HAVE TO TIP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1056, 2 June 1910, Page 22

HAVE TO TIP.

There isn’t a tipless place left in New York, writes a correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. Half a dozen valiant pioneers have tried the experiment, with tipless restaurants and barber shops and other places of common call, but every one has failed. The tipless barber shop went under because New Yorkers were afraid to be seen entering the place, although it charged a higher fee and gave better service than the ordinary facerenovating establishment. The tipless restaurant failed because the patrons insisted on slipping the waiters the customary fee and because the waiters were quite as insulting as the ordinary breed of menial if not so slipped. Over in Boston there is a first-rate restaurant—one of the top quality—where waiters are paid just double the usual rate for their craft, and are not allowed to handle money, are discharged if they take a tip, and a reward of 5 dollars is offered the patron who succeeds in crossing a reluctant palm with Silver. But that will never go in New York, because New Yorkers are so accustomed to the tip evil that they would never obey the rules.