This thread is painful to read.
nikkas will bring a brick of singles to a strip club after paying a cover, then throw them in the fukking air, but are thoroughly offended at leaving decent tip for their Grand Slam at Denny's
Reading this thread is the equivalent to someone getting their first real check, asking who FICA is, and having to to be explained what taxes are.
Tipping is part of full service restaurant dining culture.
An acceptable tip for good service is 10% bare minimum.
The norm is 15-20%. Leaving less is considered a message that the service was bad.
If the service was excellent, a diner may choose to leave 25-30%
Celebrities or wealthy people may leave tips bigger than the bill for various reasons.
Tipping is not going away in the restaurant industry.
Your protest by leaving little to no tip is definitely not going to change it.
It only makes you look broke or like a piece of shyt or both.
Some people may choose to not eat with you if they find out you dont tip or deliberately leave bad tips.
They don't want your lack of couth to reflect negatively on them at their favorite restaurants and possibly result in poor service.
Black people are known in the restaurant industry for being bad tippers.
This perception is slowly starting to change but has roots of truth.
Unfortunately, like a lot of protocols, tipping is rarely explained to kids in the Black community.
So a lot of us dont know the social and financial implications of tipping until sometime into adulthood.