It’s a tipping smackdown.
A TikTokker named Saydie — who goes by @realslimsaydie online — found out what it really means when restaurant customers leave their checks face down.
“Anyone else freak out so much when the control is face down?” She captioned the viral TikTok video with more than 1.2 million views.
She then explained: “They left the top face down. You know what that means –
“Let’s see if I’m right. I haven’t looked at it yet.”
Saydie then dramatically counts down before turning over the check to see how much tip she had left.
The reward turns out to be $15 on a $93 bill – about 15% – which she admits is “not the worst, not the best”.
In her video, she hints that customers who leave their check face down usually don’t leave a big tip.
A standard tip for servers at sit-down restaurants is about 15% to 20% of the bill before tax, depending on the quality of their service, according to NerdWallet.
However, most Americans are overwhelmed and fed up with today’s tipping and “tipflation” culture.
Nearly three in five adults have negative feelings about tipping — and dissatisfaction only increases with age — according to a survey conducted by personal finance comparison site Bankrate.
“Older Americans seem to have the most shock about the rising cost of tipping, but they still tip much more frequently than Gen Zers and millennials,” Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst, told USA Today. in Bankrate. They also tend to add a higher percentage.
Older generations may be the most tired of being expected to tip well everywhere, but that doesn’t mean they don’t. In the meantime, good luck getting a good tip from Gen Z or male customers.
Only 35% of Gen Zers who go to sit-down restaurants said they always leave a tip, compared to 56% of millennials, 78% of Gen Xers and 86% of baby boomers.
The majority of people – 64% – said the biggest factor influencing the extent to which they decided to tip was the quality of service. Only about 10% say they always tip the same amount, regardless of the quality of service – but some scoundrels try to avoid tipping no matter what.
A waitress of 10 years using the pseudonym Sophia Jenson recently shared a common way for customers to avoid leaving a tip.
She revealed in a Daily Mail essay that when the dining experience is over, some customers will ask for a service charge to be waived, then pay in cash so they don’t have enough money for a tip and they claim they had bad service. , or dramatically dive through their bag for spare change before giving up.
As customers grow frustrated with the tipping culture, servers must go above and beyond to get their money’s worth—women are working it.
Female restaurant workers from across the country previously told The Post they’ve noticed an increase in tips when they speak with a Southern accent, dye their hair blonde, wear their hair down, apply lots of lip gloss, have nail polish and move around around booty or biker shorts.
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