I was once told that tipping is “rude” in Japan because the amount is so small compared to the great attention and service the server gave. In other words, there’s no possible amount to give for the exemplary service that was given. Therefore, a very appreciative “thank you” is the best way to show gratefulness.
in korea, if you don't do that, people actually report you. american karen is standard in korea but in some cases. I don't know if this is true for United States.
I live in Germany and tipping for food delivery and in restaurants is common but you are not forced to do so (it is not an automatic deduction on your receipt). I travelled to Japan three years ago. We lost a jacket on the street. 30mins later we found it. Someone found it, folded it nicely and placed it on a clean area. ON THE STREET! In every restaurant, we never paid a tip AND got free water and lots of time ON top of the free water free green tea. This changed me so much that nowadays I don't drink soft drinks anymore to my meals. Just plain water or tea. I even lost weight. Japanese culture is just so nice.
hahah I lost my phone in a public toilet in Japan (like some cheap ass huawei phone) and a Japanese lady waited for me for a whole 15 minutes with my phone because she was sure I was going to miss it and return. The phone got stolen once I was back in Belgium in the subway rip.
I was born and raised in Japan so I’m not that familiar with how other countries operate but do you need to tip to get free water? Do you not get free water when you sit down at a restaurant?
I feel like tipping in America is the archetypal example of how seemingly rational actions can lead to negative results when applied widescale. We tip because the servers aren't paid well otherwise, and the servers aren't paid well because they are expected to make up the difference with tips. If we all collectively stopped tipping the market forces would drive the wages of servers up but it would need to be a massive simultaneous decision. However, if only a few people stop tipping nothing will change and those who don't tip are ostracized by those who do and thus the system continues to exist in its flawed form.
Bruh...it's not complicated. Even at restaurants where servers are tipped well...coming from someone who used to work there, "Tipping is simply a resemblance for honor, well performance and respect of the customer to a worker/server that deserves it and has done their job very well." It's kindness...not giving someone money for free because of their regularly pay.
i am fairly sure there's a quite a constrast of opinion regarding tips even among the employee, like one side feel like tips arent necessary and the restaurant should be paying properly, while the other side like tips system because they can earn more extra bucks. so, it's not going to go away, the system has rooted to deeply to be stopped i think.
The reason tipping is considered “rude” in Japan is because it is seen as you showing pity for someone who has no need for it. Everyone who works in a job that gets tips elsewhere in the world takes immense pride and joy in their work and quality of service. It’s just a perspective thing that makes them feel like you think they are miserable about their work. My wife is Japanese, so we’ve been to Japan quite a bit. She told me all about this before our 1st visit to her home country. However, I did have to insist on one occasion, but I also had to give a long explanation beforehand about how the tip was intended to reflect my appreciation. A taxi driver was giving us a ride to my wife’s sisters apartment. The driver was having trouble finding the address. After maybe 2 minutes of looking he turned the meter off and kept driving us around looking for the address. It was like 3am and he insisted that he didn’t feel comfortable dropping us off in the dark to wander around trying to find it ourselves. It took like 45 minutes of him driving without the meter running before we located the apartment. That was 45 minutes during which he could have had 3 or 4 more fares and he was driving us around for free. If it had been an extra 10 minutes or less, I wouldn’t have cared. But, showing THAT much respect , consideration, and financial sacrifice for us was overwhelming. It definitely took a lot of convincing, but he eventually accepted it. It was something like $20-$25. Again though, I clearly let him know that I was fully aware of the tipping situation in Japan, but that he went like 1,000,000x over what I would have experienced in my country (even though us Canadians are extremely nice and helpful to each other). I fully anticipate that to be the only time I will ever feel adamant about tipping while visiting Japan throughout my life… even though I always get exceptional service everywhere I have gone and everywhere I will go.
Sadly this is true. I migrated to the US last year. I was telling my husband just yesterday about this after frustrated with something that happened.... "In the US, majority of the time services are sooooo bad and things are crazyyyyy expensive and yet we must tip them even for bad services and they will even ask you for tips.....but back in my country Malaysia, things are way cheaper and majority of the time services (if not all) are excellent but yet they don't ask for tips and even when I give tips many of them are reluctant to take it and say NO." Like once back when I was in Malaysia, I tipped this waiter in a mall and he refused to take it. So, I just left it on the table. He took the money and he quickly went and bought a beautiful key chain for me and found me in the mall and gave it to me.
I have been to Malaysia twice and my wife three times and we love Malaysia. It is an amazing country with very nice and kind people. I have told this to a couple of Malaysian friends and a few other Malaysians I've met in other parts of the world Malaysia is the BEST country in the world.
Lol! 🤣 this is so accurate.. me and my husband went to Japan about 3 years ago and I remember that in the first restaurant that we went in Tokyo we tipped our server and we had no idea that in Japan it is not customary to tip the server because in the country that we live in it is customary to do so.. the server thought that we just overpay our meal and she chased us down the street in order to give us our money back.. we explained to her that it was our tip and the money and she was shocked at first but she thanked us later.. we felt a little bit bad that she chased us down the street but we were glad that she smiled to us and was happy in the end ☺️
@@BlackSakura33 we actually live in a very civilised and advanced country.. there is nothing wrong with tipping your server because they are working very hard sometimes.. I used to work as a server so I know how much of a hard job it can be.. I don't see how tipping your server is an insult tbh 🤔
Nailed the mindset. American here. I just came here from an online discussion with mostly Americans about American social norms varying by US region, so it's important to explain to your kids when teaching manners that what is polite to some is rude to others, butmost of them just can't accept it. You can see why so many Americans are rude abroad. They're convinced polite is what they were taught and that it applies in all situations. Ugh! If someone is telling you it's not done where you're visiting, stop doing it!
"They're convinced polite is what they were taught and that it applies in all situations." it is not just that. most people on the internet automatically assumes everyone on the internet is from america. I shared a story a few days ago, and ppl replied with "because the american system is bla bla...". They somehow think the other timezones do not exist. I do not hate Americans, It is just appaling to me.
It would help if People would do some research on how things are done in Countries that you plan on visiting. But as usual Common Sense Evades a lot of Americans.🧐
It’s especially crazy that you have to tip 20%-30% of the total, regardless of which restaurant it is. Like, whether it’s a $20 meal or a $200 meal, the service provided by a waiter is still the same?? So why do I have to pay the one in the high-end restaurant even more? You’d think that such restaurants make enough money to pay their employees a decent wage. Tip culture is ridiculous, but to me (Asian, but living in Europe) it’s even more ridiculous that Americans actually defend this system.
Honestly I only tip those who do a good job. If they want a tip they have to earn/deserve it. I don’t tip someone who does the bare minimum or is rude. Ngl if a waiter waitress is rude I purposely leave behind a mess for them to clean. Imo that’s fair
@@dynogamergurl That's when they hit you with the "Party of 6+ mandatory 20% tip." If you don't have that many people, they can't do anything, but they are waiting to catch you in a group!
I read that in Japan they view their service as just fulfilling their job responsibilities so if you tip them, they actually feel that you are insulting them because you are trying to mock them by conveying the message that you feel surprised that they are able to do their expected amount of work.
Tipping is considered rude in some countries just like Japan. In ours, tipping is ok but some restaurants might consider it rude. Not all but some do. it's honestly better if you don't tip.
For anyone internationally who don't know about this, USA has a minimum wage but it doesn't apply to waiters or restuarant staff, who often make less then a livable amount. Instead of fixing this terrible minimum wage loophole, a culture of tipping has been enacted to compensate for the systemic failures.
I made a Japanese employee freak out because I told her to keep the change oops. I'm from Belgium and while the wages are good, you can tip servers. It's not mandatory. As a student I always appreciated them tho hahaha
i'm so glad you pointed this out..... I've been saying this for years and yet people think i'm the crazy person. Tipping is no longer "tipping" when it is expected and nothing different in return is done to earn it.
@@scrambledmandible because of laws written to take workers into consideration rather than businesses.... Seriously. America doesn't have Citizens, it has Corporations with Expendables.
@@kevinfernandez9999 It's the other way around, as far as I know. I've heard that it apparently started with restaurants exploiting freed slaves, not wanting to pay them anything at all. Don't know whether it's true, but it's still a shitty practice that should be abolished.
For anyone internationally who don't know about this, USA has a minimum wage but it doesn't apply to waiters or restuarant staff, who often make less then a livable amount. Instead of fixing this terrible minimum wage loophole, a culture of tipping has been enacted to compensate for the systemic failures.
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For anyone internationally who don't know about this, USA has a minimum wage but it doesn't apply to waiters or restuarant staff, who often make less then a livable amount. Instead of fixing this terrible minimum wage loophole, a culture of tipping has been enacted to compensate for the systemic failures.
In Japan the best way to "Tip" is to thank them, recommend the place to others, and to go back again. By doing that, you will help them profit with more business, and make them feel like they are doing a great job by having so much business and regular customers. It's definitely a mindset change compared to the way we do it in America, but that's just the culture difference. I honestly wish companies would just charge slightly more across the board, ban tipping, and focus on giving good service all the time, but it's just the way American businesses work and I honestly don't see that changing anytime soon.
I used to work in customer service at Wal-Mart that was $15h. I never understood how restaurant workers expected to get tipped but other customer service individuals like myself don't need a tip. We both work with people, handling them, helping them, getting rude customers. Where's my tip. Also one time my mom gave a tip and the waitress pointed out the expected tip to give and my mom was like "oh okay, thank you" and took the whole tip back. Lol, its not our job to pay thier bills.
1:41 This is very true back in 2019 when I was stationed in Japan. I lost my wallet in one of the taxis. I went to the Japanese police and they quickly tracked down the taxi service and the specific taxi driver. And I got my wallet back. If this had happened in the US I definitely would have been assed out and never have seen my wallet again.😂
I accidentally left my ipad in a shared bike in China. I contacted the customer service of the shared bike company but they were impatient and kind of useless. I talked to the police and they tracked it down in a few days (by checking the security cameras nearby) and gave me the phone number of the person who had it.
When I was a kid a charity gave us a whole bunch of food and clothes and some restaurant coupons. So we walked a couple of miles to Pizza Hut so we could use a coupon. And the server was really nice. But we could not tip her because we didn't have any money. I still feel bad to this day about it. Sorry Pizza Hut lady. I still think about you sometimes.
Meanwhile in rest of the world: Restaurant staff get paid fair wage, customer pays for product and service in 1 payment, world keeps spinning, no guilt tripping required.
Gaslighted by your own country into feeling guilty years later... wow. It is a good thing to have kindness, but this is one very clear example of how it can be twisted and distorted.
Thank you so much for this! For years I worked as a cook/chef--no tips--to end up in New Orleans, where every bartender and waitress acts like the world owes them $300/night income for getting the only job their art history and sociology degrees qualifies them for. (Still recalling the time a bartender friend of mine ran back in to tip the waitress who I ask to THRICE ask for water. . .) Ended up changing careers, which once took me to Japan (Osaka) for work. In was after midnight when I first walked into my hotel. The bellhop at my hotel hurried up to me to take my bags and up to registration. Check in was a breeze, and friendly. And I didn't have to ask for any hand with carrying my luggage at all. I'm used to doing it. But getting some help after making my way around Osaka, and being helped to my room was definitely a welcome lagniappe. Then I asked the (same) bellhop if it was okay if I tipped him. He shook his head vigorously but with a smile, and proclaimed, "No no no! This service is a courtesy of the Hotel!" or something to that effect. So much respect for a culture who demands nothing extra for doing the 'bare minimum'--even though the standards they set on that minimum are exceedingly high!
It seems like everybody is wanting a tip for everything these days. Remember back in the day when tipping was something you did when you found the service exceptional? Last night my friend left a tip when we were done eating and the service was absolutely horrible. I waited so long to get a drink refill I finally just got up and got it myself and nobody noticed who worked there
Yeah, tipping jars all over the place. Really, it's just a bandaid to the overall solution(s) but Americans refuse to piece it together. It's the status quo and that's all they care about.
I agree. I didn't leave a tip at a Mexican restaurant because she was rude and made/ insinuates that we were trash and we liked the attention from the male Mexican servers.
As someone who operates 3 restaurants, the margins are extremely thin. You need to sell a fortune to make a profit, labor will eat well over 30% at a nice restaurant plus cost of goods hitting another 35%, then if you’re paying rent and some one has to pay for operating costs including standard bills then repairs. All this after the immense cost of opening a restaurant. So if you want competent service staff, and your favorite places to stay open, tipping it is. This is CA btw. In a Japan a server makes like 20k a year, good luck putting shoes on your kids feet in CA with that. Tipping increases earning potential and allows career servers to provide for their family.
Also collecting tips forcibly means the owner doesn’t give you proper wages.. 😌 and you are getting paid for doing the job and your job is to serve food!! So I have no idea why the tip system generated!!!!
Once I accidentally told a shopkeeper in Japan something was expensive (I just meant I could buy the same thing for less in my Homeland) i could hear the poor girl's heart break.... Then I exolained that the price was absolutely reasonable for the quality of the product being sold and that simply I earned less in my country then they did in Japan and that was why I said that. She was so relief!
It surprises me how, in the US, when u talk about how shitty the tipping situation is people have only one response 'theyre not paid minimum wages'. Like how their employers arents responsible for that but the customers. The rest of the industries are stupid, Doctors/engineers/accountants/lawyers/other professions too should be tipped. Doctor: i am supposed to save lives but this patient still died. Patient's family: We're sad but heres a tip. Imagine after every flight pilots r tipped coz theyre paid peanuts even though the industry is HUGE. And every passenger is supposed to pay even if they say its not compulsory. 💩
I made this mistake before. The gentleman who was serving me seemed rather perplexed. He was very gracious in his refusal, but I can understand that feeling proud knowing that you did a great job is more than enough for some people. Nothing but love and respect
The real reason why tipping is considered rude in Japan is because, when you already pay for the food, you also get charged for the service so in other words, you already paid for the service and when you want to give them a tip, they get very confused about it because you already got charged for the service and they don’t know what they are supposed to do with the extra money you want to give them.
Here in Albania we tip but only a little (0.50$). This way we can show that we liked the service support them a little and making it o they don’t depend on tipping.
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An even worse thing about tips these days, most of the tip money doesn't even go to the waiter, the manager and the kitchen staff have to take a majority cut. So much so that if the waiter doesn't get any tips that this cut actually starts coming out of their regular pay. So now you have to tip even more cause if you don't the big wigs are going to take money from the waiter under the assumption that you are handing them 20s under the table.
I'm not sure everyone knows that some jobs are allowed to pay their workers less, if it's "supposed" they receive tips. The owners like the system because they , and the tax man, are more likely be the ones raking in the benefits. I dealt with that system, but it's a faulty one. I'd like to get rid of tipping, give servers the minimum wage they SHOULD be given, instead of the owner making a profit off the worker and system.. Japan , has it right. The law changes from state to state, but if gen Z wants to do something better, get rid of this rotten system!
Just a random 20s Japanese here. Tipping isn’t supposed to be “rude” at all, it’s just not our option. It’s a managerial job to pay for their employees even though one beef bowl only costs like $5 and you get above-and-beyond service at the restaurant. Also, we make sure if the cash balance reconciles the book everyday when closing the cash register and if it doesn’t match, you’ll be in trouble anyways especially in big chain companies. I’m sure small restaurant owners would accept tips. But when they wanna pretend to be “cool” to foreigners in particular, they wouldn’t take it maybe lol
The cash is supposed to go to your pocket, not to the cash register. The tip is not for the restaurant, but for the particular person who took the order and served.
@@CosmicValkyrie There are 2 types of tips. The one you do when you pay the bill, in which case the store share that money among employees. And the spontaneous, where you pay the waiter directly and they pocket the money.
Same in France. Servers are employees. As employees, they're the responsibility of the company, which include paying their wages. Customers pay the company. Customers do not bring their own servers, why would they pay them separately from the company?
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My boyfriend practically lives off the tips. He works at a bar and the owner never pays him his wages. He has to ask to get paid and has been like 2 months late getting paid. It's ridiculous. The tips save him.
I had an abysmal service once in germany and decided to tip one cent. The waitress asked what is up with that, I said the one cent is well deserved. But somehow she didn't want her tip, so that probably means the wage is high enough where she worked.
Very well said. As an "American" who was raised in Canada and has lived in Europe and Australia, you perfectly demonstrated how many people who were raised in the USA react when it comes to tipping or better yet no tipping in other countries. Many "Americans" do not understand that other countries have laws that regulate wages based on economic models not based on politics as it is here in the USA. Thanks for once again using comedy to educate.
When I was staying in Kyoto, I arrived very late and the talk driver, an older gentleman was kind but also quite tired. I offered him yen as a tip in addition to the rate. He shook his finger at me and told me to put it away.
Tipping became a thing like around a hundred years ago because owners didnt want to pay their workers more. But its still bs cause some owners mind you none corporation owners have shown that charging the right price for the food eliminates the need to tip servers so they can live off their wages. I mean come on most servers make less than 3 dollars an hour But your still funny and i like your vids
Bro if you make less than 3$ an hour just quit the job and find better. And it's not the customer fault. Everyone should stop tipping for some moment so that things change and government realize they should pay their workers more
I wouldn't say "most" as it varies from state to state. But yeah, it is a real shame in the states that allow employers to pay federal minimum waitstaff wages instead of regular minimum wage.
Coming from a server, this is hilarious! The only reason I depend on the tips is because they make up the majority of my check. I don't mind when some people don't tip, what I find rude is when I smile and talk to some and they'll treat me like I'm stupid and I just did everything wrong before I even took their order. Excuse me for serving you to best of my abilities😤
Unfortunately I think that all the west share the tipping thing, we do that too in Italy, I was literally forced to give extra money to an awful rude waiter once
I worked in the city in a restaurant at some point with a lot of foreign students, let's just say the many times i walked out with almost no tip like 10$ for entire full long hours of grueling shift opening/closing it was so sad I felt like crying and totally crushed. The restaurant only gives any wage at all (the about 2.50$) an hour if the overall added up to be below minimum wage. So in total, it was very hard to keep track but it def felt like minimum wage but worse because no security and I am not even sure if the restaurant actually ever comped me any difference. It seemed so easily erased or an oopsy or they just edit the numbers however they like. I def dont work in restaurants anymore after that doesnt give hourly like cafe. The work was sooo tiring like running a marathon the whole time and I did my best to be polite and as fast as possible to everyone. I got back late sometimes to the tables because I had to wait on the bartender or other servers were before me or being mean, people got competitive and totally shoved me out of the way etc like in sports even amongst coworkers. Managers also had favorites even if the favorite werent following rules. I understand that alot of restaurants struggle too and so many restaurants fail. It's just a terrible system entirely for owners and employees.
Waiter in UK here - sure, that's true, but surely career progression should follow the lead of literally every other industry and just pay more? I've worked myself a long CV so I can be considered by higher end establishments in the UK, where you get paid a proper salary - my co-workers have a salary good enough to get a MORTGAGE in a highly desirable area. If you were relying on tips to make that mortgage payment, you wouldn't have that same sense of security.
@@realisticbadger9699 I can only speak for American economics we live in a capitalist country. I am college educated and I am a licensed cosmetologist I have worked management positions. I prefer to bartend and wait tables I make a livable wage and I live the life I choose. That shouldn’t determine my worth if tips which means “To Insure Prompt Service. Simple economics, restaurants can pay every bartender and server a “livable wage,” however the food will cost 4 times, plus they may add gratuity to each bill. It makes economical sense to allow guest to tip according to service. People have a misconception that serves and bartenders just drop off food and refilled drinks. This particular topic can be discussed for hours on end. So I digress. Btw, I’ve worked in this industry for 25 years I refuse to accept a position for under 25 per hour, so imagine how much a 8oz filet would cost?
Craft? Don't make me laugh. Your job is easy. And people are not obligated to tip if they don't want to. We can literally call the police should you wish to do anything to our food😊
The tipping system in America and Canada is so gross and makes no sense. Why is it legal for businesses to UNDERPAY their workers? Why are customers responsible for paying extra to make up for these lost wages!? Why do some jobs require tipping when they're just doing the bare minimum whereas other jobs where the workers actually go out of their way to help customers don't get tipped? For example, cutting your hair should not involve tipping. That is literally the job. Whereas when you go to a shoe store, you can ask an employee to help you and they'll spend 30 min running around the store, finding shoes for your size, going on their knees to change your shoes, etc. Yet the customer isn't required to tip them.
Tipping your server is the best system there is by far. It cuts out the middle man. The customer directly pays the person serving them. It encourages better service and servers across the board end up with a higher wage. There’s zero reason to dislike it except this weird mind set that people have where they feel like they shouldn’t have to tip. You are paying your server to serve you. That’s why you tip. You pay the restaurant to feed you. You pay the server to serve you. And everyone wins. If we give employers to pay the servers all that happens is employers make more money, servers make less money, and more restaurants go out of business.
The problem I think ppl don’t understand is that restaurants pay servers only enough to cover taxes. If a server makes 0.0 dollars on tips then the server makes 0.0 dollars for the shift. The restaurant could pay them wages but then the food prices will go up a lot and service will go down. The problem is servers that think they deserve a tip when they didn’t do a good job. I served and bartended for awhile. There was a few times when I knew I didn’t do a good job and when they left me little or no tip I just moved on. The other problem is ppl who tip nothing even when service was excellent. It wouldn’t be a problem if ppl weren’t so lazy nowadays.
so accurate. 😅 in the US once a waiter said “Fck u” to me after not tipping enough. Vietnam and Thailand and many other countries are the same as Japan in terms of accepting tips. I love those humble countries
I’d immediately take the tip back. Like, if you’re gonna insult me for not tipping enough, I’m not gonna tip *at all* It’s not illegal not to tip, anyways.
wow. This is the problem with the tipping system. People feel entitled and that waiter should tell off his boss with that tone for not paying him enough. How can people rely on tips when it dynamic day to day? At least a wage you can budget and bank on that. "How much do you make per year?" "Oh depends on the day" I mean come on. Customers should not be also HR. We go in buy a product or service and leave, we should not have to sit there with a calculator and have to figure out what is fair to pay someone. This is HR of the company or manager to deal with not the customer.
Tipping exists in Japan. I worked at traditional banquets, restaurant at an onsen resort in the middle of nowhere deep in the country, we’d have lots of retiree Japanese customers. We’d get tips still. Not as often as a city cafe in Australia, but it’s certain not unheard of or that uncommon
Because it's assumed in the United States that wait staff will be getting tipped, restaurants are allowed to grossly underpay their wait staff. The Federal minimum wage for wait staff in the U.S. is $2.13 an hour. It's been this since 1991.
Americans should stop calling it a tip and just call it a service charge. It's like the whole country made up a new definition and agreed to play pretend.
In Poland you can but you don't have to tip. When I visited the Czech Republic I was at first horrified, that every restaurant requires 10% extra for service. Still, I have travelled a lot in my life and never experienced such an exemplary service anywhere else. So in the end I decided that it was fair 😸
I saw the service free in an a restaurant in Hungary. I don't think every has it, but this one did. The service was lower border fine. The biggest problem with these service fees is that they don't tell you always! You just end up with a higher bill at the end. That's not great customer service.
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In America, it is illegal to be paid less than the minimum wage. Even if you are a tip worker. As per federal law, if you are a tip worker, your employer BY LAW must pay you the difference. Example: Minimum Wage $10 per hr Tip Worker Wage per hr: $2 Lets say this worker serves one person and makes no tip. By law her employer MUST pay her an additional $8 to bring her paycheck up to the $10 which is standard. If however, this same waitress serves multiple people and they all tip her $20. Lets say she makes $100 in one hour. Those multiple people just paid her wages, so that her boss is no longer required to. She will only get $2 from her boss for the hour. But that'll be it. And thats cumutalive. So lets say in an hour shift she gets paid $16 by her boss. Normally he'd have to pay her $80. But if she got a hundred bucks in tips, all he has to pay her is the $16. Everytime you tip someone. You aren't giving them money. You're giving it straight to her boss. You're paying him so he doesnt have to pay her. The system was created by corporate elitests who wanted to get out of paying their employees. And they paid the newspapers to run articles telling you how disgusting you are for not tipping.
I don't even tip in America, you're supposed to do your job. Wtf would I even give you the money which is supposed to be paid by your employer? If you don't get paid enough, change your job. You guys always praise capitalism right? Then practice it. I'm from Asia and now currently living in NYC.
If you feel that way it’s probably better for you not patronize the restaurants who don’t pay their servers at least minimum wage. If you’re still giving money to restaurants that don’t, but punish your server by not tipping, which in many cases means they actually have to pay for the pleasure of bringing you your food because they have to tip out busboys, bartenders, and hosts based on a percentage of their sales, then you’re not making a principled stand. You’re just a cheapskate begging for something disgusting to happen to your food.
I started working at a pizza delivery chain many years ago and I couldn't understand why people tip. I already got extra for each delivery from the company and min wage. The customer still tipped me and I didn't understand why when it was a part of the service. Anyways, I never complained or felt ashamed to take it.
I was once told that tipping is “rude” in Japan because the amount is so small compared to the great attention and service the server gave. In other words, there’s no possible amount to give for the exemplary service that was given. Therefore, a very appreciative “thank you” is the best way to show gratefulness.
yes that's what i heard too
when people forget that saying thank you is the most iconic way to show gratitude(gratefulness? i don't know the difference)
in korea, if you don't do that, people actually report you. american karen is standard in korea but in some cases. I don't know if this is true for United States.
@@OopsieNoob people report you if you don't tip?
@@San-lh8us people report for giving "bad service"
That "American crazy" part really got me there 🤣
Yes indeed
Same
And then the restaurant owner killed the American using his Bankai. The end. XD
@@joanyoon4672 Bankai. Mitsubachi Mure.
It indeed is
I live in Germany and tipping for food delivery and in restaurants is common but you are not forced to do so (it is not an automatic deduction on your receipt). I travelled to Japan three years ago. We lost a jacket on the street. 30mins later we found it. Someone found it, folded it nicely and placed it on a clean area. ON THE STREET! In every restaurant, we never paid a tip AND got free water and lots of time ON top of the free water free green tea. This changed me so much that nowadays I don't drink soft drinks anymore to my meals. Just plain water or tea. I even lost weight. Japanese culture is just so nice.
hahah I lost my phone in a public toilet in Japan (like some cheap ass huawei phone) and a Japanese lady waited for me for a whole 15 minutes with my phone because she was sure I was going to miss it and return.
The phone got stolen once I was back in Belgium in the subway rip.
There are some bad things, apparently. See the videos of Let’s Ask Shogo.
I was born and raised in Japan so I’m not that familiar with how other countries operate but do you need to tip to get free water? Do you not get free water when you sit down at a restaurant?
In Japan customer service is great
@@colorful-lulu Not in Europe, you pay for the water because it’s bottled water not from the tap
I feel like tipping in America is the archetypal example of how seemingly rational actions can lead to negative results when applied widescale. We tip because the servers aren't paid well otherwise, and the servers aren't paid well because they are expected to make up the difference with tips.
If we all collectively stopped tipping the market forces would drive the wages of servers up but it would need to be a massive simultaneous decision. However, if only a few people stop tipping nothing will change and those who don't tip are ostracized by those who do and thus the system continues to exist in its flawed form.
Agreed
Bruh...it's not complicated. Even at restaurants where servers are tipped well...coming from someone who used to work there, "Tipping is simply a resemblance for honor, well performance and respect of the customer to a worker/server that deserves it and has done their job very well." It's kindness...not giving someone money for free because of their regularly pay.
@im calling saul Is it your dad that came back with the milk?
i am fairly sure there's a quite a constrast of opinion regarding tips even among the employee, like one side feel like tips arent necessary and the restaurant should be paying properly, while the other side like tips system because they can earn more extra bucks.
so, it's not going to go away, the system has rooted to deeply to be stopped i think.
@@krystalizedmagic4894 thats what it meant, for honor? Im not sure why they force people to give tip for that "honor". Americans are crazy
The reason tipping is considered “rude” in Japan is because it is seen as you showing pity for someone who has no need for it. Everyone who works in a job that gets tips elsewhere in the world takes immense pride and joy in their work and quality of service. It’s just a perspective thing that makes them feel like you think they are miserable about their work.
My wife is Japanese, so we’ve been to Japan quite a bit. She told me all about this before our 1st visit to her home country. However, I did have to insist on one occasion, but I also had to give a long explanation beforehand about how the tip was intended to reflect my appreciation. A taxi driver was giving us a ride to my wife’s sisters apartment. The driver was having trouble finding the address. After maybe 2 minutes of looking he turned the meter off and kept driving us around looking for the address. It was like 3am and he insisted that he didn’t feel comfortable dropping us off in the dark to wander around trying to find it ourselves. It took like 45 minutes of him driving without the meter running before we located the apartment. That was 45 minutes during which he could have had 3 or 4 more fares and he was driving us around for free. If it had been an extra 10 minutes or less, I wouldn’t have cared. But, showing THAT much respect , consideration, and financial sacrifice for us was overwhelming. It definitely took a lot of convincing, but he eventually accepted it. It was something like $20-$25. Again though, I clearly let him know that I was fully aware of the tipping situation in Japan, but that he went like 1,000,000x over what I would have experienced in my country (even though us Canadians are extremely nice and helpful to each other).
I fully anticipate that to be the only time I will ever feel adamant about tipping while visiting Japan throughout my life… even though I always get exceptional service everywhere I have gone and everywhere I will go.
Asians in general: "What the hell is tipping...?"🤣
Tipping is definitely a thing in Indonesia, especially if you are middle class or wealthy
You can tip in Philippines, but not required, I think.
Tipping exists here too but its not a mandatory thing you have to do its kind of a optional thing
@@jasminesmith1038 we tip Barbers
Not exactly, in Hong Kong if you go to some relatively decent restaurants, there will be a 10% service charge
Sadly this is true. I migrated to the US last year. I was telling my husband just yesterday about this after frustrated with something that happened....
"In the US, majority of the time services are sooooo bad and things are crazyyyyy expensive and yet we must tip them even for bad services and they will even ask you for tips.....but back in my country Malaysia, things are way cheaper and majority of the time services (if not all) are excellent but yet they don't ask for tips and even when I give tips many of them are reluctant to take it and say NO."
Like once back when I was in Malaysia, I tipped this waiter in a mall and he refused to take it. So, I just left it on the table. He took the money and he quickly went and bought a beautiful key chain for me and found me in the mall and gave it to me.
aww thats so sweet!
I have been to Malaysia twice and my wife three times and we love Malaysia. It is an amazing country with very nice and kind people. I have told this to a couple of Malaysian friends and a few other Malaysians I've met in other parts of the world Malaysia is the BEST country in the world.
@@yasharincyprus That is very kind of you to say that, sir. Thank you 🙏
You're more than welcome to move back to Malaysia
@@randallbrownlow7822 I'm married to a US citizen. So thus the reason I migrated. But definitely will love to go back for vacation 😀
Lol! 🤣 this is so accurate.. me and my husband went to Japan about 3 years ago and I remember that in the first restaurant that we went in Tokyo we tipped our server and we had no idea that in Japan it is not customary to tip the server because in the country that we live in it is customary to do so.. the server thought that we just overpay our meal and she chased us down the street in order to give us our money back.. we explained to her that it was our tip and the money and she was shocked at first but she thanked us later.. we felt a little bit bad that she chased us down the street but we were glad that she smiled to us and was happy in the end ☺️
that lady sounds so nice! cultural differences are hard to catch onto but she was so nice abt it 😊
In a civilized country you don't thank with money. That is insult in any civilized country.
@@BlackSakura33 Is it OK if I leave a fruit basket?
@@BlackSakura33 we actually live in a very civilised and advanced country.. there is nothing wrong with tipping your server because they are working very hard sometimes.. I used to work as a server so I know how much of a hard job it can be.. I don't see how tipping your server is an insult tbh 🤔
@@greer4988 she was very sweet and nice 🙂😊 I honestly feel bad that she chased us down the street but we were so glad that she was happy at the end
Nailed the mindset. American here. I just came here from an online discussion with mostly Americans about American social norms varying by US region, so it's important to explain to your kids when teaching manners that what is polite to some is rude to others, butmost of them just can't accept it. You can see why so many Americans are rude abroad. They're convinced polite is what they were taught and that it applies in all situations. Ugh! If someone is telling you it's not done where you're visiting, stop doing it!
"They're convinced polite is what they were taught and that it applies in all situations." it is not just that. most people on the internet automatically assumes everyone on the internet is from america. I shared a story a few days ago, and ppl replied with "because the american system is bla bla...". They somehow think the other timezones do not exist. I do not hate Americans, It is just appaling to me.
@@MrRyonnsan aren't you also assuming Americans are the culprits in your last sentence?
Mimimimi
It's because the bourgeois is such scum
It would help if People would do some research on how things are done in Countries that you plan on visiting. But as usual Common Sense Evades a lot of Americans.🧐
It’s especially crazy that you have to tip 20%-30% of the total, regardless of which restaurant it is. Like, whether it’s a $20 meal or a $200 meal, the service provided by a waiter is still the same?? So why do I have to pay the one in the high-end restaurant even more? You’d think that such restaurants make enough money to pay their employees a decent wage.
Tip culture is ridiculous, but to me (Asian, but living in Europe) it’s even more ridiculous that Americans actually defend this system.
Honestly I only tip those who do a good job. If they want a tip they have to earn/deserve it. I don’t tip someone who does the bare minimum or is rude.
Ngl if a waiter waitress is rude I purposely leave behind a mess for them to clean. Imo that’s fair
@@dynogamergurl if you dont tip on the regular tho then you could risk your food getting tampered with
@@dynogamergurl That's when they hit you with the "Party of 6+ mandatory 20% tip." If you don't have that many people, they can't do anything, but they are waiting to catch you in a group!
@@ChickenMcKicken then you should sue that restaurant and their staff.
@@alphabeta8610 well im sure you need proof to do that so idrk
I read that in Japan they view their service as just fulfilling their job responsibilities so if you tip them, they actually feel that you are insulting them because you are trying to mock them by conveying the message that you feel surprised that they are able to do their expected amount of work.
You don't have to tip but you have to tip😂😂😂 describes everything!
@beyond your imagination explains how your father disappeared
@its Time the clip of your mother dropping you as a baby
@@miyulwank lol
@its Time 🖕
Yes i can make cringe insults since bots dont have feelings :)
Japan will be always SUPERIOR when it comes to making food, great attention and service the server gave
Tipping is considered rude in some countries just like Japan. In ours, tipping is ok but some restaurants might consider it rude. Not all but some do. it's honestly better if you don't tip.
So what is that country
@@Wenixi 🇧🇩
Tipping is fine
For anyone internationally who don't know about this, USA has a minimum wage but it doesn't apply to waiters or restuarant staff, who often make less then a livable amount.
Instead of fixing this terrible minimum wage loophole, a culture of tipping has been enacted to compensate for the systemic failures.
Why is it considered rude
I made a Japanese employee freak out because I told her to keep the change oops.
I'm from Belgium and while the wages are good, you can tip servers. It's not mandatory. As a student I always appreciated them tho hahaha
i'm so glad you pointed this out.....
I've been saying this for years and yet people think i'm the crazy person.
Tipping is no longer "tipping" when it is expected and nothing different in return is done to earn it.
"you DON'T HAVE TO tip, but you HAVE TO tip"
If people were paid proper and decent wages, the tipping part process would not be this bizarre in the usa!
Well it's because people tip, they aren't paid proper wages
@@kevinfernandez9999 why pay your employees when you can make your customers do it and make more profit
@@scrambledmandible because of laws written to take workers into consideration rather than businesses....
Seriously. America doesn't have Citizens, it has Corporations with Expendables.
@@kevinfernandez9999 It's the other way around, as far as I know. I've heard that it apparently started with restaurants exploiting freed slaves, not wanting to pay them anything at all. Don't know whether it's true, but it's still a shitty practice that should be abolished.
For anyone internationally who don't know about this, USA has a minimum wage but it doesn't apply to waiters or restuarant staff, who often make less then a livable amount.
Instead of fixing this terrible minimum wage loophole, a culture of tipping has been enacted to compensate for the systemic failures.
“American crazy!” Yup, yes we are
Yup good thing you know
😅😁
I always love the fact that you never use anybody else for your characters except yourself. Like Prozd.
Love the hooyah
Don't know if you're new to the world of one-actor skits, but in case you are - check out channels like CalebCity, Ryan George, Cilvanis, Julia Nolke, LongBeachGriffy. They do collabs sometimes, but most of the time the creators are the only actors in their skits :D
@@OneNamelessHero Don't forget Natalie Tran, the OG!
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@@OneNamelessHero I'm so glad you think so, and I agree!
Wow... actually just read on the crazy american tipping culture earlier when you released this. What a coincidence. Pretty good video as always!
Huh?
For anyone internationally who don't know about this, USA has a minimum wage but it doesn't apply to waiters or restuarant staff, who often make less then a livable amount.
Instead of fixing this terrible minimum wage loophole, a culture of tipping has been enacted to compensate for the systemic failures.
In Japan the best way to "Tip" is to thank them, recommend the place to others, and to go back again. By doing that, you will help them profit with more business, and make them feel like they are doing a great job by having so much business and regular customers. It's definitely a mindset change compared to the way we do it in America, but that's just the culture difference. I honestly wish companies would just charge slightly more across the board, ban tipping, and focus on giving good service all the time, but it's just the way American businesses work and I honestly don't see that changing anytime soon.
I used to work in customer service at Wal-Mart that was $15h. I never understood how restaurant workers expected to get tipped but other customer service individuals like myself don't need a tip. We both work with people, handling them, helping them, getting rude customers. Where's my tip.
Also one time my mom gave a tip and the waitress pointed out the expected tip to give and my mom was like "oh okay, thank you" and took the whole tip back. Lol, its not our job to pay thier bills.
1:41 This is very true back in 2019 when I was stationed in Japan. I lost my wallet in one of the taxis. I went to the Japanese police and they quickly tracked down the taxi service and the specific taxi driver. And I got my wallet back.
If this had happened in the US I definitely would have been assed out and never have seen my wallet again.😂
I accidentally left my ipad in a shared bike in China. I contacted the customer service of the shared bike company but they were impatient and kind of useless. I talked to the police and they tracked it down in a few days (by checking the security cameras nearby) and gave me the phone number of the person who had it.
"I will kick you out of my store... Boi"
He on that Kratos
At 1:30, I thought he would say, "If you show me your money again, I keeeel you."
Another great video from this extremely talented comic! I love how he acts all the parts so well!
When I was a kid a charity gave us a whole bunch of food and clothes and some restaurant coupons. So we walked a couple of miles to Pizza Hut so we could use a coupon. And the server was really nice. But we could not tip her because we didn't have any money. I still feel bad to this day about it. Sorry Pizza Hut lady. I still think about you sometimes.
Meanwhile in rest of the world: Restaurant staff get paid fair wage, customer pays for product and service in 1 payment, world keeps spinning, no guilt tripping required.
Gaslighted by your own country into feeling guilty years later... wow. It is a good thing to have kindness, but this is one very clear example of how it can be twisted and distorted.
Thank you so much for this!
For years I worked as a cook/chef--no tips--to end up in New Orleans, where every bartender and waitress acts like the world owes them $300/night income for getting the only job their art history and sociology degrees qualifies them for.
(Still recalling the time a bartender friend of mine ran back in to tip the waitress who I ask to THRICE ask for water. . .)
Ended up changing careers, which once took me to Japan (Osaka) for work.
In was after midnight when I first walked into my hotel. The bellhop at my hotel hurried up to me to take my bags and up to registration. Check in was a breeze, and friendly.
And I didn't have to ask for any hand with carrying my luggage at all. I'm used to doing it. But getting some help after making my way around Osaka, and being helped to my room was definitely a welcome lagniappe.
Then I asked the (same) bellhop if it was okay if I tipped him. He shook his head vigorously but with a smile, and proclaimed, "No no no! This service is a courtesy of the Hotel!" or something to that effect.
So much respect for a culture who demands nothing extra for doing the 'bare minimum'--even though the standards they set on that minimum are exceedingly high!
It seems like everybody is wanting a tip for everything these days. Remember back in the day when tipping was something you did when you found the service exceptional? Last night my friend left a tip when we were done eating and the service was absolutely horrible. I waited so long to get a drink refill I finally just got up and got it myself and nobody noticed who worked there
Yeah, tipping jars all over the place. Really, it's just a bandaid to the overall solution(s) but Americans refuse to piece it together. It's the status quo and that's all they care about.
I agree. I didn't leave a tip at a Mexican restaurant because she was rude and made/ insinuates that we were trash and we liked the attention from the male Mexican servers.
As someone who operates 3 restaurants, the margins are extremely thin. You need to sell a fortune to make a profit, labor will eat well over 30% at a nice restaurant plus cost of goods hitting another 35%, then if you’re paying rent and some one has to pay for operating costs including standard bills then repairs. All this after the immense cost of opening a restaurant. So if you want competent service staff, and your favorite places to stay open, tipping it is. This is CA btw. In a Japan a server makes like 20k a year, good luck putting shoes on your kids feet in CA with that. Tipping increases earning potential and allows career servers to provide for their family.
Also collecting tips forcibly means the owner doesn’t give you proper wages.. 😌 and you are getting paid for doing the job and your job is to serve food!! So I have no idea why the tip system generated!!!!
Once I accidentally told a shopkeeper in Japan something was expensive (I just meant I could buy the same thing for less in my Homeland) i could hear the poor girl's heart break.... Then I exolained that the price was absolutely reasonable for the quality of the product being sold and that simply I earned less in my country then they did in Japan and that was why I said that.
She was so relief!
I love how he tips an Australian $20 bill in Japan
This is awesomely well made. Man, you are awesome!!!
Bro you are really good!!! I wish you much success!!!
It surprises me how, in the US, when u talk about how shitty the tipping situation is people have only one response 'theyre not paid minimum wages'. Like how their employers arents responsible for that but the customers. The rest of the industries are stupid, Doctors/engineers/accountants/lawyers/other professions too should be tipped.
Doctor: i am supposed to save lives but this patient still died.
Patient's family: We're sad but heres a tip.
Imagine after every flight pilots r tipped coz theyre paid peanuts even though the industry is HUGE. And every passenger is supposed to pay even if they say its not compulsory. 💩
As a Japanese who works in America, I can assure you that we don't take the money unless they give it themselves ☺️
I made this mistake before.
The gentleman who was serving me seemed rather perplexed.
He was very gracious in his refusal, but I can understand that feeling proud knowing that you did a great job is more than enough for some people.
Nothing but love and respect
I was honestly starting to expect the Yakuza fight music to kick in at some point.
Japan: I don’t need your charity 🙄✨
Me a south east asian: Give no tip? Its cool. Give tip? Sure, it's cool.
The real reason why tipping is considered rude in Japan is because, when you already pay for the food, you also get charged for the service so in other words, you already paid for the service and when you want to give them a tip, they get very confused about it because you already got charged for the service and they don’t know what they are supposed to do with the extra money you want to give them.
Here in Albania we tip but only a little (0.50$). This way we can show that we liked the service support them a little and making it o they don’t depend on tipping.
@@csuporj we simply tip less
DA BARE MINIMUM got me crying
ima cry this was uploaded like a minute ago and ppl are commenting saying: “oh well this part got me” even though the video is almost three minutes long 💀
This is the best of your videos ! Hilarious!
An even worse thing about tips these days, most of the tip money doesn't even go to the waiter, the manager and the kitchen staff have to take a majority cut. So much so that if the waiter doesn't get any tips that this cut actually starts coming out of their regular pay. So now you have to tip even more cause if you don't the big wigs are going to take money from the waiter under the assumption that you are handing them 20s under the table.
@@csuporj your guess is as good as mine.
As a Japanese American who goes to Japan regularly this is 100% accurate
Your Japanese voice is extra Samurai!
00:53 when you started speaking japanese and became an anime character it drove the point home
I did that too and the butler really refused....
I'm not sure everyone knows that some jobs are allowed to pay their workers less, if it's "supposed" they receive tips. The owners like the system because they , and the tax man, are more likely be the ones raking in the benefits. I dealt with that system, but it's a faulty one. I'd like to get rid of tipping, give servers the minimum wage they SHOULD be given, instead of the owner making a profit off the worker and system.. Japan , has it right. The law changes from state to state, but if gen Z wants to do something better, get rid of this rotten system!
Just a random 20s Japanese here. Tipping isn’t supposed to be “rude” at all, it’s just not our option. It’s a managerial job to pay for their employees even though one beef bowl only costs like $5 and you get above-and-beyond service at the restaurant. Also, we make sure if the cash balance reconciles the book everyday when closing the cash register and if it doesn’t match, you’ll be in trouble anyways especially in big chain companies. I’m sure small restaurant owners would accept tips. But when they wanna pretend to be “cool” to foreigners in particular, they wouldn’t take it maybe lol
The cash is supposed to go to your pocket, not to the cash register. The tip is not for the restaurant, but for the particular person who took the order and served.
@@satoshikei you think they pocket the tips?
@@CosmicValkyrie There are 2 types of tips. The one you do when you pay the bill, in which case the store share that money among employees. And the spontaneous, where you pay the waiter directly and they pocket the money.
Same in France. Servers are employees. As employees, they're the responsibility of the company, which include paying their wages. Customers pay the company.
Customers do not bring their own servers, why would they pay them separately from the company?
I was very confused on how people thought it was rude to tip in japan but idk
Love the Australian $20 note
You're awesome thank you for the videos!
‘You dare insult me at my restaurant’ 😂 you nailed the accent too
'manipulation at its finest' XD 💀😂
"Nani kure" got me 😂🤣
DAMMIT I WANTED A SAMURAI SWORD TO COME OUT AT THE END!!
I am thoroughly disappointed - no tip for you!!!
I was watching this while having lunch. I was laughing so hard I inhaled a rice grain & ended up choking & now I'm still having trouble breathing normally 5 minutes later. 🤧😭 Comedy TOO good
My boyfriend practically lives off the tips. He works at a bar and the owner never pays him his wages. He has to ask to get paid and has been like 2 months late getting paid. It's ridiculous. The tips save him.
Then why don't he change his job?
that's sooooo ilegal in Europe. Plus, working for tips, or food is considered slavery here.
@@lingred975 America is a giant slave farm. Only purpose of Americans is to produce value for their billionaires.
I make more money than your broke @$$ boyfriend lmaoooo. Tell him to get a real job or stfu
Then it's a shitty job.
Yo Josh keep up the good work
Hey I’m addicted to your videos lol! Please do more ones with beating with those floppy spatulas 😂🤣!!
I sooooo loved it. After I got back form Japan, it was hard tipping for even good service.
"It's a corrupt system, but......Anyways, have a great day! ^^"
In Brazil, tipping is optional (10%), but waiters receive a salary
I had an abysmal service once in germany and decided to tip one cent. The waitress asked what is up with that, I said the one cent is well deserved. But somehow she didn't want her tip, so that probably means the wage is high enough where she worked.
The "American crazy" part really got me😂😂
Very well said. As an "American" who was raised in Canada and has lived in Europe and Australia, you perfectly demonstrated how many people who were raised in the USA react when it comes to tipping or better yet no tipping in other countries. Many "Americans" do not understand that other countries have laws that regulate wages based on economic models not based on politics as it is here in the USA. Thanks for once again using comedy to educate.
When I was staying in Kyoto, I arrived very late and the talk driver, an older gentleman was kind but also quite tired. I offered him yen as a tip in addition to the rate. He shook his finger at me and told me to put it away.
not you being so real for this 😭
Tipping became a thing like around a hundred years ago because owners didnt want to pay their workers more. But its still bs cause some owners mind you none corporation owners have shown that charging the right price for the food eliminates the need to tip servers so they can live off their wages. I mean come on most servers make less than 3 dollars an hour
But your still funny and i like your vids
Bro if you make less than 3$ an hour just quit the job and find better. And it's not the customer fault. Everyone should stop tipping for some moment so that things change and government realize they should pay their workers more
@@igor_ostrovski Exactly!
I wouldn't say "most" as it varies from state to state. But yeah, it is a real shame in the states that allow employers to pay federal minimum waitstaff wages instead of regular minimum wage.
Coming from a server, this is hilarious! The only reason I depend on the tips is because they make up the majority of my check. I don't mind when some people don't tip, what I find rude is when I smile and talk to some and they'll treat me like I'm stupid and I just did everything wrong before I even took their order. Excuse me for serving you to best of my abilities😤
Oo 1 minute ago! Love the vids as always! The glasses 💀
(On a different account)
the 'oye' part was so accurate XD
Lol love the Japanese accent 🤣
Unfortunately I think that all the west share the tipping thing, we do that too in Italy, I was literally forced to give extra money to an awful rude waiter once
You can't be forced to tip lmao. Just say no this is illegal to force someone to tip
@@igor_ostrovski Oh ok thanks, this information will be useful next time
@@riccardocoppolino9472 the thing is, if you dont tip, then you could risk your food getting tampered with.
I worked in the city in a restaurant at some point with a lot of foreign students, let's just say the many times i walked out with almost no tip like 10$ for entire full long hours of grueling shift opening/closing it was so sad I felt like crying and totally crushed. The restaurant only gives any wage at all (the about 2.50$) an hour if the overall added up to be below minimum wage. So in total, it was very hard to keep track but it def felt like minimum wage but worse because no security and I am not even sure if the restaurant actually ever comped me any difference. It seemed so easily erased or an oopsy or they just edit the numbers however they like. I def dont work in restaurants anymore after that doesnt give hourly like cafe. The work was sooo tiring like running a marathon the whole time and I did my best to be polite and as fast as possible to everyone. I got back late sometimes to the tables because I had to wait on the bartender or other servers were before me or being mean, people got competitive and totally shoved me out of the way etc like in sports even amongst coworkers. Managers also had favorites even if the favorite werent following rules. I understand that alot of restaurants struggle too and so many restaurants fail. It's just a terrible system entirely for owners and employees.
アメリカのチップ文化って面白いと思うし、西海岸を旅行したときにどれくらいチップ渡せばいいのか友人と悩んだのは良い思い出だけど、日本(東アジア全域)では受け入れがたい文化だと思うw
Regardless if it’s a “crazy” American custom. Being a waitress or waiter is an actual career. It’s a craft and it does take skill and knowledge.
Waiter in UK here - sure, that's true, but surely career progression should follow the lead of literally every other industry and just pay more?
I've worked myself a long CV so I can be considered by higher end establishments in the UK, where you get paid a proper salary - my co-workers have a salary good enough to get a MORTGAGE in a highly desirable area.
If you were relying on tips to make that mortgage payment, you wouldn't have that same sense of security.
@@realisticbadger9699 I can only speak for American economics we live in a capitalist country. I am college educated and I am a licensed cosmetologist I have worked management positions. I prefer to bartend and wait tables I make a livable wage and I live the life I choose. That shouldn’t determine my worth if tips which means “To Insure Prompt Service. Simple economics, restaurants can pay every bartender and server a “livable wage,” however the food will cost 4 times, plus they may add gratuity to each bill. It makes economical sense to allow guest to tip according to service. People have a misconception that serves and bartenders just drop off food and refilled drinks. This particular topic can be discussed for hours on end. So I digress. Btw, I’ve worked in this industry for 25 years I refuse to accept a position for under 25 per hour, so imagine how much a 8oz filet would cost?
Craft? Don't make me laugh. Your job is easy. And people are not obligated to tip if they don't want to. We can literally call the police should you wish to do anything to our food😊
The tipping system in America and Canada is so gross and makes no sense. Why is it legal for businesses to UNDERPAY their workers? Why are customers responsible for paying extra to make up for these lost wages!? Why do some jobs require tipping when they're just doing the bare minimum whereas other jobs where the workers actually go out of their way to help customers don't get tipped? For example, cutting your hair should not involve tipping. That is literally the job. Whereas when you go to a shoe store, you can ask an employee to help you and they'll spend 30 min running around the store, finding shoes for your size, going on their knees to change your shoes, etc. Yet the customer isn't required to tip them.
Tipping your server is the best system there is by far. It cuts out the middle man. The customer directly pays the person serving them. It encourages better service and servers across the board end up with a higher wage.
There’s zero reason to dislike it except this weird mind set that people have where they feel like they shouldn’t have to tip. You are paying your server to serve you. That’s why you tip. You pay the restaurant to feed you. You pay the server to serve you. And everyone wins. If we give employers to pay the servers all that happens is employers make more money, servers make less money, and more restaurants go out of business.
The problem I think ppl don’t understand is that restaurants pay servers only enough to cover taxes. If a server makes 0.0 dollars on tips then the server makes 0.0 dollars for the shift. The restaurant could pay them wages but then the food prices will go up a lot and service will go down. The problem is servers that think they deserve a tip when they didn’t do a good job. I served and bartended for awhile. There was a few times when I knew I didn’t do a good job and when they left me little or no tip I just moved on. The other problem is ppl who tip nothing even when service was excellent. It wouldn’t be a problem if ppl weren’t so lazy nowadays.
Don't pay tips in America. Business owners should pay workers with their own money instead of expecting customers to do it.
so accurate. 😅 in the US once a waiter said “Fck u” to me after not tipping enough.
Vietnam and Thailand and many other countries are the same as Japan in terms of accepting tips. I love those humble countries
I’d immediately take the tip back. Like, if you’re gonna insult me for not tipping enough, I’m not gonna tip *at all*
It’s not illegal not to tip, anyways.
wow. This is the problem with the tipping system. People feel entitled and that waiter should tell off his boss with that tone for not paying him enough. How can people rely on tips when it dynamic day to day? At least a wage you can budget and bank on that.
"How much do you make per year?" "Oh depends on the day"
I mean come on. Customers should not be also HR. We go in buy a product or service and leave, we should not have to sit there with a calculator and have to figure out what is fair to pay someone. This is HR of the company or manager to deal with not the customer.
Tipping exists in Japan. I worked at traditional banquets, restaurant at an onsen resort in the middle of nowhere deep in the country, we’d have lots of retiree Japanese customers. We’d get tips still. Not as often as a city cafe in Australia, but it’s certain not unheard of or that uncommon
Because it's assumed in the United States that wait staff will be getting tipped, restaurants are allowed to grossly underpay their wait staff. The Federal minimum wage for wait staff in the U.S. is $2.13 an hour. It's been this since 1991.
Americans should stop calling it a tip and just call it a service charge. It's like the whole country made up a new definition and agreed to play pretend.
Like how every word in every language works pretty much
In Poland you can but you don't have to tip. When I visited the Czech Republic I was at first horrified, that every restaurant requires 10% extra for service. Still, I have travelled a lot in my life and never experienced such an exemplary service anywhere else. So in the end I decided that it was fair 😸
I saw the service free in an a restaurant in Hungary. I don't think every has it, but this one did. The service was lower border fine. The biggest problem with these service fees is that they don't tell you always! You just end up with a higher bill at the end. That's not great customer service.
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In America, it is illegal to be paid less than the minimum wage.
Even if you are a tip worker.
As per federal law, if you are a tip worker, your employer BY LAW must pay you the difference.
Example:
Minimum Wage $10 per hr
Tip Worker Wage per hr: $2
Lets say this worker serves one person and makes no tip.
By law her employer MUST pay her an additional $8 to bring her paycheck up to the $10 which is standard.
If however, this same waitress serves multiple people and they all tip her $20. Lets say she makes $100 in one hour.
Those multiple people just paid her wages, so that her boss is no longer required to. She will only get $2 from her boss for the hour. But that'll be it. And thats cumutalive. So lets say in an hour shift she gets paid $16 by her boss. Normally he'd have to pay her $80. But if she got a hundred bucks in tips, all he has to pay her is the $16.
Everytime you tip someone.
You aren't giving them money.
You're giving it straight to her boss.
You're paying him so he doesnt have to pay her.
The system was created by corporate elitests who wanted to get out of paying their employees. And they paid the newspapers to run articles telling you how disgusting you are for not tipping.
"That's it?"
"That's it."
.....can be used in any and every context.😏😏
when you use australian money as a tip 🤣
YOOOOO, this is so good. You said something I have always wanted to say, as a fellow East Asian.
Wow my bonus is low I guess my work quality was too excellent I don’t need to be encouraged
I don't even tip in America, you're supposed to do your job. Wtf would I even give you the money which is supposed to be paid by your employer? If you don't get paid enough, change your job. You guys always praise capitalism right? Then practice it. I'm from Asia and now currently living in NYC.
If you feel that way it’s probably better for you not patronize the restaurants who don’t pay their servers at least minimum wage. If you’re still giving money to restaurants that don’t, but punish your server by not tipping, which in many cases means they actually have to pay for the pleasure of bringing you your food because they have to tip out busboys, bartenders, and hosts based on a percentage of their sales, then you’re not making a principled stand. You’re just a cheapskate begging for something disgusting to happen to your food.
If you don't tip, don't eat out. I'm not even a waiter. Let the waiter/waitress spend their time servicing someone who will tip.
I started working at a pizza delivery chain many years ago and I couldn't understand why people tip. I already got extra for each delivery from the company and min wage. The customer still tipped me and I didn't understand why when it was a part of the service. Anyways, I never complained or felt ashamed to take it.
Lol so you were okay working for peanuts while putting wear and tear on your car? Nice.
"american crazy" was the best part
That's Japanese logic for you! America is crazy! Japan be on point!