tipping
Broke-Ass Etiquette: Closing Time
Got a question about how to be a polite Broke-Ass? Email Half-Price Headliner with your queries and get schooled on how to be proper-like. Q: I went to a restaurant last night about a half and hour before closing and got major ‘tude from the staff. I understand that it
Broke-Ass Etiquette: Travel Tipping
Got a question about how to be a polite Broke-Ass? Email Half-Price Headliner with your queries and get schooled on how to be proper-like. Q: Dear Half-Price Headliner, I’m traveling for the holidays and never know what to tip for things like checking bags at the curb, airport shuttles, hotel
The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!
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How NOT to Tip a Bartender
Being cash-strapped by nature, most of Broke-Asses know a thing or two about working in the service industry. We’ve previously doled out advice on how to behave at a restaurant, and generally how to not be an asshole to those who are serving you. My personal experience with being a
More Tips on Tipping to Ensure Friendly Service
Look, you’re a big kid now and chances are if you’re reading this you probably work or have worked in the service industry in some capacity in the past, so I’m not going to tell you how much you should or shouldn’t tip at restaurants/bars/coffee shops/hot dog stands/car washes. (Ashley
Gone Tippin’!
Remember in the 90’s when coffee became a Thing? It was a tumultuous time in the culture: the heyday of Ross and Rachel, of the musical RENT! of Raising Awareness About Everything and flat-ironing the living shit out of your hair. It was also when s going to a “coffeehouse”
Broke-Ass Financial Coaching: My Guide to Tipping
What about those situations when you are thinking, “Am I supposed to tip this person? If I do will I offend them? If I don’t will I offend them? If I do tip, how much should I give?” Then you ask your friend “dude, how much are you giving?” then you give more because your friend is a joker and you wanna tip right.
How to Behave in a Restaurant
You know how in places like Israel and Switzerland it’s mandatory for every citizen to spend a certain amount of time in the military? I’ve always thought that it should be the same in the US, but that instead of the army or navy, Americans should have to be in