It's an interesting read and as not a guy, I can't tell whether it's really a thing with any of the guys I know. I do know that's not at all why I'd have been horrified by not being allowed to tip before reading this article. There is a huge cultural myth that I did not know before was actually a myth: that servers are all severely underpaid. Not being able to tip when I have an irrational culturally American distrust of bosses actually doing right by their employees in that industry until proven otherwise, it would make me think the servers were underpaid. I always assumed because of the nature of tipping, minimum wage laws, etc. that the kitchen staff had much better pay and the servers were as underpaid as popular myth.
I suspect, the men aside (which very well may be a thing, I'm not that social with guys outside of work), that this is also a big factor in America's tipping culture. There are also people who maliciously like to express their disapproval through tipping, but in the line of satisfied with the service, I was surprised that none of this even came up. It's like the author had cultural blindness because he's aware that servers get higher pay. I had no idea. Everything I've ever been exposed to gave me the idea that all servers not in super high end restaurants were underpaid.
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I suspect, the men aside (which very well may be a thing, I'm not that social with guys outside of work), that this is also a big factor in America's tipping culture. There are also people who maliciously like to express their disapproval through tipping, but in the line of satisfied with the service, I was surprised that none of this even came up. It's like the author had cultural blindness because he's aware that servers get higher pay. I had no idea. Everything I've ever been exposed to gave me the idea that all servers not in super high end restaurants were underpaid.