To those who live in or who have visited the United States.
Growing up in the 90’s, the “minimum acceptable” tip was 10%, average was 15%, and a good tip was 20%. These days, I just round to the nearest dollar and tip 20%, but I’ve heard these days it’s not unusual to tip up to 40%!
What do you usually do?
20% for excellent service.
It goes down from there. Yes zero tip is acceptable if the service sucked. If I ordered medium rare steak and I get well done steak. I normally won’t deduct that from the tip since that is a hard one for the server to see. But if it’s something they could have seen and didn’t fix, yeah I’m probably reducing the tip.
The tip is for service above and beyond, not a required part of the bill.
If my food sucks and the service was good, I tip them specifically in cash and tell them not to mention it, so it looks like I didn’t tip to the restaurant but it doesn’t screw the wait staff. It also makes the restaurant pay just a tiny bit more in payroll.
I was going to answer, but then you clarified on the body of your post that you only wanted answers from people in the US, lol
Zero. I believe that the negotiations of an employee’s market value are between the employee and their employer. I don’t believe that it is my responsibility to charitably subsidize a company through the subsidization of their employees’ wages.
15% flat always. Canada has sadly embraced tipping culture so I’ll not deny anyone the going rate or judge them at their workplace - but Vancouver is also expensive as fuck and anything over 15% starts putting meals close to the 100$ mark.
Nothing, I live in a country where it’s the employer’s responsibility to pay their staff a livable wage.
In the USA: 20%. In Europe: 10%. If service is exceptional or bad, I adjust up or down.
Please don’t fucking tip in Europe, tipping culture isn’t normalized there and servers actually get a fair wage.
Tipping at restaurants is already normal in Germany, France, and Italy if there is not a service charge on the check.
Stop tipping in EU. Last time someone asked me to tip in Germany got a 1 star review.
Nothing I live in Australia
When I have been in the us I used to tip around 15%. Accepted that as a weirdness of the us.
On my home country tipping is just weird and unheard of, so 0%.
Edit: last time I was in the us was like 15 years ago.
Typically 20-25 at a restaurant. I’m not a fan of tipping for transactions where I’m not served. I only tip when someone does something.
20 standard
15 should be standard. Menu prices are raising, why should tip raise roo?
Because all their living expenses also increased
…yes. do you miss the fact that menu prices going up means the tip is going up even at the same percentage?
i live in vietnam. it’s a poor country. but restaurant workers here get paid in money, so they don’t need to work for gratuity. it would be strange or insulting if you tried to give extra money to the staff.
0, after reading the comments I realised you do not want my answer, since I live in the EU
Appologies. My presumption was civilized places don’t have such barbaric practices
I typically calculate a 20% tip and then round up. For demographic purposes, I’m a millennial in the US.
As a transplant I refuse the whole US tipping system and stick to the way of “rounding it up”. It often ends up around 10% of the bill but % tipping seems absolutely stupid as you are being punished for buying more. A few rare times I actually tipped 20% because the service was very good. Nobody tips me on my job and on average I make less than these people so I don’t see the logical connection of this whole stupid tipping culture
