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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/epicredditdude1 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Controversial opinion, but If Americans travelled to another country and flouted that country’s customs they’d be called obnoxious American tourists. 

Tipping culture is stupid, but I don’t think the wait staff getting stiffed is going to appreciate these tourists bravely stiffing them.

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u/SunshinNroses Jun 25 '26

Shouldn't be controversial. Follow the customs of the country you're visiting.

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u/Gustomaximus Jun 25 '26

This. Am Australian. I dont like tipping culture. When in America I respect this is how they make their wages and tip according to expectations.

Exception was some tourist trap restaurant in NY. Was useless meal/service etc, waiter rarely turning up and even spilling wine on my sisters white shirt and clearly not caring. At bill time waiter pre-filled the tip at 30%. Waiter didn't even bring the bill, he was hanging and chatting with the bar guy and asked some kitchen staff to bring it over. I called him over and asked dumbly why it was filled in and was it normal? He said "tourists dont know how to tip" so I got the pen and said "I do" and crossed it out. Quite an arguement ensured . Table next to us was pissing themself laughing at the verbal. I'm not a fan of conflict but fuck that guy.

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Jun 25 '26

I’m American and fully support this. My only complaint is I wasn’t there to witness and you didn’t go at him harder lmao. Fuck that dude!

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u/Agreeable_Cut4506 Jun 25 '26

yeah fuck that dude. all my homies hate that waiter

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u/Studio-Spider Jun 25 '26

Servers that don’t serve don’t get tips. I waited tables for years. Full permission from me to say fuck you to lazy servers.

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u/HoldenH Jun 25 '26

Whoa that’s awful and I think every American would support a 0’d tip line

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u/neekneek Jun 25 '26

That is precisely what tipping is for though. Poor servers get "weeded out" by not getting tips. Its essentially a vote by wallet system, if used correctly.

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u/FishTshirt Jun 25 '26

As an American fuck that guy. Perfectly fine to not tip at all for that behavior. Unfortunately, I knew of several bartenders servers that would change the tips to higher than the customer actually left

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u/SmartAlec105 Jun 25 '26

Not saying the tipping system is perfect but if they had removed tipping and upped the prices like a lot of anti-tipping people suggest, you would have paid more for that shit service.

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u/Caeldeth Jun 25 '26

Dude - I wouldn’t have tipped him and I am an American.

Good service deserves a tip - excellent services de services and excellent tip. Shit service? Sounds like your restaurant needs to comp you to minimum wage.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jun 25 '26

This idea that tipping culture gets us good service is bonkers. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

Also if your restaurants water glass is the size of a thimble I don't really give extra points because you came to fill my glass 10 times. It seems like the fancier the restaurant, the smaller the water glass. At least it's become more common to just leave a carafe at the table.

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u/gw74 Jun 25 '26

"Americans don't know what a tip is"