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American-Style Tipping Is Testing British Pub Culture
- helsinkiandrew 2y agohttps://archive.ph/OgN1t https://archive.ph/OgN1t
- peutetre 2y ago> [Tipping] spread from Europe to the US, where employers like railcar operator Pullman Co. greatly expanded its use after the Civil War, to minimize wages paid to newly freed slaves. Tipping has become even more widespread in the US since the pandemic, intensifying a debate over when to tip and how much, and over minimum-wage laws that allow employers to pay tipped workers as little as $2.13 an hour. It's much better to simply pay people properly in the first place. Then there's no need for tipping.
- jjgreen 2y agoIt's interesting that tipping in British pubs is usually "and have one yourself", and that is really location dependent. Most places, "thanks, I'll have a half" and add the price of a half-pint, London, more often the price of a pint; in Liverpool an offer of "and take your own" adds 20-50p. Finances permitting, I'll usually do this a few times on a night out, those people working in pubs are grafters are really deserve it.