Ready to explode: Tipping in America

Just tip the amount you want. What are they going to do, jump over the counter and strangle you?

That's nothing, here in Vancouver, the minimum you can tip now for pick up is 18 percent for so many places I've been. fml

But in many instances we shouldnt be presented the option to tip in the first place. It is, first, unwarranted. Then second, asking too much!

Other amount: $1

Didnt you know, in America you pay for your food and you pay their salary.

The word tip shouldn't even be used, its more of an additional tax than anything.

Because corporations are greedy and cheap when it comes to paying their employees. This has to be addressed. We shouldn't be forcing or shaming hard working people to donate because a greedy corporation wants more money.

Other Amount -> 0%

One time the service was so pathetic that I left a negative $10 tip.

I reduced the bill by $10 in the tip section. The manager tried telling me as I left that I couldn't do that.

Guess what happened???

Amex paid MY amount that I authorized and signed for. 🤣

This is what I do

I always tip big, even on takeout orders.

You are definitely NOT the kind of d!ck I thought you were at first. This is a different kind of d!ck. Well played

Of course that's what happened.

Only losers complain about tipping. If you can't afford to tip, then you shouldn't buy that service.

Waiters and waitresses make below minimum wage because they get tipped. IF our tipping situation went away, the meals would be WAY more expensive because they'd have to pay the servers at least minimum wage.

Those of you who complain are just losers and ignorant and cheap.

He is the Ro-dick.

No, it's actually the other way around.

People like you don't like to pay people a proper wage.

Whine a little more Flaggy, the meals ARE already expensive because we have to tip. The price of your meal is the price listed on the menu PLUS tax PLUS another 15-20%.

Why dont you tip your mechanic or your dentist? They do a good job too.

All that would happen if the tip was taken away would be the meal price would go up a bit and we would basically end up paying the same anyway.

All tipping is in the US is a scam. Its to keep the poor waiters/waitresses hustle more for a few pennies so the owner can pay them less. Thats it, thats the business model.

As I said before we really aren't paying for any great service, we are paying their salaries. I don't know of a single case where someone said the service was so bad they get no tip, do you? So essentially those people paid for food plus salary and left.

Its not that we are cheap or losers, its that we are tired of being conned.

Stop calling it a tip. Its not. Its a customers additional 15% salary boost.

The US tipping system in sit-down restaurants stays the way it is because that's what owners want AND it's what workers want. A waiter in a restaurant (even just a basic chain like Outback or Applebee's or something like that) is making way more money with tips than somebody working another entry-level type job in retail. Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of true stories about workers who get screwed by their employers, and I wouldn't want to wait tables at Waffle House, but on average servers are making a lot more than they'd get at Old Navy or Walmart or something like that.

(And that's without even getting into the fact that a large portion of servers are underreporting their tips to cheat on taxes. If they were all paid a flat rate of $30 an hour or whatever they wouldn't be able to do that.)

Um...BS. What are you even talking about? I am for a $15 minimum wage in most of the country and up to $20 or maybe even a little more in expensive parts of the country. I'm all for higher wages.

I didn't make the rules about how restaurant employees are paid. That's the system we have in this country and whether you tip them as you should OR we get rid of the tipping system so that the restaurants have to pay them more, your food will end up costing about the same. Tipping is very American, so embrace being an American and properly tip those who should be tipped.

You people who are against tipping are losers and ignorant and cheap.

Do you not understand how this works? A mechanic and a dentist don't make less than minimum wage as detailed by the Federal Government, because they don't get tips.

And dude, if you think waiters and waitresses are hustling for "a few pennies," you're sorely mistaken. Many waiters and waitresses do super well with tipping...I guess as long as you're not their customer.

If you can't handle a restaurant meal + tax + tip, then either find a way to make more money, or make your own food.

No, you are cheap and a loser to complain about tipping.