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Scandal: Hillary Refused to Tip at Chipotle
Bloomberg News has stumbled across the scandal of the year, if not the millennium. Answering a question no one was asking, reporter David “Scoop” Knowles has blown the 2016 presidential race wide open and our political system will be lucky to survive the fallout.
On Hillary Clinton’s endlessly fascinating trip to Chipotel Chitople a fast-food restaurant, the candidate didn’t leave a tip.
Several news sources revealed surveillance footage of the cash transaction. Neither Hillary nor loyal aide Huma Abedin-Weiner motioned toward the tip jar, despite what I can only assume were the wan, pleading expressions of burrito slingers on the business end of the sneeze guard.
How callous. How contemptuous. How cruel.
“Her bill was $20 and some change, and they paid with $21 and left” without putting anything in a tip jar on the counter, Charles Wright, the manager at the Maumee, Ohio, Chipotle restaurant told Bloomberg.
Wearing large sunglasses, Clinton wasn’t recognized by any of the workers at the fast-food Mexican chain when she and Huma Abedin, the vice chairwoman of her presidential campaign, ordered a chicken burrito bowl, a chicken salad, a blackberry Izzy, and a soda.
“The other lady paid the bill,” Wright said of one of Clinton’s dark-haired companions. “Clinton didn’t pay.”
The change from the meal totaled less than a dollar, but it was pocketed rather than deposited in the tip jar as many customers at the restaurant do, Wright said.
“We get a bunch of tips,” said Wright, who is a Republican and says he isn’t planning on voting for Clinton. “If we’re doing our job right, people tip.”
Well, well. Where is Ms. Champion of the Middle Class now? I bet if she chose to dine in, she’d leave her tray on the table — or throw it away along with the garbage. The whole scene is so sickeningly Clintonesque.
However. Despite the low-rent behavior of this elderly multimillionaire and her live-in nurse, it’s time we had a national conversation on gratuities. Though I’m an impoverished soul who lives off bulk ramen and stolen ketchup packets, had I más dinero en el banco, I still wouldn’t tip at Chipotle or other fast-food restaurants.
When I’m at a restaurant with tableside service I leave 20%, varying by about five percent for exceptionally good or bad service. But when I have to slog up to a counter, give my order, correct my order, pay the creatively pierced mouthbreather, then pick up my own food — whom exactly am I tipping?
I’ll usually tip the help at my local hipster coffeehouse, but part of that is an investment for preferential treatment on my next visit. At sketchier joints I might showily toss in a buck so the help doesn’t add any special ingredients. (Always be kind to the ex-con preparing your food, kids.) But why should I pay above and beyond for service when I’m the guy providing the service?
So when it comes to Chipotle, Pho Shizzle, or the Grillenium Falcon consider me on Team Hillary. If that makes me Lebaneser Scrooge, let me know in the comments.
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I gotta admit the price of a burrito at Chipotle seems to already include a pretty decent tip…
Agreed. If I need to put on my distance glasses rather than my reading glasses to see the menu there ain’t no tipping to be done.
For service tipping I base it on two very distinct questions:
I did recently give a generous tip to a waitress who utterly failed. It was her first day doing the job, a manager was perched on her shoulder like a zombie parrot, and she was obviously having a bad day because of it. I didn’t get creamer for the coffee until I was half way through the second cup. She somehow managed to completely get my wife’s order wrong, but the manager did nothing to save the restaurant’s reputation by knocking anything off the bill. The poor waitress got a decent tip and a note on the check wishing her a better day, but the establishment has lost some frequency on my business.
So “live in nurse” is what we’re calling it these days……..
Perhaps Republicans would have accomplished more on the personal server scandal if they had asked whether Hillary tipped the folks who deleted her e-mails.
Ooohhhh…. I wish I was a Huma Abedin-Weiner…
I think the interesting thing is that she paid in cash (or rather, one of her people paid in cash because filthy lucre never sullies her hands) . Most everyday Americans these days pay with credit or debit cards. She just isn’t relating to us. Of course, I guess it’s for the best that she didn’t say, “You’re giving me a bill? Don’t you know who I am? You should be paying me for all this free publicity!”
I usually take a buck or two from the jar. Is that wrong?
Didn’t Bill bum money off of a Secret Service agent one time while out shopping?
That is what you truly want to be?
Because if you were a Huma Abedin-Weiner…
Also, I don’t tip if the food is handed to me across a counter. Sorry if you feel your employees are underpaid raise your prices. Don’t shake (shame) me down with a tip jar.
This, as in all things, is only wrong if someone sees you.
More likely she’s just so accustomed to having everything provided for her that she doesn’t carry any card or currency. She will never, ever relate to someone who has taken an item out of the bag and handed it back to the cashier to bring down the bill.
I am never going out to dinner with the King Prawn. It’s like dining with Mr. Pink.
Although as a person of modest means I only occasionally tip at a self-service place, Clinton has hundreds of millions and can afford a five spot. That she doesn’t think to do so when there is a tip jar shows that she really doesn’t care about “everyday people.” She should be overtipping just to make their day.
If it’s self-service exactly what are people tipping for?
Jon,
I mean really, the last time somebody expected Hillary to pick up a bill Huma took their name and the next day the health inspectors were all over them.
Com’on Jon get with the program. The world was made for Hillary.
Are you ready for Hillary? You’d better be or else.
Regards,
Jim
She was trying not to draw attention to herself…. bwhahahahaha!
Not the donation jar for the disabled kids charity, surely!
;-)
Ok, I tried to resist, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FTWZyoYo48
Good Grief!
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Thank you.
Very funny, Barfly.
Now the manager knows why the security company came in the day before with “orders from Home Office” that the system cams be in perfect order.
Trail Blazer or Bus Driver? You be the judge.
Maybe she was just mad about the guac costing extra.
Bellicose Harridan
My God. Hillary was asked a question. OK, it was only from a server from behind the counter, but you have to start somewhere.
Tipping at an over the counter pick up place does not make sense. There is no way that the delivery of the actual product can be more than standard (which should be part and parcel in the price). And since you have not tasted it, it is premature to pay a premium to the cook. Living in New York City, I see plenty of people who put 5 or 10 dollar bills in the tip jar after having order a coffee for 2 or 3 dollar at Starbucks. Doesn’t make sense to me. More like showing off.
Suggest we focus our criticism of Hillary Clinton on policy rather than trivia.
It’s all so delicious, why skip dessert?