Waiter Hits Out At Customers Saying Tipping 5% is 'F***king Insulting'

A TikToker and waiter has has slammed 5 percent tips from customers as 'insulting'.

The content creator then launched into his video, saying: "Okay, this is for all you bad tippers out there, if you're a bad tipper, listen up."

Yep, we're well and truly listening.

"Okay, if you don't know how to tip, I get that, but for your information, $10 is not like cute as it used to be - it's not the 1950s, it's not the 2000s anymore. Okay, inflation means that $10 is not worth that much anymore. You can't just leave a $5 or a cute little $10 for your server and think that that's funny, it's not funny or cute."

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Hear that guys? It's not cute, so don't stiff a tip in the US.

For the numerically challenged amongst us (me) Ben went on to break it down further, saying: "If your bill was like $50 you can leave $10 that's like 20% that's fine. If your bill was f***ing $200 and you give me $10, that's 5% that's f***ed up, that's a f***ing insult. Don't do that at a f***ing restaurant. If you come back to my restaurant and you give me f***ing 5% or f***ing 10%, I'm gonna say something. I'm gonna be like: 'is there a problem with your service?'."

He then added that he'll start putting 'people on the spot' and that other servers 'should start doing that because like this is f***ed up, we should be doing that'.

Ben then has a tip for anyone not sure how to calculate, well, tips: "if you don't know how to calculate tips. Take the bill, move it one decimal place, that's 10%, double it that's 20%, that's what you should tip."

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Some people were completely on board with Ben, with one user saying: "Literally when I get 10% I’m like 'okay perfect, I guess I just won’t eat tonight'."

While another added: "Or when they use the excuse of the food not being good to tip less like sir I didn’t make your damn food I just brought out to you."

Still, others weren't convinced, with one user saying: "I tip when the food is good and the service is above and beyond. You aren’t entitled to a 20% tip, if you don’t like it then get another job."

What do you think?

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Topics: TikTok, Viral, News

Shola Lee

Shola Lee began her journalism career while studying for her undergraduate degree at Queen Mary, University of London and Columbia University in New York. She has written for the Columbia Spectator, QM Global Bloggers, CUB Magazine, UniDays, and Warner Brothers' Wizarding World Digital. Recently, Shola took part in the 2021 BAFTA Crew and BBC New Creatives programme before becoming a journalist at UNILAD, where she works on breaking news, trending stories, and features.