Tipping fact
I perceive the lesser tipping quantities/percentages, however let’s face it: Servers are incomes an hourly wage to do exactly that — serve (“Econ’s tipping level,” Nov. 22).
Ideas are an incentive to servers to be further well mannered, further attentive and immediate with orders. Most employees don’t obtain suggestions at their jobs, so in a single sense, hospitality employees ought to be glad about any tip in any respect.
If their service was wonderful, then their tip ought to mirror it. I actually am a 20% tipper, however once I’ve skilled poor service, 20% goes all the way down to 10% and even much less.
Bob Eagleson
North Bergen, NJ
Children at risk
The upshot of Naomi Schaefer Riley’s column is sort of apparent: Younger kids maintain winding up lifeless as a result of they’re quickly returned by the Administration for Youngsters’s Companies to their abusers. (“Lifeless Toddlers,” Nov. 22).
Nevertheless, Schaefer Riley makes a extra attention-grabbing, however equally miserable, statement when she quotes a Youngsters’s Bureau affiliate commissioner who describes “little one welfare” as an limitless “darkish tunnel.”
If our child-protection businesses don’t defend younger kids from murderous dad and mom and comparable so-called caregivers, accountable members of the family and vital others will ultimately take issues into their very own fingers by doing no matter it takes to maintain these children protected, reminiscent of fleeing with them to undisclosed places.
The intuition to guard a baby is highly effective and primitive, and it doesn’t worship on the altar of bureaucratic niceties.
Mark Stuart Ellison
Brooklyn
Bottle bother
Comfort shops have been on the entrance strains of the state’s bottle invoice for 40 years (“Enviros’ can-do request,” Nov. 22).
Shops acquire and pay deposits and settle for empty bottles. Because the legislation went into impact, nevertheless, a rising variety of shops have began to promote meals below license from the state Division of Agriculture and Markets.
When bottles are introduced in for redemption they’re not often washed out and are contained in baggage which are sticky and unsanitary, which magnetize micro organism, bugs and mice.
The state of affairs worsens when third-party collectors fail to choose up empty bottles as often because the legislation requires, leaving again rooms full with weeks’ value of empties, inside steps of meals storage and prep areas.
Any growth of the “bottle invoice” ought to embrace a redemption-requirement exemption for shops which are lower than 5,000 sq. toes and discover an alternative choice to requiring all small retail shops to redeem deposit containers.
Kent Sopris
President, New York Affiliation of Comfort Shops
Albany
Kyrie’s bigotry
For those who imagine that in some way Nets participant Kyrie Irving goes to have some euphoric revelation, overlook it (“Sorry state,” Nov. 20).
What I’m involved about is how he has poisoned the minds of impressionable children. I’m additionally disgusted with the tepid response of the NBA Gamers Affiliation to his completely inauthentic apology.
However I’m not in opposition to providing a attainable answer for the Gamers Affiliation if they’re critical about “therapeutic.”
Right here is the thought: Sponsor bus-loads of kids from each NBA metropolis to go to The Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. Take them on the tour. Allow them to see it. Make it actual and make it visceral. Then we will speak about apologies. What an excellent public relations transfer that will be.
Oh, and take Kyrie with you.
Stewart Frimer
Forest Hills
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