The warnings are because some manufacturer somewhere got taken to the cleaners by a wrongful death lawsuit. You can hop somebody’s fence to trespass and use their pool, and if you drown, your family can sue the owners because the fence wasn’t high enough. People have successfully sued the owners of houses they were breaking into because they got hurt in the process.

As for the ice, it’s cheaper than the drink, so restaurants can maximize their profit.

Tips? Does your husband know what federal minimum wage for tipped employees is in most states is? It’s $2.13 an hour. The law requires the employer to make up the difference if the person’s tips don’t equal $7.25 an hour, but a lot of them get away with ignoring this rule. Often this is because the worker is illegal and doesn’t dare complain.