Tips tips!

[tzikeh]

The tip poll--and only a week late!

This is a U.S.-centric poll. Tipping in the U.S. is very different from tipping in Europe; the results would be hopelessly skewed if it were a poll that included all nations. (I don't know if Canada's tipping etiquette is just like the U.S.; if it is, feel free to join in!)

If you find it interesting, please point friends in this direction.



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Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if the restaurant pools tips, then that's how they do business, and it has nothing to do with how you pay the tip, unless (again) you want to help someone defy their employer.

I have nothing against cash tipping at all; I do it all the time. But the only "benefit" it seems to have over card tips is that it makes it easier for the waitstaff to (if they want to) cheat either their employer or the IRS.

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm talking about two different things: tip pooling and the management keeping part of the tips. In my first example, the owner/manager is known for not giving all the tips to the waitstaff that are owed to them. And that's not an unheard of practice.