That doesn’t make sense. As I said above, tipping is not a universal custom. It is simply not done in Japan, yet the service is good, the food is good, and the restaurant makes money. Why? Because the restaurants pay a reasonable wage to the people who work there and charge accordingly. I can’t see any reason why that wouldn’t work everywhere.
I don’t know why different restaurants can’t adopt different methods to service different customers. I don’t know why just because some people think the current system is great, nobody can say they’d like a different system.
But then, I’m apparently so ignorant that my DNA has infected my neices and nephews, even the ones that have no blood relation to me. I’m just that stupid, that I didn’t even know that when I pay for something, the money I pay actually goes to pay for the something, and to pay for the people who serve me, and to pay for the building. And apparently that is about it. What did I know.
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People are really wound up way too tight here. I seriously thought I’d have some fun chatting with fellow conservatives after wasting two days with people who insisted that not paying for someone’s birth control infringed on THEIR religious beliefs.
you cannot compare Japan to us in this regard. You are really staggeringly ignornat if you think everything that works in Japan will work here. You could not possibly be more wrong about that.
And no, tipping is not universal, but it is very widespread and it works very well. Why do you advocate changing something that IS WORKING VERY WELL now here.
Of course it could work here.
I had a friend that came back from Japan recently. A beer was $16 and eating out a meal was thru the roof.