What is your opinion on tipping culture?

Another reason I enjoy my regular trips to the Far East. Tipping isn't expected anywhere except high class places. And no one is banging their tin cup in your face for doing the simplest of jobs. The very concept needs a hard reset in the United States; full elimination and a reset of expectations on those odd occasions where one feels moved to include a gratuity. Five percent is more than adequate. From having worked in a small, family-owned retail business (where I didn't receive tips for customer service) I can tell you that it's not common for items to have a profit margin >18-20%. So, it's nonsensical to expect the customer - and yes, there are very strong social pressures to pony up - to bear the burden of increasing, potentially doubling, the profit on a good or service. If you want to make more profit, price it into what the customer expects to pay, and share that windfall with your employees. Otherwise, the owner is getting away with having a third party, under duress, pay the salary of his employees.

This was understood a long time ago, but greed always prevails.

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Whenever I go to restaurant I pay cash. If it’s sit down table service I always tip about 20% unless it is really bad service. There are some places I go every week that I know the staff fairly well so I tip more there. If I go to a restaurant that I order at the counter the most I tip is $1 or $2 if it is a place I frequent so not much in that case.

I'm with Mr. Pink on this.

In my opinion it is good when it is optional as in the most of the cases here. I usually do it in the restaurants, but I decide when and how many.

it was fine before the prices of everything rose exponentially. I don’t really book a table at a restaurant anymore due to it costing anywhere from $50-$100 with tip, I usually just do to-go pickup orders and tip 5-10% instead.

I'm sure companies could disable those kiosk things from automatically asking for a tip if they wanted. Wouldn't surprise me if they are trying to figure out a way to make all of their employees into tipped employees.

If you pay card that seems to be how they try to get you. If I'm picking up an order no tip.

Tipping should become 100% optional and this change followed by a mandatory sensible increase in the wage of waiters and bartenders.