One of the few things I dislike about visiting USA. This tipping thing all the time. Very smart of the restaurant owners though they just export their payroll costs onto the customer.
Yeah, and then keep most of the tips for themselves.
It's worse in the UK, a lot of places put it on the bill automatically and you have to ask to have it removed - which is done in full view of everyone when you go to pay.
Most people are too ashamed to ask. I've done it before, and then I've given them a tip in cash afterwards - that way the management can't skim and hide it from the staff at least.
Right. I hate forced tipping, it feels almost the same as being shamed into giving money to a beggar. (Almost, OK servers? You deserve for the job to pay you a real wage from the outset like any other job, instead of the owner shaming customers into forking over money at the table like it's a mob debt being collected. Used to be 10%, then 15, then 18, now it's 20% or else the customer is a douche. So I tip generously, which buys me the right to kvetch and whinge about it a little here. :)
Why only in restaurants, and very few other places? Why not everywhere, or nowhere?
One of the few things I dislike about visiting USA. This tipping thing all the time. Very smart of the restaurant owners though they just export their payroll costs onto the customer.
Yeah, and then keep most of the tips for themselves.
It's worse in the UK, a lot of places put it on the bill automatically and you have to ask to have it removed - which is done in full view of everyone when you go to pay.
Most people are too ashamed to ask. I've done it before, and then I've given them a tip in cash afterwards - that way the management can't skim and hide it from the staff at least.
Right. I hate forced tipping, it feels almost the same as being shamed into giving money to a beggar. (Almost, OK servers? You deserve for the job to pay you a real wage from the outset like any other job, instead of the owner shaming customers into forking over money at the table like it's a mob debt being collected. Used to be 10%, then 15, then 18, now it's 20% or else the customer is a douche. So I tip generously, which buys me the right to kvetch and whinge about it a little here. :)
Why only in restaurants, and very few other places? Why not everywhere, or nowhere?
Yea... And now fast food restaurants are starting to ask for tips.... I'll tip if a server has to actually "serve" me....
Lol, insert Buchemi's tipping rant in Reservoir Dogs🐸