tip your servers and bartenders people!

I truly believe everyone should be required to take an ettiquite course on how to dine out and how to properly treat and tip your server or bartender. It is mind boggling to me how many people treat servers like slaves and how many people are under the impression that we get paid a decent hourly wage. WRONG. We make roughly 4 dollars an hour. Do I need to repeat that? FOUR DOLLARS PER HOUR! We literally live off of tips. That's our livlihood. You know your big house and nice car you have to pay for? Oh and your whole foods stocked pantry? and perhaps your wine cellar? We have to pay for all of those things with the small amount of tips that you give us after we've allowed you to have a lovely and memorable evening. I bet you didn't know that we have to tip out bartenders, bar backs and kitchen staff. So hypothetically If our tip percentage for the night is low we can actually end up making NEGATIVE money once we do our tip outs. Another bone I have to pick with you fine dining douche bags (now, not all of you are DB's. Some of you are great, polite and interesting people who know how to treat servers and who tip 20% or more and it's you fine people that keep me in the industry). Some of you on the other hand act as though a server or bartender is somehow below you. Which makes no sense whatsoever. A large percentage of servers are college educated and very intelligent individuals. Just because we don't feel like throwing on a monkey suit every morning and answering to some big bad boss after a long day in the office doesn't make us any less of a person. tip your servers and bartenders! anything less than 20% is unacceptable! we LIVE off of tips! that's our livlihood! Trust me, we don't bust our asses and treat you like gold because we want to! And if you treat us with respect we'll do the same for you. Come see me at Eola Wine Company and if you treat me like the human that I am maybe I'll buy you a drink! Cheers!