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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by xepherys
As for the ingrained tipping in the US... it's part of how we operate. In Singapore, servers don't expect tips, but they also get paid decently by the establishments (even international chains such as The Hard Rock Cafe). In the US, if you are in a tipped position, you have a seperate minimum wage (mine was $2.62 when minimum wage was $5.25). It's expected that you get tipped and that is how you balance your income. If servers made $5.25/hour, it'd be a bit (but not much) different. I doubt many pizza delivery guys make more than minimum wage, if that.
Again, it's an expected part of the transaction, if you are too poor or cheap to give a tip, you should not be lazy and cook/feed/serve yourself. It makes perfect sense to me.
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Also in Singapore the guys at McDonald's get pissed off when you take your tray and throw it away. They also have people to take the parking ticket out of the machine and hand it to you. Elevator operators for push button elevators... Door openers for electronic automatic doors....
and by that last part, then you should be tipping the Dunkin' Donuts guy too.
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