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By: _RId » Blog Archive » Orange Day

_RId » Blog Archive » Orange Day — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:16:44 +0000

[...] April 14th is called “Orange Day” in Japan according to this article that came out on top when I googled “Orange Day”. So “visit your partner with an orange present” tomorrow. [...]

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:35:33 +0000

Ah, great!

The Japanese system is so much easier and should be introduced in the rest of the world.

By: yuki

yuki — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:59:29 +0000

I know the “tipping” custom. When I went to Thailand, I tipped taxi drivers, hotel clerks who changed my sheet and waiters. In some restaurants, I didn’t heve to pay a tip because the restaurants came from abroad.

I think I also paid about a 10% or 20% tip. So I could understand why the waiter’s case is not usual and that it is difficult to recieve a 30 tip. I want to be satisfied with waiters’ service in restaurants as I feel like paying a tip in Japan.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:24:12 +0000

It occurred to me after linking to the Waiter posts that you’d need to be familiar with the practice of “tipping” to understand the stories. In many Western countries, including the US, waiters expect to get a “tip”, i.e. extra money that they can keep for themselves and don’t have to hand over to the restaurant that employs them.

As a customer at a restaurant, you don’t pay at a cash register when you leave the premises after a meal; you pay at the table, handing the waitstaff the money. If you’re happy with the service you received from the waitstaff, you’re expected to add about 10% on top of the bill. That’s called a “tip”.

In the Valentine’s Day part, the waiter receives a 30% tip, which is pretty extraordinary and means that the customers were very, very happy with his service.

By: yuki

yuki — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:54:43 +0000

I got that story from Valentine’s anecs which is a Japanese page. It says that Orange Day is a kind of bussiness practice which capitalizes on Valentine’s Day in Japan like White Day. So I didn’t know neither that Orange Day is a Irish festival nor when it takes place.

I read the writter’s blog. It made me lough and gave me a new impression of waiters on Valentine’s Day. I found they are much busier than my imagination.

I will memorize the phrase “Happy Valenswine’s Day!�?.

By: ammann

ammann — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:52:28 +0000

Where did you get that story about Orange Day being on 14 April? Orange Day is a traditional Irish festival celebrated by the Protestant minority and takes place on July 12. That said, it means different things to different people, apparently. I found Valentine's Eve and V Day very, very funny -- they're by an anonymous waiter who runs a blog and writes about his job. Valentine's Day is usually pretty stressful for waiters, but this year the guy was lucky, it seems.