How Are You Doing to Night?

Powell: If you're my waiter or waitress, if you're my server at my table, this is the one thing i would ask you not to do. When you say, how are you doing to night? That feels so much better to me than what sounds kind of like patronizing and over familiar. I realize tipping is controversial. People like danny myer, past guest on this podcast, has worked really hard to take tipping out of the equation altogether. He points out that servers get overpaid; people who bust the table work in the kitchens often don't get any tip in so they get underpaid.