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Are you obliged to tip or can you refuse? (feddit.online)
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I'm not into tipping when I've visited the US, since I come from a country where servers are paid the equivalent of Fr. 20-30 ($24-43) an hour so there isn't an obligation to tip them, but that's the opposite in the US. Am I allowed to hand them large cash tips such as Fr. 1000 ($1236) or 500€ ($583)? It gets weirder: as apparently fast food places demand a tip, like really? It's getting out of hand, what's the point then?

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[–] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Tipping culture in the US is so intense that I tend not to eat out at all when I'm there, which hasn't been in half a decade now. I hear it's gotten worse since I left.

And, with digital tipping especially it irks me because I hate paying a card company a cut on money for service workers.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    Most cashiers and restaurant staff in this country are living below the poverty line so they'd really appreciate it. Also in the case of cashiers we have to stand all fucking day. I fucking hate it here.

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