What is your opinion on tipping culture?

You can scarcely buy a candy bar without someone spinning an iPad around.

So I posed this Question awhile back. I order a to go order from a place by me called "Joey B's" which is an Italian Cuisine bar of sorts. I pay online and include a 5% tip. When I arrive, the bartender hands me my bag and I start to walk away and she says "Oh, it's going to be like that now is it??" thinking I was supposed to tip her because she handed me the bag when I already included a tip online!! Yes, it has gotten out of hand and look, I realize people have to earn a living and inflation from our out going Administration didn't help, so I tip generously, but this is too much

It's not such a big thing in the UK but one thing I've noticed is more and more coffee shops handing over the card payment machine on an "Add Tip" screen.

This is when I'm buying one coffee, to go!

Same policy for everybody, no tip. I've noticed some places here add the tip to the bill in order to make it easier to concede.

Why is it socially acceptable that I pay a tip to a waiter/waitress at any restaurant, but not tip you as a dentist?

At restaurants I tip 20%. As far as food or grocery delivery it's usually about 10%, though I will tip more in bad weather. I recently saw a YouTube video of a pizza delivery guy spitting on someone's pizza because they only tipped 15% and he complained that he should have gotten 25%. I do think 25% sounds steep. That's 1/4 of what you're paying for whatever you ordered and a lot of people just can't afford that. I also agree that employers should pay their employees enough that they shouldn't have to rely so heavily on tips.

As far as tipping on to-go orders, I learned something about that a few years back when my son was a host at a restaurant. As host, he had to take all the to-go orders, after they were cooked he had to box them up and bag them up and then make sure they got to the customers. Customers rarely tip on to go orders because they're not being waited on by a waiter, and the few times he did get tips on to-go orders he really appreciated it because those tips went to him. Just some things to think about.

A tip is a tip, voluntary and not mandantory, if it becomes mandantory it's part of the price and if it's not included in the registered price but still mandantory, it's tax fraud.
Viewed from another angle, tipping getting out of hands just shows that customer initiatives to increase wages of service staff don't work, because employers will use increasing tips to lower wages further and in the end it becomes an ever increasing tax fraud.

Here in Italy this has long been solved.
Tips have long become part of the bill, in restaurants and bars it's listed as the price of the service.
Of course nobody minds if you give an extra tip, but that never exceeds 5%.

In Germany people who frequently receive tips are taxed as part of their income tax by an estimated average of tips they will get.

The problem is that the price of food in restaurants would increase if Waiters/waitresses made minimum wage.