Square, Tips, And The Guilt Economy
The truth behind the new tipping landscape
I, like most millennials, am a proud tipper.
I understand that in a lot of places in the US, servers are paid peanuts. There are some areas that require a higher minimum wage for tipped employees than most, but not everywhere. Federally, the minimum wage for tipped employees is less than $3 an hour.
So yeah, I always give 20% as a tip for a server — even if they make a mistake, or take a little longer than I’d like, what have you. Life happens, serving is stressful.
Unless you are actually rude to me or my party, I don’t think I would tip less than 20%. To my knowledge I’ve never had such a bad encounter that I felt the need to not tip 20%.
I believe this type of tipping falls under the category of just being, well, decent. If you can’t afford a decent tip, you can’t afford to go out to eat.
Order in. Make your own food.
When it comes to those terrible tablets, however, I am much less, ahem, tippy. While I feel tipping servers is part of being decent, I feel that these tablet tipping mechanisms…
