The Case Against Tipping Pros and Cons 1. Already paid a salary 2. Shouldn’t feel guilt to tip 3. More discretion equates to unpleasantness 4. Minimal amount of time and effort exerted 5. We are not programmed to give money away 6. Equivalent to a tax Yes‚ but essay Being part of the service industry can be a very non-rewarding job. Many people do not understand the preparation that takes place to provide good service. Usually before a restaurant opens the staff
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In the United States the custom of paying gratuity has become a costly social norm. The expectation of leaving a substantial tip for average service should be challenged. Tipping is not only unnecessary‚ but also causes social issues. The many reasons that tipping should be abolished include public opinion‚ tipping messes with the overall pay of workers‚ other countries views and psychological problems pertaining to the subject. Public opinion has showed that if you stray away from leaving a tip
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Composition 2 Major Writing Assignment 2: Pro/Con Lists The Case Against Tipping Pros • It would neatly alleviate any question of how much to tip on alcohol tax‚ and desserts and free meals. • it would relieve waiters and the IRS of the nightmare of accounting for unrecorded cash transactions and ensure taxes were paid appropriately. • Universal included gratuity could potentially reduce the cost of service overall. For every big tipper there’s another table who stiffs their
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This study by Seiter and Gass was titled The Effect of Patriotic Messages on Restaurant Tipping in it the authors compared the effectiveness of 2 types of patriotic messages with a “warmth/ingratiation” message and a control condition on restaurant tipping. The independent variable in this study was placing one of four messages on customers’ checks: “Have a Nice Day‚” “God Bless America‚” “United We Stand‚” or no message. The servers were instructed to write one of four messages on the back of the
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VALUE: This is my number three because I never knew how it really worked. Tipping is a reward of the quality of the services you receive‚ so really you can tip however you want depending on how you think the service was. I typically tip to the charges plus taxes‚ but I never knew that it was okay to tip less that 15% if I really was not happy with the service. This is important because I have gone somewhere and been so unhappy‚ yet I still tipped them 15%. Knowing this tip though‚ will save me from
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Outline Thesis Statement: Tipping should be expected when it comes to paying the bill at a restaurant‚ or bar because the server has to wait and be patient with unpleasant customers‚ they receive little pay‚ and they do their best to make customers’ dining experiences peaceful and enjoyable. Body Paragraph 1: Topic Sentence- Dealing with unhappy customers can be very stressful to a person‚ but imagine having to constantly try and be patient with the person who keeps complaining about every little
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A custom that many Americans enjoy or disapprove committing to is tipping waiters or waitresses in the restaurant business. Tipping restaurant servers is a way of showing them that they achieved their task of providing high quality customer service; however‚ how much tip is given could vary. Some customers give large tips to servers who provide the great service while other customers give small or no tip to servers who provide poor service. Either way‚ a server’s tip is affected if customer service
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The Case against Tipping Pro | con | It’s an incentive for the person to give good service | Most places base you wages on your tips and don’t have to even pay you minimum wage. | You may feel better knowing that you have helped someone make their wages. | The tip may cost as much as what you purchase | If you’re a regular you get faster service if you tip | The places my have a cup set out to make the customer feel like they should have to tip. | It helps under waged people make their
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poem about tipping. I go out to eat almost every weekend and when its time to tip‚ I just give the person ten percent plus whatever I feel like is proportional to the service him / her gave to me. Her tone throughout the poem seem be irritated‚ which could probably accredited to bad tipping experiences in the past. This is evident to me when the author‚ Jan Beatty‚ says “If you leave 10% or less‚ eat at home.” (line 17). She goes as far to suggest that one should stay home for bad tipping. This can
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“The Case Against Tipping” was a well-written argument‚ yet there are many ways in which Lewis could fix his argument. Firstly‚ the essay was mostly based on opinion‚ with a fact or two sprinkled around. Lewis says: “If you are like most people (or at any rate like me)‚ you are of two minds about this plastic cup” (20). This usage of opinion to state that the audience was just like the author himself as well as repeatedly stating his own opinion thought the essay made his argument less believable
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