@Phoenikia you have some … frugal … friends! 
Thank you for sharing these stories, I enjoyed a good laugh each time.
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I hope they don’t read HO! haha. The truth hurts!
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Well they always say you can never have too many friends. But now I wonder . . . 
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To be fair, I have far fewer friends as I push 50, than I did when I pushed 40.
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No wonder . . . you’re such a (tipping) bully.
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CBS:
By Taylor Mooney
The act of tipping is said to have started in feudal Europe, when strict social hierarchies prevented any real kind of social mobility and it was a common practice among aristocrats to tip servants. It wasn’t brought over to the U.S. until the 19th century, and was only popularized after the Civil War.
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Bully them with kindness.
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Not a very smart move on her part, posting a copy of the receipt with the card user’s signature. Big no no.
You can read it? I can’t.
Nope, but it’s still a signature and her story has racked up 40 million views.
My guess is that she figured exactly one person - the one who signed the receipt - would recognize it. And she was fine with that person knowing who she meant.
My guess is she might be out of a job soon., but who knows.
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Oh, I don’t doubt it. But something tells me she won’t be that broken up about it.
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This is the problem. When foreigners all over the world coming over to US and give far less tips… we have to wonder if they are wrong or we are wrong.
Well the bottom of the receipt does list “suggested tip” amounts and it’s not too difficult to determine a country’s tipping norms before visiting (even if you have to rely on sites like HO).
As to who is right vs who is wrong? That’s why there are tipping discussions\disagreements and minimum wage\living wage discussions\disagreements.
As a side note… I wonder if future tourists or even local patrons will boycott this restaurant??
For me… if I thought my receipt and signature would be exposed to the world with some disparaging comment attached, I’d avoid that establishment altogether.
The last time Sunshine and I went out to dinner, I took enough cash with me to pay the bill and tip. The reason being… many years ago a server changed the tip I left and changed the total. She did a great job to make it look authentic – my guess is she had a lot of practice doing it. My credit card company fixed it, but I never forgot.
I always withdrawal enough cash to pay the bill and what I think is an appropriate tip for the server. In this case, that probably wouldn’t have worked, though.
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If you’re the waiter, you have strong feelings about who is wrong.
This additional snippet from the Daily Mail.
‘What’s even worse is they had one American at the table (the son’s [girlfriend] from the sounds of it) like B**CH DO SOMETHING,’ she raged on Sunday.
Tayt, who has since deleted all of her social media due to backlash, did not disclose which restaurant she worked at.
In this particular instance, of course, the customers are in the wrong. However, from a larger scale perspective, this causes confusion.
Part of this confusion is not even “pure knowledge” but rather “engraved memory and practice”. For example, if someone grow up giving 10% as being the norm (I am talking about someone in USA), even you tell him that the customary tip in NYC is 20%, he will have a hard time doing it.
I mean … you know this…recently many articles start stating that 25% is the norm, and we should all be tipping 25%
I am sure many people have read about these articles. Yet. this knowledge do not always translate to action. I am sure many people are still tipping at 15-20%
Foreigners are no different. Some may not know. Some …even if they do know… it is hard for them to give 20%.
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yesterday we returned to a higher end veddy good restaurant.
I have scans of the tabs . . . not working from imagination/memory here . . .
before it was essentially $100 per person.
now it is essentially $150 per person.
so a 15% tip “before”(on $200 tab) = $30
a 15% tip “after”(on $300 tab) = $45
that’s a 50% raise.
but for some reason since all waitstaff are not in the 6 figure income bracket…
20% the new norm on $300 = $60
25% the socially demanded tip on $300 = $75
vs the original
15% on $300=$45
I’m having trouble with the social warriors thoughts waitstaff need a 160% “raise” from $30 to $75 because covid made things bad.
will we soon see 300% - 400% tipping required?
