--- description: What's normal elsewhere and radical in America--telling customers not to tip--has met resistance in some restaurants that have tried it. But if kitchens want to... title: Why Do We Still Tip? image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Why Do We Still Tip? by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 30, 2016 12:27 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 30, 2016 12:27 PM CUT What’s normal elsewhere and radical in America–telling customers not to tip–has met resistance in some restaurants that have tried it. But if kitchens want to keep things cooking in the face of a pay gap between kitchen staff and servers, all-inclusive prices may be a necessary fix. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4389115/why-do-we-still-tip/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4389115/why-do-we-still-tip/"},"headline":"Why Do We Still Tip?","datePublished":"2016-06-30T12:27:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:57:34.578Z","description":"What's normal elsewhere and radical in America--telling customers not to tip--has met resistance in some restaurants that have tried it. But if kitchens want to...","url":"https://time.com/4389115/why-do-we-still-tip/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4389115/why-do-we-still-tip/","name":"Why Do We Still Tip?"}}]}] ```