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by StanislavPetrov 570 days ago
>The other reason being it involves a degree of social pressure and shame, if one doesn’t tip enough.

It's standard to tip 15% for decent service in a restaurant(sans win). You are of course free to tip more for good service or less for crappy service, but unless your experience is truly exceptional (in either a good or bad way) you can never go wrong with 15%. This is standard any US restaurant where you sit down and are served by a waiter or waitress. You are never "forced to tip", but you will be universally looked down upon in any sit-down establishment that you fail to tip in, so you might be best off not returning.
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jghn 570 days ago
> It's standard to tip 15% for decent service in a restaurant

This is not true, and hasn't been for some time [1]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-reported-tip-rat...

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StanislavPetrov 569 days ago
The last metric in this 2017 study, before the pandemic, showed tipping was between 18% and 19% in, "surveys (that) are aimed at diners who patronize full-service midscale and upscale restaurants". It also shows a downward trend in the last few data points. All things considered, including diners who patronize "downscale" full-service restaurants (like diners), and given the many decades-long standard of 15% tips, it seems to me a safe standard to continue to use. Certainly no foreign visitor will ever face vitriol for tipping 15%.
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jghn 569 days ago
> the many decades-long standard of 15% tips

The 15% standard supplanted the previous 10% standard somewhere in the 1970s and lasted to the early/mid-aughts depending on where in the US one lived. I don't agree that ~30 years is "many decades-long". Further, that 15% itself was an uptick from the prior standard demonstrates that we're dealing with a moving target, for better or worse.

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HDThoreaun 569 days ago
Depends on the state since some are increasing base tipped wage. In california tipped workers get $15/hr plus tips so many have decreased tip to 15%
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ac29 568 days ago
CA minimum wage is currently $16/hr, and higher for fast food workers (though those are often untipped jobs).
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