Server gets a huge tip from customer. Then she goes and hides in the back of the restaurant: ‘They’re sending a message to you’

As times get tighter and service industry workers continue being underpaid, tipping culture is getting weirder and weirder. What started out as a courteous way to give back to servers has turned into a tangled ball of discourse.

On one hand, now people who aren’t servers have started randomly expecting tips, resulting in a now-universal expectation to tip no matter the circumstances. This has brought about the oft-repeated refrain, “Tipping culture is out of control.”