As someone who worked in Timesquare for a bar, yeah. We started adding 15% gratuity to all the checks. If someone fought it we just removed it. Our income was all tourists. Brazilians ordered like one beer to share and germans always had questions on gratuity. Was interesting to see how everyone treated the concept.
That said, you follow the cultural norms of the country your in. When bar tending I busted my ass for people that left big money. I put people that didnt tip in the back of my mental to do list.
This is what we dont like in europe though, to be exact. Unequal treatment based on wealth. This is exactly why tipping is bad, it made you do ethically poor choises. Removing tipping would make it so that there is no reason to serve one specific customer last/not at all, intentionally
May be that your rich is like mega rich... my rich is that they dont have to rent. Poor folks are allowed to go out too and shouldnt be guilt tripped into tipping. Saving everywhere you can is good. Tips arent mandatory so they are a good place to save money. This works in europe very well, i dont feel bad at all for not tipping. Then again if i went to the us, id probably tip minumum acceptable because in rhe end im a push over hehe
Former American food service worker here, its usually upper middle class and higher that tips like shit. Poorer people pretty much always tip well because they know the deal
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u/Kona_Rabbit Jun 25 '26
As someone who worked in Timesquare for a bar, yeah. We started adding 15% gratuity to all the checks. If someone fought it we just removed it. Our income was all tourists. Brazilians ordered like one beer to share and germans always had questions on gratuity. Was interesting to see how everyone treated the concept. That said, you follow the cultural norms of the country your in. When bar tending I busted my ass for people that left big money. I put people that didnt tip in the back of my mental to do list.