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nonsense.
begging's how
the Middle Class's
gonna Survive* Capitalism
we All know it's an Honest Trade
bring out your Dead!
*gofundME!
15%. Do a decent job, you get 15%. Thats it.
Tips aren't philanthropy. Tips are employers' way of making customers responsible for providing their employees with reasonable wages. And the fact that plenty of people don't tip at all means that employees are at the mercy of assholes who insist on being served by others (or having their food brought to them at their home) and then not providing a tip for the services.
Other countries don't tip. Employees are paid enough to live and they have services provided by their country (like, say, universal health care) so assholes who don't tip don't hold any power. But hey, 'Murica!
Unless I receive service that is wholly unacceptable (and it's happened, only two times in my life so far), I tip 20% or more. If you can afford to go out and eat food prepared for by other people and served to you by other people, then you can afford to tip generously. If not, stay home and make your down damn food.
There's also this:
Studies have shown that tipping is not an effective incentive for performance in servers. It also creates an environment in which people of color, young people, old people, women, and foreigners tend to get worse service than white males. In a tip-based system, nonwhite servers make less than their white peers for equal work. Consider also the power imbalance between tippers, who are typically male, and servers, 70 percent of whom are female, and consider that the restaurant industry generates five times the average number of sexual harassment claims per worker. And that in many instances employers have allegedly misused tip credits, which let owners pay servers less than minimum wage if tipping makes up the difference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/18/i-dare-you-to-read-this-and-still-feel-ok-about-tipping-in-the-united-states/
And this: (again the point is that employers should pay people who work for them, not use customers to make up the difference, because they don't)
The Case Against Tipping in America
The data is overwhelming: Tipping encourages racism, sexism, harassment, and exploitation
https://www.eater.com/a/case-against-tipping
Rich people are absolutely terrible tippers.