4 ms·

I live in Europe and I remember all the people I've tipped, which isn't many, because they went above and beyond to serve a customer. US-style peer pressured ti

• vmception 5y ago
  Oh man, wait till you hear the rationale from workers that are recipients of tips! You almost want to sympathize and be convinced (or maybe you want to be intimate with the server that you're on a date with, which incentivizes being supportive) And then you realize they aren't educated enough to really have an objective opinion about the economics behind their predicament I've heard people saying to tip as high as 40% and not to go out to eat if you can't do that! haha, what a rip off, but then it illuminates how any percentage is just as arbitrary. Broken system that should be fixed. Also, many states do pay their wait staff a real wage but the consumer doesn't get to tell the difference, and is peer pressured into an amorphous American tipping culture.