Carl Dagher on Tipping Culture in the United States
Carl Dagher
Tipping Culture in the United States
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 What's up, y'all?
- 0:01 Um, I was just thinking about an issue that has kind of bothered me ever since I studied abroad in Europe this summer.
- 0:11 Um, one big thing I noticed there was the tipping culture.
- 0:15 Um, they essentially don't have a tipping culture, and you know, I think there's something really fundamentally wrong with our tipping culture here in the United States.
- 0:24 Um, rather than people being tipped for exceptional service, it's just become a societal norm to tip people, and you know, 25%.
- 0:34 Like you you pay you go to a coffee shop, you get a coffee, it's five dollars, they flip red iPad around, they're asking for a 25, 20, 15% tip.
- 0:43 For what?
- 0:43 Like, yes, thank you for making my coffee, but I don't feel like it is necessarily appropriate to leave a tip to all food or or restaurant industry workers.
- 0:55 Like a tip should be earned, and I don't necessarily blame the workers asking for the tips or having that system in place, but I think the pay system of restaurant workers should be changed.
- 1:09 Um, yes, they should be able to make tips um for exceptional work, but they shouldn't rely solely on tips because that puts a lot of pressure on the customer to leave a tip, and I don't believe it's the customer's job to um financially support the worker or the waiter.
- 1:30 Um, and the restaurant should should kind of cover that burden.
- 1:33 But at the end of the day, I think it's gotten ridiculous.
- 1:37 Um, especially at places where you're not really served or anything, like you you you go buy a sandwich and they're asking for a tip.
- 1:46 Like, yes, they made the sandwich, but that's their job.
- 1:49 Like they're not doing anything exceptional to make that sandwich experience better.
- 1:53 So at the end of the day, tipping culture has gotten absurd, and um you know, there there's gotta be some solution for it because they seem to be doing just fine in Europe.