Originally Posted by
JamesKidd
+1, I almost never tip, and never ever when I'm travelling alone and eating at airport. Serving food, smiling, ensuring the food is what you've ordered and checking if you need anything else is part of their job description. At this rate might as well start tipping the FA on your flights as well.
You never tip at any restaurant? Or just at airports?
Tipping has little to do with job descriptions, and more to do with cultural expectations. In certain countries, your money would be returned to you if you tried to tip. In many more countries, it's a societal norm to tip. The OP has posed a valid question that is going to become very interesting as more and more automation comes to the restaurant industry. Theoretically, tipping should decrease in some way. But I'm not sure that "I ignore the cultural and societal norms" is going to help us figure out how to answer it.