Yeah. It's 15 percent. Amazingly people who profit directly from tips will keep putting out the idea that a larger and larger percentage is the standard. It isn't. And clearly, by being generous and tipping twenty percent doesn't give people a good view of the public in general, it just causes them to think that…

A tip is calculated as a percentage of the meal's cost, so inflation is already accounted for.

But the price of food goes up commensurately with the price of everything else. So when a sandwich was 8 dollars in 1998 and it is now 15 dollars, 15% in 1998 = 15% now. So cost of living doesn't really make sense assuming the cost of food increases with inflation.

Only a third? Cheapo! I like to establish a 529 savings account for my waitstaffs' children.

What is the justification for the raise from 15% to 20% as standard for reasonable, but not great service? Food prices go up with inflation and you are matching 15% or 20% of the cost of the food. Also, do you include tax in your tipping % or no?

You must be high, food prices match inflation and the tip is a percentage of food cost. No need to keep raising tip percentages unless food cost has stayed stagnant.

Yeah, thanks for that in your article by the way. I'm a restaurant manager in MN and I honestly don't know how I feel about $15 plus 18-24% tips. That would take the servers at my restaurant from "making more per hour then everyone else there" to "making absurdly more per hour than everyone else there".

the IRS will charge a minimum of 8% of your total sales as taxable tip income. Meaning 8% is the minimum tip IMO, any lower and the restaurant is actually losing money (to the IRS) on your lack of tipping.

1) Since tips are a percentage of a meal's cost, inflation is baked right in. You don't need to increase the tip percentage to account for inflation.

30% now? GTFO.

That's also made totally clear in the article, where she also makes clear that she too makes the same minimum wage working in retail and has no expectation of receiving a tip. Valid point, IMO.

20% is standard, now? When I served back in the late 90's, 15% was standard, and 20% was for excellent service.

I am pro-tipping and pro-tipping generously but 30% as a minimum is nutty.

It will affect servers in Washington State, actually, because it's one of the seven states that doesn't have a tipped sub-minimum wage. Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington. But minimum wage increases in states aside from those won't materially affect servers.

Actually they're illegal without the written consent of both parties unless there is a court order. But don't let facts get in the way of your ridiculous sperm-jacking panic.

I don't think you can categorize all guided tours as "seeing the same things that most do". You can find ones that actually specialize in themes or hobbies that most people wouldn't do. As for fixed itineraries, yes most guided tours follow a schedule, but as some other commenters have mentioned, you often have a…

Can someone explain to me — is the use of phrases like "stop resisting" and "get down" and "hands behind your back" (and even "he's going for my gun") when they do not match reality something that cops are now specifically trained on because of the prevalence of filming?

That's for the benefit of any audio recording, but basically it's the equivalent of "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself"

One of the officers kept repeating, "stop resisting" and "put your hands behind your back" WHILE HIS HANDS WERE BEHIND HIS BACK, SOMEONE WAS STRADDLING HIM, HE WAS BEING CUFFED AND HIS HEAD WAS BLEEDING PROFUSELY.

The answer is in the title, he's 38. NOW AP classes are required for a lot of colleges to even look at you, but 20 years ago, they weren't nearly as prevalent.