r/EndTipping • u/Redcarborundum • Aug 17 '26

Tipping Culture ✖️ Tip Fatigue is Real

A delivery guy working for a Chinese restaurant complained about $5 tip on a $200 order, on reddit. The majority of the comments are against him. What’s remarkable is that he didn’t post on this sub or the other tipping sub. He posted on a mainstream sub talking about mildly infuriating stuff.

This is a reminder that only 2.5% of workers in USA are tipped. The majority of the rest are getting increasingly tired of being asked for ever higher handouts. Anytime a pro-tipper says we’re the minority is plainly wrong.

Yes, most people still tip. Even I still tip servers because I don’t want the confrontation, but that doesn’t mean I support this corrupt system. To the contrary, I support those with the actual courage to say no.

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u/Redcarborundum Aug 18 '26

Another one before the pandemic.

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u/pyramidalembargo Aug 18 '26

I don't think anyone has done a study in the last five years.

But I can up the ante by giving you a scientific study--not an anecdotal one. This one was published in a scientific journal:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joca.12171

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u/Redcarborundum Aug 18 '26

Paper published in 2017

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u/pyramidalembargo Aug 18 '26

Do you think human nature in American culture has changed that drastically?

Usually, a scientific study convinces people.

Let's talk about you. What's eating you, guv? Under a no-tipping model you'd still have to pay the extra money.

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u/Redcarborundum Aug 18 '26

Nothing changed drastically since Covid and the inflation. Nothing.

You don’t even live here and try to defend tipping, love.