Non-tippers take advantage of everyone and ruin everything! It's always lose-lose!

• Tips (money paid for service) are a way to keep prices down.

• Tips are how a customer can pay the person who provided him / her a service.

• 15 - 20 % is a fair measure that everyone can chip in to help assure that service providers are paid for what they do.

• Tips lead to win-win business and keep win-win business perpetually rolling.

• Non-tipping lead to lose-lose business and keep lose-lose business perpetually rolling.

• Imagine employers paying waiters / waitresses $15 an hour instead of $2.25 (I just picked two amounts)!  How much do you think you'd have to pay to eat at that restaurant?  Seriously! Think about it!  Probably that one ceramic plate of scrambled eggs, grits, bacon, and toast served with metal utensils would cost you well above $10, and that does not include the cost of a beverage served to you in a ceramic / glass container!  So, now you're at $12 just for one person!  Could you afford to feed your family (of say 4) at that restaurant?  We're talking well over $40, and we're not talking about a steak dinner!

• Now, how much do you think it would cost you to enjoy a steak dinner served on china and with a beverage in a glass?  How much for your whole family?  Think about it!

• The same logic can be applied with haircuts!  Many salons charge well over $25 just for a haircut which might not be any better than (and might not be as good as) the same haircut provided at a salon that charges only $14.  The lower priced salon is trying to provide a valuable service to you for less, and they are counting on you to pay the hair stylist, so that they don't have to pay their stylists $15 an hour. Chances are that if employers had to pay their hair stylist $15 an hour, you would be stuck with fewer options other than paying $25 or more for the same haircut.  Do you think stylists (who are professionally trained and tested) want to work for less than $15 an hour?  Once again, imagine if you had no option other than $25 or more for that haircut!

     The same logic can be applied to other service providers.  Bellhops, Valet parkers, and any other job where tipping is part of the normal custom in the USA.  

     Non-tipping is destructive!  It drives prices up while driving quality of service down!  It's all a downward drive.  Nobody wins!

     Non-tippers in the USA are taking advantage of everyone.  One might as well call them thieves and/or slave drivers.  They expect service for nothing!  They are unfair to all the other tippers.  They are unfair to the one who provided them the service.  They deserve to be shamed.

     No one is suggesting that everyone must pay a $10 tips!  Some tip $5.  Some tip $1.  Generous is smarter!  $1 contributes to the "pitching in" that everyone can do.  Tipping nothing at all is morally criminal and shameful!

     Tipping helps keep prices down, helps keep service providers on their toes, helps keep service providers motivated to improve their crafts, and keeps tippers happier because they reap good service more and more and more, because they've learned!

     If you're not going to tip, then do yourself a HUGE favor and do business elsewhere!