Are you Against or Pro Tipping?

I was out for a coffee today with a couple of friends and we had a long discussion about tipping. Basically, we have a friend who 9.9 out of 10 times never gives a tip and the rest of us do that almost everytime we tip but under specific terms. Before i dive deeper into this let me tell you a couple of things about tipping that some of you may not be familiar with.

You i have traveled a lot in our countries and basically have seen let's say every form of tipping or at least that's what i think so. We have for example some European countries including Greece where i live where tipping is not mandatory and you can do as you like. In some shops, restaurants or cafeterias you may find a tip box where you can put there everything you want as you may see fit.

In other countries like America for example, tipping mostly everywhere isn't only something that people expect but it's in a way mandatory. You will see in your receipts an added price of 10%+ or they will directly ask you what percentage of your total bill will be the tip. 10% nowadays is considered quite a low tipping with 20% or 25% being the "must" let's say.

On the other hand in many Asian countries like Japan or China not only tipping isn't mandatory but if you actually tip them, mostly likely they will give the money back to use as it can be considered quite rude. As you can see different rules apply in different countries.

Now if you ask me and this is my personal opinion i really like the logic we have here in Greece as well as in some other European countries. Tipping is something someone should do if he/she really wants to and it's based on other factors as well. For example, one factor is the actual service. It isn't always good and thus i am not obligated to tip a rude guy or girl just because.

At the same time, there are chances and trust me as the world is now it's something that really is part of our everyday lives. People nowadays face a lot of financial issues and to go out for a coffee or to a restaurant is a way out of these issues. That doesn't mean they have to pay extra just because they decided to go out, this in a way is like a form of punishment for these kinds of people.

In my opinion, we get to listen again and again let's take for example waiters earn close to nothing and that's why tipping should be a mandatory thing. This isn't something that the average Joe should think, the business owner should simply pay them a decent amount of money. I don't what's happening in your country but in mine and i know this firsthand, a waiter can earn the same or double the money from a person who even has a master's degree, so the low-income salary doesn't apply anymore.

At the same time, if i want to let's say reward a person for their service, attitude, or way of working i should be able to do so, giving anything that i want and can afford to. Now there is the view that my other friend has which is that he mostly never tips just because he doesn't want to and he prefers to save his money to buy an extra cup of coffee for example.

I honestly, respect that and nobody should blame him for anything. It's his money and he can use it however he wants to. I remember for example when i was in New York and i was in a restaurant eating and had some other tourists sitting next to me. The guys ate, paid and left. I then heard the conversation between the 2 waitresses while cleaning the table, basically saying how awful and stingy the tourist couple was because they left a tip of 10%.

When i heard that i honestly wanted to simply pay and leave nothing at all or the bare minimum that i could. The waitress responsible for my table was the exact opposite though, a young girl who knew ofc that we were tourists and when we tipped her, she gave the money back and told us that we shouldn't tip her as we are tourists and it's not a must. I don't know if she meant that of it was a trick or something but we told her to keep the tip. So please share your opinion and point of view.

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