If figuring out how much gratuity to leave restaurant workers has you scratching your head, one creator has some tips about tips. <\/p>\n
I feel like the tip discourse has reached the mainstream of TikTok, so I wanna talk about it, said Horace Gold (@horacegold) ina recent video that appears to have been deleted from the TikTok app. Prior to being deleted, the video had almost 93,000 views and more than 7,000 likes. <\/p>\n
Gold made the video as a response to creator @poorandhungry, who posted about their frustration with being asked to tip on small items like ice cream cones. <\/p>\n
Gold explained in his video that he worked as a server for several years in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n
His first rule: seldom tipping on takeout orders. <\/p>\n
Theyre putting it in a bag. What am I tipping for? Gold said. <\/p>\n
The second guideline, Gold said, only applies to states like California, where servers are getting a livable wage, which they define at $15 to $17 plus tips on top. (If youre in a state like Alabama? Just tip them, Gold said.) <\/p>\n
I look at that hourly wage like work you do for the restaurant whether there are customers and guests inside or not, Gold said. <\/p>\n
He continued, If a guest asks one questionone questionyoure getting tipped, because we dont learn that information for free, b*tch. <\/p>\n
You gotta pay for this knowledge. Youre tipping for that knowledge, Gold said. <\/p>\n
Commenters had a lot of opinions about tipping. <\/p>\n
A lot of places, like coffee & ice cream shops, I will give change if theres a jar. But to ask for tips on the iPad?? no, one person said. <\/p>\n
One viewer wrote, I tip everyone so they can have a treat after work. <\/p>\n
Another comment read, Most to-go workers make the same hourly as servers, so if they dont get tipped they make essentially nothing. <\/p>\n
I work for $2.13 hourly and when people dont tip they dont understand how seriously this affects me, someone commented. <\/p>\n
The Daily Dot reached out to Gold for comment via Instagram direct message on Tuesday and did not receive an immediate response. <\/p>\n
According to a guide published this year by U.S. News & World Report, current etiquette calls for a 20% tip at sit-down restaurants and 10% for quick-service restaurants. Youll find no shortage of opinions about tipping on TikTok; take the creator who recently said they would no longer tip over 15%. <\/p>\n
One commenter wrote on Golds TikTok, Currently working in a country where the idea of tipping is wild. It honestly is so funny how weve been tricked into thinking tipping is normal. <\/p>\n
Theres a thorny history to tipping, including wealthy Americans in the mid-1800s wanting to seem aristocratic and people post-Civil War using tipping as an excuse to not adequately pay people recently freed from slavery, according to Time magazine in 2019, <\/p>\n
The legality of the practice across the states has gone back and forth over the decades, according to Time. <\/p>\n
Currently, the federally mandated minimum cash wage for tipped employees is $2.13, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. <\/p>\n
*First Published: May 30, 2023, 11:50 pm CDT <\/p>\n
Eric Webb is a native Texan and national award-winning pop culture critic, arts & entertainment journalist, and editor. <\/p>\n
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