Why I Don’t Tip Servers

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Before you go thinking I’m the antiChrist, it wasn’t me who launched a potentially World War III level kerfuffle at brunch by declaring, “I don’t tip servers.” It was my friend’s cousin whose sentiments started the most lively debate I’ve witnessed in quite some time.

To get a fuller picture, imagine the following: four middle-class women, one in her 30s and three in her 40s. One straight, one lesbian, and two somewhere…