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The Avenger
How wonderful! I am so happy for them. The person who left the tip was wonderful to do it.
Blacklabel
Florida is a wonderful place.
fxgai
Awesome :)
Always love to hear stories of free humans demonstrating their natural generosity.
Now tax this diner hard and make them pay their “fair share”!! (joking)
BackpackingNepal
What makes only the staff in the restaurant get tips? Why not other field? Like why don't security gets tips? Or the cleaner? Anyway, it's good that Japan is against the tips for anyone.
fxgai
Japan doesn’t do tips but sometimes in the news we hear about people donating big lumps of money to their local government etc.
Donating money to government seems like the worst use of money possible to me, but each to their own.
Paul
That's great!
u_s__reamer
The customer's largesse is to be praised but doesn't change the reality that charging customers for over-large portions and dispensing a pittance to the serving staff is the proven practice defining the bizness model of American restaurant racketeering.
Concerned Citizen
Well done generous family. Thanks for sharing JT. More articles like this please.
kurisupisu
Of course tips should be given out everywhere-then Japanese mindset is that tips should not be given is a big mistake!
louisferdinandc
What should be given is a decent minimum wage. Then, eventually, tips.
Unfortunately in the United States tipping is, like most things, deeply connected with the country’s history of slavery, racism and segregation:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/17/william-barber-tipping-racist-past-227361/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/16/fact-check-tipping-kept-wages-low-formerly-enslaved-black-workers/3896620001/
At the academic level there are also lots of researches on the impact of tipping and its perception has on different minorities still today, except in those few states that have a legislation imposing much higher - or rather decent - minimum wages in the restaurants sector (3$ and 15$ is not the same thing…).
commanteer
Just decent pay should be given. I used to work for tips, and it's humiliating when you think about it. It's forcing a hard-working person to be something like a beggar - relying on the kindness of strangers rather than just being paid for their work like every other working person. I had some massive tip days, like winning the lottery. Also had times when I barely made enough to pay the rent after working all month. But either way, it's demeaning. A worker should be paid for their work, not forced to do a song and dance in the hopes of a big tip to make up for all the small tips.
zurcronium
Florida is to the USA as Saitama is to Japan.
BTW I left the tip because the service was really excellent.
garymalmgren
The person who left the tip was wonderful to do it.
Yep. The wealthy are truly wonderful people.
Where would we be without them?
Mark
Refreshing news, glad to read something like this, it's been a long time. enjoy every penny of it guys, we need more of these diners here too.
Mark
I hope japan will start allowing tipping, waiters and waitresses work so hard with low salary, tips are motivating and very helpful, but it seems that the owners don't really care.
kokoro7
Ha! For those who think this story is about tipping . . you've missed the point. It's about philanthropy.
Tipping itself is a nasty custom; I think most would prefer to have a system of pricing built into costs and do away with tipping. Why should customers have to step in where the owner of an establishment shirks responsibility to pay a reasonable wage?
I hope tipping doesn't become a custom in Japan, where virtually all min. wage workers don't think the job at that level is a permanent career.
lostrune2
I know bartenders who earn more tips in one night that many people earn in a week
In some places in the US, they experimented with a no-tipping policy and instead raised the workers' wages but paid for by slightly raising the prices of the food
In many restaurants, that actually resulted in less people going into those restaurants vs. the competition, and the workers actually earning less than when they were tipped, with workers quitting those restaurants in favor of working in restaurants that have tips
"The Limitations of American Restaurants’ No-Tipping Experiment"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-limitations-of-american-restaurants-no-tipping-experiment
Thus, the no-tipping system does not work for everyone
hmdrpthk
There is an another NRA (National Restaurant Association) in the USA. NRA does not want to pay their employee a minimum wage rather left them to survive by throwing away money. I personally feel tipping is a bad culture. I find it is disrespectful, even when I pay for it. It is also a job like any other job. Sometimes people argue in favour of tipping for a better service. Their job is to serve you nor to entertain you. Just pay them what they deserve according to federal law. If it requires to increase in the food price, increase it.
lostrune2
This only works when all places have the no-tipping policy. Otherwise, as the study linked above shows, the no-tipping restaurants are losing patrons' business and workers to tipping restaurants
Your sentiment is good, but there's not enough of people like you to prevent no-tipping restaurants from losing out to their competition that allows tipping