Lurker > miki_sauvester

Depends on if you consider Trump as having been felled by any of his scandals yet.

I mean, presuming this is about the US minimum wage, minimum wage in the US would be like middle class income in most countries. Which is why I always thought talk of a living wage to be a bit silly. A living wage is much less than the minimum wage. It should be more like luxury living wage.

ChaosAzeroth posted...

No one's forcing you to as far as I'm aware.

Well, I mean everytime Ive been to America or Canada, I am told by all my friends it is mandatory, or the waiter might even chase me out on the way out. Plus a lot of menus Ive seen on my current trip to America have strangely threatening statements in both Japanese and Korean (both countries that dont tip) that here in America, we tip from 20%-30%, which seems both misleading and kind of made me want to tip less (Ive been tipping around 15% my current trip here, which I swear was on the high end my last trip here lol)

BigK1016 posted...

The tipping system is there to encourage the server to provide good service. For everyone that tips 0% (which first off shame on you and quite honestly **** you), if servers made a set wage there would never be any incentive to provide good service and just do the bare minimum.

And to those that tip 0%, just remember that you wasted your servers time whether you agree with tipping or not.

Then how would you explain that if you look at a map of countries in the world that tip and those that dont, the countries that dont are known for far better service? Honestly, although it may seem a bit counter intuitive, I think tipping actually ENCOURAGES a culture of bad service, mainly by building up overtime a culture of entitled waiters/waitresses.

At least in Japan, where Ive lived about half my life (the other half in America) being a waiter is considered like the easiest job ever. I honestly agree, you are just writing down an order and carrying a plate, even an elementary school student could do that. On the other hand, all my American friends who are waiters always complain to me about how much their job sucks, and when I ask them why, they tell me stories about rude and demanding customers, etc. But to be honest, I would be a lot more demanding too if I had to pay 20% of my bill to you everytime I ate out.

pike place market and the area around the space needle are the typical tourist places

tofu or anything soy-related is probably my favorite food regardless of health

Also, what do you think of tipping in general? Do you think it should be an accepted practice in your country/area or not?