Hey Folks!

I’ve been living abroad for over half my life in a country where tipping is not the norm. At most you would round up. 19€ bill? Here’s a 20, keep this change.

Going to the US soon to visit family and the whole idea of tipping makes me nervous. It seems there’s a lot of discussion about getting rid of tipping, but I don’t know how much has changed in this regard.

The system seems ridiculously unfair, and that extra expense in a country where everything is already so expensive really makes a difference.

So will AITA if I don’t tip? Is it really my personal responsibility to make sure my server is paid enough?

  • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
    16·
    1 year ago

    I only tip for sit-down restaurants where an actual servers brings me my food

    everywhere else I preemptively give the stank face as I mash the ‘no tip’ button on their payment system

    I usually just round up to the next $5 amount to make the numbers clean, don’t really care what the % is

    so a $16.83 bill gets a $3.17 tip

    this makes it easier to plan a meal budget, like “ok I’m spending $20 on a burger and fries today”

      • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        oh yeah, I actually do for local food/grocery deliveries

        $5 or $10 depending on how much crap I order, not sure what the expectations are though for this type of service??