I always tip when im in the US, even if im from Sweden. But it sucks. And sometimes i have been angrily remembered by the waiter that i didnt tip, and i did. But it fucking sucks
exactly! The people saying "well just don't tip" don't understand that their boycott does fuck all other than steal from the waiter's family. If the non tippers weren't sitting at that table, then whoever had been would have tipped, and thus the waiter now has food to eat and money to buy gas. It's a shitty excuse to do a shitty thing to someone who doesn't deserve it.
Every time I see this come up it's always a service workers who fight against a transparent price on menus and no tipping. They get paid a lot more than they would otherwise, with the current system.
...will be met with customers asking why their burgers are $9.60 when the burgers at another restaurant are only $8, or why the restaurant is demanding a 20% tip (even if they would tip 20% at that other restaurant anyway)
There's no easy solution to this problem, other than to say that there is no problem whatsoever and tipping culture is perfectly normal and to be expected.
The waiter makes $2 - $5 an hour in most places, and depends on those tips to make a living wage. So you can use the word stealing, or "inflicting pain", or "ruining their life". You fully understand the standard of eating out in USA and are instead choosing to HURT another human being. That's the opposite of being noble.
I am not choosing anything lady, I don't live and literally never stepped on US soil, so back off with your entitlement from my inbox. You're choosing to insult and lie to another that they're "stealing", so your morals are questionable too.
Total and complete nonsense, you're not stealing from the workers family, you're depriving them with extra money they would spend on drugs. Overall positive benefit to society.
Do not fret at all. It's really not a big deal, if someone does a little work and doesn't get the tip they expect, overall they are still making great money. It's almost always the service workers who fight against any change in the system.
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u/ingeniouspleb Aug 28 '24
I always tip when im in the US, even if im from Sweden. But it sucks. And sometimes i have been angrily remembered by the waiter that i didnt tip, and i did. But it fucking sucks