{"id":2638,"date":"2007-08-17T10:57:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T18:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/on_the_volatility_of_markets.html"},"modified":"2007-08-17T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T18:57:41","slug":"on_the_volatili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/on_the_volatili.html","title":{"rendered":"On The Volatility Of Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, just because the Dow has tanked for a couple of weeks now doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re allowed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08172007\/news\/regionalnews\/restaurants_party_is_over_as_staffs_feel_the_big_ting_regionalnews_melissa_jane_kronfeld_and_chuck_bennett.htm\">stiff the waitstaff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Stingier restaurant tips and smaller company parties are adding to the fiscal fallout from Wall Street&#8217;s market slump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tipping has gone from about 18 percent to 12 to 14 percent,&#8221; moaned Rene Santiz, a waiter at City Lobster on West 49th Street, which caters to a Midtown finance crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you hear your co-workers complaining, it&#8217;s definitely happening. People used to have a cocktail or glass of wine with dinner and now it&#8217;s just water. You can feel the stress,&#8221; he added.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>. . . sort of makes stuff like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownexpress.com\/de_223\/hedgefund.html\">Hedge Fund Regatta<\/a> seem like a quaint relic of the (bygone?) New Gilded Age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, just because the Dow has tanked for a couple of weeks now doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re allowed to stiff the waitstaff: Stingier restaurant tips and smaller company parties are adding to the fiscal fallout from Wall Street&#8217;s market slump. &#8220;Tipping has gone from about 18 percent to 12 to 14 percent,&#8221; moaned Rene Santiz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}