Restaurants should hand all tips – and money accrued from service charges – to staff, the U.K Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills recently decided. Sajid Javid wants to prevent firms from taking any share of tips; and for restaurants to make it clearer to customers that service charges are optional. The proposals …
Yesterday I received an email from a new crowd funding platform called “CoverrMe.com” that helps readers in need raise cash from total strangers for mortgages, medical bills, vet bills, debt, etc. This isn’t new. Some while ago musician Kanye West appealed to his Twitter audience for cash donations, saying he was $53m.in debt. This tendency …
“Americans were once modest and self-sacrificing, but then the 1960s came and the nation turned into a bunch of entitled narcissists. That’s the “conventional story, beloved especially on the Right”, says David Brooks, a commentator with the New York Times and a talking head on public television. Yet the facts don’t match the narrative, he …
“A couple of years ago, my son had to undergo surgery for a hernia. He was rolled into the operation room and I was waiting nervously outside. “After some time, the surgeon poked his head out of the operation room and asked me, “Is the hernia on the right or on the left side?’” “Surgical …
83% of people who have lost a loved one in the past year were given parting words of wisdom by the deceased. 62% were given advice by the dying about relationships, 56% about careers, and 32% about money. 21% were told by their loved one to correct past mistakes, but 17% were urged to go …
