What percentage do you think you should be tipping?

Servers complaining about their tips is trashy AF.

I’m all for tipping well at a nice, sit-down restaurant. I usually tip $1-2 (for the kitchen staff) when I pick up pizza. But, tip culture is out of control.

How could a group of people — assuming that is 4+ heads — spend just $226 in 4 hours somewhere unless it was a dive bar where they were buying domestic drafts?

We should go back to a 15% standard. If the service is exceptional, bump it to 20-25%. This should be the expectation. But instead they want to shame people into tipping more because inflation is out of control and they don't want to pay servers more.

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wtf is the deal with tipping topics here? Tip what you want.

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No. Servers who publicly post that they are entitled to tips in the 30-40% range should be humiliated and mocked. Maybe this out of control tipping culture can be reigned in through shame.

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Not tipping is trashy AF.

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FIFY

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We should go back to a 15% standard. If the service is exceptional, bump it to 20-25%. This should be the expectation. But instead they want to shame people into tipping more because inflation is out of control and they don't want to pay servers more.

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Agreed but I don’t think most of society can calculate 15% in their head. I believe it went to 18-20% when people realized they just had to double the tax.

$40 tip at 4 hours is $10/hr. Minimum skills=minimum pay. It’s really not that hard.

One of the few interesting things I found on Reddit recently is this google docs spreadsheet someone started for restaurants in DC with their surcharges, health charges and tipping minimums. It shows how totally out of control some regions are:

Google Docs

And this is just one of the numerous threads detailing the latest annoyance of charging customers for employee health:

Reddit