A young American waiter complained in a viral video that many customers were not tipping fairly and urged his colleagues to expose ungenerous diners.
Is it valid not to leave tips in restaurants or to give an amount less than suggested? For an American waiter, whose claim went viral, it is fair that customers give at least 20% of their total consumption to whoever served them.
Although in Chile the recommended tip in restaurants is 10% of the value of consumption, in the United States it is customary to leave 20%.
In this context, the waiter Ben Raanan, who works in a local Los Angeles in the United States, published a video on Tiktok where he expresses that many customers leave tips, which are not in line with what they spent in the restaurant.
“This is for all those who leave bad tips”, he begins by saying in the sequence, as he picks up The vanguard.
“If the account is 50 dollars, you can leave 10 dollars, that is, 20%, and that’s fine. If your account was $200 and you gave me $10, that would be 5%, an insult.”he added.
He also stated that money is no longer worth the same and that should be considered by customers.
“Inflation means that ten dollars is no longer worth that much. You can’t just put down a cute little five and think that’s funny and cute. It’s not funny or cute,” Raanan said.
Raanan said that henceforth cwill begin to put “people in the spotlight” when they don’t leave “fair” tips. He even encouraged his colleagues to do the same.
Waiter teaches people to calculate tips well
In his claim, the young worker even pointed out to people how to calculate a fair tip well.
“If you don’t know how to calculate tips, take the bill, move it one decimal, that’s 10%, double it, that’s 20%, that is, what you should tip,” he said.
“When they give me 10%, I’m like, ‘Okay, great, I guess I won’t eat tonight.’ Or when they use the excuse that the food isn’t good to tip less it’s like ‘sir I didn’t make your food, I just brought it to you,’” she said.
His video had numerous comments both for and against. In fact, one commented that he tipped according to the quality of the waiter’s service.
“I tip when the food is good and the service is above normal. You are not entitled to a 20% tip, if you don’t like it, find another job,” the user said.
@blazikenben Tip ur fucking servers #server #serverlife #serverproblems #restaurant #restaurantlife #serviceindustry #tips #tipyourserver #fyp #foryou #foryoupage ♬ original sound – Ben Raanan
Another indicated that tipping is not an obligation and therefore should not speak in those terms. “Who created the 20% rule anyway? I always tip 20 but this video pissed me off. It’s what I WANT to give, I don’t HAVE to,” he expressed.
“Tipping has gotten out of hand. People are so greedy and ungrateful. Yes, I have been a waiter before and I was never ungrateful,” said a third user.
However, others supported the waiter, pointing out that if you don’t have enough money to tip, then don’t go to restaurants.
“If you can’t afford to tip 18-20%, you can’t afford to eat out,” the netizen said.
“If you can pay a $200 bill, you can tip properly,” said another.
“Going out to eat is a luxury and a service like getting your nails done, going to the hairdresser, etc. If you can’t afford to tip for a service, buy takeout and stay home,” someone else said.
The waitress who cried because she didn’t get a tip
As reported by BioBioChile, the controversy of tips in restaurants has been on social networks for several days. A few weeks ago, a Puerto Rican waitress named Joyce Ferrer vented through her Instagram account after a family did not tip her for serving her cold rice.
“I know that no one forces me to be a waitress. So much shit that is happening now that they are being paid a pittance. They don’t pay me a pittance like in other companies. In that part I do not fight, in what I charge, ”explained the woman who attends a local in Bayamón.
“What bothers me are the customers, look how they put me (…) I can’t believe that I screwed up with a table, that is, I treated them very well, they were super friendly, and the thing was that a dish, that the rice was cold,” he said.
After the incident with the plate, he indicated that he even offered them a 10% discount on the final price, but they refused.
“I can’t believe that the ticket was for 100 dollars and they didn’t even leave me a fucking peso tip. I did everything possible to make them leave happy, I forgot about the other tables and look, what for, ”she said.
“I don’t mind about the tip. What annoys me, everything I had to do for them to leave happy, and they looked happy, that’s the most bastard, they looked happy, and they didn’t thank me with a tip or with words, “he concluded.
It should be noted that the custom of tipping has been questioned for decades by some because it would not only encourage restaurants to pay waiters low wages, but it can also expose workers to tolerating inappropriate behavior from customers, so as not to be diminished. your income.