{"id":729,"date":"2019-11-10T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=729"},"modified":"2019-11-10T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:46:05","slug":"tipping-why-a-percentage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/tipping-why-a-percentage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipping:  Why a percentage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-730 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/420x0-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/420x0-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/420x0.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Today we are revisiting the art of tipping&#8230; sure as hell isn&#8217;t a science&#8230; and we are asking the question of why do we tip a percentage instead of a flat amount?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s consider the following scenario:\u00a0 Let\u2019s say you go to John\u2019s Steakhouse twice in one week, and the scenario breaks down like this\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Monday you have a ribeye meal with a baked potato, broccoli, roll, butter, and two beers. Price: $50.<\/li>\n<li>On Thursday you go and have a grilled chicken dinner with a baked potato, broccoli, roll, butter, and two beers. Price: $30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para u-ltr u-text-align--start\">If the tip were 20% (easy math) the steak dinner tip would be $10. The chicken dinner tip would be $6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui_qtext_para u-ltr u-text-align--start\">Why? Why the difference when the amount of work and effort by the server was <u>exactly the same<\/u> for both meals?\u00a0 Don\u2019t whip out the emotional guilt trip of not eating out if you can\u2019t afford to tip, that doesn&#8217;t even address the question.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t sidetrack to the fact that in most states (not all) tipped employees get paid less than minimum wage, that&#8217;s an entirely different subject about why we tip at all.\u00a0 This question acknowledges we tip, just questions why a moving target of meal value is used rather than effort, work and\/or service performed. Restaurant owners don&#8217;t pay servers based on sales values, why should we the customers be expected to?\u00a0 Be articulate and come up with something reasonably rational.<\/p>\n<p><em><small>Standard disclaimer:\u00a0 I tip and I tip pretty well.\u00a0 Usually over 20%.\u00a0 Be that as it may, I am still put off by how tipping has become an entitlement mentality, and how it seems to continually creep up.\u00a0 Was 10%, then 15%, then 18%, now people are preaching 20%+.\u00a0 If sales tax were 20% you&#8217;d scream bloody murder, and tipping is really nothing more than a private tax because most states (not all) allow tipped employees to be paid less-to-nothing.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230; I smell another post.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are revisiting the art of tipping&#8230; sure as hell isn&#8217;t a science&#8230; and we are asking the question of why do we tip a percentage instead of a flat amount? Let&#8217;s consider the following scenario:\u00a0 Let\u2019s say you go to John\u2019s Steakhouse twice in one week, and the scenario breaks down like this\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-observations","category-restaurants","category-tipping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}