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<blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 580076" data-attributes="member: 143">We've never ordered a delivery pizza ever since they opened a &quot;Papa Murphy's&quot; pizza place near our house.&nbsp; They make the pizza and you take it home and pop it in your oven.&nbsp; Delicious and ALWAYS hot, and inexpensive to boot. RE tipping (though it doesn't come into play in the above example): I used to think that tipping had gotten out of control (seems we were tipping everyone for a while: deliveryperson, waitress, stylist, taxi driver, maid, bellperson, skycap, jar at local starbucks, yadda yadda).&nbsp; Then I read Nickeled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenriech.&nbsp; She's a Ph.D. who for a book project spent a year as a minimum wage worker in a series of really low-end jobs (maid, Wal-Mart employee, diner waitress).&nbsp; It really shines some light into the lives that low-income workers in the U.S. experience, and how the &quot;minimum wage&quot; in the U.S. is no longer even close to being a &quot;living wage.&quot;&nbsp; When I was in the Deep South on a teaching job, I looked into part-time night jobs to supplement my income.&nbsp; They include tips in the minimum wage there, so waiters at chain restaurants were being offered wages of two dollars an hour plus tips. Always tip your server.&nbsp; 20% is not unreasonable if the service was good and you can afford it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lazybones, post: 580076, member: 143"] We've never ordered a delivery pizza ever since they opened a "Papa Murphy's" pizza place near our house. They make the pizza and you take it home and pop it in your oven. Delicious and ALWAYS hot, and inexpensive to boot. RE tipping (though it doesn't come into play in the above example): I used to think that tipping had gotten out of control (seems we were tipping everyone for a while: deliveryperson, waitress, stylist, taxi driver, maid, bellperson, skycap, jar at local starbucks, yadda yadda). Then I read [I]Nickeled and Dimed[/i] by Barbara Ehrenriech. She's a Ph.D. who for a book project spent a year as a minimum wage worker in a series of really low-end jobs (maid, Wal-Mart employee, diner waitress). It really shines some light into the lives that low-income workers in the U.S. experience, and how the "minimum wage" in the U.S. is no longer even close to being a "living wage." When I was in the Deep South on a teaching job, I looked into part-time night jobs to supplement my income. They include tips in the minimum wage there, so waiters at chain restaurants were being offered wages of [b]two dollars an hour[/b] plus tips. Always tip your server. 20% is not unreasonable if the service was good and you can afford it. [/QUOTE]

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