Here’s a challenge, how about the next time you want to give a near $100 tip you tip a landscaper, mechanic, or salesman? instead
Why are massive tips only a restaurant thing? How many times have you heard a story about a waitress getting some multi hundred or $1k+ tip from some random stranger to “help them out”. How often do you hear the same for any other service profession? Does your mechanic, landscaper, or salesman work less hard than your waiter? Those are all service based jobs, just like a waiter, who also only get paid based upon how many jobs they do, just like a waiter. In fact, I’d argue that they work a lot harder than a waiter. It’s a lot harder doing manual labor, esp in the hot sun or outside elements, than it is order taking and refilling water glasses. No one seems to care about endowing them with a little extra helping hand. Servers can also juggle multiple tables at once, they can make bank, especially at a fine restaurant.
Even your salesman who hooks you up with a great deal is usually not paid hourly, and often times works hard and long on a job that doesn’t even end up becoming a sale and paying him. At least when a waiter works a table, they get paid the vast majority of the time (minus the occasional deadbeat). The only reason people view massive tipping of restaurant wait staff as a thing is only due to societal conditioning. I doubt a single big tipper even stopped to contemplate why they are giving the waitress a massive tip but not the dry cleaner, etc? If you want to feel good tipping someone, why not try giving your big tip to a non restaurant profession who services you instead?
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your writing really helped me I know what steps to take. Sherry Reidar Donia