if I didn’t have to fight it all the way down my throat. And I love…

Yeah, that’s probably part of it. I mean, it’s bitter but also like concentrated essence of raw tomato flavor? Which is somehow different from cooked? (Bitter plus the acid from the goop, combining in some way that really makes my tastebuds cringe?) (Interestingly — I like beer, but not the bitterest types of beers;…

Worst chowhall I ever went to was a Marine one. Air Force chowhalls kick everones ass.