I hate the tipping , both as a customer and how problematic it is for employees . For employees , it just gives an excuse to employers to avoid you from paying a decent wage you could provide excellent service and get nothing because you had a shitty customer . Your coworker could have done so so work and receive an excellent tip because the client was feeling generous . I could go on and on . I would much prefer to have a service charge that was clearly marked in the bill . It wouldn ' t be so bad if it was just kept inside the US alone but the problem is that American tourists have spread tipping all over tourism industries over the world . Nowadays many people in the tourism industry in several countries expect tips even when the local custom is NOT to give tips . For instance , I had done my research about tipping in France and I went through some tours expecting I was paying full price at the beginning and no tips were expected . I was surprised when several tour guides openly asked for tips and hinting that that ' s the only way they could make the tour worth it . I even had one guy whose only job was to pick up the rental motorcycle . Nothing else . The whole thing took less than 3 minutes . He first tried to shake me down for a scratch It was like that when they gave me the motorcycle and he shut up real quick when I said I had photographic evidence and THEN had the chutzpah to ask me for a tip . But hey , American tourists give tips , so now everyone is expected to give tips . In my own home country , if you ' re a local living your normal life , there ' s zero expectations of tips . If there ' re tips , it ' s a service charge clearly marked in the bill . If you however , go to the tourist attractions and look like a foreigner , requests for tips will be endless .