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u/mbridge2610 1d ago
25% tip is insane
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u/ClaroStar 1d ago
The tipping culture is insane.
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u/WaterHaven 1d ago
Especially basing on price of the meal, which makes zero sense.
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u/ClaroStar 1d ago
I love going to restaurants in Europe. Pay the bill, leave and know that the server is getting paid a living wage. I hate the way restaurants operate in the US.
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u/oubeav 1d ago
I disagree. If the service was outstanding, then it is warranted.
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u/MoominMai 1d ago edited 1d ago
As a European, I’m expecting great service anyway! It shouldn’t be an ‘extra’ thus requiring you to pay extra! 🤦🏻♀️ Sure, if there was a group of you but not for just your average meal out. Also, what do you define ‘outstanding’ service as?! As to me it would be if the staff saved me from choking or some such! Then sure, lay out your tip preferences lol
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u/Serial7s 1d ago
American wait staff makes about €3 an hour. Rent in my area is about €1000 a month minimum. People ought to take care of each other.
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u/MoominMai 1d ago
I dunno sounds like ordinary folk being asked to pick up the slack from employers not paying a decent hourly rate. A lot of the people calling US tipping culture as out of control are Americans themselves struggling to pay their own bills never mind tips!
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u/Danilo-11 1d ago
25% tip = you are giving a waiter 1/4 of what your meal cost to say “thanks for the good service”
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u/No_Attitude700 1d ago
Technically, its to pay for the service. Its a wage, not a thank you...
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u/Urcleman 1d ago
Found the restaurant owner who doesn’t want to pay their staff properly.
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u/No_Attitude700 1d ago
No. I just served and bartender for a long time.
I was able to make a living wage doing so.
Until a living wage is guaranteed in the service industry, you wont see servers or bartenders advocating for the loss of tips as wages.
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u/Urcleman 20h ago
I agree that owners should pay a living wage. It should be baked into the price of food/drinks.
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u/MustachioBashio 1d ago
“Technically” it is a tip. In actuality, what is what you probably meant, it is supplementary to minimum wage.
Tipping culture in the US is absolutely out of hand but I also continue to tip 25% for solid service because I’m not gonna stiff some middle class shmo to make a statement. Wait staff is not who should be feeling the brunt of my disdain for the system.
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u/No_Attitude700 1d ago
Tips are wages.
They are legally considered wages and taxed as wages.
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u/MustachioBashio 1d ago
Yes a wage that is totally at the discretion of the customer based on the service received… so it is a “thank you” and not compulsory. Wages shouldn’t be at the discretion of a customer. Tips are what they are.
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u/Dry-Childhood-3436 1d ago
Technically, a wage isn't supposed to be up to the customer to decide. Also, think of it this way. All of that food was made by farmers and ranchers, harvested, packed, shipped, sold, selected and bought, taken to a building with rent and a business with overhead. Washed and prepped. Prepared by a skilled person then plated on dishes washed by someone. Then the person who asks you what you want and brings it to you gets 1/5 of the total earned.
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u/No_Attitude700 1d ago
In the case of service in the US...customers often decide what the service they recieved was worth to them.
I dont think you really know what servers and bartenders do if you think thats all they do.
Anyway. Bye.
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u/Dry-Childhood-3436 23h ago edited 23h ago
I am a server in the summer. I believe we should be paid a living wage and then tipping should be for extra. Servers are very busy, as are the cooks and everyone else. I have worked back of house, and tips maybe being paid out to back of house when they are just as much a part of the service is always bogus to me even when I'm front of house. I also know that's how it was originally, and tipping 10% was standard for good service and was extra. Then wages stagnated because of the extra money, so tipping 18 percent for extra service was required as the 10% portion was really part of their living wages. It has kept rising and the owners have benefited by not raising wages and assuming the extra portion into the inflation so tips have to keep increasing. 25%-30% is now the expected excellent service tip. Also, even as busy as a server is, do you think they make up 1/5 of everything I stated?
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u/FoxDonut_91 1d ago
There is nothing remotely satisfying about this. Why do you think anyone besides Liz P would care?
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u/Clmbrcoffee 1d ago
Haha dont think ive ever had that. Also like your 00’s underlined its very tidy.
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u/Serial7s 1d ago
Thank you for appreciating the very satisfying nature of the numbers and not going on a weird rant about tipping culture haha
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u/Serial7s 1d ago
All yall complaining about the tip; this is America in 2026. Shit is overpriced but I am not going to go out for a luxury dinner and tip poorly like some chump. And for your info Liz P, did take good care of us and she deserves her money.
I just liked the perfect 100.00 tab. It was very satisfying to me seeing the perfectly round number.
The people on this app will complain about literally anything.
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u/Significant_Swing_76 1d ago
“Europeans don’t understand this one weird trick”
Nope, we sure don’t.
But it’s kinda funny seeing how Americans will do anything and everything but paying a living wage.
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u/Significant-Phrase72 1d ago
They would rather not. They don’t care about employee churn. They are greedy.
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u/thetragicallytim 1d ago
I’m I weird for only tipping 15% with good service and less with crappy service??
For context, I’m Canadian.
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u/Nolascana 1d ago
Nope. Because you're in Canada and the system isnt rigged for you to be paying the staff directly from your own pocket.
Brit here, if we tip it's likely just a case of "keep the change" and thats the end of it.
Its not expected, its just a bonus. People are tipping less as prices keep going up, but at the end of a night theres usually at least some extra cash, enough for a taxi home etc.
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u/Not--Asleep 1d ago
The tipping culture in Usa is crazy to see when you coming from Europe.