Tipping is dead.
At least tipping, as you and I understand it. A mandatory 20 percent gratuity on every restaurant meal? Obligatory tips for housekeepers, concierges and tour guides? Kiss them goodbye.
And if you want to know why, just ask Gerri Hether.
Like many Americans, she’s tired of the attitude that all service workers are entitled to a tip. She became exasperated with the point-of-sale terminals that solicited a gratuity before even serving her food. But then the final straw was when restaurants started to add automatic gratuities to their bills for her “convenience.”
“I don’t tip anymore,” says Hether, a retired nurse from Mesa, Ariz.
Americans are known for generosity and willingness to tip for good service. But a recent poll by USA Today’s Blueprint found 63 percent of respondents say too many businesses are asking for tips, and 48 percent are tired of being asked for a gratuity.
Almost the same number of Americans (62 percent) in another survey said they wouldn’t give service workers year-end tips, according to the digital personal finance company Achieve. The reason? Tip fatigue.
h/t general mishka