Every time tipping comes up there's a vocal contingent of anti tippers, coming from one of these perspectives: European pride, cheap fuckery, or faux labor concerns.

It's important to remind that American restaurants work well - we have promp and good service as a rule, the majority of Americans are fine with and enjoy tipping and the vast majority of service workers enjoy getting them and are ahead financially vs European counterparts. This is our culture and we by and large like our culture.

It's fine to experiment with other options and it's (of course) fine to disagree and complain but it's also an important baseline to acknowledge that things mainly work and people mainly like it.

I've traveled to places where I would not tip and I don't remember the experience being very different. I say what food I want and get a plate with such food.

I’ve never met someone who didn’t think tipping was too widespread and too high. You say a majority of people are happy with the state of US tipping?

>European pride

Europeans tip, just not as crazy as Americans.

>It's important to remind that American restaurants work well

Japanese service is top-notch and tipping is generally frowned upon there.