People who live in America and don't tip because they feel the people who work for tips should find a better job

What makes me mad is when the management takes the tip and doesn’t pass it on to the wait staff 😠

It never seems to bother business if they have to put prices up if they want a better profit.
Why should it be acceptable for folk to do their job + in order to take home a wage they can live on ?

You can't feel proud of ending involuntary slavery for one generation, and then create an economy that relies on [i]voluntary[/i] slavism........that's a nonsense !
Every other nation figured that out

Okay, so the tip is essentially why they get paid so less for the hourly wage. If those who worked in positions where tips are allowed had an hourly wage then they'd get paid more than management...some probably do anyway.

I've worked where the hourly was decent and was told not to accept tips for any reason. Customers still stuffed bills in my pocket.

It's about tracking the dollar one makes. Even filing taxes you're supposed to report your tips, the documented and undocumented. We pay for water and sewage thus why they dig up the ground and place those giant pipes in it. That isn't free and has nothing to do with it.

Those who don't tip are either ignorant of how much the person's hourly wage is or they just don’t have it. At the end of the day, the tip is not a guarantee so the possibility of what one can make in an hour varies. It's really about preventing one from earning too much.

If everyone knew they could make a decent living without a college degree how do you think that would affect the educational process?

You have no idea what you are talking about . Ending tipping and demanding profits /wealth are split in a manner that such practices are not required/expected is not something that will destroy the global economy

I tip generously when I’m in a restaurant but not very often for takeout.
I tip as a token of appreciation for good service.
Handing me a bag and taking my payment doesn’t qualify as service.

I'm American and I always tip nicely.

Is it the customers fault you arent paid a living wage. No your employer only paying u minimum wage (possibly less) and redirecting the remainder of a "livable" wage onto the customer isnt fair either. I cant afford to tup bc the server is making more than i do in tips than i do on salary. Making the consumer foot the bill bc the employer wont isnt fair to the wait staff. Dont blame the customer blame the employer and system. People will always complain. Income inequality is the problem not the customer not being able to afford to tip

Non American here, maybe workers should demand a better pay from their employers and not from the customers? Tip culture is garbage.

I completely believe restaurants and other jobs should remove tipping and pay a living wage to all employees.

If you can't stay in business, maybe you shouldn't be in business.

If you can't afford to eat out when people are paid properly, maybe you shouldn't eat out.

I'll shout that all day long and if it ever came to it, I would vote for it.

But right now, we live in a world where a lot of service staff isn't paid fairly. I want to end tipping, but not tipping isn't going to send anyone a message. Management won't give two craps.

So until laws change, I will tip. If I can't afford tips, I don't eat out (or uber or doordash or grubhub or any of it)

I always tip usually 20% and I live in the USA.

Customers get small cups of coffee and no refills and smaller portions etc too. Something like a soft drink can be expensive especially in tourist areas

I find fault with everything you’ve said here, other than that people should tip in environments where it’s currently normal.

In my country they don't charge for tap water.

there is no clear tipping process\procedure...much too confusing

[quote]The people who complain about tipping would complain about their bill going up.[/quote]

Let me get my tiny violin ... the fact that prices would obviously rise to merely have the employer join the rest of the damn economy and pay more so that gratuities are resigned to history ... is not a compelling argument against doing precisely that


It's not the only global norm the US needs to integrate either