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I went to a tapas bar and sat down (as usual) and ordered my food.
Then after an hour, just for 3 plates, the waiter comes and asks if I
would like some bread and oil so i say yes. I quickly gobble down
the bread and wait. After another half hour my food comes and it
is nice, very nice, and then the bill comes... £50... that's right £50...
then i notice that the man had placed the bread on as well! so i complained
and he took it off the bill... I am never going there again just for
spicy prawns, roast beef and a bowl of raw cod and tomato and to
leave with £45 less than before.

Wow. Maybe you should check the prices before you order?

I'm a huge fan of fine dining, so a good meal may well be worth $75+, depending on the food and so forth.

There's expensive and there's expensive and value for money.

8-9 years ago I went to The River Cafe with the wife, daughter and M-i-L. It cost about £170 but it was bloody well worth it. We absolutely stuffed ourselves with top quality Italian food and booze. Could barely walk afterwards. The daughter was only a toddler so she didn't eat much.

That kind of price seems cheap compared to London nowadays.

Man, I remember one New Year's Eve dinner in NYC - *fan-freakin-tastic* eating & drinking. We ate like kings. Totally worth it.

Is minimum wage seriously $2.50 in the States? Wow, that's pretty harsh... It's like £5.70 here and that seems like feth all.

Min. is $7.25 but depending on the State it could be less than that for tipped employees. Some States are still paying $2.13/hour to tipped workers. It varies from State to State as States are allowed to pay TIPPED employees whatever they want so long as it's at least the Fed. minimum of $2.13/hour.

Here is a table showing the States that pay ABOVE the $2.13 Federal minimum. States are allowed to pay tipped workers less than the Federal minimum so long as it is no less than $2.13 per hour. Most States it appears do pay at least the STATE minimum wage. Also, keep in mind that every State in the union MUST pay the new Fed. minimum of $7.25/hour to NON-tipped employees unless their State is higher than they must pay the higher of the 2 (like WA State which has $8.55/hour minimum).

http://nelp.3cdn.net/d8be187b699287ef05_ugm6b3pg8.pdf

So actually in most States waitresses get paid really well in relation to the other diners/restaurants employees. Wait staff in WA get paid the best, wait staff in Delaware really struggle.

I didn't see anything saying diners/eating establishments must pay the difference so I think another poster is confused. If a waitress in Delaware works for 8 hours she will make $17 + tips (let's say $30) for a total of $47. That is it. The diner does not have to pay her the difference to catch her up to what a burger flipper at BK is making per hour.

It's a bit like CEO salaries where the basic salary is actually fairly low, and they rely on bonuses and pension payments to make it up.

Stay the feth out of India, m'fren. You'll have an aneyurism. Every fething jerkoff wants a "compliment". I tell them their sister is fuckable.

I lol'd.

Here in Oz, tips are not an official thing. They are tax free. So on saturdays, I am making $16.50(about $14.34us) an hour, plus tips.