{"id":610,"date":"2026-06-17T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:33:13","slug":"us-tip-culture-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"US Tip Culture Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To everyone acting like tipping rules are written in stone, let&#8217;s talk about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a $612 dinner bill, and suddenly I&#8217;m &#8220;supposed&#8221; to leave over $120 just because the total was higher?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Same plates carried, same drinks refilled, same amount of time at the table \u2014 but somehow the menu prices decide the server&#8217;s pay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left $9. That&#8217;s still real money for a couple hours of service. 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Same plates carried, same drinks refilled, same amount of time at the table \u2014 but somehow the menu prices decide the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/?p=610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Tip Culture Debate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happy.oneskysea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}