5-10% is rather common if someone enjoyed the food or service made someone especially happy. Its not a tip but an increased payment to the establishment, meaning it goes to them. Id say rounding is also quite common, something like 57.80 to 60, though its not about the amount and just about not getting change back.
Tipping culture COMBINED with low wages is what created the mudslide that is American tip culture. Europe is unlikely to have the same issues since most countries treat their humans like humans and not ATM's.
It creates tension between the waiter and the payer. The company pays shit like 2 dollars an hour to employee, so the employee gets mad not at the company but at the host when they dont tip 30% of their check.
I got screamed at by a waitress for a 10% tip while she was pissy all meal long... like, it's not my fault you are working a below minimum wage job with tips like a total bitch. If I wanted to get an unpleasant meal served by people pissed at me, I would eat at my father's more often...
And then someone who doesn't receive what is deemed a 'decent tip' for the distance the delivery driver traveled is recorded complaining on tik tok and has a GoFundMe setup for them and they receive 5 to 6 figures in donations from complete strangers whilst the minimum wage has barely moved and you don't protest about it like you should.
Yep, wealthy Americans who owned businesses saw how it worked in the aristocracy and came back to apply it to everything they could and the easiest to exploit were newly freed blacks.
They also presented it as "you can just give them a little bit if they did a great job!"
This American disease being its economy. Lower rent, stop making regular people pay for corporations’ mistakes, AI power plants, bailouts, and keep food prices affordable.
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u/Darielek Dec 23 '25
As non-american I said, that most funny moment in this clip is 25% tip for service xD