Do you tip when eating a sit-down meal?
How often do you tip? Do you see tip jars or touch-screen systems for tipping in your neighborhood businesses? What about ice-cream parlors, bakeries or movie theaters? Do you tip whenever you are asked or prompted to? How much do social pressures influence your tipping practices? What is your reaction to the article? Do you feel that “tipping culture has gotten out of control”? Why or why not?
How do you decide when to tip and how much? Did your tipping practices change during the pandemic? Explain.
Do you think there are situations when tipping should not be expected or allowed? Why?
Do you, or does anyone you’re close to, rely on tips for income? How do you feel about changing expectations around tipping?
As a teenager, without the income of a full-time job, how do you navigate tipping? The article mentions a college student, Janhavi Bodkhe, who described feeling social pressure to tip. Have you ever felt this way? How do deal with tipping as a young person? In a New York Times guest essay, Michelle Alexander writes about the racist roots of tipping in the United States:, “After the Civil War, white business owners, still eager to find ways to steal Black labor, created the idea that tips would replace wages.” Ms. Alexander advocates raising wages instead of making workers rely on tips. What do you think of this perspective? Do you agree with the argument to get rid of tips and replace them with higher wages? Why or why not?
How do you decide when to tip and how much? Did your tipping practices change during the pandemic? Explain.
Do you think there are situations when tipping should not be expected or allowed? Why?
Do you, or does anyone you’re close to, rely on tips for income? How do you feel about changing expectations around tipping?
As a teenager, without the income of a full-time job, how do you navigate tipping? The article mentions a college student, Janhavi Bodkhe, who described feeling social pressure to tip. Have you ever felt this way? How do deal with tipping as a young person? In a New York Times guest essay, Michelle Alexander writes about the racist roots of tipping in the United States:, “After the Civil War, white business owners, still eager to find ways to steal Black labor, created the idea that tips would replace wages.” Ms. Alexander advocates raising wages instead of making workers rely on tips. What do you think of this perspective? Do you agree with the argument to get rid of tips and replace them with higher wages? Why or why not?
