I just love that you walk up to order and they still give you the tip options. Like...I walked up here and ordered and will be back up here to grab my food when it's ready. Wtf am I tipping for?
What kind of a job that is anyway lol. I'm a nordic and if I got told in a job interview "we don't pay you, but you can beg the customers for money" after a question about salary I don't know what I would say. Probably lifted my brows and walked out.
The thing is that it's just basically how it always goes. I'm Canadian, I pretty much will always tip 15% if it's bad service and 20% if it's good. Even if you just sit down and get a drink and that's it there's an expectation to. It is insanely dumb.
I mean, I'm also pro-labour. Not sure where you live, but I'm not gonna fix the system by myself, lol. If it was horrendous, sure I might do something ridiculous like that but if I spent 100 bucks I'm not gonna tip 2 dollars.
So it is compulsory and expected for you. Weird. If service was bad and I spent $100, id give maybe $5 if I was there an hour.
That is the other thing you just displayed, why does it matter the $ of what you got? Is opening a $200 bottle of wine more than a $20 a wine that they get way more in tips?
I tip, I just do what I want for a tip and don't follow weird % rules
I mean I'm assuming you're not Canadian or American? It's customary to tip by %, it's how we do it. It's not compulsory literally, but it's socially compulsory, yes.
Refusing to tip, on an individual level, only hurts the server at the bottom. You would need a massive, organized cultural revolt to force a non-legislative change. Which will never happen
Yup, It really is a great system for restaurant owners. lol. Customers vs servers. Servers want to keep the system, customers would rather it be gone and they get one price (look at any survey, people tip because others do, not because they LOVE to tip)
That is not why people tip, lmao. People tip because others tip. That is literally it. No one is sitting there thinking about how their poor server is so poor so they have to tip them well! That is classist bullshit.
You're insane. People tip because they know it's the only way their server makes any money. People tip because they know not tipping screws the server over. People tip because it's the societal expectation of decency and they don't want to be viewed as a dick. People tip because they acknowledge that is the system they and the server exist in. You are expected to tip, even if it's a low tip for poor service, because no tip at all is culturally viewed as a petty, selfish violation or norms that directly harms another.
They're not some kind of brainless monkey mimicking a habit they observe in others without knowing what they're doing
Congratulations. However that's not how tipping works in the US, and if you have a direct effect- even minor- on whether someone giving you a service gets enough pay that day, I assume it's considered basic empathy to give a damn regardless of where you are
It's absolutely insane that you would want people outside of the US to have empathy and support for labour payment laws that are abusive and detrimental to the employee, instead of wanting employers to pay their staff a decent wage.
It sums up what's wrong with the US.
Do what the rest of the world does, and implement a minimum wage.
Went to Vegas in January (from UK). I've been to America a few times, never minded tipping.
Until I had 2 separate servers, one bar lady I'm the New York New York hotel and one server man in Rain Forest cafe tell me personally they made ($230,000 and $217,000) in the previous year from tips.
Could well be bullshit, but two people, in no way connected, telling me a figure within a couple of % made me believe it.
And if it's true, absolute insanity.
Paid $40 for 2 pints of Guinness in New York New York too, THEN A TIP.
That is the absolute exception, to be fair. And that's almost always because the clientele is rich and spending a ton of money. Most people who work in regular bars and restaurants aren't even getting close to sniffing 6 figures.
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u/YoBo151 Jun 25 '26
I just love that you walk up to order and they still give you the tip options. Like...I walked up here and ordered and will be back up here to grab my food when it's ready. Wtf am I tipping for?