A gratuity, or tip, is an amount of money given to a waiter or server in a restaurant in addition to the cost of the bill. In some countries, tipping is customary. In other countries, it is not. What is your opinion of the custom of tipping? What are the positives and negatives? If you are in a foreign country where tipping is customary, do you believe you should tip, even if it is not customary in your home country?

The discussion of tipping is surely the one that begs the question of

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whether

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should it be compulsory to

tip

. Apparently, some countries have made it customary to pay the

servers

before leaving the

restaurants

.

However

, in my opinion, tipping should be optional

instead

of being mandatory. There could be many reasons why few countries opt to have mandatory tipping in

restaurants

. The main reason, in my opinion, could be to acknowledge the hard work of the

servers

. Evidently,

people

are known to disrespect the

servers

thinking of them as not so successful in life and thereby, doing

this

job.

This

is the best example of what kind of negativity is faced constantly by the

people

who decide to serve in

restaurants

. Another reason could be to

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a guaranteed income for the

servers

apart from their regular salary.

Furthermore

, these positives can be argued with the fact that not everyone supports tipping

at the end

of the meal if they are not happy with services or food quality. If there is a gap in

overall

services at the

restaurants

,

people

do not tend to sometimes pay for the food, let alone tipping

for example

, when the food is bad.

This

definitely adds to the bad rapport of the restaurant. Personally, I too believe,

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people

to

tip

will only result in

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a decreasing

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count of customers. I would

also

not be happy to mandatorily pay a

tip

when dining in a different country.

To conclude

, tipping can be considered an encouraging act to respect the

servers

in

restaurants

.

However

, making it mandatory will only result in unhappy customers and negativity for some. In my opinion,

this

should be kept as a choice for the customers. The

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they will be, the more inclined they will be to

tip

generously.