America’s tipping culture has gone from rewarding service to fee insanity

Tipping practices in the United States have expanded beyond traditional service-based contexts. Businesses across retail, food service, and hospitality now use point-of-sale systems that prompt customers to select tip percentages, with some venues requesting amounts between 15 and 25 percent. The frequency and expected amounts of tipping requests have increased as more establishments adopt digital payment terminals that display tipping options by default.

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