Observations from a Tipless Restaurant

Re:Observations from a Tipless Restaurant by ryanbrunner on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @12:46PM (#6128205)

If your reasons for supporting tipping as a practice are "pay for performance", it doesn't make logical sense to give a 15% tip regardless of how bad the service was. I hear this argument a lot, and honestly in most cases the differential on performance comes out to a few dollars on a $15+ tip.

If you honestly tip to reward good performance, why are you rewarding horrible performance at nearly the rate that you reward excellent performance?

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Re:Observations from a Tipless Restaurant by arkades on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @12:56PM (#6128272)

You're assuming everyone does. I "pay for performance" and my tips will generally bottom out at 10% (I feel a cad not tipping at all, though I shouldn't) and max out at 50% (very, very uncommon and usually requires my creating extra work for the server, such as breaking a glass/ spilling a drink on the floor).

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Re:Observations from a Tipless Restaurant by ryanbrunner on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @12:59PM (#6128287)

But even then, you're clearly not 100% motivated to "pay for performance". To some degree you are, clearly - but a large part of why you tip is cultural expectations, or you wouldn't be tipping 10% for horrendous service.

Which is fine, I'd never not tip in Canada or the US either, but let's be honest with ourselves - everyone tips because you're culturally expected to tip.

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