How many still tip waiters and waitresses at 20% or more?

[LCH]

I’m a decent tipper, but I rarely think about the %.

Why should a family who orders the BOGO chicken strips and water tip less than the family where everyone orders a porterhouse and drinks? Or why should a waitress at a cheap diner get tipped less than a waitress at a more expensive restaurant?

I tip what I think they earned, sometimes a lot more than 20%, sometimes it’s less.

 

[FairWeather]

My biggest issue with tipping is why should the patron be responsible to fix the failure of the employer? If being able to afford to live is dependent on the generosity of others, you’re being exploited. Form a union, force the employer to pay better wages.

The other side of the coin are the states that have reasonable minimum wages (and most bartenders make above that anyway), and the service industry is fighting against getting rid of tips because they’re making a killing through exploiting the customers with their whole guilt/shame scheme. And now it bleeding into every industry, getting utterly ridiculous. I’ve seen tipping options for the check out at stores more and more frequently. Tip you for what, ringing up the items that I shopped for?

Either scenario, it’s all entitlement and greed. How about instead we use those tax dollars we’re already spending to provide for people’s basic needs so we don’t have to have this stupid mandatory “gratuity” for people to live with dignity, aka the solution most other western countries have managed to figure out.

 

[LuketheDog]

I usually tip about 20% for servers and go up or down, but that's for servers, not for someone at a register who takes an order and hands me something over the counter without moving their feet. That being said, eating out in the Denver Metro has gotten stupid expensive so we don't eat out that much anymore.