Yes, I do tip workmen who come in my home. IF they do a good job.
It’s easy enough to give them $20 and tell them to buy themselves dinner.

Just my opinion, but I think you might be part of the problem. The workers are, very likely, getting full hourly pay plus overtime. Even at straight hourly rate trades people generally make good money. A big smile and "Thank You" should be enough.

If the man is self employed, do you tip him?

I was taught that you don't tip owners or management (salaried employees).

The menu prices are higher because the products from the venders are more expensive, not to pay the employees.

So, tipping is unnecessary as all workers receive full pay and are fully compensated for the work they do.
My next tip will be, "have a nice day!"

Wow.

Fact check: Partially True.

Products from vendOrs are certainly higher, but so are labor costs.

Tipping is ridiculous. Pay an hourly rate that is commensurate to the work involved and knock off the tipping cr*p. We seldom go out to a restaurant anymore, food at home is so much better and healthy. We know how it's been handled and since food is for sustenance and nothing more, it works for us. We highly recommend this method for others and maybe restaurants will realign their employment compensation to a reasonable resolution. When a physical therapist works part-time in a restaurant vs fulltime at their degreed education for even better money, something is askew.

After having enough subpar meals being served through the years, we never send food back for the spitters, we just leave it on the plate. Don't bother adjusting our bill for the poor food, we won't be back.

One of the tipping points for our decisions was calling in an order for a 14" pizza for over $20/ from a restaurant. We waited on hold for a couple of minutes to place the order, drove to pick up the pizza, waited in a hallway for the pizza, drove back home with the pizza where we had set up our own utensils, beverages, napkins and plates and cleaning up afterward, disposing of the cardboard box. The real kicker was the tip container on the counter where we paid for the pizza. Really? We're done with them. We can make a much better pizza for half that cost and we don't have to leave the house. Easy peasy.

If we are served at a table we tip, if the food is handed to us in a box or bag we do not.

Imagine what people that bag your groceries get paid, for for me that means you don't have enough skills to make more than $13 an hour and you should be going to college or learning a trade.

Of course if you don't want to earn more you don't have to and by that I mean I see a lot of people semi-retired just getting by and very happy to get $13 an hour.
When I started work back in the '70s I was paid a dollar and five cents an hour

My thoughts exactly. You can't check out of almost any business, without the payment system "expecting" a Tip. Yesterday, it was at Subway.

It's getting worse and more and more people are complaining.

I recently (last week) bought the Domain Name, "NoMoreTipping.com".

Issue organizing isn't my thing, so if anyone has any ideas, I'm open!

Now that tips are no longer taxed, should the “suggested” amount be 10-15%?

Interesting article on tipping.


Tipping Culture in America - Public Sees a Changed Landscape | Pew Research Center

Have been averaging 20% but now not sure what we will do in the future.