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When it comes to dining, tipping at least 15% to 20% is traditional etiquette, say experts.<\/p>\n

It seems many Americans disagree.<\/p>\n

Almost 1 in 5, 18%, of people tip less than 15% for an average meal at a sit-down restaurant \u2014 and an additional 2% tip nothing at all, according to a Pew Research Center survey, which polled 11,945 U.S. adults. More than a third, 37%, said 15% is their standard tip.<\/p>\n

“That did surprise me,” Drew DeSilver, co-author of the study, said of finding that more than half of people, 57%, tip 15% or less.<\/p>\n

“The U.S. has a more highly developed tipping culture than most other countries,” he added. “But there’s such a lack of agreement about [it].”<\/p>\n

Pew hasn’t done historical polling on tips, so it’s unclear how these shares have trended over time.<\/p>\n

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Why consumers are getting tip fatigue<\/h2>\n
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Americans are more likely to tip for a sit-down meal than any other service: Two-thirds of U.S. adults always tip a server when they dine, according to Bankrate. The Pew survey found that 81% always tip for a restaurant meal, a higher percentage than tip for haircuts, food delivery, buying a drink at a bar or using a taxi or rideshare service, for example.<\/p>\n

Etiquette expert Diane Gottsman recommends tipping 15% to 20% for sit-down restaurant service in 2023.<\/p>\n

However, studies suggest “tip fatigue” has led tip amounts to decline recently. For example, the average nationwide tip at full-service restaurants fell to 19.4% of the total check in the second quarter of 2023 \u2014 the lowest amount since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Toast data.<\/p>\n

And the share of people who always tip restaurant waitstaff fell by four percentage points from 2019 to 2022, according to Bankrate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“People’s willingness to tip, even in restaurant settings, is going down,” said Michael Lynn, a professor at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and an expert on consumer behavior and tipping.<\/p>\n

Americans became more generous tippers in the early days of the pandemic, embracing the practice as a way to help service workers and their employers. Now, they’re getting “fed up,” Lynn said. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You can understand why: We’re being asked to tip in circumstances and for services that aren’t traditionally tipped,” he said. “And the amounts we’re being asked to tip are higher.”<\/p>\n

The proliferation of tip prompts has come to be known as “tip creep.” It comes at a time when pandemic-era inflation \u2014 which peaked last year at a high unseen in four decades \u2014 has pinched household budgets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tips buy social approval<\/h2>\n
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One of the challenges relative to tip amounts is the lack of a “centralized authority” to guide norms, Lynn said.<\/p>\n

Most people \u2014 77% \u2014 cite service quality as a “major factor” when choosing whether and how much to tip, according to Pew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, service is ultimately a weak predictor of consumer behavior, Lynn said. In fact, social approval \u2014 from our dining partners, waitstaff and others \u2014 are much stronger determinants.<\/p>\n

“We’re buying approval” with tips, Lynn said.<\/p>\n

Just 23% of Pew survey respondents cited social pressure as a major factor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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