Is a 50% tip generous?

It's not uncommon to see gratuities of between 30% and 50% from these travelers. If you leave tips like that, then you can safely consider yourself in the overtipper category. Is there such a thing as being too generous? says Samantha Lambert, the director of human resources for a media company in New York.



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London restaurants commonly include a 12.5 percent service charge in the bill; if so, it's not necessary to tip at all. (But if the bill in a British restaurant shows no service charge, tip 10–12 percent for good service — a little more than you would on the continent.)

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Conclusion. The present findings showed that waitresses' blond hair was associated with an increase in male patrons' tipping behavior. Men gave tips more often to a waitress with blond hair and, when they did, they gave her a larger amount of money. No hair color effect was found with female patrons.

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However, while the vast majority of Brits fork out a tip for hard-working waiting staff, it is the Scots once again who are most generous in the size of their tips, with 19% leaving 15% or more as a tip for the staff.

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Millennials are the most generous tippers, according to our research, followed closely by Baby Boomers. Members of the Silent Generation came in as the least likely to give a big tip with an average of just 15.16%.

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Typically, children with dark hair will keep their dark hair into adulthood. But some children with light hair, including towhead blonds, strawberry blonds, dishwater blonds and redheads, see their hair go dark brown by their 10th birthday.

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Of all the world's most popular tourist destinations, Japan is most notoriously the one where you should make a point not to tip. Why? Well, the gesture could be considered rude. The Japanese philosophy is that the staff works for an establishment as a team, and if they do a good job, customers will return.

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