I am not a big tipper. It keeps wages low for service workers. Tipping was brought to America in the 1800s when predominate wealthy elitists where able to travel abroad to Europe where these elitists observed the custom taking place by other local elitists. It was never an expected custom from the general public. Over the years it caught on as an action for those to show of like an elitist. Personaly I could give two shots for the tipping custom. I do tip on occasion when traveling. I tip the bell hops where I stay not much else.
You're truly a giant piece of human shit.
People take jobs as waiters/bartenders etc. in anticipation of receiving tips; their base pay is usually minimum wage or somewhere in the area of minimum wage. It's not "encouraged" for you to tip.... its
expected.
You are not making a difference by not tipping, you're just
that guy that doesn't tip. Take all your elitist (
) quasi intellectual verbal swill and shove it up your funky little ass.
Then again you likely consider Chipotle or Panera Bread to be "fine dining", in that case don't worry; they don't work for tips.