Dear editor:
Recently I have decided to return to school. In doing so, I have taken a job as a food server for a local restaurant in the area. I am appalled at how many people do not know the proper etiquette for tipping food servers. In fact, many are downright insulting at the pennies they leave a server on a high-dollar ticket.
I chose to be a server, but for many they are trying to raise a family on the $2.13 per hour plus the small amount of tips left behind by greedy patrons. In case you have forgotten, the proper amount to tip a waiter or waitress is a standard 15 percent to 20 percent.
For a brief period, someone has taken time out of their day to be your servant and provide you with an experience that you cannot get any place else.
John C. Bates
Hot Springs
Editorial on 02/07/2016