--- title: Why Do We Still Tip? 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... canonical: https://time.com/4389115/why-do-we-still-tip/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-30T12:27:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:57:34.578Z article:section: World og:title: Why Do We Still Tip? og: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... og:url: https://time.com/4389115/why-do-we-still-tip/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Do We Still Tip? twitter: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... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Do We Still Tip? by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 30, 2016 12:27 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff 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?"}}]}] ```