Originally Posted by Kiske (Post 2496239)

Do you tip more or less if it has the electronic self checkout things at the table like Chili's has started?

Originally Posted by Kiske (Post 2496239)

Do you tip more or less if it has the electronic self checkout things at the table like Chili's has started?

Originally Posted by Andrew025 (Post 2496241)

I asked one of the waitresses at Red Robin and she said tips are more or less basically the same.

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon (Post 2496251)

WTF, this is a thing? I refuse to use the self checkout at the grocery/big box stores. I'd do it if I got a 10% discount. Otherwise, I expect the transaction to be performed by another human being.

Originally Posted by extrashaky (Post 2496233)

Originally Posted by extrashaky (Post 2496233)

Originally Posted by Kiske (Post 2496255)

I love it, they have pictures of all the food and I'm at the table and ordered in about 1min. If I don't want something I can type it in easily. No tomato, no problem. No sitting around to pay either. Just swipe the card and be done.

About the only thing the wait staff does is hand you stuff.

Hell even if the staff goes AWOL and you need salt/sauce whatever, you hit a button and it pages them.

Originally Posted by ButeraFRS (Post 2496236)

Oh, this explains a lot. Getting your understanding of economics from Wikipedia. Gotcha!

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze (Post 2496256)

I stopped reading when I read "social science".

Originally Posted by extrashaky (Post 2496264)

No, actually I learned it from one of Thomas Schelling's proteges. I linked the Wikipedia page because I didn't really think you could handle anything more complicated.

Originally Posted by extrashaky (Post 2496264)

No, actually I learned it from one of Thomas Schelling's proteges. I linked the Wikipedia page because I didn't really think you could handle anything more complicated.

Originally Posted by Kiske (Post 2496255)

I love it, they have pictures of all the food and I'm at the table and ordered in about 1min. If I don't want something I can type it in easily. No tomato, no problem. No sitting around to pay either. Just swipe the card and be done.

About the only thing the wait staff does is hand you stuff.

Hell even if the staff goes AWOL and you need salt/sauce whatever, you hit a button and it pages them.

Originally Posted by pushrod (Post 2496254)

At the Domino's Pizza near my place, the machine asks if you want to leave a tip......by leaving a tip, I'd actually be tipping the store.

Originally Posted by extrashaky (Post 2496082)

Not sure if this is sarcasm.

My first job in television news, I made $18,000. I didn't like that salary. So I busted my ass for two years and got my next job for $25K. Then the next one six months later for $33K. Overall I tripled my salary in ten years in the business, but I realized that I would soon cap out and not go much higher no matter how hard I worked, because that's how much the job was worth on the market.

So I went back to school, sat for the CPA exam and reset my upper limit. I traded work that was physically demanding for a job that was much more lucrative. I worked "harder" in television but was actually making the same salary in my first accounting job as in my last television job.

When I returned to school, I didn't go to an Ivy League college. I went to an urban state school. Around 30% to 40% of my classmates were from predominantly poor, African-American areas of town. One guy I knew went to one of the worst, most violent high schools in my city, but he had a job with Deloitte waiting for him when he graduated. If he's still there five years later, he's making at least $70K per year even if he's struggling along as a low performer.

So don't tell me the American dream doesn't exist. If you don't like your circumstances, change them. It's not easy. But life isn't "fair" either, and complaining about how much other people make doesn't raise your own value in the marketplace in the slightest.