My understanding is that it's only in the USA where service-staff must rely on tips in order to make a living wage.
People in the service sector in the UK obviously appreciate tips, but they have to be paid at least the minimum wage (whether that's set at a fair level is another question). Over the last couple of years, there have been stories in the media about the management of high-profile restaurants - including some celebrity chefs - who were discovered to have been keeping back some or all of the tips collected by their workers, and they came in for some serious shit in the media.
I lived in Italy for a few years, so I also know that service staff there don't expect to be tipped more than a token sum.
Tipping in the USA is yet another con perpetrated against consumers and working people. The "tipped wage" concept only exists because of the political power of business owners and due to the willingness of most Americans to accept the status quo as the being best possible way to do things, simply because that's the way it's been done for a long time.
I don't ever tip
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My understanding is that it's only in the USA where service-staff must rely on tips in order to make a living wage.
People in the service sector in the UK obviously appreciate tips, but they have to be paid at least the minimum wage (whether that's set at a fair level is another question). Over the last couple of years, there have been stories in the media about the management of high-profile restaurants - including some celebrity chefs - who were discovered to have been keeping back some or all of the tips collected by their workers, and they came in for some serious shit in the media.
I lived in Italy for a few years, so I also know that service staff there don't expect to be tipped more than a token sum.
Tipping in the USA is yet another con perpetrated against consumers and working people. The "tipped wage" concept only exists because of the political power of business owners and due to the willingness of most Americans to accept the status quo as the being best possible way to do things, simply because that's the way it's been done for a long time.