You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping

Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by noncoml on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:38PM (#18245044)

> US tipping is not complicated

Ehmm, yeah it is. Other than the very well established rules for dinning in a restaurant, where one is expected to leave a tip of around 20%, all other situations are fuzzy.

Look at the replies in this thread. Everybody has their own rules about when, where and how much to tip.

I get your point, and agree, that it not really about rewarding exceptional service, but this doesn't make it less complicated.

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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:42PM (#18245061)

> Other than the very well established rules for dinning in a restaurant, where one is expected to leave a tip of around 20%,

And not many years ago that was 15%, and very recently it had settled around 18%, but, yeah, people are starting to throw around 20% as the baseline now. So, to call the rules even there “well-established” is...less than accurate.

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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:37PM (#18249783)

Yeah, completely agree. When I was a kid I remember 15% being so standard that there was even a little mnemonic on how to calculate it (10% is easy to calculate, then add half that).

Now it seems like 15% is what you give for truly bad service.

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