[nonseniorresident]

Originally Posted by BBQMan

You are right on part of this. Tipping WAS for exceptional service. Tipping today IS the way servers in restaurants make their living. Aside from truly high end restaurants, and we have none of them in or near The Villages, it is not a great living. Your servers work double and even triple shifts to make ends meet. Here in TV these are kids going through college, single moms, seniors who need a little extra income, etc. These are people working for a living and not going on welfare. They have earned your help, not your scorn.

Let me say again, if you cannot afford or do not want to tip do not go to or order out from restaurants. Buy your food from the grocery store and cook it yourself, go to McDonalds or BK or order a pizza (remember to tip the driver). Do not short the hardworking people who serve you. This continues to perpetuate the image we have in the community outside TV as being both greedy and stingy.