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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
Get a job? That's you answer. I've had jobs, thank you very much. Never got tips. Now on the doorstep of 80 with impairments I can't do much of anything. But I can see how leaving the small change on the counter has morphed into a pity ploy that is continuously growing like the blob. Once a few coins became a buck. Then, somewhere, somehow it became a small percentage. 5% was generous, but 10% was "easier to figure". (I wonder who suggested that). It had already become "all about the service"? The service? Really? A cup of coffee, tell the cook what to prepare, bring it to me after it's been sitting under the warming lamp for a while, maybe refill my cup once, give me the bill. It ain't rocket science. And now the pre-suggested /calculated for your convenience, amounts for basic servic has, in some establishments are 20%, 25%, 30%. In what universe is it twice as difficult to move a late of filet mignon from the kitchen shelf to my table than a hamburger steak. Why should my food preference cost twice as much fo the same service effort. Scam! Rip off! Everybody knows it, but argues against the reality because we don't want to acknowledge that we are the suckers the restaurants know we are.
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They can calculate whatever they want. They can recommend a 100% tip if they want. I'll still leave 15, 18, or 20% depending on the service received, or 0 and a talk with the manager if the service was particularly bad.
There's nothing forcing you to pay 30% tip. In fact there's nothing forcing you to pay any tip, UNLESS you have a large party where you're told, in advance, that a minimum tip is included in the total price at the end of the meal.
You don't have to pay a tip if you don't want to. But in the USA, tipping wait staff is accepted as a cultural expectation. It's the American thing to do. You want to be a patriot? Then tip your wait staff. You still don't HAVE to tip them. And if you do tip them, you can tip however much or little you want.
It doesn't even matter WHY tipping is the accepted thing to do here in the USA. Because they don't get paid minimum wage? Okay. Because you want to give them a bonus for really excellent service over and above whatever they DO get paid? Also Okay. Because you want to show off how rich you are? Equally Okay. Because you want to prove to your dinner date that you're not heartless? Absolutely Okay. Because it's Tuesday and you always tip on Tuesdays? Sure, Okay. Pick a reason. It doesn't matter.
I've posted countless times already what *I* do. We get it. You're against tipping. So don't tip. Or don't go to restaurants in the USA where tipping the server is a routine and culturally correct thing to do.