Comments on: Tipping in Singapore: Would Tipping Improve Service Standards? https://www.ladyironchef.com/2014/10/singapore-tipping-guide/ Singapore's Top Food & Travel Website Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:39:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Macklemore https://www.ladyironchef.com/2014/10/singapore-tipping-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-119192 Macklemore Mon, 27 Oct 2014 05:30:03 +0000 http://www.ladyironchef.com/?p=42288#comment-119192 This article completely misses the point that tipping is common in the US not because the service is great but because the minimum wage is obscenely low. Tipping is required because the people serving you actually need the tips to supplement their wages to survive. Even if the service was average, you’d still drop a tip since it’s customary to do so.

Tipping cannot be the main motivator for better service. By that logic, because tipping is not required in Japan, the service must be crap there. Except that it is not; in fact the waiters in Japan are pretty darn fantastic.

Maybe start paying our wait staff a decent wage and you’ll get better service oriented folks. I’ll bet though that’s not how most restaurants work – they probably want they the cheapest staff. Pay peanuts and you get monkeys.

Here’s the kicker. Singaporeans generally don’t care about service. If the food is good, cheap and there’s a queue, we’ll be lining up for 2 hours… so I can post it on Instagram later.

]]> By: Antoinette https://www.ladyironchef.com/2014/10/singapore-tipping-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-118885 Antoinette Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:51:05 +0000 http://www.ladyironchef.com/?p=42288#comment-118885 I say training is the way to go. Saying that tipping will increase service standards insinuates the server simply is reluctant to provide a service because he/she is just not paid enough.
Case study: Singapore Airlines is world renowned for its high level of service finesse and hospitality. And they do not require tips.
Moreover, if we go the way of the USA and rely on tips, as a consumer this means a $40 meal will then become $60 at the end of the day. This means that consumers will cut back on expenditure. This then will show tipping will be lucrative in the initial short term but may be counter productive in the long term.

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