{"id":6484,"date":"2012-08-29T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2012-08-29T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T17:43:43","slug":"afternoon-read-north-country-vermont-eateries-target-lousy-quebec-tippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/08\/29\/afternoon-read-north-country-vermont-eateries-target-lousy-quebec-tippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon Read:  North Country, Vermont eateries target lousy Quebec tippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are restaurants in northern New York and Vermont forcing French-speaking Quebecers to pay more because they are lousy tippers?\u00a0 The weekly magazine 7 Days and the Montreal Gazette say yes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/business\/French+Canadians+singled+tippers+Vermont\/7157701\/story.html\">This from 7 Days<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least two eateries admit they allow servers to add an automatic gratuity on the bills of diners who appear to be Qu\u00e9becois. Why? Because Canadians are presumed to be bad tippers. A few local servers even have a nickname for the surcharge: They call it the \u201cQueeb tax.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/business\/French+Canadians+singled+tippers+Vermont\/7157701\/story.html\">Montreal Gazette<\/a> picked up on this story and found restaurant owners in Burlington and Plattsburgh, some of them speaking on condition of anonymity, who acknowledged that sometimes Quebecois get singled out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA few times a week, we get tables that will eat for $100 and leave, like, three bucks or $5. And 100 per cent of the time for stuff like that, it\u2019s French Canadians. Not all French Canadians do that, definitely not, but when it happens it\u2019s always French Canadians. Basically, it\u2019s large bills that get loose change as a tip.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.\u00a0 Maybe Quebec diners don&#8217;t realize that servers on our side of the border earn peanuts and don&#8217;t usually have health insurance or other benefits?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Is the anti-Quebec tourist grumbling that we hear so often justified?\u00a0 Visitors from across the border drive a lot of our prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are restaurants in northern New York and Vermont forcing French-speaking Quebecers to pay more because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}