it wins. You got me.
I did the math. If I dine out every night for 3 weeks and leave a $20 tip (which isn't even 15% at times) it comes out, on average, to .016 of my overall expenses per trip. When I consider the challenges that the working class face on a daily basis in "paradise", it's literally the least I can do.
Kim....that's interesting that you have Eastern Europeans working there ...they make up about 40% of our summer help in PTown.....been that way for about ten years now ...and a lot of them go out to Colorado ski country when the Cape season ends
The same thing is happening here but I suspect I will hear flack for posting the facts that are given to me via resto workers we know.
this
is a very personal point of view
. Some clients want everything like home ..........
BINGO....we have a winner
and thats EXACTLY what we Americans do...we discover a place , fall in love with it, and then immediately discount their culture and try to force feed our culture into it instead ....and we do it with the leverage our money and wealthy influence creates ...its sickening
and then we wonder why the world opinion of us is what it is
Jeep.... you will appreciate this story
Many years ago (24) there was a lovely woman who ran Petit Colombe in Colombier ..and my wife and her became friendly and would often sit together and have an espresso before my wife would order the bread and pastries to take back to the bungalow ......and the woman had utter contempt for Americans who would come in and couldn't be bothered to at least know enough French to order what they wanted and she told her workers to NOT speak English to them ( most of them couldn't speak it anyway ) as they're not in America and that's that ....and she would go off on my wife in French when a guy would come in and attempt to speak English louder as if that would make them understand English better, and my wife would just laugh and calm her down ......sadly she got cancer and had to go back to France ....and as we know that sort of atmosphere no longer exists on the Island as the Island as embraced English as the main language now ....
I'm French and my wife in Scottish.....I can't support tourists and especially US visitors when they don't try to do just a small effort to say "Bonjour". No more.....I Just one word.....We lived for ten years in Val d'Isere, and my wife was in charge of a ski school. Everytime one British come in the office and start to speak directly in English...my wife began to speak French...just to show them that they have to do just a small effort and they're not in UK .....Just to be polite.... ( In fact, sorry for my english...).