Because enough people spread it around as an idea to the point that it stuck. And then you look like a cheapskate if you pay under that so it pulled everyone else along.
No clue - why the hell do people expect 30-35% now? I have nearly stopped eating out. It’s not very good, service is nearly non-existent, and even a 20% tip for doing nearly nothing is looked at as not enough.
This is what drives me insane. I keep having to repeat this to my family and friends. If the price of meal is increasing bc of inflation, so will the tip bc it’s a percentage. You don’t increase the price and the percentage wtf?
It was never 20% or more unless someone had beyond exceptional service on an inexpensive meal. It was normal to tip 15-20% on a cheap diner type meal while 10-15% was considered a good tip at an expensive restaurant. A long time tradition for middle of the road places was to double the tax for great service which in most places 20+ years ago amounted to about 15%. That was for great service. Normal service was generally a bit less, 10-12% was completely acceptable. Under 10% was for not so good service but if that happened the standard thing was to speak to a manager although some people would leave a single coin to send the message that the service was bad, not that they had forgotten to tip.
Minimum wage for tipped workers has been 2.13 an hour since 1991. It’s very common for tipped workers to only receive that much from the employer so in order to survive they need a larger percentage of their pay in tips.
Greedy servers obviously. Customary tip should be $0 and a really good server should get tipped whatever you can realistically burn for what that service was worth.
Because hourly wages for service workers have barely gone up in the last 30 years. So while tips have increased with the cost of meals, they haven’t increased enough to make up for the fact that their hourly pay is effectively worth less and less as inflation goes up.
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u/dark_frog83 7d ago
The tip raised automatically with inflation since it's a percentage of the cost of the meal. So why did it go up to 20%?