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Post by Toasted Cheese on Sept 27, 2018 9:47:58 GMT
People aren't obligated to tip. You can't take a job with optional payment and expect everyone to treat it like an obligation. Blame restaurateurs who won't pay their staff sufficient wages so that they don't have to rely on people voluntarily paying more than the advertised price. Of course, people aren't obligated to tip, but it's kind of an understood thing that tipping is part of the deal. Unless the service is exceptionally bad, I would never even consider not leaving a tip. I think not tipping really is an asshole move. I remember once a customer left a waitress (this was when I was a busboy at the the Olive Garden) a nickel for the tip. She was not a bad waitress and she had a decent personality. But obviously she was also hot tempered. When she saw what the customer left her, she grabbed the nickel, ran out the door and threw the nickel at the customer and said something like "you can keep your fucking nickel!" and then was promptly fired. I know she wasn't professional, but I felt bad for her. Sounds like her temper got the better of her. Although she only got a nickel, that was the prerogative of the customer. How did she know that customer had anymore to give her? They might have been stony broke themselves. That nickel might have been given with as much of a generous gesture that the customer was able to afford. Or by the flip side of that coin, if she did have a hot temper, she might have displayed some rudeness to the customer and they may have felt she wasn't worthy of their tip. She certainly wasn't entitled to receive any tip at all and while it is an expectation, is this an unrealistic expectation? Prices and taxes are listed on the menu and bill and that is all a customer need pay. They are being placed under undue and unnecessary pressure because of the US custom, or so called etiquette of tipping. Is this really ethical? |
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