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?
This is what really confuses me about people annoyed with tipping culture. If we didn’t have to tip, but restaurants had to pay their workers enough to make workers stay, food prices would be an extra 18-25% higher anyways. At least with tipping you know it’s going to the staff.
Food service is the worst type of job, with really NO benefits except for tipping, and even then. I make just as much in my cushy accounting clerk job (which is the lowest level of accounting) as I did as a server. Except now I have benefits and TONS of free time to goof off on Lemmy. Serving was way way way worse.
Restaurants are a luxury. You pay luxury prices for these services or make your food at home.
