What Are The Five Fundamental Intentions Of Tipping

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In his New York Times article titled The Capitalist; The Case Against Tipping, Michel Lewis wonders whether tipping really serves any significant purpose. In his own words, "no lawful behavior in the marketplace is as disturbing to me as the growing appeals for gratuities." Lewis is convinced that people should not be rewarded for doing something they are paid to do in the first place.

As a recent employee in the restaurant industry, first as a hostess and later as a waitress, I have had the opportunity to experience the system of tipping not just from a customer’s point of view.

“Tips are accepted not expected” not always the case. In certain restaurants management will automatically generate a 18% gratuity when there are larger parties being served. In a recent article on the 1010 wins.com website ( “tip dispute leads to arrests at soprano’s“ )the reporter tells of a story where people actually got arrested because they refused to pay the mandatory 18% tip. At some point consumers should have the right to draw the line when it comes to tipping. Michael Lewis says “ our natural and admirable reluctance to enter into the spirit of the thing causes the thing to lose whatever value it had in the first place”(23). Tip amounts should not be mandated by the size of the party. A gratuity should remain based upon the quality of the service that was provided.

Finally the reason is should be raised is because of the amount of work a waiter has to do every time they work. Knowing from personal experience it can be a hassle waiting on people with bring their drinks and making sure that they are satisfied with what they order, and yes that is what waiters are supposed to do but it is a hassle when you have to deal with people who are rude and impatient.

In the essay “Tipping is an Abomination,” Brian Palmer believes tipping should be abolished in restaurants and different workforce. Palmer defines tipping as giving an amount for a worker who did a good service to a customer. Tipping started in the nineteen centuries in Europe where tipping was accepted in restaurants for labour costs. Palmer indicates tipping as a bad custom such as tipping doesn’t show demanding work, having different tip sizes, stereotyping ethnic groups, tipping doesn’t pay for a living wage, and sharing tips with co-workers. Tipping illustrates a bad custom because workers don’t receive the same amount as their co-workers and receive racism from customers. When giving out tips workers and customers in a restaurant should

In the essay “The Case Against Tipping” by Michael Lewis, Lewis strongly states his feelings against tipping and also whether tipping is an act of kindness or an obligation. One of his main views are, most food industries have eye grabbers that push customers to think about giving an extra tip. Lewis has very interesting arguments, but has very few examples; which makes his claims unsupported.

To Tip or not to tip? A question that has had quite a debate as of late when it was brought to the United States from Europe. It went against Americas “devotion to equality” and caused class discrepancies, but that was the nineteenth century not 2018. Have opinions about tipping have changed since then? “Well, yes and no” People still hold on to the practice saying it helps with pay while others say it causes a splitting of equality among employees. Tipping should be removed entirely because of what it can cause among the workers owners, customers and the business.

It is a privilege to be able to share with those who provided you with service. The mere are of tipping displays a level of appreciation for that which another has provided for you. Even if the service was not up to the standard, tipping the waitress/waiter operates as a form of forgiveness in that process. There must be some empathy extended to others when they have missed the mark, just the same as God has extended toward us when we miss the mark. Leaving a good tip speaks volumes for the tipper but also helps with recapturing relational capital that may have been lost by previous Christians.

Tipping is said to have originated in the taverns of eighteenth century England because drinkers would give money to their waiter so they would in turn provide them with good service. This then became a tradition in America, but it is not embraced by all. Many people find it unnecessary to tip if they receive poor service, but it is still a widely accepted social norm throughout the country.

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Malcolm Gladwell, tends to follow trends and he tries to discover why some things tend to tip and others don’t. His curiosity about some things “tipping” caught my attention, but I was confused by the way he started the introduction. He begins with a recent fashion trend that seemed to come from nowhere, the Hush Puppies. He tells us that Hush Puppies fell in popularity and once they started appearing in the New York City nightclubs, designers started selling them again. What I disliked was how he started with the shoes because to mean it seemed like it came from nowhere and it was slightly irrelevant. However, when I was putting down the book, I noticed the title of chapter one and it’s The Three Rules of Epidemics and now I think this example

I work at a liquor store called State Line Liquors in Elkton. I pack up customers’ liquor and then take it out to their car. I carefully carry their stuff out only for them to look at the ground mutter “thank you” and retreat to their cars. It can get really frustrating when this happens because people always seem to expect us to do it. They do not understand what a service is. People always say that waiters and waitresses have it rough because most of their wages come from tips, but Americans have ingrained into their mind that the waiter must always be tipped. This is only one of the many jobs inside of the service industry. I believe in always tipping the service guy.

The United States is one of the few counties in the world still using the old fashion tipping system. “During the late 19th century legislature rapidly abolishes the practice of tipping when it is introduced by wealthy Americans. Eventually restauranteurs find a way to prospect of passing labor costs to consumer, which convinced the American to accept the practice of tipping.” When many American don’t understand the purpose of tipping is for but somehow it is customer responsibility to pay the restaurant employees based on their service. There are many reasons to argue about the tipping system. But, most of them ignore the very basic problem with abolishing tipping in America, the most difficult of which is our absurdly low minimum wage. The practice is abhorrent from a historical perspective.

The customer typically decides how much tipped workers will receive since customer take on the role of the manager while the tipped worker is the employee. The amount of the tip is contingent upon the quality of