Tipping etiquette 101: Who to tip, how much, and when to skip 

Glad you’re addressing this issue. Tipping is getting out of control. A lot of people don’t even wanna go out any more

I used to travel to Japan for business quite a bit. There, the bill is the bill and even if you tried to tip they would treat that cash like it was poison and back away from you. I love that culture. The most polite, humble respectful people ever.

Learn to say 'no' and don't feel guilty. I tip when service is involved (generally at a restaurants). I start with 15% (no, 18% is not the new 15%!) and go higher if the service is good. But I'll never tip over-the-counter service. I've seen some establishments asking for tip on top of tax and also want mandatory tip (up to 19% at one restaurant I visited) even for a party of four. As a consumer, I am in control. If establishment gets crazy with tip, I will never re-visit that establishment. Personally, I think tipping will hurt the over-the-counter establishments due to resentment and therefore don't even put spare change in a tip jar.

Sorry but I am not tipping for someone to hand me a pastry. Give me a break.

You are right. As an European, I don't understand why the owners of the restaurants in the US just have to pay 4$ per hour, and let the customers pay the majority of the wages.

Another America only problem lol. The rest of the world pays their staff enough as not to require tips to edge out their rent payments.

We should all stop tipping completely regardless of the service. That is the only way we will get rid of this stupid tipping culture. It is NOT the customers responsibility to pay the employees!

Do not tip unless you are sitting and eating in a restaurant. Other than that no point giving your hard earned money away.

Double taxation should be illegal. Why is the TIP percentage rising if the product price is already rising? I used to pay $10 for a plate of food and $1 tip (10%). Today the same plate costs $15. Why should I pay $3 (20%) if paying the same 10% would lead to a greater tip ($1.5) for the waiter? The tip has literally TRIPLED: from $1 to $3. I haven't been to a restaurant in months and intend to keep it that way.

This is why I don't do Uber eats or door dash. I rather just go pick up my food or just cook.

Did an experiment over one month - no tips for anyone. Was shocked by the extra $500 I was able to move into savings at the end of the month. I have to agree with a lot of the comments - this is a uniquely American issue and I think I'm done participating in this pass the literal buck from service industry employers.

I went to a restaurant recently for so-so food and service from a surly waiter. At the end I was presented with the tablet demanding a 20% tip, or higher! I didn't see the smaller writing for other options as my eyesight is bad so I pressed the 20% button - and we have never been back to that restaurant as a result of my being blatantly pressurised to pay an overinflated tip that was not earned.

People shouldn't rely on 'etiquette' to make a living. We need to abolish tipping! One price for everyone. No confusion. No guilt. No more corporations relying on passing the buck when it comes to paying their employees a living wage.

Makes no sense If a couple orders 2 steak dinners a bottle of wine for $100. Another couple orders 2 steak dinner plus a more expensive bottle of wine for $1000 The server serving the rich couple gets bigger tip even though same amount work is performed.

It used to be the standard to tip 15% at restaurants for good service & 20% for exceptional service. I guess times changed & the standard is increasing.

In Tokyo, the servers are aggressive in refusing any tip.

Don't tip unless you feel the service rendered deserved a good tip. Tipping should not be compulsory and it's stupid to make tipping an entitlement for everyone. You agree to work for that wage your employer offered so don't blame the customers for your low wage, and expect them to top up your expectations!

Having worked in the back of house at a restaurant it always annoyed me that the waitstaff brought in far more from tips than the cooks made. While the kitchen staff does get a higher base wage than the waitstaff, by the time tips are added they're FAR behind. Even at places where tips are theoretically split, the split goes to all the front-of-house staff, not usually those who actually work with the food.

Sorry, but no. after being extorted for tips on two occasions, I'll simply avoid establishments or services where tips are expected. I can roll my own suitcase (and I know it will arrive at my room in good shape.). I will not tip for a drive thru or other cashier service. Yes, I understand tipping the server at a restaurant where she is being paid less than minimum wage because the government allows it. But largely I've quit eating out and openly choose places that have a "no tipping allowed" culture because I think tipping has gotten way out of hand.

It should not be my responsibility to make sure the driver at my door is making a livable wage. It's the company he/she works for.

There was just an article about tipping fatigue and a bunch of restaurant workers unionizing. Why don’t restaurants workers get paid a living wage?

Tip $0. If a business can’t pay their employees a proper wage then they have no right being in business.

This is why I stopped ordering out, cuz I'm too cheap to tip

I just got back from Japan, where there is no tipping. Not only is there no tipping, but generally speaking the service is better. It is wonderful! I was willing to tip during the Covid period to show appreciation for people just showing up in that difficult time. But Covid is over now and wages are up. Let's imitate the Japanese model, pay people what they're worth, and forget about paying a bribe just to get people to do their job.

Simple solution, pay a living wage, include all taxes and fees in the price displayed like in Europe and Asia =No Stickershock👍. Besides POS terminals tip% are calculated on your after tax bill (instead of pre-tax which is just wrong ). Just have the price include everything you need to pay included going forward 💳💵💵🇨🇦🇺🇸🌎

Why y’all sit so close 😀?

Awesome video guys ❤❤

I don’t mind tipping wait staff when I am eating in the restaurant. My issue is that now everyone has a tip jar. Even food to go has a tip jar despite the fact that my receipt specify service charge for packaging food to go.

ALWAYS skip…. It’s a horrible “tradition”, and has gotten way out of hand.

I don't need a news channel telling me what to do with my money.

If you are tipping a fast food cashier, the same % as a full service restaurant waiter/waitress, then you are being unfair to the full service restaurant worker.

Tipping culture in AMerica never made sense to me. I don't understand why some services are expected to be tipped & other services are not. To me, technically every product purchased requires some level of customer service. Even the UPS/Fedex people provider a service when delivering your Amazon products your ordered from your phone/computer.

When do you have to tip? Never, it’s voluntary.

20% for restaurant, spa and salon. 10% for delivery. 5% for tip jar. Zero for counter services.

Since we've been back to the "new normal" I don't eat out and rarely even do carryout anymore because the tipping has become such a headache and the service is terrible.

I haven't tipped anyone for anything in over a decade....if you have a problem with your wages, talk to your boss

Tip for service from wait staff. But to tip after standing in line, I could care less what other people think when I hit the NO TIP screen. They don't like it, they can all stuff it.

The only way to stop this out of control tipping is people stop going to restaurants or even fast food places because even those establishments have tip jars now. They’ll get the hint when they’re all on the unemployment line and the establishments start closing. Maybe then we can get rid of tipping for good!

Service charge should be considered the tip. No way should you be paying 20% service charge plus tipping 20%

Why do we tip hairstylist? Don’t they make there own prices and pay rent? Servers make minimum wage or less so it makes sense but some haircuts are super expensive nowadays- $65-$300 for women. I’m not angry just curious.

0:09 I Love how much he giggled at the “tipping point” pun🥰

I think you've completely dropped the ball on this subject. Pay for hotel housekeeping? I pay the hotel for a clean room. Why do I have to pay the housekeeper again for a clean room? Also, it's not a tipped position and any tip I give will most certainly be non-declared incomed. Pay $50 or more per mover when already paying thousands to the moving company because why? I'm all for lifting the atmosphere by providing drinks and snacks. Why does it seem so difficult for American companies to run a business without screwing both their employees (not paying a living wage) and the customers (expecting them to pay more than what is quoted to make sure their employees don't starve)?

Restaurants I tip 15 to 20%. Everybody else zero.

What TF makes someone an expert on tipping??? Did they get a degree for that?

No matter what..it is on the cheap a$$ed employer, not my job to pay everyone's salary it is your bosses job to do this!!!

Tipping is out of control but not for me. I refuse to tip those who traditionally do not expect tips and I am not embarrassed to decline either.

I went in store to buy a gift card and was prompted to a tip screen...

It’s always confused me how I can go get a coffee at McDonald’s, or a taco from Taco Bell but if coffee is Starbucks, scooters dutchhoes etc or a food truck taco there’s a demandatory tip request. There was a time Dunkin’ did not allow its stores to ask for trips and now the ones here have tip jars in the window. It all gets overwhelmingly confusing. Believe me I know, I lived mostly in tips as a single mom college student during the five years i worked at a country club. Tips were added into a percentage of the fees and whenever I was cash tipped it was always appreciated and super helpful. But never expected or assumed to be required even there. And why service tips? Most are self owned businesses and set their own fees. I, supposed to pay for an eighty dollar manicure and add another twenty as a tip? All of it is paid to you? I appreciate the service but that’s simple extortion

When I moved from the east coast to California I was surprised to find that the servers got standard min wage but there was more pressure to tip a larger percentage

Friends have just come home from touring the States. They were being continually hassled by waiters to the point where they did not enjoy going for a meal. On the final day they went for a meal and the waitress left them enjoy their meal...They were so grateful to be just left alone that they gave her $100.

I just got back from The Hard Rock hotel in Orlando, two weeks ago…..there is an 18% gratuity already added to your meal and drinks bill. Then the receipt has a line for tips…… then the waiter wants to look down on you for skipping that part….Bro, the hotel room is way over priced, parking is $28 a day, the water in the room was $7.50, cmon man. Tips should be, Double the tax, somewhere around 13%

I’m tired of tipping it makes me feel like 💸💸. I would rather they just add a charge and I wouldn’t have to think about it! I tipped $0 once got a waitress that was very rude ignored my husband and I, she seemed very racist. I told my husband she doesn’t even deserve a tip!

Why are restaurants precalulate tips on the total INCLUDING TAX? Tips for IRS? Should I tip my doctors and nurses? Should I tip the flight attendants and the pilots?

If someone, like a restaurant worker doesn't like low tips, go work in another industry..Problem solved. If they can't because of no skills, education etc...who's fault is that?

when to skip: always

So now most menus have higher prices today, which means you’re already paying more. Then you have the sales tax higher because of the higher-priced menu. And then on top of that, you’re expected to pay a minimum of 20% (1/5th) or more for the whole bill?? Most of us are probably now just ordering to go and then pick up like an Uber eats driver. No tipping 😊

My money, my choice. They work already, no tip unless it's excellent service!

TIPPING is OPTIONAL! It's something EXTRA the worker may EARN! I don't HAVE TO TIP HIM! It's NOT REQUIRED, and I may not have the extra money to tip! If he shows up at my table with a growl on his face, and slams my food down because he's not happy about something, then he gets no tip from me! Or maybe 2 cents to show him what I think. I don't know WHO is trying to push tipping as being something customers HAVE TO DO! GET BACK! I'll decide that.

She’s WRONG a server’s wage can be as low as $2.13/ hr, depending on the state’s minimum wage for Servers. In South Carolina they make $2.13 in the casual dining industry.

We had new windows fitted .. 18k ... And did all the prep prior to the company's arrival. They were happy, the job was easy, and they got out early ... Except for the supervisor. He sat and got comfortable and then it downed on us, he was waiting for his tip.

there is no such thing as tipping etiquette. there's no etiquette to speak of when the system itself is evil. it's like discussing etiquette on human trafficking.

Tipping expectations have turned me off completely. iPad “pressure tipping” - choose “no tip” and carry cash. Leave what you want. No more!

I'm not from USA... Everytime I go to the States... I NEVER TIP! 😮‍💨 It's just awful 😢

At this point I am tipping people who make more then I do.

Is it standard now to tip mechanics? Someone mentioned it in another video and it was the first I'd heard of it.

in today's time, the tip is frequenting your business.

Put it this way tip your self 15% put into savings

I don’t order from Door Dash, Uber Eats etc…most of the time the charge for the food you just ordered is almost as much as you paid for the food itself. I just go pick it up. On that note, I don’t tip coffee shops, food trucks etc…tipping is getting out of hand. I don’t tip carry-out for food orders either. I tip wait staff at a full service restaurant and generally do 20-25%. I also tip cab drivers, bellhops, valets etc. You can turn your tablet back the other way because I’m just gonna hit “no tip”.

If you order a plate for 10 dollars the tip is 2 DOLLARS. If the plate is 50 dollars yo have to tip 10 DOLLARS. How much extra work did the Server do. ?

Tipping is supposedly optional… but in America it seems compulsory!

With overqll prices up AND tipping expected, eating at a restaurant is probably 5x the cost of making your own meal these days. Becoming harder and harder to justify going out....

The whole idea of tipping is ridiculous. You're paid to do a job. Do it, and do it well for the same effort regardless of tip. The whole premise causes unnecessary sentiment of anxiety, uneasiness and animosity (sometimes unknowingly) with every transaction.

Tipping movers, on top of paying for the moving company to move you? This is literally the most excessive tipping expectation I have seen yet. What are you paying the "hundreds or even thousands" of dollars for then? The branded truck? Fine. I will tip the movers in pizza and rent a uhaul (sounds like how most of my friends who can't afford a moving company move, just with the movers being their friends who were roped into it).

Which restaurant workers are still making $4 an hour? Many MANY states mandate restaurant workers get paid the normal minimum wage. These workers happen to also be demanding the highest tips. They easily make $30+ an hour...as A WAITER. No you do NOT deserve $30 an hour (and we know you hide your cash tips from the tax man). No sympathy for these folks.

Coffee establishments ask for a tip even when they just hand your beverage to you at a drive through.

There is no tipping culture in Japan and Korea. If you want to get a tip, you have to provide good service and ask for it. The problem is... In the United States, employers pass on the wages of their employees to consumers.

I usually tip 20 percent at sit down restaurants and maybe some spare change at counter pick up places. I just don't eat out figuring in tip cost if I don't want to spend that much. A tip can add up to a whole meal price sometimes.

Tipping should only be because you have shown “exemplary service” and going above and beyond for the customer, even then it’s entirely voluntary. It should never be the motivator for how well you treat your customers. Customer service is in the job description, You signed up for the job, so you should be doing your absolute best regardless of expecting a reward or not.

There's a big difference between a full-service restaurant and a self-service restaurant. I feel good about tipping after the service when paying the tab. The self-service restaurants where you have to pay first and tip before self-service, I'm afraid they'll do bad prep on the food I'm about to eat and get a nasty vibe from the cashier so I give in and just tip so I can eat comfortably, however I would eat at these tip first eatery's more often if they would do-away with this almost an enforcement like bribe feeling I get when ordering. So it's ultimately up to the owner if they want more business and happy customers.

I only tip full service restaurants, or "personal" service. If they sneak in some bogus "service fee" on the tab it gets deducted from that tip.

Not tipping is not something you "get away with" as if it's a high crime. To tip or not to tip is a choice, not an obligation. I work in a kitchen and our tips are (on a good week) less than a quarter of the servers' tips. Tip your chef, that's what I say. They sweat over that stove or have steam in their face washing dishes and get covered in sweat and grease constantly. On the other hand, why would you tip the girl who just carries it to you on a tray and occasionally refills your water?

I heard server say on a good day they can make an average of 30hr. So I don't think they are the ones fight for tips to go way

Hey @Starbucks, did you see this? You’re a multibillion dollar company. Start paying them.

My local McDonald has a tip jar….. my order most of the time is wrong or cold. I tip here and there. At this point…. Everyone wants a tip. Shoot…. I need to put a tip jar on my office desk.

I’m not tipping for take out or at a coffee shop 😂I tip for delivery if it’s quick, but 10%. Dine in for good service 15%-20%, bad service 0. Tipping is always always optional & I’ve been learning to always pay in cash, to avoid any tipping screens. How much someone makes isn’t a customers problem.

I only tip for delivery and at the end of a meal I had in the restaurant if the server was good. I don't tip for anything I pay for in advance.

Why they all sitting so close like that on stools? Looks like my kid's 2nd grade classroom during story time!

Service charge doesnt go to ur server it goes to the restaurant

Why is it still so hard to pay a normal salary in the USA...

I don't tip. I flip the bird 🐦

Bad customer service is some thing that has always been one of my biggest pet peeves. I am one of those people who literally only tips when I feel that it is deserved. And I adjust the percentage of the tip based on what I feel is fair in terms of what service was being rendered how much it cost and how good of a job they did. One thing that just drives me nuts is when you order a grocery delivery and they expect you to tip on top of the $10 fee. You’re already paying for the delivery and then they expect you to base your tip on the percentage of the cost of your order. What if you just happen to order a few small items that cost a whole bunch of money? Are you still going to items to be delivered but they were all really cheap is it fair for you to tip based on percentage then? these people are insane with their expectations of being tipped through the roof when people are already struggling in this weird economy, and already paying almost double what we used to pay even a couple years ago for things like groceries and restaurants and what not. It is so incredibly rude and awkward when they ask you to tip for some thing that literally took them 30 minutes

Will be in NYC in September prior to my Indian Summer cruise and I will do the same as I did at all my trips to the USA: beverages and nice take away food from the supermarket, stored in the fridge of my hotel room and whenever I get thirsty or hungry during my walks through NYC I look for the nearest shop to get me a can and a bag of potatoe chips! Case closed! Sick & tired of this tipping crap!

I was wondering, as a foreigner, how do you actually tip, like do you do it very low key, hand down low or do you hold the note out; or will the other person have hand out anyway?

Tips don't increase a waiter's income. The salary he is offered by the employer already takes into account the tip he receives. The employer is then able to hire him for a lesser salary. Tips are just a way for the employer to pass his responsibility to the customer. The customer ends up paying a part of the salary. The waiter does not benefit from it.

IF I tip I tip 10%- thier "take" goes up when prices rise so there no need for 15 or 20%

Show me a screen where the minimum tip is 18% and you get 15% or less. Show me 15% you get 18%. If I order my food and pick up my food on the counter, zero tip.

10% is enough!😊

Tipping is begging by another name. Such an uncivilised culture

If you come to a Casino be sure to tip the staff and SECURITY most of all! They walk you to your car and look out for your safety. They put their life on the lines. For you so you don’t get robbed and more.

No one complains about tipping a restaurant a server, but takeout, a cup of black coffee, fast food, that is different story.