Restaurant Tipping in NYC: How Covid Changed Gratuity Etiquette for the Worse

The proliferation of touch-screen gratuity prompts from cafeterias to car washes is leading Americans to stiff their restaurant servers.

Everybody’s watching.

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Something sinister is afoot in New York City, and it’s my public duty to inform you about it. Almost overnight, a handful of coffee shops in my neighborhood got rid of their normal iced-coffee cups and replaced them with what can only be described as a colostomy bag. It’s a creation that only Satan could come up with — or Satan’s eco-friendly cousin, at least: