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@feld@bikeshed.party Tipping only exists in the United States and Canada (if I remember correctly). I don't really understand the origins, but it's a pretty ridiculous concept. Employees should be paid equitably for their service and tipping should not exist as an expectation by patrons to subsidize paycheck owed to employees by their employers. I remember I had a friend come visit me in China, and he left money on the table after we left---the waitress chased us down to return his money to him, thinking it was a mistake he left his money behind. Alternatively, at least in China, tipping may even be considered offensive in the sense that one is trying to make a statement that an employee is poor or something. A lot of this goes into the vague and nuanced concept of "face". But, still, outside of the West, it's foreign as a concept. Patrons shouldn't be expected to subsidize wages. Wages should simply be equitable. If that means that services are more expensive, so be it.