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tipping
Sign in to saveAlso known as gratuity, tipping money, tip
thumb|300px|Leaving some change on the restaurant table is one way of giving a gratuity to the restaurant staff.
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology and history
- Reasons for tipping
- Tronc
- Mandatory tipping
- By region
- Criticisms
- Inconsistency of percentage-based gratuities
- Travellers following home rather than local customs
- Discomfort
- Discrimination
- Tipflation
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|300px|Leaving some change on the restaurant table is one way of giving a gratuity to the restaurant staff.
A gratuity (often called a tip) is a sum of money customarily given by a customer to certain service sector workers such as hospitality for the service they have performed, in addition to the basic price of the service.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tipping” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.