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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
I never tip less than 20% at a restaurant. I don't understand how not tipping at places with no servers and whose employees make well above servers' base pay means I'm a cheapskate.
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Here's the thing - in most states, restaurant servers make a special, lower min. wage than others. But it is the same in Oregon, and IIRC in WA & CA also.
For centuries, diners in English speaking countries have expected to add a tip onto their bill. I think this custom originated in England before the rise of the large middle-class, and at public inns for travelers. In France they call it a tip but just add it on automatically - not sure re other countries.
Some restaurants make servers share their tips with busboys and cooks; not all.
In Oregon, your server gets the full min. wage (~~ $9/hr) but might share that with the others above. The guy who digs ditches or some other hard, physical work gets that same min. wage, but no tips.
At a coffee place, they often put out tip jars. My personal thing is I do tip for counter service, but a lot less than the usual 20% I tip at a restaurant. I dig my own ditches.
It does seem a little odd that so many places have tip jars now.