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Maybe I'm too fucking european for this but 20 fucking percent? TWENTY PERCENT? That's being written in this article as normal tipping? Wtf?
They keep raising it because no one knows how math works. Used to be solidly 15% and then mass inflation happened and people think the 15% tip amount doesn't go up with the increased restaurant prices somehow.
At least in Canada anyway. I guess US with the lower minimum wage would lean higher.
20% is the standard now, sometimes people tip more or less
When I was a kid the standard tip was 15%, not sure when/why it changed
Things got more expensive, pay didn’t go up
The millennial and zoomer generations are more appreciative of service workers, often being them themselves and not thinking of them as "starter jobs" and "ingrates" like so many boomers do.
This.
As part of that demographic I usually tip higher because I can afford too and know that the person doing the gig job would benefit.
Exactly. Ever since working shit restaurant jobs, I can’t not tip 20%+
Yes that's normal
yanks are absolutely unhinged
And that shit is just getting imported with yank technology. Have seen quite a few card payment things in the last couple years ask me wether I want to tip 15, 20, or 25%. Often at self service places where tipping is not really a thing.
being asked to tip at a self-service checkout lmao
It’s been a thing for years here in
15 or 20 has been the norm for my entire adult life.
And this reaction was why I was VERY quickly used to British tourists either tipping nothing or giving me literally a dollar when I served tables and did room service at an international restaurant
something unique about the British apparently given every other European nationality would tip appropriately
I think tipping in the UK isn't super common. One waiter actually said so when we were giving a ~10% tip customary where I'm from. Most waiters just said thank you.
I thought they were closer to the US. In so many ways the UK feels closer to the US than to Europe.
My understanding is tipping is only really a thing in the U.S. but all the germans and french and Spaniards etc figured it out
It's fairly common across Europe. But not as high and not as a defacto mandatory part of the transaction.
In some small rural towns people might get pissed at you for tipping because it's seen as the guest acting as an aristocrat or something.
20% is the normalized baseline in major US cities. If you tip less the people you are with will generally consider you stingy.
20%(or any % for that matter) not listed on the menu(even if alongside the price sans tax) is crazy
And another thing 'sales tax' why not list the actual price you'll pay on the item? is it a scam for people who are like 'I can afford this' without doing the calculation, then when they get to the register and realise its more than they can afford they get shamed into wasting their money?
As a yank, I suspect it’s partly what you’re saying and partly just another aspect of the USAmerican “taxation = theft” psyop/brainworm. Taxation is made intentionally confusing and inconvenient here in order to manufacture consent for the gutting of our paltry social services.
I just tipped 25% yesterday because I enjoyed the service
You tip at the end of the meal, so if you plan on tipping 10% they wouldn't know until after you pay.
Federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 an hour. Tipping culture sucks, but not because restaurant workers are entitled.
try asking servers what they think about Black people and how we tip some time
Sorry, I didn't realize you were personally acquainted with every single person that has picked up a shift at a restaurant.
Just admit that you feel the people that bring you food are beneath you.
This labor aristocracy bullshit gets old.
"labor aristocracy" fam i work at a fucking supermarket
interesting that you minimize the racism though but i shouldn't really expect better from crackerbear tbh
They’re pretty entitled whenever they see someone they think doesn’t belong to a class that frequents their establishment. And usually people want to eat at restaurants more than once.
I’ve met and worked with asshole servers too and a few servers are comfortable snobs and class traitors but most are not. We shouldn’t stereotype our fellow workers like this, comrade.
If you walk into a restaurant that charges $300 for an entree, sure.
Any normal restaurant, no.
Waffle House ain't going to kick your ass out for looking disheveled. Olive garden doesn't give a f*** unless your BO is bad enough to impact other customers.
This isn't normal. The Americans' collective head is fucked up.
YOUR NORMAL IS SHIT.
The best we should do is 0%. Employer should pay employees and adjust their prices sensibly so that the business is successful.
Having to pay a tip only means they lied about their prices and tricked you into it.
Employers should but most of them won’t until they are made to through labor and community action. In the meantime, using the services of a tip-dependent workplace and then not tipping only hurts those workers, not their employer.
At least if you have to tip in order to not be an asshole. Its not really a tip then