Llama and Lamb

Rachel and I are both small bargain shoppers–no, not small-bargain, we are actually short and have small stomachs. Whenever we eat out, we spend less than $15. We often split an entree and both feel bad for our servers, because if we were bigger, hungrier, less frugal, we’d spend $30 to $40. Which leads me to ask the question. . . can people actually afford to buy alcohol with their meal? Do they just make more than us or are they in credit card debt? Maybe they only eat once in a blue moon and only twice in a purple one. I just don’t know. And who orders appetizers? Are our over-sized first-world heaping platters of food and unlimited bread not enough for some people?

Today due to the weather, Rachel and I were the only guests in a server’s section–at lunch–on a Saturday–before Christmas–in front of a mall. I felt bad, so I tipped 30%, but that’s still only a few bucks on two orders of soup and salad. So if you are a server and have served us, we’re sorry that we are gluttons and we didn’t spend more and therefore tip more.

You could ask (and feel free to, just do it quietly if there are people around) is the problem actually how much Rachel and I eat? Or is the problem the tipping method we use? Should there be a minimum tip? What if only one people was eating out?

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