Michael Regilio
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2,071 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
Michael Regilio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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American history is full of cringe.
But yeah, this was Taft's way of saying he was putting his foot down on tipping culture and he was echoing something a lot of people were feeling.
Yeah.
Look, back then, people saw it as a shakedown.
They complained that everywhere you went, you had to pay for things twice.
Once for the food, and then for the service.
In fact, in 1916, a popular book called The Itching Palm captured that sentiment.
It was essentially one long diatribe against tipping.
Yeah, sounds like an Agatha Christie novel to me, The Itching Palm.
But in reality, the author was a guy by the name of William R. Scott, and he argued that tipping wasn't a
optional but coerced.
People felt social pressure to always tip, whether the service was good or not.
Yeah, again, he said the same thing.
He said it debases workers, forcing them into subservient flattery rather than just being professional.
Yeah, look, I've been both.
I've been the waiter begging.
It did feel like begging for something from the customer of my employer.
Like that was it felt that was the tradeoff.
You can come in and beg my customers for money.
And so I've been that, but I've also been the customer.
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