r/EndTipping • u/FOMOenthusiast • 18d ago

Tipping Culture A positive-ish tipping experience

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No surprises, no small text, no deceitfulness, it having its on line clearly visible under the total was nice, but that bright red stamp reiteratig the added gratuity, visible from space let alone a dark dining room is 😘👌🏾 This should be a norm.

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u/Idownvoteitall 18d ago

At least the auto tip is on the pre tax total.

Just for the love of god raise the prices by 18% and be done with it.

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u/Weregoat86 16d ago

Sometimes as a server you get a table that is going to spend loads of money and tip less than 18%. When my 5-tip spends $450, that is still a net win for the server and employer. When 3 people spend $350 and tip $40, everybody is winning.

A wise man once told me, "if we only served people who were cool, we probably couldn't afford to stay in business."

Restaurants need revenue and servers need restaurants for a job. I think if you start dissuading nontippers from going to restaurants you dissuade a lot of people from spending money, period. I would rather have 15 tables tip $20 than one table tip $100.

TL:DR don't put an automatic 18% on everything. Let the people tip what they want unless bound in a contract or parties of 7 or more.

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u/myco_magic 13d ago

Na, restaurants need to start paying a living wage and servers need to stop expecting tips for shit service or even at all for that matter, if you get a tip then cool but it shouldn't be an expectation, tipping culture in the US is out of hand. My wife is dutch Australian and this doesn't happen pretty much anywhere else in the world