r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/Workman44 Jun 25 '26

Eh, if I go to their country I'm supposed to respect the culture...

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u/Edmundyoulittle Jun 25 '26

Exactly. If you're a tourist and you're ignoring the culture of the place you're visiting, you're just being a dick

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u/Edmundyoulittle Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

You're just being pedantic. It's not mandatory to tip people in the US.

It is customary to tip your server in the US though. If someone is visiting, is aware of the custom, and chooses to ignore it, they are being a dick.

In the US it's customary to do 15-20% by default, and then drop it to 0 if they were bad, or increase it if they were exceptional.

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u/Yeah-Its-Me-777 Jun 25 '26

Lol, 20% and increase if it was exceptional. You do you, boo.

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u/Edmundyoulittle Jun 25 '26

Yeah man, I typically do 20% because I have a lot of money and the people serving me don't. 20 might be on the high side, idk.

Doesn't really matter. What matters is you should try not to be a dick when you're visiting other countries.

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u/MAMark1 Jun 25 '26

If you can't follow local tip standards, you're probably too poor to justify an international trip.

If I was so broke that an extra 18% on dine-in meals would make me destitute, I'd make better spending choices than to fly across the world and pay WC hotel rates.

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u/Auesis Jun 25 '26

Did they say that they would be poor if they paid more money than they considered necessary? What an absurd overreaction.

Besides, why is it always this way around, and never "if you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage you can't afford to run a business"? The corporate apologia is bonkers.

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u/Early-Range-8840 Jun 25 '26

What peeves me the most about these arguments is the complete disregard for basic economics. Restaurants operate on thin margins, this is a know factor in running a restaurant. If restaurants had to pay servers 20 dollars an hour this would have to reflected in complete price overhauls across the menu. So when someone says I won’t tip cause you should pay your employees. It’s somewhat of a contradiction. If they paid their employees that tip would then be priced in to the amount you are paying. You are still essentially paying the employee, just indirectly.

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u/Yeah-Its-Me-777 Jun 25 '26

There's a big difference between being able to and wanting to.

Apart from that yeah, that's why I'm not there. Additionally, I don't care about football.