I’m not into tipping when I’ve visited the US, since I come from a country where servers are paid the equivalent of Fr. 20-30 ($24-43) an hour so there isn’t an obligation to tip them, but that’s the opposite in the US. Am I allowed to hand them large cash tips such as Fr. 1000 ($1236) or 500€ ($583)? It gets weirder: as apparently fast food places demand a tip, like really? It’s getting out of hand, what’s the point then?

  • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    25 days ago

    when you fail to tip it’s equivalent to making them work for free.

    It’s even worse than that sometimes. At my last serving job, I was required to tip out back of house a percentage of my sales. So when a table left me absolutely nothing, it actually cost me money to serve that table. I didn’t stick around at that job long.