“Do you need change?”

[Rmis32]

"Funny you should ask, because I just gave you a $10 bill, and my latte and raspberry scone came to $5.75. As much as I think you’re pleasing to look at, and you do magical things with frothy milk, I just don’t see your services commanding a 70-plus percent premium over the market rate for my breakfast."

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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/201...

[nofunlatte]

The NYTimes said that this post set a comments record--over 1100, I think (last I checked, the comments were up to page 46. Interesting how people are more likely to post a comment about tips than they are about war or torture or foreclosures or other more "newsworthy" topics, though, to be fair, many of the Times articles don't allow comments. BTW, I think I waded through about 3 pages of comments and that's enough--after all, we've probably read the very same thoughts on Chowhound!