"It is a cozy sweetheart deal in which Whitefish gets a gratuity for subcontracting the actual providers".
Among other modest benefits like a gravestone and funeral costs, the family of a soldier lost in war gets a "death gratuity" of $6,000, the proceeds of a life insurance policy of as little as $200,000 and a pension for widows of at least $10,000 per year.
It's manifest, too, in the smaller number of restaurants that announce from the get-go that each and every group of diners, no matter the size, will get a bill with the gratuity already added to it.
So instead of the usual Christmas gratuities of $500 and $200, respectively, Dr. Sachs surprised them: the nanny got a nose job, the masseuse a face lift and eye tuck, all on the house.
"They have failed to get jobs, their parents have failed to get their gratuities and pensions after 35 years in the civil service and they struggle to put food on the table.
I have a sort of vision of her family being in catering on the south coast, you know, and her working behind a bar somewhere, he being demobbed from his national service and getting his gratuity, you know, and going in for a drink and this... barmaid behind the bar and she fancied him because he was so posh.
"But if they call it a gratuity, it's got to go to the server, and there's no need to tip beyond that".
His contract, as I discovered later, allows only a gratuity upon cessation of the contract.
That phrase "additional gratuity" would seem to imply that the 20percentt is, in fact, a gratuity, but Schaffer says his clients don't get that money.
The detailed disclaimer could be Legends' attempt to get in better line with a New York law that says no employer can "retain any part of a gratuity or of any charge purported to be a gratuity for an employee".
