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Business Remark

The notion that tipping is optional and the amount discretionary is as quaint as the soul who might try it. Short of being angered to the point of fisticuffs or other forms of mayhem, if you last in a restaurant long enough to get the check, the basic rules are simple:

Fifteen percent of the bill for the waiter; another 5% of the bill for the captain, in the places where he makes the salad and generally works at the job; one dollar per bottle for the wine steward; and/or a buck for the bartender if he had made several drinks. [And don't think] you can walk out without tipping if you have been dissatisfied. . . .

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

(HENRY FORD)