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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-- 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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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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...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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Tipping has spread to businesses where the customer does a lot of the work.

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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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THE FOXY BROWN DRAMA CONTINUES: Rapper reportedly leaves restaurant without paying; parks illegally at a bus stop. Fresh from her guilty plea to probation violation on Thursday, rapper Foxy Brown quickly found some more trouble to get into.

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Should Bars/Bartenders be Held Liable for their Customers' Behaivors as a Result of being Over-served?

As a follow up from my last post about smoking, I began to question ways bars/pubs/clubs could monitor their patrons drinking to better control drunk-driving and other negative alcohol induced acts.

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