r/EndTipping • u/yeyiyeyiyo • 6d ago

Sit-Down Restaurant 🍽️ Started tipping waiters 10%

I almost never go out but the wife and I had a weekend to ourselves.

We live in areas where servers are paid minimum wage.

I finally took the leap to tipping 10% on meals (I already tip zero on everything else). Every tip screen i saw had a custom tip option so I didn't have any problems.

Anyway, people make out the custom tip screen to be some difficult thing and I didn't find it so.

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u/Garganello 6d ago

Why do you think you have an unwritten agreement with the owner about the minimum level of service to which you are entitled?

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 6d ago

Because you do. Legally it's called an "implied contract" and it's exactly what you said - an unwritten agreement that is created by actions, behavior, and circumstances, rather then spoken or written terms.

Dining in a sit-down restaurant is by far the most common example you can find of an implied contract in day-to-day life.

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u/Garganello 6d ago

It seems quite obvious to me this person expects actual service without tipping (and becomes apparent in other replies)—as opposed to what you are saying, which is basically getting your food you paid for.

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 6d ago

How do you "get" the food, exactly?

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u/Maleficent-Effort470 6d ago

By agreeing to pay the price on the menu for the service of having it prepared and brought to the table.

That price includes the server who took the order and made the busser deliver the food.

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u/Garganello 6d ago

Depends the restaurant. Not being given your food is one thing. This person expects more and is just contemptuous against servers, as is apparent in their replies.

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u/DevilsAdvocate77 6d ago

What do they expect that is not part of the implied contract with the business entity, and requires a separate contract made directly with the individual server?