A new poll suggests avocado toast isn’t the only thing dividing generations financially.
. While we are here, we might as well examine one of the actually intriguing results of the survey: that Gen Z is a generation of horrible tippers.
Only 35 percent of Gen-Z respondents, defined as people ages 18 to 26, told pollsters that they always tip their server at a sit-down restaurant . Sitting down! At a restaurant! I understandthese days, but these kiddos sound like they’ve drifted past the frontier entirely, possibly into a country with a livable minimum wage.
This finding is not entirely surprising: One’s early 20s tend to be the poorest years of our lives. Even though most internships are paid by now, this generationthat their financial troubles won’t necessarily get easier with age. Plus, these young’uns are coming of age in a world where iPads are prompting them to add at least 15 percent on top of the price of their $7 oat-milk lattes, so perhaps being anti-tip is considered subversive in some way.
? Baby-boomers! Yes, 83 percent of those aging conservative freaks tip at sit-down restaurants, and they tip more than any generation across the board. Naturally, women also tip more frequently than men in all categories. It is both comforting and unsettling to know that the Golden Girls are essentially propping up the financial well-being of the service industry.
I, too, would love for companies to pay their employees enough that the burden of ensuring they can meet their basic needs doesn’t fall on customers. Maybe young adults are more capable of envisioning a future where this is the case, but may I remind them
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