When should you tip your barista?
ESPN is a source for both sporting news and proper etiquette…
Bradley from Dallas has a funny follow-up to the section about tipping in last week’s mailbag: “As a former Starbucks barista, I have to agree and disagree with you about the tipping. You are right about tipping if all you get is a cup of coffee. They push a button and the cup is full. However, if you are one of those people who orders an Iced-Decaf-Venti-Sugar-Free-Vanilla-Nonfat-2 Splenda-Extra Hot-Almond Latte. … then we deserve $5 just for not spitting in your drink or throwing the boiling milk in your face for making us realize that our life sucks. Other than that, tipping is optional.”
This makes me think of the scene from “Fight Club” when Ed Norton makes it a point to order “clean food” when dining with Marla…
Narrator: Clean food, please.
Waiter: In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating clam chowder?
Narrator: No clam chowder, thank you.
One Response to “When should you tip your barista?”
1 Tim 21 May 2007 @ 8:42 pm
Ok, first
Riggs
Eric’s more-than-three-word orders
Starbucks runs
Now add “clean food”
gross.
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