Last week the unusual whales account on twitter, tweeted that the minimum expectation for tips has raised from 15% to 20%, with 18% as the bare minimum for decent service.
Yeah, it's hard to say, of course you want to support the servers, but it does start to be just another profit center at a certain point, and at that point, what are you really doing by tipping?
There are some types of exchanges where I started to do things one way in order to avoid the issue of tips, sole proprietors, takeout and Uber come to mind. I remember when Uber started, they were like, "no tipping". For some reason, that made it more attractive to me, and I got in the habit. Now, tips seem to be expected. Same with takeout, I always considered that it was 20% cheaper than sitting in the restaurant, and why shouldn't it be, they put the food in a box and they're done? Now, tips seem to be expected there as well. And there was always the culture that if the person doing the service also owned the business, why tip? Barbers for example, a lot of the time. But has that also gone by the wayside?
Yeah, it's hard to say, of course you want to support the servers, but it does start to be just another profit center at a certain point, and at that point, what are you really doing by tipping?
There are some types of exchanges where I started to do things one way in order to avoid the issue of tips, sole proprietors, takeout and Uber come to mind. I remember when Uber started, they were like, "no tipping". For some reason, that made it more attractive to me, and I got in the habit. Now, tips seem to be expected. Same with takeout, I always considered that it was 20% cheaper than sitting in the restaurant, and why shouldn't it be, they put the food in a box and they're done? Now, tips seem to be expected there as well. And there was always the culture that if the person doing the service also owned the business, why tip? Barbers for example, a lot of the time. But has that also gone by the wayside?