4 ms·
Tipping culture has turned insane, spreading from California out. That said, I’ll still take it (in restaurants) over a lack of tipping. It depends on the coun
by Auracle 2y ago
Tipping culture has turned insane, spreading from California out.
That said, I’ll still take it (in restaurants) over a lack of tipping. It depends on the country, but in quite a few the wait staff are… significantly less motivated to actually serve you, to put it nicely. It’s no fun to run out of water and then wait ten minutes, realize they’re never coming and you haven’t even seen them to flag them down, and then either get up to find them or just continue eating without anything to drink.
- lolinder 2y agoFor me the problem with tipping culture isn't with sit-down restaurants—that's one of the few places where I can see a slight argument to be made in favor of it. What irks me is that tip prompts have started showing up in order at the counter take out places, where I'm literally going to receive no additional services besides the food itself, the cost of which is presumably baked into its price.
- piva00 2y agoIt's not fun either to have waitstaff hounding you with fake smiles all the time, pretty exhausting to be repeating "no, not right now, thank you" every 5 minutes when they come to ask if there's anything else. Worse, in a lot of places it feels they just need you to hurry up, more tables served, more tips. I don't feel I get "good service" in most places in the USA, I get waitstaff interrupting my table all the time to check if we want to order more, it's quite grating. I just need waitstaff that are attentive when I'm looking for them to order, not to be pushed into ordering or rushing me out.