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Everything You Don't Know About Tipping. This post was originally published in April, 2. Tipping isn’t about gratitude for good service. And tipping certainly isn’t about doing what’s right and fair for your fellow man. Tipping is about making sure you don’t mess up what you’re supposed to do. In my case, the story goes like this: In college, I was a waiter at a weird restaurant called Fire and Ice. This is the front page of their website (fyi, those lame word labels are on the site, not added by me): That sad guy in the back is one of the waiters.

He’s sad because he gets no salary and relies on tips like every other waiter, but people undertip him because at this restaurant they get their own food so they think he’s not a real waiter even though he has to bring them all their drinks and side dishes and give them a full tour of the restaurant and how it works like a clown and then bus the table because they have no busboys at the restaurant and just when the last thing he needs is for the managers to be mean and powerful middle aged women who are mean to him, that’s what also happens. Bad life experiences aside, the larger point here is that I came out of my time as a waiter as a really good tipper, like all people who have ever worked in a job that involves tipping. And friends of mine would sometimes notice this and say sentences like, “Tim is a really good tipper.” My ego took a liking to these sentences, and now, ten years later, I’ve positioned myself right in the “good but not ridiculously good tipper” category. So anytime a tipping situation arises, all I’m thinking is, “What would a good but not ridiculously good tipper do here?”Sometimes I know exactly what the answer to that question is, and things run smoothly. But other times, I find myself in the dreaded Ambiguous Tipping Situation. At some point, the US decided that customers, not employers, should pay the salaries of service employees, and it’s been this bizarre mess of a system ever since.

This whole post refers to tipping in the US. Ambiguous Tipping Situations can lead to a variety of disasters: 1) The Inadvertent Undertip. The Inadvertent Overtip. The “Shit Am I Supposed To Tip Or Not?” Horror Moment. I don’t want to live this way anymore. Download Wheeler (2017) Movie Hq.

So this week, I decided to do something about it. I put on my Weird But Earnest Guy Doing a Survey About Something hat and hit the streets, interviewing 1. New York jobs that involve tipping. My interviews included waiters, bartenders, baristas, manicurists, barbers, busboys, bellmen, valets, doormen, cab drivers, restaurant delivery people, and even some people who don’t get tipped but I’m not sure why, like acupuncturists and dental hygienists.

I covered a bunch of different areas in New York, including So. Ho, the Lower East Side, Harlem, the Upper East Side, and the Financial District, and tried to capture a wide range, from the fanciest places to the diviest. About 1. 0% of the interviews ended after seven seconds when people were displeased by my presence and I’d slowly back out of the room, but for the most part, people were happy to talk to me about tipping—how much they received, how often, how it varied among customer demographics, how large a portion of their income tipping made up, etc.—and it turns out that service industry workers have a lot to say on the topic. I supplemented my findings with the help of a bunch of readers who wrote to us with detailed information about their own experiences, and with a large amount of research, especially from the website of Wm. Michael Lynn, a leading tipping expert. Okay so I know stuff about this now.

Here’s the situation—Here’s What You Need To Know Before You Tip Someone: The Stats. The most critical step in avoiding Ambiguous Tipping Situations is just knowing what you’re supposed to do. I took all the stats that seem to have a broad consensus on them. The basic idea with the low/average/high tipping levels used above is that if you’re in the average range, you’re fine and forgotten. If you’re in the low or high range, you’re noticed and remembered.

And service workers have memories like elephants. What Tipping Well (Or Not Well) Means For Your Budget.

Since tipping is such a large part of life, it seems like we should stop to actually understand what being a low, average, or high tipper means for our budget. Looking at it simply, you can do some quick math and figure out one portion of your budget. For example, maybe you think you have 1. So in this example, it costs a low tipper $1. I got a little more comprehensive, and came up with three rough profiles: Low Spender, Mid Spender, and High Spender.

These vary both in the frequency of times they go to a restaurant or bar or hotel, etc., and the fanciness of the services they go to—i. High Spender goes to fancy restaurants and does so often, and Low Spender goes out to eat less often and goes to cheaper places.

I did this to cover the extremes and the middle—you’re probably somewhere in between. Other Factors That Should Influence Specific Tipping Decisions. One thing my interviews made clear is that there’s this whole group of situation- related factors that service industry workers think are super relevant to the amount you should tip—it’s just that customers never got the memo. Most customers have their standard tip amount in mind and don’t really think about it much beyond that. Here’s what service workers want you to stop not considering when you tip them: Time matters.

Sometimes a bartender cracks open eight bottles of beer, which takes 1. Along the same lines—Effort matters. Food delivery guys are undertipped—they’re like a waiter except your table is on the other side of the city.

And when it’s storming outside? The delivery guys I talked to all said the tips don’t change in bad weather—that’s not logical. Likewise, while tipping on takeout orders is nice but not necessary, one restaurant manager complained to me about Citibank ordering 3. Effort matters, and that deserves a tip. Their salary matters. It might not make sense that in the US, we’ve somewhat arbitrarily deemed certain professions as “tipped professions” whereby the customers are in charge of paying the professional’s salary, instead of their employer—but that’s the way it is. And as such, you have some real responsibility when being served by a tipped professional that you don’t have when being served by someone else.

It’s nice to give a coffee barista a tip, but you’re not a horrible person if you don’t because at least they’re getting paid without you. Waiters and bartenders, on the other hand, receive somewhere between $2 and $5/hour (usually closer to $2), and this part of their check usually goes entirely to taxes. Your tips are literally their only income. They also have to “tip out” the other staff, so when you tip a waiter you’re also tipping the busboy, bartender, and others.

For these reasons, it’s never acceptable to tip under 1. The way to handle terrible service is to complain to the manager like you would in a non- tipping situation—you’re not allowed to stiff on the tip and make them work for free. Service matters. It seems silly to put this in because it seems obvious, and yet, Michael Lynn’s research shows that the amount people tip barely correlates at all to the quality of service they receive. So while stiffing isn’t okay, it’s good to have a range in mind, not a set percentage, since good service should be tipped better than bad service.

Other Interesting Findings and Facts: 1) Different demographics absolutely do tip differently“Do any demographics of people—age, gender, race, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, profession—tend to tip differently than others?” ran away with the “Most Uncomfortable Question to Ask or Answer” award during my interviews, but it yielded some pretty interesting info. I only took seriously a viewpoint I heard at least three times, and in this post, I’m only including those viewpoints that were backed up by my online research and Lynn’s statistical studies.

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