You're Cheap and Dirty

I am responding to this pod cast on NPR (recession etiquette).

After having read all of the comments that people have made, I have a few of my own:

1: Your tip is split like this: 20% to the busser and 15% to the cooks. Period. We all gotta eat.
1A: If you ate the food you tip for the pleasure of eating it. If you don't tip make it at home and leave the dishes for your wife.
2: Expecting that restaurants provided a living wage for their servers goes against the principals of our free market economy.
3: We, as the general public, decided that 20% was standard, this has to do with the high cost of living due to inflation.
4: I budget.
5: Times are tight for all of us, so save me the grief and either cough up or stay out; do it like me, stay home and eat burritos.
6: I am friendly to your children even though they're fussy.
7: Dining out is a privilege, not a right, so use your best manners and I'll use mine.
8: I can make up for the 2% decrease in tips, but not much more, because I also have student loans to pay back.
9: The longer you're cheap, the more fuel I have for fire.
10: To Insure Prompt Service.

Have a lovely day,
Love and kisses,
Your Am Server