Well, if you want comics, there's Big Planet. If you want used vinyl, Second Story Books has some.

I’m a fan of the Dabney

RARE Steakhouse is my favorite high end steakhouse, but St Anslem's is better though it's below your price point unless you get the tomahawk.

Sounds like you have good relationships! Ask them if they know of any student or parents looking for a tutor in economics and/or Russian. And post electronically or in writing offering tutoring services at coffee shops on and off college campus and coffee shops near expensive high schools (ie get their parents).

Jônt on 14th is at least $300 per person

But that's only on NPS land. Elsewhere, DC is very protest friendly. You can generally just start up an impromptu protest. Outside of specifically targeting people's houses, there's no need to contact the police. MPD will even direct traffic for your protest if they see one.

My favorite is El Cielo I'm an outlier because I didn't enjoy Sushi Nakazawa. The chef left recently anyway

This is a really condescending and unsympathetic response.

In real life, I am just trying to navigate public transit safely to get to my public sector job so I can try to help this country for pay way below what I could command elsewhere because I really give a shit. I personally am concerned by trends in law enforcement that imperil my ability to get to my job safely, including what happens to criminals once they are caught.

Everyone in this sub is also trying to just get to their real life job and live their life, and their concerns are valid. Who are you to carve out plenty of time to comment on this subreddit in the first place but then claim some false "too busy trying to solve the real problems" excuse to diminish someone who has a valid concern about how the city they live and work in is being managed?

I’m pretty sure it’s sticky fingers.

They’re just farming out everything to private labs or federal labs depending on the stage of the case.

No clue on whether labs cooperate around here- they just spit the reports back out a few months after arrest.

Sounds like you went to Sticky Fingers.

When I heard about their policy, I immediately left.

And im vegan.

I recently took the class at the lab it took about 20 min they just give you a tour. 2 people showed up for it. I think if you show up when it’s happening you can most likely take it since people no show all the time.

The thrift store question has already been asked 3-5 times in the few days.

All but the absolute biggest and most historic marches really don’t take that much space compared to the size of the National Mall. Come whenever and enjoy!

At some point it ceases to be my problem … you get 20% extra on the bill from me, how that is divvied up isn’t my call. I used to work in restaurants and I truly empathize with the workers, but I can’t shoulder figuring out their pay structure when I’m just trying to eat dinner.

To your last point, I don’t tip at retail or pickup only restaurants (except on very large orders).

There was a little info icon next to the service fee on the app but all it said was that it "helped the restaurant cover expenses".

I don't think there is any requirement that a "service fee" goes to the staff. So if you don't tip because of the service fee you might just be moving money from the staff to the owner. Which isn't necessarily an awful thing especially if they don't really provide any service but could also screw the staff.

And outside of DC and for services like GrubHub and DoorDash or Amazon grocery delivery, there is no guarantee that the tip even goes to the driver it just goes to either the delivering company or the restaurant. And I have been seeing tips requested everywhere like at checkout, when the person literally doesn't provide any service.

My favorite was at the Union Market cheese shop where the tip suggestions were 20%, 25%, or 30%. I'm going to tip someone 30% for cutting and wrapping a wedge of cheese?

Same here. If the fee is >=20% I just don’t tip. If less, I do something close to the difference. But there is no way to know if the owners are actually using it to pay their employees and not just pocketing the difference.

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Oh … service fees started to proliferate in the pandemic. I never tip on top of them unless I need to do so to get to 20% (eg I will tip 5% on a 15% service fee). I’ll rarely make exceptions to that rule for outstanding service.

But if a service fee is 20%, I generally don’t leave an extra tip. Gotta keep an eye out for them too, some places are a bit sneaky.

It’s either broken or they’re running late & want everyone to hurry up and sit

Thank you! Yeah that’s really the most expansive item and probably why they took it

I get that but it seems like bars and restaurants are changing their policies, or new places are starting out with them, that are intended to work with Initiative 82 once it kicks in. Like why else would you randomly add a 20% service fee to every check? Maybe this is the only place in DC doing it -- I doubt it -- hence my question.

I can tutor economics and Russian language! I’m also pretty good with dogs and occasionally babysit dogs of professors from my department, though its fairly infrequent. I also used to play tennis semi-pro, but it’s been 7 years since I played. I thought to maybe see whether I can get a coaching position at the local tennis club. And now that you’ve mentioned Facebook I’ll try to see whether there are any jobs in my neighborhood.

Will you name the H St restaurant so I can avoid it?