by Sangeeta Kocharekar URL Copied! Recently, I had dinner at a fine dining restaurant and wasn’t sure if I should tip. The waiter brought up the amount I owed on the card reader, tapped to the next screen, which showed various tipping amounts, and then turned his head away. I added 10%.
Despite growing up in the US where generally, if you tipped anything under 10%, sometimes even 15% you’d be considered rude, I felt awkward about the whole scenario. Was I meant to tip more than 10% because it was fine dining and the service had been great? Or did I not need to tip at all, as I could rest assured the staff were all adequately compensated for their work? var VMDAdsTheLatch = window.VMDAdsTheLatch || {}; var gptAdSlots = window.
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I reached out to a handful of restaurant PRs to see if a chef or owner they repped might be keen to comment for this story. All apart from one declined. I get it.
You say diners should be tipping and you risk them not being happy. You say diners shouldn’t be tipping and you risk your staff not being happy. The very best of The Latch delivered straight to your inbox.
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