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NEWS ABOUT: servers

servers stories: 8 news summaries

Pub's Bad Service Leads
to Arrest—of Irate Patrons

No skipping gratuity, restaurant says

Nov 20, 09 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Turns out that mandatory 18% gratuity for large parties at restaurants is mandatory enough that skipping it can get you arrested. A Philadelphia-area couple who found service at a pub was so scarce they essentially waited on themselves and their six friends ended up in cuffs when they refused to... More »

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theft • servers • restaurant • arrest • tipping • waitress • food services • gratuity • Bethlehem, Pa.

 100 No-Nos Insulting to Waiters 

Former waiter irked by Bruce Buschel's New York Times list

Nov 11, 09 9:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Along with the rest of the world—or at least, frequenters of the New York Times website—Lauren Bans read restaurateur Bruce Buschel’s recent “100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do.” And the former waiter is pretty annoyed. “No minimum wage job should ever require a... More »

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servers • restaurant • dining • etiquette • restaurateurs • employees • restaurant industry • waitress • waiter • Jay-ZTV • rules

CHECK, PLEASE

 Biggest Restaurant 
 No-Nos, Part 2 

Owner offers another 50 ways to please guests, keep job

Nov 5, 09 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Bruce Buschel isn't out of touch. "I realize that every deli needs a wisecracking waiter," he writes in the New York Times, "and burgers always taste better when delivered by a server with tattoos and tongue piercing(s)." But at his soon-to-open restaurant, these rules (coupled... More »

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servers • restaurant • dining • etiquette • employees • waiter • Jay-ZTV • rules

check, please

 The Biggest Restaurant No-Nos 

Owner lays down the law with these rules for staff

Oct 29, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The seafood restaurant Bruce Buschel is building will have excellent service—or else. Some staff members, he acknowledges, "will no doubt protest some or most of what follows," but he's the boss, and he presents 50 rules in his New York Times blog. A tasting menu:
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servers • restaurant • seafood • dining • restaurant industry • waitress • waiter

(Newser) - A diner who leaves a 10% tip these days is likely a tightwad, a tourist, or a victim of terrible service, but that same 10% tip would have been perfectly acceptable in the '50s. The going rate for gratuities has steadily crept up over the decades, studies find, hitting 15%... More »

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servers • restaurant • tipping • customer service

Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

Files from '03 — at
start of Iraq war — backed up, but where?

May 7, 08 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - White House emails from March-September 2003—the first few months of the Iraq invasion—still have not been found, the Washington Post reports. An advocacy group is suing for the release of the emails, and federal law requires such high-level communications be preserved. Officials, still searching, say the data might... More »

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email • White House • servers • disaster recovery • Iraq war • Theresa Payton

HP Earnings Spike 28%

The PC and server giant enjoys high sales, not affected by economic slump

Nov 19, 07 6:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Computer and printer giant Hewlett-Packard rode strong server, software, and PC sales to a 28% boost in fourth quarter earnings from a year ago, CNN Money reports. The company posted a net profit of $2.2 billion, with a share price of 81 cents, up from 60 cents a year... More »

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Dell • servers • Sun Microsystems • corporate earnings • Cisco • Qualcomm • computer

Mobile Servers Save Energy, Add Capacity

Sun packages extra processing power
in steel shipping containers

Jun 22, 07 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sun Microsystems has a solution for the booming demand for network space, and as a bonus, it lowers energy use: packing servers into steel shipping containers that can be parked wherever they're needed. It's called Project Blackbox, and Sun says it reduces power consumption by 20%. The giant 20-foot boxes... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Internet • Stanford • Microsoft • Stanford University • shipping container • network • online videos • data centers • servers • Sun Microsystems • watts • power supply • storage • particle accelerator

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