If this was a Seinfeld episode: "How much did he tip?" "Oh I'm sorry sir we...can't, slip the tip." "You can't slip the tip?" "No, we can't slip the tip. We're not tip slippers."
Larry is a person that embraces the fact that he has faults. He is right sometimes, he is wrong sometimes. He lives in a world where everyone else tries to act as if they are perfect and they get mad because Larry calls them out on it.
What a beautiful beautiful beautiful scene. Larry's reactions to the potential tip left my Jason. The actor saying in a very low voice, "What if it was more..."
@@Rschr101 playing poker isn't indicative of how someone is in real life. Phil Hellmuth is a total bitch at the poker tables when he loses and whines, and yet everyone says he's a really nice person in everyday life
I love when Larry asked Jason one last time how much he was leaving, Jason just changed the subject with "I'm very excited about our show." Awesome back and fourth.
But Jason Alexander is a millionaire ( unlike George Costanza ) , he can afford to leave even 50 dollar tips just to annoy Larry, who is always very "careful with money" even though Larry´s net worth is probably 100 times more .
I love how Larry talks incredibly fast to manipulate him, just to make him respond. And he says “no one cares just tug your tie, no one will know” but then when he tugs the tie, Larry goes crazy like “WHAT A ASSHOLE, OH FUCK!” completely opposite of what he promised.
George is acting like a juvenile. He encourages Larry to leave 12 Dollars, then he goes around and adds what? more than 30 Bucks. He is obviously looking to put Larry in an embarrassing position. Larry did absolutely nothing wrong here when he asked for coordinating the tip.
I like to think that Jason left $20 just as a "one up" on Larry, but the waiter is playing a game and trying to see what he can get away with. He knows Larry is desperate to figure out the tip because he wants to one up Jason, so the waiter is playing on that and trying to get more out of Larry. The waiter manipulates Larry into giving a bigger tip by telling him what he wants to hear.
George was not encouraging Larry to leave the $12 tip. He has tact and wouldn't outright tell Larry what to do. He sees His tip as something personal. His tone clearly sugests that $12 is probably lower than he would give and that Larry should tip more but he would never outright say this because 1 it would be rude and 2 more importantly he knows Larry would probably try to talk him down from his number at high volume which would embarrass him and probably make him capitulate to the smaller number just to make Larry stop cheating him from giving the gift he wants to give.
No. Larry tried to control the tip they both gave, to control the perception of others. Then he went back and asked the waiter what shouldn’t be asked. HES the juvenile.
you should watch that whole scene with Jason again and you can see him laughing mutiple times throughout that scene with the same camera angle as you described. its very funny to see
When you think about it, what other type of business gets the owner off the hook for paying a decent salary and essentially passes that responsibility onto the customer? Waiters and waitresses should be paid a decent wage and the percentage of the tip should be based on the quality/friendliness of the server.
Like all well-established business, the restaurant business is highly competitive. I wouldn't say the owner "get's off the hook" for not paying their staff a decent salary. Rather, the practice has become such an industry norm (in many countries), that given the competitive nature of their industry, the owner is forced to redistribute that money to pay for other business expenses (higher wages for more talented chefs, interior decor/ambience, etc) in order to compete for customer business. So although it might be true that the owner can pass on part of the waiter/waitress salary to the customer, this does not necessarily enrich the owner.
Jason was being unnecessarily stubborn by refusing to share with Larry how much of a tip he was going to leave. I coordinate the tip literally every time I go out to eat with friends
This isn't about tipping more or the pictures on the wall, The scene with Michael Richards is reminiscent of the Seinfeld episode "The Contest" hence why "Kramer" leaves abruptly without explanation and Jason Alexander' scene is reminiscent of Seinfeld episode "The Jacket" where Jerry doesn't tell George what he spent on the suede jacket but rather George assumes the price and flips out about it.
Whether the tips are shared with the kitchen or not, depends on the establishment. When I worked as a cook in Toronto, some restaurants required the wait staff to kick in a percentage of their total sales to the kitchen, but here in Vancouver...in the pubs, for example, what the kitchen gets for tips is reliant on the honour of the wait staff, and it's been my experience that most wait staff don't have any honour! Generally, wait staff and bartenders take home a couple of hundred per shift!
George Costanza was portrayed as a short stocky cheap whining bald headed friend on Seinfeld. But here, he was the complete opposite. He’s a generous tipper and not whining who paid for the BIG SALAD!
Waiters are called waiters because they have to wait to see what you're going to pay them. The customer is like King Henry VIII, deigning to pay the waiter sufficiently IF said waiter is deemed to be worthy of reward. Fuck that shit! In Australia waiters don't get paid tips. Instead they get paid a decent, living wage. If the customer doesn't like the service, s/he can complain to the manager, like it's done in other businesses. Aussies don't play that "Serve me well, peon, or else" shit. We Americans shouldn't play that shit either.
***** I wonder what happens if and when a particular customer keeps not giving tips to those upscale waiters. I imagine the waiter hires muscle and has the miscreant customer beaten senseless in the parking lot.
that’s what jason tipped, but what do you guys think george would’ve done in that situation? i think he’d agree to splitting the tip since larrys george
TheSeeker well this scene and everything about this show is not where you are. In LA and in America in general 20% is the new normal tip. 15% is acceptable too but 10% is almost a slap in the face. Your comment makes no sense tbh
Unless LD, being rich, is a very good tipper. I heard Jerry say once in an interview that he always tips over 100% because hes rich and can afford to. Larry might have the same logic about tips, let's say 50% would be being reasonably generous to him. Meaning Jason went ahead and tipped over 120%
@ddenns in the U.S. you are supposed to leave 15% or so because the waiter/waitress doesn't make that much money unfortunately so part of their income is the tip that they rely on. in other countries they do not expect a tip but are paid better.
Angelina No, what's rude is cheap, greedy employers not paying reasonable wages. A situation were working people actually depend on generous tipping is unacceptable.
antred11 no they get paid. Its shit pay but its pay. It's an easy job too, they're lucky that society deems it right to tip them. It makes that job an actual decent paying job. I'd rather work at IHOP then any fast food chain. With the tips you can survive and make a modest living
"It's an easy job too, they're lucky that society deems it right to tip them." Not really. Having to keep track of tons of orders in year head, carring shitloads of stuff around without dropping anything, always having to be nice and friendly to everyone, even to jerks ... seems like a pretty stressful job to me.
Tipping should be by on how the service is, not what people should tell you. I say if service was good/ok, put down 10%. If service was better or great, 15%. One wrong move from service or waiter, 0-5%. I mostly do 10%.
K1llerK1ll wow, nice attitude mr Bill O'Reilly. How am i awful when i state out some boffing facts? That's the way it is. I do 10% because i dont wanna pay the greed amount for 15%. Plus it saves me a step and my fat wallet can cushion me more. Don't be a Bill O'Reilly cause u disagree with me. Get blazed and boffing chill.
Do you really want to have that ridiculous logic torn up? Yeah, punish the person, who gets fucked by people to begin with (cause people can stiff/10%), who simply works for the person being greedy lol. Your tips are how these people feed their families. You just wanna go and stiff servers cause you don't agree with the system from which they work in. Guess what? If I don't like the government and what they do with my tax dollars I still have to pay them.
K1llerK1ll It's not called "punishing" its called leaving whatever you feel like. This is America. Sometimes people have to tip less because of certain circumstances. The servers are greedy cause they want mostly 20% tips when they are likely to get 10-15%. 10% is still better than no tip at all, plus it's the average. If they don't make enough in tips or wages or like the system to feed their families, they can quit, go back to school, graduate, and get a high paid salary. Everyone has to pay taxes to the government (except for no income earners).
***** I wish i was writing for LD. A wrong move can be like a nasty attitude, bad service, being impatient, payer waiting long time, and being rushed to pay the bill so the server can be off duty and get paid by tip.
This is actually true. The American federal government requires a wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees that receive at least $30 per month in tips. If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any week, the employer is required to increase cash wages to compensate.
As a waiter in college i can tell you this scene would never work with 2 black people. They both know what the other would leave... 0.or less than 2 dollars.
Racists means you hate people from a particular race or think they are inferior. Noticing patterns in groups is just logical. Does observing that most mass shooters are men make you hate men, but not all men shoot people. No shit. If a white person comes in a restaurant they are around 15-25% likely to tip poorly. With black people it is around 60-70%.
@@purpleliver12 its not called logic genius, its called a stereotype. For example, while it is true that most of the mass shooters (church, hospitals, schools, movie theatres, etc) in America happen to be white males, that does not mean all white men are mass shooters/murderers. It would be silly to think so. The point is just because in your town, "black" people tip poorly, that does not mean the entire "black race" tips poorly. That would be an ignorant comment to make. Shame on you and the OP.
