Japanese Reacts to the Tipping Culture of the USA
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
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There is a US minimum wage for tipped employees; this is called the "minimum cash wage" and the current rate is $2.13/hr. Personally, I will tip at sit down restaurants, but seldom at *fast food* style restaurants (including coffee shops) where you order at a counter. I usually tip 20%, rounding that value up to the nearest dollar. Exceptions to that are sit down restaurants where the staff is waiting on you and meals can be inexpensive. I feel wait staff shouldn't be penalized for my choosing an inexpensive meal. For example, if my bill for dinner is something like $10, and I've sat at the table eating and chatting for a good amount of time, I'll usually leave a 100-150% tip. That said, I feel that a lot of diners can be cheapskates, often tipping only 5-10%, so I'd love to see restaurants adopt a *no-tipping* policy and instead raise the base pay of their employees. Yes, I realize that would result in an increase the menu prices of meals; it should be a wash for what "normal" tippers pay, and at least cheapskate diners will help pay for the staff more than they currently do.
Tip is a bribe. Their bosses should pay more to their workers like in Japan.
There are carve outs on minimum wage for farm help(could be wrong here) and people in the service industry. It was not until after collapse in the 30s that tipping was a thing across the country. A tip could be seen as a hand out and suggested you needed help.
I would recommend watching Adam ruins everything. He did a segment on tipping.
I was surprised at your reaction to tipping taxi drivers. I lived in Japan for a year and the ONLY tipping that I saw done by my Japanese friends was to a taxi driver. Usually it was just "keep the change" under 100yen, but I also watched several drunks hand the driver a extra 1,000 or 2,000yen for getting everyone home safe, and once because of extra luggage. This was the only tipping I actually saw in Japan. Has this really disappeared?
This video didn't really explain as much as it was a rant. In America you do tip for allot of services but, the big one is restaurants and barbers/hair dressers. I would say your barber is more important to tip. If they know you tip decent their gonna work extra hard and think of you more as a priority on filling you in for appointments. Then there's a bunch of little ones like taxi/ride services, valet driver, or maybe cleaning staff if your staying at a Air B&B or hotel for a extend period. For travelers the only one I would really say be considerate about is restaurants. As your probably not going to be getting a hair cut and will more than likely be eating out allot. The wait staff are also the most affected by it due to the weird pay range that most of them have.
sometimes tips go into a jar, and are split between who's working. sometimes whoever is on that table keeps it. just depends. sometimes youre suppose to put it in the group jar: and you just dont. -JC
Grew up entirely in America and didn't realize it was beyond Taxi Drivers and Servers at restaurants. To be perfectly honest, it gets super confusing as to why the restaurant doesn't pay minimum wage at first until the end of the month when they make up the difference. I didn't even realize they made up the difference to begin with honestly.
The thing that no one mentions, but which I fairly often hear from people I know who have worked as waiters is that after tips the wages are often higher than they could be if the business just payed them especially at a nicer restaurant, it is not unreasonable to get $400 in tips for one day, which is probably more than the business would even if it was in the business of paying more and discouraging tips.
As some one that has worked as a waitress in a restaurant please allow a little insight. Wait staff are not paid minimum wage. They are paid roughly half of minimum wage. Restaurants are a low profit business. In restaurants if the staff was paid better most eating establishments would have to close their doors. By using a tipping system it allows for more business increasing the local tax revenue, creating a few jobs People often will eat out more often because the low wages also decrease the overall price per person. You can pay 100.00 for a steak dinner in an upscale restaurant where a tip is optional or you can go to a mom and pop restaurant and pay 20.00. for you steak and leave a tip 4 or 5 dollar tip. your choice. I have worked in both..
I tip based on my appreciation of the service I received. If 2 guys have lugged a huge sofa up two flights of stairs, then yes, I'll give them $10 each which should cover their lunch that day. I don't tip at fast food places but will at sit-down restaurants/bars...usually around 20% but I'm fine leaving nothing if the service sucked. It would be weird to go to another country and not tip but I'd certainly be respectful of the cultural norms. Really glad I found your channel, Timothy!!
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Tips=Bribe=Tax-free. No wonder USA don't have univeral healthcare.
former server here; tipping is a problem that most people choose to ignore, there has been studies which proves customers do not tip according to service or price-it is more random, i did not know until a few years ago that tipping was not always the case in the US until after the Great Depression, i was watching an old movie on television (the petrified forest-1936) when an waitress in the film stated that "this is america there is no tipping here" and i was stunned, i had no idea that tipping did not exist
It can be sad how tips are, but it also can be good too. When I worked at a restaurant, whenever I put on the biggest smile and talked to everyone as much as I could, I'd make several hundred more in tips that night than I would have on a normal wage, much more than anyone else. I think I also mentioned on one of your older videos, but even though a lot of things will say "Tip" on the receipt, just write a line through it unless it's a haircut or a sit down restaurant where someone took care of you for a while, taxi (sometimes it's not needed though) or valet. Don't bother tipping at a fast food place or anywhere else, and the tip amount is basically their evaluation. If a server didn't talk to me at all and wouldn't help me and acted like I was a nuisance, I might tip $1 or $2, but if they checked a lot and were friendly and just made the place a great experience, or gave an awesome haircut experience, then I might tip like $5 or $6 but I don't think I've literally ever calculated a percent (if it prompts a percent, I just click "Other Amount" so I can type in a dollar amount). If it's a super fancy place then maybe $10 but I think I would croak, but I try to give an amount fair to how much work I made them do. Honestly seems like that video just made it more complicated than it needs to be, like the narrator is reading an "Ideal Tipping World" textbook rather than growing up with it.
Seems he doesn't understand the health care system either, don't let the health care be something that stops you from living in Alaska, learn about it first, there's a reason that people fly across the world to get US healthcare, and a reason that even people in poverty can get healthcare
You sound like you haven't lived as a grown up yet, repeating stuff that your parents say to justify making workers dance like a monkey for a few dollars. Especially with that bit at the end about healthcare.
LOL USA don't have univeral healthcare. Visit European Union. Different story here.
Something to think about with tips; if a restaurant owner can’t pay 10 employees at a certain rate he has to do one of two things: pay the 10 people less or pay 9 people the higher rate. But tips allows the owner to hire as many as he can afford (10), and for the employees to earn more money based on how well they do their job. Also very rarely is tipping enforced other than through cultural means.
Also average student loan debt is about $40,000
On top of very expensive rent and trying not to land in the hospital because medical debt is insane here!
Idk if you’ve watched it, but there’s a video called “Brits react to American healthcare system.” A guy asks Brits how much they think basic things like an epi pen costs in the US compared to what it is under the NHS. All I can say is pure shock.
That’s a little inaccurate however. Those videos are often overstated to make a point.
@@johnfrench6564 I wasn’t quoting a video. My information was taken from actual statistics as I just recently wrote a paper where I had to look it up.
@@ravenm6443 Even without insurance people are unlikely to pay that much as it will just get written off
@@johnfrench6564 I never gave a general cost of healthcare. I just said it’s expensive. 40k is the average student loan debt. It has nothing to do with insurance.
@@ravenm6443 40k isn't that bad to be completely honest. A state school in the US is going to be pretty similar to most other countries.
We usually double the sales tax for the tip.
Another military history suggestion: Operation Downfall, the planned US operation to invade Japan that didn't occur due to the Nuclear strikes. It was expected to be so brutal, the purple hearts minted are still being given out today.
I suggest RealLifeLore's video, as it includes the Japanese response to the invasion, but AlternateHistoryHub has a more detailed video on the US' plan
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Tipping is charity. 10% tip makes you look cheap. 15% is minimum. 20% is kind. And anything more is generous. The secret is that the person that you are with takes note of how you tip. If you are a cheap tipper they will not want anything to do with you. If he is cheap with THEM he will be cheap with YOU. Get it?
During this time of Covid, people tip more than 20% because people who serve you are on the front lines of the disease. Also, plan on tipping anyone who gives you service (bag handlers, shoe shine people, barbers/beauticians, housekeepers, etc.).
there are laws and tax regulations specific to jobs that involve collecting tips
I used to work in a strip club. Bartending with shirt off $4-500 a night. Stripping easily $2000+ a night.
Big fan of tipping here.
that's crazy
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i could hardly live on tips as a server. mondays i was lucky if i left work with $30-35. but friday thru sunday id make anywhere fromm $100-255. always depended. was never garunteed. and no the restaraunt did not pay us back at the end of the month or pay period becase we made more than $12 a shift so they didn't need to. and the kitchen staff made at least $15-16 an hour. and bartenders get a % of server tips even if we didnt need drinks. if you pay by card the tip is split between the company and server but cash is all the servers to keep. also basically if you dont tip at all then the server basically paid for your meal, ive been left with nothing before on a $140 bill.... so that sucks. but anyways yes servers live and depend on tips at a restraunt.
I waited during my high school and college career- I made around $2.70 as a wage but you have to "claim" your tips. With that being said, depending on how much I made in tips it would determine how much my employer had to pay me in my pay check. If I made over the minimum wage in the pay period via tips I WOULD NOT be paid in my paycheck. So, my paycheck would literally just be a stub stating I was being paid out $0.00 as a wage, without a check. If I didn't make minimum wage in tips that week, but close to it, my pay check would be around $20 to $50 for the pay period. If it was a really slow pay period then I still would make only around $100/$200 for the pay period if I was lucky enough to get paid that, which I never was. Waiting in the USA is hit and miss depending on the location.
Much easier if u have a job that gives you $10 per hour. $2.70 is a slavery. I'm from Estonia and my mom earns 5.07 euros per hour. She is a wrapper in the mall. Tipping=Tax-free.
As long as your poor in the US your health care is free. It's the gap between the poor and rich where most ppl have trouble. But we do have private health care which for me I pay 40 a month for 90/10 coverage. Which means I pay % of the bill. What the really issue with health care is is how much a hospital charge you. For example one bandage, which you can buy a box of 100 for $ at Walmart, will cost you between 100$-500$ at a hospital. But anyways.....
Tips are great, as long as you are good at you job, you can easily walk away nightly with 100$ on a slow day and the food is cheaper for the consumer.
Either way your going to pay. With tips you have a say in how much.
Tipped workers are exempt from the minimum wage law requirement because combing tips with the lower wage should put them above the minimum wage. They have to make at least minimum wage through the combination of tip and wage. If they don’t, the restaurant is supposed to make up the difference, but I’ve heard that doesn’t alway happen. Our minimum wage federally is still only $7.25. States can set their own as long as it’s not below the federal minimum (with the exception of tipped workers).
Some places you can make great tips and make a ton of money, for example some Hooters workers make out pretty well in tips, but that’s not the majority for all restaurants. Plus, many places require tips to be split among all the staff. And idk how this works exactly but I’ve also heard if you pay and tip with card, the restaurant can take a small % of the tip to cover card processing fees as long as it doesn’t interfere with the waiters meeting the minimum wage.
It’s kinda confusing but I hope it makes sense.
Restaurants in the US actually **DO** pay servers minimum wage! Note: Minimum wage for servers is $2.13/hr--which is $5.12 less than non-server minimum wage ($7.25). Lol.
As far as restaurants making up the difference if the server wasn't making at least $7.25/pay period, I worked in restaurants for 8 years and NEVER ONCE heard of this happening.
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It actually depends on the State. In Oregon, Washington, and California, servers (not taxi or Uber drivers) all get minimum wage plus tips. (Taxi drivers, Uber drivers, and Doordash, etc are usually "private contractors" and guaranteed no wage or profit.
In other states the minimum wage is between 2.12/hr all the way to $15/hr. But servers are often given 2-3hr "split shifts" so even "full-time" might be 20-25 hours a week.
Yeah, I've heard people say that to make themselves feel better about not tipping, but I've never once heard of someone being paid the difference to make up to minimum wage. First, you'd have to complain to the boss that you didn't get paid enough, who might not like that and might even accuse to of not reporting cash tips to scam him out of more money. That I have seen happen. Otherwise, if it's just slow, they'll just send servers home, and they won't get paid anything at all for the night.
Believe it or not, cost of living in Japan is, on average, 12.16% higher than in the US. However, rent in Japan is, on average, 38.34% lower than in the US.
really ?
My experience in London was that they acted like I was an idiot for tipping. As in, "go ahead and throw your money away, moron, but I'll take it, stupid."
I worked at a theme park they had told me if I get any tipping money I should had give it to the cashier seen it goes to charity. In my head I am like no. It going to my car gas charity
Add to the list of people to tip: Housekeepers in a hotel. Leave at least $5 per person staying in the room PER NIGHT and tip daily not at the end of your stay.
even to housekeepers 😮
I'm 50+ and was initially horrified to learn my 19-yr old never tipped at restaurants. He & I argued about this & now I am betting he watched that youTube video that you were referencing. I live in CA & I think tipping has gradually become a shaming way to get $$ out of us customers through the credit card apps used now. Though I'm Business Degree educated, I'm now confused by minimum wage laws & never clear if restaurants are, in fact, paying their employees minimum hourly wage. (head-scratcher?). I drover UBER for a while & didn't earn minimum wage.
im a server in tennessee, i make $2.13 an hour. i sometimes dont make anything really. lets say on a monday, i could leave with between $20-30 a shift. (6 hours) on a weekend, fri-sun i maybe could make $100 a shift. sundays are better i can make $150-175. most sundays. if i make more than minimum wage ($8.75/hr) each shift during pay period i will NOT get a check. i have gotten a check before for .18 cents. not even joking. every check we get we always open together and laugh! thats how much of a joke it is. noone ever gets more than $10-15. and the kitchen staff like cook can get $15-17/hr. we can make more by delivery and/or catering which i now do as well for 10.75/hr.
Tipping should end. People like you should get at least minimum $10 in USA. Rich country, but such a bad system. I'm from Estonia and the minimum salary is 5.07 euros per an hour.
You are generally only expected tip %15 at dine in Restaurants, Taxis, Food delivery (like Pizza or Doordash), Barbers and at Hotels when the guy brings up your luggage. Everything else is pretty much at your discretion and there are a lot of situations where you never want to tip. For instance, never tip a police officer.
Even if police gives you a free ride to home if you are sleepy.
Tim, you may want to check out Jimmy O Yang's "Chinese tip". It's concise and fits into most people's budget. :)
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Move to the US and suffer with us and our messed up systems of endless tipping, low wages, ridiculous sick care, broken infrastructure. The list goes on and on and nothing ever changes decade after decade.
*we're fighting for a $15 minimum wage, where $23 would be poverty wages equal w inflation. & bc democrats are the absolute worst: it failed again (along w medicare for all, forgiving college loans, free education for citizens etal). even while controlling all levers of power. bc...they are the worst. @ least Republicans are honest about the evil shxt they are going to do.* it can be different by county. you can have ppl getting $6 per hr at one mcdonalds but $7.50 30mins away. & then corporate socialism pays the wages for the company in food stamps, emergency services, tax breaks for "charities"^ ect -JC
^(it would take too long). but yeah. it's real bad.
The video maker makes the common mistake of thinking North America only includes Canada and the US. North America includes 23 countries, one of which is Mexico. A great many of these expect you to tip for using the washroom. (It's worth it.)
It seems like it would be unfair to the waiters but actually it's not. Good waiters will make hundreds a night in tips, and it's really easy to not pay tax on it. You're supposed to report it but it's usually cash. I do feel bad for male waiters though.. attractive females obviously make a lot more.
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Healthcare is expensive so why don't we take better care of our health?
Your titles make it sound like you will be interviewing multiple Japanese people but it's only you reacting. Maybe you should put Japanese man reacts to... Instead of the current titles so people know it's only one person.
Can you make a reaction video to The lady of heaven movie Trailer? I know this isn’t your type of content but sometimes change can be positive. It’s coming out in AMC theaters on December 10 , 2021 in the US and it is to be expected to have a worldwide release in various countries and it’s fine, your reaction video doesn’t have to be professionally made. what matters is you do it out of the goodness of your heart 😌