Originally Posted by
Kettering Northants QC
What next? The equivalent of the Resort Fee at a restaurant - compulsory $25 per person
Ever dine in Italy and get hit with a coperta, sometimes with a service charge on the menu on top of it?
Originally Posted by
mandolino
Does the recommended tip percentage ever go DOWN?
It seems to be constantly subject to percentage creep, on top of the natural cost increasde that a fixed percentage would incur.
It's been the same range 15%-20% for the last 20 years I've been an adult. The creep from a 10-15% range to a 15-20% range seems to have occurred while I was a kid in the 1980s, since I definitely remember 10% being normal back then and some of my older relatives still stick to it.
I can't say I remember the 1970s enough to know if 5% tip was ever OK.
I've yet to see any claims that any actually customer treats 20-25% as the normal range, and most of the claims by servers mentioned in this thread seem to be attempts to take advantage of foreigners.