Originally Posted by
rick253
I feel I must come in on C P Maverick's side.
Whilst the Australian tippers above can tip what they like I don'f feel compelled to tip at restaurants and would only consider tipping a maximum of say 5% if I had really excellent service.
A survey done by Galaxy Research in 2017 had the following results from diners:
21% would tip always or frequently.
28% woud tip occasionally.
30% would tip rarely
21% would never tip.
Realistically 79% of people are not tipping very often.
Half of respondents do tip. It's a bit different to no tipping ever. I'd hazard that the occasional tippers are tipping when they're in white tablecloth type places.
This bit was interesting.
Of the 1014 respondents surveyed across Australia, almost half (47 per cent) of diners would tip 10 per cent on the total bill, while almost a fifth (17 percent) would leave up to 20 per cent gratuity.
One fifth of those leaving a tip are leaving 20%.
