re: Tipping is out of control in America - can we abolish it?

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You've never served in a restaurant before. People 95% of the time are going to tip whatever % they gon tip, regardless of the job you do.

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It depends heavily on the type of restaurant. If you work in a chain restaurant with limited repeat customers than you will tips that are fairly even across the board regardless of quality of service. However, if you work in local restaurant with a high percentage of repeat customers, you see a lot of variety in tip compensation throughout the waitstaff. I managed a place that was the latter and tip compensation varied greatly with our waitstaff. In fact, we would review it every few months and actually let people go if they were consistent low tip earners.