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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are supposed to leave 0% tip, right?

Restaurants in DC are adding these ridiculous fees.  According to the law, they have to use it to pay staff, so if staff are now getting more money, why would you leave a tip?  I keep hearing about people being expected to tip 40+% now on top of bill after they pay 20% more for tip on top of the service charge. That's insane and I'll never pay that.  So what exactly are you supposed to do?  It's awkward when the waiter is there with an electronic device to process your card payment and you add 0% because there's a service fee. Tipping culture in the US is infuriating, and they're treating customers like cash cows. [/quote]

It isn't the restaurants that caused this mess, it is voters. 98% of voters never worked as a server, and certainly never managed a restaurant or coffee place or bar. Why they felt they had a right to mess with a perfectly functioning pay scheme of tipped service in the US is a mystery to me.
When I worked as a server my base pay, in todays dollars was $5/hour, but in tips, because I was good at my job, I made about $30/hour. No wait staff makes less than minimum wage in the US, but with this system almost all wait staff will be making no more than minimum wage.

I had a motive to do my job well and efficiency and at the endo of this proposition 82, no waiter or service staff will have any motive to be polite, attentive and to do their job well.

As far as tipping culture in the US, it is WAY better than Europe. You have no idea how many people don't have basic manners and are lazy that take a job as wait staff. They can destroy a restaurant's reputation.  They get sorted out in the restaurant business because they don't make as much money. Either they learn to be good at their job or they just  make minimum wage or slightly more and quit. As far as Europe, I lived in Europe half my life and Europeans are used to bad service in restaurants. Americans rate service as the number one aspect of eating at a restaurant. The food can be excellent and if service is bad Americans  do not come back. Just wait to US restaurants have bad service like restaurants in Italy, France, Spain or Germany.
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