After July 1, 10% tipping should now be the norm in DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind tipping 20%. I eat out rarely because it's a splurge to me. $10/hour is nowhere near a living wage, and even if responsibility should lie with the owner, I'm not going to turn a blind eye and wait for them to fix it. Try being generous - it feels good.

The entire concept of tipping is nonsensical. Try using your brain - it feels good.

[Anonymous]

Does a teenager need a living wage?

[Anonymous]

Maybe it’s just me…but 99% of going to a restaurant is someone else cooking the meal, better and tastier than I can and somebody else does the dishes.

I don’t need or even much want table service. Let me order from an app and I walk over and grab my own plate.

Inevitably this is where it is all going…get rid of 90% of your front of house staff because restaurants have a broken model that can’t support paying workers a real wage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP it sounds like you cannot really afford to dine out.

It sounds like you're and idiot handing out money because you think you're being charitable. Do the country a better favor of you're so inclined - start writing checks to the US Treasury to help payoff the national debt while you're at it.

Ooh, poor and bitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll still be tipping 20% for table service.

Agreed. If you cannot afford yo tip at least 20% in this economy. Then you should not be going out OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll still be tipping 20% for table service.

Agreed. If you cannot afford yo tip at least 20% in this economy. Then you should not be going out OP.

Dumb. So you would still hand out 20% tips if waiters start making $20/h and restaurants jack prices to compensate? Why would you tip a waiter for doing a job and not say the mechanic, the cashier at the grocery store, or the Amazon delivery guy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll still be tipping 20% for table service.

Agreed. If you cannot afford yo tip at least 20% in this economy. Then you should not be going out OP.

Just because I can afford it doesnt mean it's required or necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it’s just me…but 99% of going to a restaurant is someone else cooking the meal, better and tastier than I can and somebody else does the dishes.

I don’t need or even much want table service. Let me order from an app and I walk over and grab my own plate.

Inevitably this is where it is all going…get rid of 90% of your front of house staff because restaurants have a broken model that can’t support paying workers a real wage.

In many smaller shops in Japan, like Ramen shops, enter, order from kiosk and pick up your food from counter. No tipping. Would love if more kiosks implemented here in U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG - an additional $4/hour does not equal your proposed 10% reduction in tips per tab. Furthermore, do you think waiters could live comfortably on $10 plus 10%? Try to put yourself in their shoes before you suggest that those of us wealthy enough to eat out regularly should stiff the working class in our high cost area.

Idiotic post.

It's not the customer's job to make sure a waiter can live off what they earn AT THEIR JOB. Take it up with their employer.

10% might be a little low, sure, but the major point being missed is that customers should now reduce their tips propeotionally to the rising base wages. Those wage hikes are inevitably going to get passed onto consumers in the form of higher menu prices.

When's it stop? You're seriously going to sit there with a straight face and tell everyone they should still tip 20% when hourly wages for tipped workers goes to $15/h? How about $20/h? $25/h?

Sorry, but once you start exceeding minimum wage per hour, it is no longer the customer's responsibility to tip anymore. The only reason tipping existed in the first place was because wait staff were paid well below minimum wages per hour. The more that gap closes, the less customers should tip. Admit it, you can't explain why you should tip restaurant wait staff who may soon be earning $20/h at this rate while you never tip the Amazon delivery guy who also makes $20/h even though they both provide a service.

You really suck as a human being. If you are not going to tip, I hope you get the service you deserve.

NP. Service just about everywhere is terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it’s just me…but 99% of going to a restaurant is someone else cooking the meal, better and tastier than I can and somebody else does the dishes.

I don’t need or even much want table service. Let me order from an app and I walk over and grab my own plate.

Inevitably this is where it is all going…get rid of 90% of your front of house staff because restaurants have a broken model that can’t support paying workers a real wage.

This is how many places have moved. Or maybe you order at a counter and take a number. Your food is brought to you, maybe drinks or sometimes those are self serve, then you clear your own table afterward. Not tipping for this.

[Anonymous]

It’s 2025:

What are we Tipping?

[Anonymous]

My daughter worked as a waitress at a higher end restaurant. The owners were loaded. I’m talking million dollar homes, exotic trips etc. she averaged $40-$60/hr. When minimum wage went up, owners raised prices and even though most customers still tipped 15-20%, there were less of them. People stopped going out to eat. So the owners let go some of the wait staff since paying them an extra few dollars more an hour was eating into their profits. When she left, she was making $20-$30/he because the volume of customers decreased and they would spend less. If the volume remained the same, the other waiters would still be employed despite making a little less. And, the owners didn’t think anything of letting staff go despite their wealth. All this to say I agree with an earlier poster that mist restaurants should go out of business if they can’t treat their employees better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG - an additional $4/hour does not equal your proposed 10% reduction in tips per tab. Furthermore, do you think waiters could live comfortably on $10 plus 10%? Try to put yourself in their shoes before you suggest that those of us wealthy enough to eat out regularly should stiff the working class in our high cost area.

Idiotic post.

It's not the customer's job to make sure a waiter can live off what they earn AT THEIR JOB. Take it up with their employer.

10% might be a little low, sure, but the major point being missed is that customers should now reduce their tips propeotionally to the rising base wages. Those wage hikes are inevitably going to get passed onto consumers in the form of higher menu prices.

When's it stop? You're seriously going to sit there with a straight face and tell everyone they should still tip 20% when hourly wages for tipped workers goes to $15/h? How about $20/h? $25/h?

Sorry, but once you start exceeding minimum wage per hour, it is no longer the customer's responsibility to tip anymore. The only reason tipping existed in the first place was because wait staff were paid well below minimum wages per hour. The more that gap closes, the less customers should tip. Admit it, you can't explain why you should tip restaurant wait staff who may soon be earning $20/h at this rate while you never tip the Amazon delivery guy who also makes $20/h even though they both provide a service.

You really suck as a human being. If you are not going to tip, I hope you get the service you deserve.

Exactly right.

[Anonymous]

10% has always been the norm, and 0 on pickup.

[Anonymous]

15-18%. 0 on pick up. I hate tipping culture in America.