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Nearly half of Americans say tipping has ‘gotten out of control’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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With those tipping screens now seemingly everywhere, Americans think that the practice has “gotten out of control,” according to a new survey.

At least 63 percent of US residents now having a negative view of tipping, up from 59 percent last year, according to Bankrate, a financial publisher and comparison service.

Yet, the number of Americans who have gotten used to tipping has gone up since the COVID-19 pandemic, when it slipped. There have not been significant declines in tips for service providers, the survey noted, particularly for hairdressers and restaurant servers.

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[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

At this point I’ve stopped tipping. However I don’t like random numbers so when I checkout at restaurants I round to the nearest $5. So if my meal was $32.45 I’ll tip $2.55.

For me it’s a fun math game and the percentage for the tip is low.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's like an 8% tip.

[–] kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah anything less than 15% is considered low here.

[–] GiovanniBruzzolini@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

That's how it works at restaurants and cafés outside of the USA, or at least how it used to work.

Outside the USA, when the bill is paid with cash, the customer will keep any notes from the change given and the coins are left on the table, it's not much, but a token show of appreciation.

Now that cash is rarely used, tips are pretty much never given unless it's something unusual, like a work function or something else where the staff have a little more to concentrate on than they normally would.