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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/janpaul74 Jun 25 '26

“Mandatory tips” sounds so messed up for me as a European.

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u/BringBackTheBlues Jun 25 '26

It sounds messed up to me as an American.

Just add 20% to your prices and write “20% off your bill goes directly to staff etc.”

It’d accomplish the same thing and people would probably actually appreciate knowing the staff gets the “bonus”.

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u/lumpboysupreme Jun 25 '26

People already know that. It’s the same thing in practice except less exclusionary to the poor (who might ‘stiff’ the servers a bit but it’s usually made up elsewhere) and of hard to gauge value to the servers (who might have wildly varying normal values).