i too am perplexed by the personal/business tipping method. i'm even more fascinated that someone on the foodstamp program would be bothered by a working individual receiving a stipend for laboring in an undesirable job when in essence their income taxes were subsidizing your meals.
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psychephylax
Business travel - I leave 0$
Pleasure travel - I leave 2-3$
I'm bothered ever so slightly by the whole tipping thing....Perhaps part of it is my personal experience with going from poverty and living on foodstamps and not having many luxuries in life to a half decent job and life style, that I look at it as a personal choice they make.
If they want to be successful, they can be and there's no need for me to subsidize their lack of desire for a better future. I tip usually because the person is doing something I don't have the skillset or desire to do. If they are providing a service they are employed to do (be it a Starbucks barrister to a maid) they are only doing their job.
btw i do $3 on the pillow