Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.

'Dirty Girls'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Nov 05, 2009 8:44:27 am PST #17350 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Who/what's Wade?


DavidS - Nov 05, 2009 8:50:15 am PST #17351 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Huh. Camouflage cheongsam.


§ ita § - Nov 05, 2009 8:52:13 am PST #17352 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That needs to be in satin.

I'm disappointed that google.co.uk doesn't have anything Guy Fawksey up. Gunpowder, treason, and plot!


juliana - Nov 05, 2009 8:52:36 am PST #17353 of 30001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

A common breakdown of tip-out percentages:
Food runners: ~2% of food sales
Bartenders: ~10% of drink sales (including N/A drinks)
Bussers: ~2-3% of total sales
Maitre'd/host: ~1% of total sales

If two or more waiters are working the table, they split it however they feel appropriate. That was a hell of a tip-out night, for sure.


tommyrot - Nov 05, 2009 8:53:51 am PST #17354 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Camouflage cheongsam.

It should be more shiny. Of course that would make it less camouflaged. Unless you live in a land of shiny things.

eta: or what ita said:

That needs to be in satin.


DavidS - Nov 05, 2009 8:56:05 am PST #17355 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Unless you live in a land of shiny things.

Like, 1960s Hong Kong.


Polgara - Nov 05, 2009 9:01:36 am PST #17356 of 30001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS

Food runners: ~2% of food sales

Wait a sec, so when I tip 20%, only 2% goes to the waitress (assuming it's a tip-pooling establishment)? And more goes to the busser? That's insane! It's the waitstaff that has to put up with the customer b.s.


Steph L. - Nov 05, 2009 9:03:50 am PST #17357 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

A "food runner" isn't the server who takes your order, etc., right? It's the random lackey who helps bring it out sometimes.


Polgara - Nov 05, 2009 9:06:16 am PST #17358 of 30001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS

That makes sense, but then what does the wait-person get?

ETA: Ok, I'm doing math now. Probably should've started with that. If the percentages are of tips and not of sales, then presumably the remainder goes to the wait-person(s)? 'Cause if it's of sales and the tips were on the cheap side, then the waiter could get shafted.


Dana - Nov 05, 2009 9:07:43 am PST #17359 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Whatever's left over after those percentages are taken out?