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

[Anonymous]

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

20% has been standard my entire life (40 years).

[Anonymous]

I will still tip 20-30% because literally no one can live on $10 per hour. The raise was not to give them a tip-free living wage. It was to bring their baseline up to the 20th century so there was some chance their tips could make up the rest. I believe that how you tip says a lot about who you are as a human being.

[Anonymous]

10% is too much if you ask me.

[Anonymous]

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

I think most of us hate tipping culture in America. If you look at the origins of it, it's racist. The service workers were African-Americans and our government wanted to have a loophole in our minimum wage to pay less to African-American service workers.


That said while I hate it, I'm not going to punish the service worker for our effed up culture.

[Anonymous]

I bet all those people pushing tipping culture the hardest are probably the stingiest aholes on the planet. They probably have a sob story whenever it's their turn to pay up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will still tip 20-30% because literally no one can live on $10 per hour. The raise was not to give them a tip-free living wage. It was to bring their baseline up to the 20th century so there was some chance their tips could make up the rest. I believe that how you tip says a lot about who you are as a human being.

So you tip 20% at McDonald's, right? And you give an extra $20 to your Target cashier every time you check out (surely you don't tip 20% on your purchases)? And for sure you tip 20% to your car mechanic?

[Anonymous]

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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.

But I've already received the service. Tipping is done out of the kindness of our hearts and so we don't feel guilty. There is no difference in service if I leave $0 or 25%.

[Anonymous]

I will continue to tip 22 percent like I always do. I enjoy dining out and factor the tip into my budget. I see no point getting worked up over this to the degree that people like OP do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless you are tipping in cash 20 percent is peanuts compared to the past.

For example when I went to college a lot of the girls busted their butt at a fancy restaurant near school as waitresses. They were fancy clothes, hair done, make up, spotless and restaurant checked. A few guts were waiters in tuxedos also showered, shaved and clothes immaculate. They got there early for shifts, stayed till last customer done.

But neck then all tips were 20 percent CASH. 100 dollar bill you skip waitress $20 cash.

Today people put tip on credit card. Most restaurants take the credit card processing fee out of tip, then there is SS, Medicare, UI, disability insurance, Fed and state taxes. Some also splits the tip bartenders, buss boys etc.

The waitress is taking a 50 percent haircut in tip. Plus the restaurant does not pay till paycheck and if restaurant goes under well poof money gone.

It is not as profitable to waitress as it was back 40 years ago. First people are cheaper and tips are not cash.

My father worked a job with tips. His better customers tipped 20 percent on card then also gave cash. For instance he drove a guy from DC to NYC in a blizzard in his limo as guy has big meeting and airport shut. Of course guy tipped 20 percent in corporate card but also tipped 20 percent cash. My dad got stuck in NYC a few so parked car, got hot lunch then headed out. The stupid tip on card does not give him cash to spend. His company only paid once a month and payroll taxes.

You do realize that at most restaurants, even if a server is being tipped cash, the restaurant will estimate their tips based off their total sales for a shift. They will then report those tips to the IRS. Any taxes will be taken out of whatever is on their paycheck, which is often just the hourly wage. Most servers end up owing a lot of taxes at the end of the year because of this system. It's much better to have at least a portion of the tips paid through the paycheck so more taxes can be taken out.

Also, some restaurants will still pay the server cash for all of their tips at the end of the night, even the credit card tips.

[Anonymous]

I don't think minimum wage is what the staff in restaurants deserve. So I hope they make more.
I tip 20 or more.
Cheapskates pour on research to justify cheapness.
Hate tipping? Go to a no tip place and pay the tax they add.

[Anonymous]

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

This that $4 extra per hour is still nothing.

[Anonymous]

I would prefer not to tip at all. Just pay higher wages and raise menu prices and service proces. Tipping it dumb. The only instance it makes sense to tip is when someone does something for you that is above and beyond the scope of their job. I gave my painters a monster tip when I had a ping pong table delivered while they were there and they helped me get it inside, unpack, and assemble it

[Anonymous]

I tip 20-25% for dine-in, table service. (I'll tip 30% at low-cost places, like IHOP).

But I do bristle at being expected to tip on my takeout order from Chipotle, Subway, Panera, Mission BBQ Cava, etc. Why are those employees more deserving of a tip than the employees at Chik Fil A, Wendy's, etc?

[Anonymous]

Can't you put 0 those are just point of sale software things.
I do tip Puppatella pickup because the pizza makers do good work. I used to throw change or bills into tip jars but now we don't use money, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't you put 0 those are just point of sale software things.
I do tip Puppatella pickup because the pizza makers do good work. I used to throw change or bills into tip jars but now we don't use money, lol.

Of course, you can decline to tip when getting takeout (and I usually do so). But it is a bit awkward to press NO TIP right in front of the workers that are helping you. Plus, if you admit to doing so, people generally label you as a cheapskate.