At writing camp, schlepping goes with scholarship

It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s.

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1. Avoid eating out on holidays and Saturday nights. The sheer volume of customers guarantees that most kitchens will be pushed beyond their ability to produce a high-quality dish.

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The study was based on experiments in which pairs of applicants with similar résumés were sent to ask about jobs. The pairs were matched for gender and appearance, said Marc Bendick Jr., the economist who conducted the study. The only difference was race, he said.

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-- 2 different Video Links for this story-- Excerpt: Hard pressed to find good helping hands these days? Not bothered that these helping hands may not be human? Then you may want to try hiring the same workers as used by the owners of the Japanese tavern Kayabukiya.

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Just a tip for waitstaff worldwide: A little courtesy can go a long way. Jessica Osborne was so nice to one set of frequent patrons of the Indiana pizza restaurant where she works that they always requested her as their server.

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Excerpt: You use your hands all the time, but do you wash them just as often? Every day people are touching dirty surfaces, bodily fluids and then other people. You wouldn't go under the knife with surgeons who hadn't washed their hands.

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OMAHA, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- An Omaha, Neb., restaurant said musicians with the Trans Siberian Orchestra left waiters a $10,000 tip after three weeks of service.

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...What we learned was eye-opening. We had not known -- or considered -- for example, that waiters and waitresses are usually watching and evaluating the behavior of their customers as carefully as their customers are evaluating them.

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Do you feel warm and fuzzy -- and more generous -- when your waiter draws a smiley face on your check? Do you feel a bond when your server engages you in chitchat? According to Richard at Student Scrooge, these are devices waiters employ to pump up the tip.

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A restaurant in Japan has some unusual waiting staff on its books - two macaque monkeys. Yatchan and Fukuchan serve customers hot towels and drinks, and are given soya beans as tips.

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10 Tips for Waiters Everywhere

Why do we need to post a primer for waiters and waitresses? Because it seems that unemployed people just show up at restaurants and are immediately provided with a white apron and an attitude. Training is what they do at the gym in their spare time.

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...Agents arrested nine people Wednesday accused of being part of a scam that involved waiters and waitresses in Central Florida being paid to steal diners' credit card numbers and other identification. (see pics of the Local Men Arrested In Sting)

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Madam Speaker, I rise to help millions of working Americans by introducing the Tax Free Tips Act. As the title suggests, this legislation makes tips exempt from federal income and payroll taxes.

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Newsvine: Should you T.I.P. for take-out? w/Poll

Should you T.I.P. for take-out? My answer: what the heck for? Now don't get me wrong, I'm as economically careful (cheap!) an individual as you may run across, but in no way do I have an issue with tipping those that provide me a service, especially superior service.

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Imagine a restaurant for the MySpace generation—one that doesn't force diners to leave behind their digital life when they step out into the analog world.

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