I have to ask, why are you tipping 10% before the service is extra good? I'm really against the idea that the company isn't responsible for paying their staff properly.

Setting a baseline of 10% just says to me that the restaurant owners can just pay their staff less. And if the server is having an off day or just didn't meet your particular standards then they're losing money.

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alexrp 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think it depends on location.

It would be a bizarre approach in Scandinavia because the consensus here is that companies must pay their employees a decent baseline salary -- which unions negotiate across the whole sector -- so there's no expectation of a tip by default.

But for much of the rest of the world, it's not a given that working conditions are as good.

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rapnie 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think in the Netherlands the general rule is to tip up to 10% depending how good the service was, unless it was excellent and you go higher. When drinking a couple coffees in a restaurant it is okay to tip with a single Euro for good service, even if that doesn't amount to 10%.

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Freak_NL 15 hours ago | parent [-]

This is despite the unfortunate and rude trend of payment devices now offering a big dickover screen filled with obscene tip suggestions first (25% in a fucking chain fastfood place?), because with the decline of cash the old way of rounding up the bill dies out too.

	▲	palata 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This. Now you withdraw money at an ATM and it offers you to give a 25% tip. People who are not used to tips (i.e. foreigners visiting the US) don't necessarily know when they should and when they shouldn't give a tip. When in doubt, should they or should they not tip 20%? The whole concept is just very weird.
	▲	navane 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There's always the zero button and I always mash it happily.