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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While tips have become the better part of income for people in service industries in the US, historically this was not the case and is not the case in most places of the world. You don’t tip based on the service because the idea of a tip is not [in the US: was not] paying for the service. Rather it seems decent that if you spend a lot (ie are visibly capeable of spending a lot) you tip more. This is a historically grown cultural practice that is, as such, slow to change. That being said, effort based tipping was also always a thing when bills from which a percentage could be calculated were not involved. In hotels people helping with the luggage are usually tipped per item and cleaners are usually tipped on a per night basis and are right to expect the tip to be correlated to the size of the room.
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