• chonglibloodsport
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    3 days ago

    Non tippers get a reputation around town and then are treated with bad service, largely ignored by the staff. Big tippers get treated to complimentary meals, desserts, wine, and more.

    There is also the angle of poor servers being treated with low/no tips, the long term goal of which being to get them to treat customers better or drive them out of the business.

    • Fluke@feddit.uk
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      3 days ago

      That would also require being unfortunate enough to be in the US for a protracted length of time.

      While the UK is indeed a shit hole and getting worse thanks to Trump wannabes and other associated scumbags only a hair’s breadth from being out and out Nazis, it isn’t quite as bad as the US. Yet.

      Edit: I have spent time in the states, but it’s direction in the last decade has put paid to me ever returning, for business or pleasure. Fuck that.

      • chonglibloodsport
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        3 days ago

        I live in Canada, not the US. We have tipping here as well, but we don’t pay restaurant servers $2/hr. They get the same minimum wage that everyone else gets. We still have tons of World Cup tourists refusing to tip and creating a big conflict.

        I think some restaurants are moving to automatic 20% surcharges on the bill as a way of dealing with non-tippers.