To Insure Prompt Service
A tip (also called a gratuity) is a sum of money tendered to certain service sector workers for a service performed or anticipated. Such payments and their size are a matter of social custom. Tipping varies among cultures and by service industry. In some circumstances, such as with U.S. government workers, receiving of tips is illegal.
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Famous quotes containing the words insure, prompt and/or service:
“flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Treat your child-care worker as you want your boss to treat you—with respect, professionalism, adherence to policies and prompt payments.”
—Candyce H. Stapen (20th century)
“Night City was like a deranged experiment in Social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you’d break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone ... though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)