364
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

With those tipping screens now seemingly everywhere, Americans think that the practice has “gotten out of control,” according to a new survey.

At least 63 percent of US residents now having a negative view of tipping, up from 59 percent last year, according to Bankrate, a financial publisher and comparison service.

Yet, the number of Americans who have gotten used to tipping has gone up since the COVID-19 pandemic, when it slipped. There have not been significant declines in tips for service providers, the survey noted, particularly for hairdressers and restaurant servers.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top new old
[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Tip for fellow Americans: tip with cash because owners frequently steal digital tips. Inb4 "that's illegal!" Yup, wage theft is the biggest type of theft.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Why are we never tough on this crime?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

The capital class sees it as impossible to prosecute because the violence is alienated and the working class is seen as less than human.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Same in Canada. Is that meal (like, a burger with fries lol) really 35$? Nah, add 15% for taxes, and at least another 15% for tips. But be warned, at 15% they might just throw it in your face. And don't you dare leave under 2$ on that 20$ beer, do you think that botte got open by itself?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Dont they get paid minimum wage in Canada tho? I don't get it

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

People can't handle the social pressure from the service workers and their owners

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yes, although minimum wage varies by province. That doesn't impact tipping culture though.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

So for my 2¢: I'm a massage therapist. I went to school and pay for continuing education and licensing, and that's not even considering insurance or a lease if you have your own practice. I rightfully should be making quite a bit more than minimum wage. Most places will put up job listings with a number around $45/hr, but they don't mention that this is calculating with the average tip that's almost always shorting what you'll actually make.

My industry has been a tipped industry for a very long time and the tipping fatigue hurts. We have MORE shit we need to pay for on our own but people who have never gotten a massage see the prompt for a tip and don't realize that's been the norm for massage since fuckin EVERYWHERE asks you for a tip.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Time to demand a living wage.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I am not American.

When I first dined in US restaurant, I was flabbergasted with the fact that the cashier pulled out a tablet and already have five buttons ready to be tapped - 12%, 15%, 18%, CUSTOM TIP.

That no tip button was below the four prominent buttons.

No, I have never seen this in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and of course Indonesia where I live.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

At this point I’ve stopped tipping. However I don’t like random numbers so when I checkout at restaurants I round to the nearest $5. So if my meal was $32.45 I’ll tip $2.55.

For me it’s a fun math game and the percentage for the tip is low.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah anything less than 15% is considered low here.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

That's how it works at restaurants and cafés outside of the USA, or at least how it used to work.

Outside the USA, when the bill is paid with cash, the customer will keep any notes from the change given and the coins are left on the table, it's not much, but a token show of appreciation.

Now that cash is rarely used, tips are pretty much never given unless it's something unusual, like a work function or something else where the staff have a little more to concentrate on than they normally would.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago
  • the millions who visit.
[-] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago

Meanwhile, tipping isnt an issue in the majority of America. Huh.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago

So fucking tired of tipping. I’ve read recommendations of 30% these days. That is absolutely insane. The prices for everything has increased substantially already, and we are expected to tip proportionally to it? Not to mention, the tip screens on POS systems are showing up at regular businesses now. So fucking annoying.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

People just need to stop doing it. In my city in France, one restaurant started using the POS with the tip screen and people just choose to not tip and they completely disabled the screen after a few weeks. But still some business do push for it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I’ve read recommendations of 30% these days

Bloody hell! Anyone saying that is trying to take advantage of people.

In the example you give, the business owner increases prices in line with inflation but hey! the workers need a pay increase too, and I'm not paying them more, so the customer should tip more.. so the recommended tip amount increases from 10-15% to 20-30%. But this is not in line with inflation, this is an exponential increase.

A lot of people won't recognize this as people don't generally understand exponentials that easily.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

To clarify, the tip percent shouldn't need to change since it's a percentage of the final bill. So, it automatically accounts for inflation already.

If the average bill goes up 10% and customers always tip the same % then the workers would see a 10% increase in tips.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

A lot of people won’t recognize this as people don’t generally understand exponentials that easily.

Given your example, you're struggling with it as well.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
364 points (97.9% liked)

World News

161 readers
535 users here now

Please help and contribute as we vote on rules:
https://quokk.au/post/21590

Other Great Communities:

Rules

Be excellent to each other

founded 8 months ago
MODERATORS