“NOPE” - Why Majority of Americans Tip Less Than 15% 

Seems pretty simple. But if you need to rationalize being cheap you go for it.

True, many local restaurants have a tip jar at the "to go" window & some chains like Longhorn encourage it if you use their drive up service. Panera Bread was doing it with all orders for a while but was dropped.

If you need more money get another job or go to a charity. TIPPING IS NOT A CHARITY

I use to work for a restaurant, I won't say the name but it "famous", they cater out often and charge a delivery fee that 100% goes to the company and the person catering the event hopes they get a tip after 2-4 hours of cater service.

@@MickJonesHogSmacks Most of the restaurants I worked at (I the male) would usually get the aholes who asked for the cute female server if they deemed to stay. From the customer's end I find the more attractive the waitress usually the worse the service.

Yeah same thoughts. Service is AWFUL most places now, prices are double and portion sizes are smaller.

Tip if the service is good. Don't if it isn't. Simple. I see way too many a-holes in here though saying they should NEVER have to tip at all. I can't stand that. black ppl HATE tipping, and I'm tired of it having had to rely on that to make a living in the past. I think a lot of the bad service you are getting is probably from the same people that never tip lol. Seriously, I've seen it way too much

@@MakeMoneyOnlineWithEmma I always tried to provide exceptional service and there would always be people who wouldn't tip at all, probably because I am white and they were black. Why is that? I don't know but it's infuriating

@@mandatorymyocarditis there is no more good service! Unless your at a 100$ a plate really nice restaurant!!!

@@eriknorman7409 you're talking to someone who has worked on tips for a living for many years in the past. I always provided exceptional service. But I understand where you are coming from. Depending on where you live and the demographics yes it can be s h i t. So don't tip for bad service and tip for good service-thats the way it was supposed to be from the get-go! The cheap p.o.s. who never tip at all though are the ones I'm talking about who S U C K

I would have talked to the manager.

You've been to restaurants on a national level???

@@Drilla81 I have!

@@What_did_u_say Have you ever been to Dee's ?????

@@Drilla81 I’ve heard about it. I know someone who went there in Utah. Said service was better than expected. It’s not the norm.

I don’t tip at all. It’s not my job to make up for the restaurant owner paying its employees shitty.

Starbucks is an especially annoying one

Just wait till you self checkout groceries and are asked for tip… it already happened 😮

Fast food restaurants do not get tipped. I worked in fast food when I was 17 for 3 years. Get a real job if you want to make more money.

I was a server for 15 years. The thought of tipping at a fast food restaurant is absurd!! Those companies are exploiting thier workers. Stuff like this is an insulting and an unreasonable trend that ends up hurting, not helping the employees. It is the company showing its ass and saying, "My workers aren't worth anything. What do you think?"

id be like no thanks

I averaged about $10/ hr with tips back in the late 1970's. Busy times I could make almost $20/hr. Tipping was recommended to be 7.5%. And meal prices were much, much lower back then. Prices are much higher now and 15% is nuts, no one needs that much.

That’s how it should be, I’m from Canada and we don’t have the gratuity here. You have to earn your tip. A good waiter or waitress will make 400-1000 plus a day depending where you live. I always tip because most people are nice and I always tip on delivery but asking 15% is crazy

This right here got me though 16 years in the industry. Now that i own my own business it has opened so many doors for me that I'm pretty much cheating my way to success. Some of my best tippers were my worst customers who later ended up being good friends. I used to have a higher tip out percentage than the hot girls i worked with. And im obese as hell.

​@MickJonesHogSmacks are you dumb or did you not even read this guys comment before you replied?

This. Exactly. I gave great service to everyone, and found that most people tip 20%

What a spectacular story! You're a very smart man to recognize talent when you see it.

Thanks for changing someone's life

Same, I’ve tipped with bad service plenty of times and am not doing it anymore

Tipping is the biggest load of BS to begin with. I would rather pay an extra few dollars rather than have someone hassle me for that extra dollar they feel they deserved. Idk our society is just completely fkd and just getting worse by the day.

​@@SFbayArea94121 💯

Sounds like somebody thinks it's the slave industry not the service industry, You sound like one of the people that gets too extra And calls over your server so many times that you're interfering with the service that other people should be getting

@@SFbayArea94121 I bet you would, because you would justify to yourself why that profession only really deserves $10/hr. Y'all are pompous scum. They way you treat others speaks volumes to you as a person

Tipping is rooted in workers going above and beyond the service you paid for. It makes sense in a country like the USA because people provide so many luxury based services. The problem is, it is now expected, even when the service is mediocre or sub par. You should always get good service, regardless of tipping. Now we have gone backwards where if you dont tip, it might be reflected in the service you get.... like getting the "special sauce" lol.

Bingo friend. You nailed it perfectly

Waitress get 3$ an hour

@@qco1414they make minimum wage if they don’t make at least that much in tips. So if they work all night and get no tips they still get minimum wage

@@Zombiebeast1995 If you're getting minimum wage as a server, it's time to look for a different restaurant/bar to work for.

Ditto!

Exactly

Servers get 3$ an hour

Most of the time, the food being wrong isn’t the servers fault. I use to serve at Texas Roadhouse and the cooks messed up all the time.

You're tipping correctly. Good tips are for good service.

I don’t tip at all. It’s not my job to make up for the restaurant owner paying its employees shitty.

Give your workers a proper salary they deserve. Teach your children to pay their hard working employees so they don't have to rely on handouts from people who just want to pay for their food. It's sick to make other people feel bad for your own lack of morals.

@@CerebralTripz agree.

@@EyeKnowYourRight22 and.

@@ernestoporras-polo5872 and?

And tax 😅

Maybe but we're a rich country. You on the other hand 🤷

@@eugeneosborn9551 Sure, rich country paying 2 dollars an hour for waiters 😂

Exactly the same as Canada, You only give a tip if they do a good job.

There is a 10% fee automatically included. Yes, I agreed my Brazil way is better than have employee's being greedy and forcing customers to give their employees a fair wage.

I agree! I almost hate going to Starbucks now because they expect you to tip and I’m NOT doing it!

virtue signalling is what it is called. Yes, I NEVER donate. How do I know where it goes.

Lol imagine complaining about anything involved in the process of ordering Starbucks 🐑😂

Honestly only donations I give to are veteran stuff or cancer. I always find it weird that grocery store or fast food ask for donations for food products when they throw away so much stuff.

​@@brittanyb5942nah no one tips in Starbucks in UK

You mean bussing their tables?

@@ca8944 yup

Lots of cheap servers everywhere.

@@geneanthony3421 then bussers should be tipped and those servers were rude af

Yeah I've had a somewhat similar experience so not really any sympathy from me either

They think we don’t notice we do.

Great point!

Servers get 3$ an hour

​@@qco1414so.

@@qco1414how is it our problem their employers are thieves?

I couldn't agree with you more.. why can't the staff just get paid a decent wage. Then tips would just be an added bonus, not 20% expected from every customer. I even gotta tip 20% for someone handing me a bottle of beer.. come on

The service industry in Australia sucks who are you trying to fool

Let's make it clear. We DON'T care what you do in other countries!

​@@acegts7829Exactly

If the service is horrible don't tip. If the food, and service was good tip good. If it was above, and beyond service than tip above , and beyond🙌

@@acegts7829no it doesn’t…. Honestly I’ve been to America plenty of times (I was there in October) and the service isn’t any different to the rest of the world. You’re just subsidising someone salary instead of the business paying. Ask yourself what stimulates good service… one where tipping is mandatory or one that rewards good service, if it’s mandatory why give good service?

You're absolutely right I've been asking the restaurant that I worked at just to raise prices 25% and then give us 25% of our sales

When was it ever 10%? 15% has always been standard since from when I can remember. In the U.S. at least.

@@mandatorymyocarditis How old are you

We don't make much really.

@@StandStrong614 You're getting an hourly wage Plus 15% to 20 % of the sales And you're not making much Why not?

It did not happen. Stop trying to attract attention with made up stories.

@@johndong7524you under everyone’s comments you got no life.

40% on a $10 breakfast is $4….😅

@@ryanp8205 except I bought breakfast for 4 people........ Asshatt

​@@ryanp8205mofos like you won't be happy until he's tipping $20 on a $10 breakfast even if he has to bus his own tray

Right , but IRS made it to wait staff a qoata in tips they have to make it screws everything up

POV: Above and beyond means bowing down and calling this guy master.

No, it means more than the bare minimum, average simp @@jackcarraway4707

@@jackcarraway4707….we can see you have NEVER set foot in a restaurant!! 😂😂

@@CanTho2022 Then enlighten us what "above and means" cuz to means that can be translated as "shift the goalposts".

If you dont wanna tip, don't go to restaurants. It's that simple.

@@jackcarraway4707 that wasn’t the point but ok lol

@@fakesushii Restaurants are forcing the tip because cheapos like you who always stiff regardless of the service. The only people who complain about tipping are stiffers.

@jack, she already tipped. It was calculated in.

@@jackcarraway4707That’s ridiculous. These businesses can pay their employees properly and not rely on tips from people. That’s a better idea. The real greed is on the part of the employer not the consumer

That's just straight up theft and should be reported as such.

Yo that’s highly illegal you need to go after them

Illegal so many levels name and shame this restaurant.

I don’t tip at all. It’s not my job to make up for the restaurant owner paying its employees shitty.

This happened to me too! I had to call back the restaurant and ask for a refund on that tip the waiter gave himself.

Thats awesome. It is technically sales, if the server genuinely likes what they are serving you, then their enthusiasm is genuine too

Exactly, that's why people go to work! Those companies relying on customer tips shouldn't be in business, disgusting.

I've worked in and managed restaurants. If the waiters were paid $20 hr your chicken marsala with risotto and grilled asparagus would be $35 instead of $23

Tipping is such a scam. I always tip well, but I do it with spite.

​@@C2yourselfNo it wouldn't. The restaurant owners would just make less or go out of business. The rest of the world manages just fine.

​@@lukemurray4950& the staff will now be unemployed.

Stop being mad because you are poor because you were not responsible or fell too addiction. People are understanding for why you have no money just don't insult others because you can't afford too eat or tip

@@Hz9hfb tipping is for the birds

⁠@@Hz9hfbLiterally the dumbest take I’ve heard. Take this L

@bradwitham9731 you sound like you are genuflecting. If you are a server just suck it up….people like OP exist. You will get tipped if you do a good job. Keep your head up. You can earn a decent living if you stick with it. A friend of mine does not bad and makes almost 100k a year at a steak house. 🍻

@@Hz9hfblmao what bro u act like he has a heroin addiction cuz he doesn’t want to tip the bathroom door handler

Exactly! Glorified begging in a subservient relationship.

You don't understand severs get paid like 2.50 an hr if it wasn't for tips they wouldn't make money an before you say pay them more that 20 doller meal would become 30

@@JoshDillon-lm3hwthat’s the employers problem! They should pay their employees a living wage!

@@JoshDillon-lm3hwhow does the rest of the world do it? Because it isn’t that expensive

It’s up to the customer to tip or not. You can’t force people not to tip

I'd never tip anyone just for bringing me a plate of food. I do tip my hairdresser £2 as she has a nice a**e.

​@@goodyeoman4534exactly

​@@goodyeoman4534I always tip the curvy and friendly girls more. Cutting my hair? Pull on it just right and don't nick any of my skin with the scissors or razor 😍😍

Ah yes the pre-tip shake down. Sure would be a shame if something bad happened to your food.

No kidding. Now I see tip prompts at fast food restaurants.

I don’t tip at all. It’s not my job to make up for the restaurant owner paying its employees shitty.

yeah I'm not giving the big chain vendors extra money to donate on my behalf. they'll get the credit and the tax credit for it. it's not worth it lol. I'll donate to the charity myself.

I was going to say that too, the total has increased substantially, so does that mean the tip increases that much more too??

Especially if you have a few drinks

Thats how they sell it to wait staff “ the check total will be more and so will your tip”. That’s why most places try to get you to order more and order the more expensive things on the menu.

I'm not going to tip the Dutch Bros employee to make my coffee. Nor am I going to start tipping my waiter exorbitantly more because wages can't keep up with prices. Sorry, but if your job can't pay you enough, find another one

I tip at a good take out only pizzeria because they always have my food ready and no problems. $2-3 tip on a $30 pick up order can go a long way.

See this is exactly how I feel and i've lived and breathed the restaurant industry since I was 14 besides being in the military. You should not have to tip on take out food when you are driving and picking up the food. Delivery it depends I usaully give 5 bucks for pretty much everything I order delivery.

Yeah I rarely tip take out because you drive there to pick it up yourself, but usually like a dollar or two if the cashier is nice. Always tip the delivery driver and servers and bartenders though. People who don't tip them are selfish and suck

100x I see this daily!!!!

I barely ever eat out anymore, not worth it. Only when I am desperate which is like once a month. Just don't want to deal with absurdity 😐

@@joemachine4714 Oh yeah. It's bad. I'll order something like a coffee on the app, walk in for pick up. Wait for several minutes (they aren't busy). Then, after far too long and me looking annoyed someone's like "did you have an order?". And I'm like "Yeah, that one right on your screen in front of you". I've also seen where they are backed up some in the lobby. There is an obvious issue in the back that makes things significantly slower. Instead of just a general message to the customers saying "We apologize for the wait, it's going to be a few extra minutes because xyz", they'll just turn their backs to the customers. Then several customers get mad. Out of every 6 fast food employees, one would be great and have to make up the work of the other 5 crap employees. Then they get frustrated, rightly so, and leave. Or you will see a manager in the back that just barks orders and doesn't lead at all. All they do is b*tch. Then, after the situation has passed, they still keep complaining to the employee. If you want to know how well a restaurant is, look at the managers. I've seen places with great managers. They leave and by the next month, the place seems completely different and has horrible service due to a new crappy manager.

My daughter works for Cheesecake here in Lubbock. She can make 1000 dollars on a weekend. They have excellent service and she gets great tips. All the servers are trained for like 10 days in a class before they ever get on the floor

But yet it places like California they feel ENTITLED to start getting 20hr at fast food places. For below avg service and average at best food.. smh

Agreed

Drop where you work bro... you might just get some generous vistors!

There's a lot of servers that are covering too many tables because the restaurants can't find enough people to work. This guy sounds like a dick so I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't give the poor girl much of a chance. Leaving a note like he did is childish too.

I think the move your ass thing quite a bit when out as well. I too worked for eighteen years as a server.... always as my second job. I always tried to give best service. And I will tip well when given. If not I will give ten percent.

​@@ScottH.How is leaving a note childish? If anything, it's helping the server know what they did wrong to not get a tip, rather than just say the guy is cheap. That'll help them to improve their performance in the long run. It's called constructive criticism.

Majority of people who do their job well don't get any tips. You want a medal of honor for bringing food to the table? Doing your job well is a norm wherever you work. It's not dependent on whether you get a tip or not. Don't act like a hero for merely doing your job.

@@johndong7524 You sir are a fool. Eating out in the US is cheaper than basically everywhere else in the world because tipping is a part of the bill. You might not like the system but that's how its set up. If we get rid of tipping then the bill will just be 20% higher or more. Tipping is built in not extra.

@@bsmith437 And you're a more on. Eating out is way cheaper in places like Eastern Europe and Asia. If you have traveled beyond your little village you would've known that. And I'd rather pay extra and get a good service every time than being literally black mailed into giving a tip.

@@bsmith437 If the tip was built-in we wouldn't have an option not to pay it, id iot.

Nice. Honestly I'm still serving at Olive Garden and I've gotten better at tipping and more considerate. But I still believe it's YOUR RIGHT to decide how much to tip. Been serving 7+ yrs now. I'm a good server, and that's because the restaurant and customers tell me mostly all the time. And honestly, whenever you go in there to do a great job AT YOUR JOB, Especially as a server, you will get tipped Good!! I rarely get stiffed, never have to worry about tips at the end of the night. Everyone is able to do it with a change of attitude. Some people nowadays just don't like their job, don't try to do a great job ñ, and expect to do bare minimum while getting good tips... Get outta here with that!

If they want to do us like that, I’ll begin tipping on the subtotal

Any time I see those automatic calculations on the credit machine, I just press $0.00 out of spite.

I would AUTOMATICALLY PRESS 0.0 as TIP!! 😂😂

False. The etiquette books put 15% for well over 50 years. That said is bad service deserves 10% or less. If you plan to give 0% then you should also call the manager over.

@@Omenowl - Not my problem, if the manager wants to know why the server got a zero tip, he can ask them. I'm the customer, I don't have to explain shit to no one.

It always has been

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At least you aren't one of the garbage people who go out to a restaurant with a server and don't tip them.

It was so much easier to tip when Trump was in office.

@@easymoney7007 until 2020... when he went along with the lockdowns and caused insane inflation by printing 6trillion for covaids

@@mandatorymyocarditis Garbage people? Who the hell are you?

You really hate capitalism

smart

Press 0 or no. It’s the machine asking, not the employees. They don’t make the software

@@ca8944 I’m not blaming the employees.

@@LatchkeyKidX people are getting mad at the employees as if they are the ones “demanding “ a tip. Just put 0

@@ca8944 no I think everyone is pretty United in saying food places should pay their employees appropriately and not expect tips to make up for their low wages. Half the places make their employees split tips as well. If I’m tipping my server well, I expect the tip to go directly to them, but unfortunately in most places these days good servers are forced to split their tips with the servers that don’t deserve tips. I know how to decline a tip…what’s frustrating is places asking for tips simply because you swiped a card. I understand the employees didn’t put this practice into place as do most others.

@@LatchkeyKidX the restaurants that I worked at didn’t share tips. Don’t go out to eat then bc you have no idea how running a business works. If you’re getting frustrated over that then you must live a charmed, easy life. What frustrates me is an open border, high gas and food prices, high inflation and r*pists, murderers and carjackers being let out of jail with no cash bail. You know-real problems.

Simp

Nice

Hope you didn’t tip like that while you were still a server.

Servers and others in the industry are known to be great tippers.

I am also in California. What do you write on the receipt? How much do you tip for “amazing” service?

So that’s great! CA waitress get payed state minimum wage! As customers we don’t need to pay tip anymore because workers already getting livable wages!!! No more pressure now!

It’s illegal for them to add the tip on themselves and you could’ve complained to the manager and had them take off the tip If they didn’t then it’s a criminal offense.

@@ca8944 I didn't know that.

I would have called the credit card company and the manager about the unauthorized tip. You could report it to the police as well.

Ah hell no. I'll pay the bill but auto adding a tip on? Manager gets one shot to refund it or it's getting disputed. Cash would be nice in a case like this.

@@genxx2724 yep. I used to work in the office and I would have to adjust any tips that were put in wrong. Once in a while, a customer would complain that their tip was put in wrong and we’d have to refund their credit card. If we found out that the server intentionally put it in wrong, they would get written up but we had two checks with the closing server and in the office the following day to make sure the tips were correct.

I complain to myself, and say I won't do it...I'm not going to tip for this..."nope", not this time. Then buddy gives me the device and stands there looking at me as I stare at the tip options 15%, 18%, 20% or other. I fold like a cheap chair and give them a tip. Rinse and repeat. Nurses wipe the crap from people's asses and don't get tipped. I'm a lion in my imagination only.

It is a nice opportunity to make someone's day if you have the money, $5 shouldn't be enough to break you

Yes, now the new trend is to auto add the tip, unless you request to have it removed. That should be criminal

@@runswithraptors I don’t get a tip for doing my literal job; if you want to hand out your money like that go ahead. But doing that is contributing to a society wide entitlement, and in the end it helps nobody.

you agree to the tip when you dine out. Good service requires a minimum tip. If the server is super busy and doesn't have time go above and beyond but you still got you your food and drinks as expected - tip the minimum. If the server is able to wow you they will, and then you can toss a couple xtra bucks on.

Believe it or not this happens in one shape or another 100% of the time.

Either way the customer is the one paying the employee……………funny thing is tipping gives you more direct control.

Why? It's commission work, it's just that it's not usually how the restaurant businesses are setup in other countries. Good servers in America can make a killing.

taxpayers are also responsible for paying all the corporate subsidies as well.

Derp where do you think the business gets it's money from in the first place?

That is truly customer service.

I say 20% is well generous.

Exactly! Here's what I would do if I were King: I would publish an edict saying, "In three months henceforth, all restaurant prices will be raised 15%. That 15% will go directly to the wait staff. From that day on, there will be no tipping--unless you have some personal burning desire to do so." Then I will no longer have to do math homework after every restaurant meal. Nor will I have to subsidize all the fucking cheapskates who currently tip nothing no matter how good the service is. Problem solved.

Example: We tip in America in restaurants because the servers only get paid like $2 per hour. Tips are a huge part of their income.

​@sunnystar3321 thats because servers have an incentive to make 20+ dollars an hour if they do their job good, if they dont they dont deserve to make that money and maybe they should get out of that position

Because service is not in uk culture. Its not a career choice, its a fill in job. Sadly not respected because its not taught. Service in uk is hit n miss at best. Little pride 😮

No one cares about a bunch of gammon xenophobic island monkeys that bend the knee to German monarch’s

@@des-ex-diver I see. Yes, us Americans take pride in great service.

Are you saying you took up her booth for hours studying, starting during the busy lunch rush, stopping her from making money? That was really bad. Servers have to turn tables to make money, except in expensive dinner houses where people are having cocktails, appetizers, wine, and dessert in addition to expensive meals.

🗣️ EVERYWHERE

And anticipating what a guest will need and bringing it before they ask.

Sit down dinner requires a tip of 20% beyond that isfor all the above

@@MAfanwoods37 WRONG!!!!!!!! Otherwise it would be Denoted in the Price on the Menu Not Optional.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why would you want to consume anything served by people like that? If they put the same amount of care and professionalism into their other tasks as they do customer service, then you can probably assume that their kitchen is dirty and unsanitary and they probably don't wash their hands as often as they should at the very least.

I don’t tip at all. It’s not my job to make up for the restaurant owner paying its employees shitty.

@@MannElite Exactly. Plus prices are too high and they don’t deserve anything. Make your food and coffee at home.

I don't like restaurants that let beggars enter or hang arounfdby the door

20.00 an hour in the 70's.... That's about 158.00 hr today. Yep....Nobody need 15% That's crazy talk. so if you make a lil over 30.00 an hr now, its like 4.00 an hour in 1970.