Wow, one person, you really try to twist information to suit your own needs, much like your Yahoo Answers article with ONE mention of Canadians and your Distressed Waitress link with 2 mentions of Canadians, seems you are just grabbing at straws, and I'd hardly say my countries servers are equally as discouraged seeing as only 1 has agreed with you.
By your reasoning, We're right, we've already had one American former server who has said she didn't EXPECT a tip of 20% or more and all she lived off were tips, so yeah I guess if one person agrees with you you're right. Here'll I'll show you abaya's post again just in case you missed it, or were ignoring it because it doesn't support your argument, my guess is you're ignoring and hoping we miss it:
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Originally Posted by abaya
Host, don't get me wrong, I'm usually sympathetic to a lot of what you post. But this casting of all the waitstaff workers in America as being "us" is a bit much. I WAS one of those "us" people, and I did not share your opinion at the time.
Did you miss that I worked as a waitress for several years, when I didn't GET an hourly wage, not least because part of the time, I was working underage at my parents' restaurant? ALL I got were tips. And I still got 10-15%, most of the time... and never, ever thought it was strange, nor did it influence me to treat customers like shit.
Sure, I got the occasional 20%+ tip, which of course I wasn't about to turn down, but that was maybe one table a month. I certainly didn't expect it from every table, every night. (And I don't remember having more than a handful of Canadians in our restaurant, in all the years that I worked there--they were all Americans.)
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Hmmmm notice didn't EXPECT it from every table, whereas you seem to expect the maximum all the time.