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wiseguynephile:

argumate:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

I’ve had an eyebrow up about attempts to push American tipping norms from 15% to 18% but I’m willing to accept that labor inputs constitute a bigger share of the total input pie now and should be compensated accordingly

You see on the one hand it doesn’t feel like more but on the other (before apps, lol) it’s a lot easier to mentally calculate 20%, isn’t it?

very curious to see if Americans will ever figure out how to price services with a single number instead of factoring out labour costs

???? 20% has been the standard default tip since forever?

yes tipping is an insane institution and we should just pay people, but leaving that aside- 20% is just What You Tip, only boomers who think they need to punish waitstaff for not performing servility hard enough ever tip less than that

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Like I may have had older parents than many of my cohort and been acculturated to older standards but I don’t remember seeing 15% even challenged until the 2000s and then it was by back-to-the-city we’re-too-good-for-suburban-careers-so-we’ll-be-pissy-service-workers types so

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