Ready to explode: Tipping in America

I even tip the high school people who stand at the door and show you to your seat

I’m old, gonna die in the not too distant future and I admire young people who can go against the anti-work sentiment that seems to pervade this generation

I spent 3 weeks in the Uk last summer. I experienced a wide range of service from excellent to poor. Pretty much the same range I get in the US.

Ah, tipping in America. Very interesting custom. You say it's like extra tax? Well, tax collector wear fancy suit, not wear apron like waiter. Maybe they take less tip?

Problem is tip less, waiter sad. Waiter sad, service bad. Service bad, customer mad. Customer mad, restaurant sad. Restaurant sad, everybody go home.

Here in the King County WA, minimum wage is more than $20 per hour. Tipped employees are not exempt. I'm curious how much you think restaurant "servers" should be paid such that 15% is enough and we can stop the tipflation.

How do you not know when to just take the L and move on? You are wrong, just admit it and move on rather than continually getting ratioed.

Flagpole is fully back to his old arrogant self now. He backed off a lot after his epic guarantee of a Hillary win back in 2015. Stayed away from the forum for a long time but has slowly upped his presence as though we forgot about that. Ya got any guarantees about the upcoming election, Flagpole?

Then there are certain groups of people that will not tip at all no matter how good or poor the service is. They just don't tip. $140 meal.......zero tip. Simply amazing. The servers know the minute they enter their restaurant that they won't be getting a tip.

Rrriiight dude

My guess...is people are aware of tipping wait staff. I think maybe this thread is about tip drift. Every single thing I pick up and the staff did nothing doesn't need a 20% tip. I don't want to tip 2 dollars on my 8 $ smoothie. Pay the darn employees. Im a monster I know. And this tip drift happened precisely during inflation cycle so it kind of hit everyone hard. Liie you pay 15$ for a crappy Jimmy Johns then you add 2 $, when did a bad sub become an 18-20$ ordeal?

INCORRECT! Not a waiter. Never been a waiter. Don't need to be a waiter to treat these people with respect and tip them and not complain about it because it is an American tradition.

1) You should continue to make meals at home since you don't have enough money to go to restaurants.

2) I have NEVER said we should continue as we are. I have just pointed out that we tip here because wait staff make less than minimum wage, and as long as that is the case, you should tip and not complain. If you want to change the tipping tradition, you can't just complain about it on the internet (that Al Gore invented), you have to go the government and get them to make a change so that wait staff can't be paid less than minimum wage.

3) Not sure why gun culture came into this, but I agree Americans have a ridiculous gun culture.

1) I haven't taken a break at all. A quick search of my name will prove that to be true. I did cut back on posting on the Dow thread as much as I used to because I reached a level of wealth that has made me not care how the markets do.

2) I was right about the 2016 election because I said Trump would only win if he cheated (or if aliens came down here and made us vote for him). Well, he cheated...on trial for that right now.

3) 2024 election? Biden wins if he is alive and upright.

No. You’re a waiter. Nothing wrong with it. But no one posts so passionately about waiters like you without being a waiter.

If you believe that the food would be "WAY" more expensive, you must be a low tipper. The fundemental problem with the tipping system is that those that tip well need to pick up the slack for the low/no tippers. If the price of a meal just went up to cover the amount that servers make in tips, those of us that actually tip well would end up saving money, because that way no one would be able to cheap out of paying for the service like they can now.

How about we reserve tipping for people who serve us. I will tip my barber after a haircut. Or an LMT after a massage, but I don't tip the receptionist at the front desk. I tip the waitress or waiter but I don't tip the line cook. I don't tip professionals (doctors or dentists). It is really just shared cultural knowledge. It didn't use to be so confusing.

Some people get tips because they have to put up with the customer service side of the business. Some don't. I am okay with that.

It makes sense to tip the barista who hand-crafts my special order Latte... but I am not okay tipping when I buy a bottled water at a Starbucks. That is what I am annoyed by, the tipping when the person doesn't do anything.