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The article ends with: > “Tipping should be based on exceptional service,” she says. “It’s not an entitlement.” For sit-down restaurants, tipping is a cultura
by neilv 2y ago
The article ends with:
> “Tipping should be based on exceptional service,” she says. “It’s not an entitlement.”
For sit-down restaurants, tipping is a cultural convention that was adopted long ago, and has been baked into pricing, wages, and sometimes even taxes.
Someone might make an argument that it'd be better to have a different cultural convention.
But simply ignoring the actual cultural convention would be a big deal, adversely affecting the livelihoods of many low-income people.
- wetpaws 2y ago[dead]
- kaliqt 2y agoThe solution is to reverse it in my opinion. Tipping has ruined the service industry, for customers and workers.
- neilv 2y agoIf the convention is changed, that's fine. Simply ignoring the convention, as some do, seems ruthless.
- MostlyStable 2y agoThere is no way to change it other than to ignore it. Are you imagining some cultural council you can appeal to to change it? The culture is nothing but thousands of individual decisions.
- neilv 2y ago> There is no way to change it other than to ignore it. Couldn't one change the culture without freeloading off of where it's baked in? For example, publicize your preferred convention, and then give your business to restaurants that decide to satisfy the demand for that convention. If people don't flock to those restaurants, then maybe that wasn't a viable cultural change. Or maybe the objection wasn't impassioned philosophical position on the optimal economic model, but rather that they simply wanted to pay less, and blaming a questionable custom was a convenient loophole.
- SoftTalker 2y agoIt's also a good way to get spit (or worse) in your food.
- siamesedream 2y agoWould be a quick way to lose your job and potentially all future waitering jobs.