HUFFPOST BUSINESS Everything You Don't Know About Tipping 04/08/2014 Tipping is not about generosity. Tipping isn't about gratitude for good service. And tipping certainly isn't about doing what's right and fair for your fellow man. Tipping is about making sure you don't mess up what you're supposed to do. In my case, the story goes like this: In college, I was a waiter at a weird restaurant called Fire and Ice. This is the front page of their website: That sad guy in the back is one of the waiters. He's sad because he gets no salary and relies on tips like every other waiter, but people undertip him because at this restaurant they get their own food so they think he's not a real waiter even though he has to bring them all their drinks and side dishes and give them a full tour of the restaurant and how it works like a clown and then bus the table because they have no busboys at the restaurant and just when the last thing he needs is for the managers to be mean and powerful middle aged women who are mean to him, that's what also happens. Wage of 10 EFTA01103815