Well good on the Papagayo tip, but your rant against the "tipping culture" leads to a question... in feeding your personal quirk, you punish other underpaid restaurant servers and others whose income is mainly dependent on tips, which does NOTHING to impact the establishment owners who set the wages. Do you cause those servers who rely on tips for the bulk of their incomes to get shortchanged and go wanting whenever you dine out in the Dayton / Kettering area? And do you do it all while feeling smug in justifying your stingy, penny pinching behavior on "principle"?????

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Carol / Eric, go ahead and lock this thread...I apologize, but this mean, sanctimonious attitude from an anon just set me off...