I was originally thinking about delivery (isn’t it basically the same effort to deliver 1 or 2 pizzas?). Shouldn’t delivery tipping be based on distance/effort rather than cost of food?
The same goes for restaurants, of course. If I go with a friend and we have the same meal but I have three glasses of wine, and she has three cokes, I am expected to tip more, but the server’s effort is the same for each of us.
Was it always like this or did it change with time?
Note: I’m only trying to understand this aspect of Us tipping culture. I know that tipping isn’t the norm everywhere.
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How many variations of people complaining about US tipping culture can we get?
Restaurants like it because they can then pay employees $2.13 an hour
Good servers and bartenders like it because they can make more than their place of business would pay them by an hourly rate.
The rest of the country hates it too.
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