I have not thought of Jean Claude-Van Damme in so long that I kinda assumed he was teaching karate in a basement somewhere, but lo and behold he was in the news the other day and it involved tipping a server. Apparently, he went to some fancy schmanzy nightclub in Los Angeles and only tipped his server $40 on a $940 bill. This is according to TMZ, so you know it's true, right? Well, then it came out that there was a 15% gratuity added to his bill and the $40 was in addition to that. So what started out as this story that made the guy look a cheap ass bitch, turned out to inform us he was actually pretty generous. Now I don't really know Mr. Muscles From Brussels from Steven Segal to Jackie Chan or any other action hero and I have never seen one of his movies. (Although a quick Google search shows me I need to rent his 1984's Monaco Forever where he played "Gay Karate Guy." Netflix, here I come.) The most interesting thing about this "news story" is the server who went out of his way to call TMZ. The restaurant has come out to say that they did in fact add the tip so why did this server want to make Jean-Claude seem like a cheapskate who only tips 4%? Methinks the server had ulterior motives:- Maybe the server wanted revenge for going to see Kickboxer 4, Maximum Risk, The Quest, Double Team or any other Jean-Claude Van Damme movie from the last twenty years.
- It's possible the waiter is a greedy, money-hungry fame whore who wanted his fifteen minutes of fame so he called TMZ hoping that he would end up famous. (Sounds familiar...)
- Could it be that the server forgot that 15% had already been added and it was an honest mistake? (That's funny.)
- Perhaps the server was actually that dancer who he humped on live television in Spain and made him pop a boner. She wanted pay-back.
- I don't care how much the bill is, I never tip anyone anymore. It's a retarded practice. I don't get tips every time I great a customer at work. I do my work and so should a waiter. (This guy is really popular. I think he wrote on my blog a few weeks ago. And he can't spell.)
- I never understood the whole tipping thing. Employers not the customers should be responsible for the employees wages. Tipping is a luxury not a right. And $40 is enough to cover his cellphone bill for the month. But I think he should be fired for giving the stub to TMZ. (It would be great if our employers paid us a living wage, but they don't. It's how it works. Deal with it. And who is his cell phone carrier that makes him only pay $40 a month?)
- He did the same thing to me a few years back left like 9 bucks on 150.00 foreign or not he knows the difference. What a complete loser. Then again look at his career. karma is a bitch. (Okay, maybe he really is a cheapskate.)
- Why does it matter if he ordered a $500 bottle of ABC instead of a $10 bottle of XYZ? It doesn't require any more effort on the waiter's part to open the more expensive bottle. (Because we have to pay taxes on the total of food and beverage not on how many things we carried to the table, asshole.)
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