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A Everybody hates it, but everybody does recent report said that 40% of Americans hate tipping . In America alone , tipping isa $16 billion-a-year industry .Consumers acting politely ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service . Tips should not exist . So why do they ? mon opinion in the past was that tips both rewarded the efforts of good service and reduced fortable feelings of inequality. And also, tipping makes for closer relations. It went without saying that the better the service, the bigger the tip. But according to new research from Cornell University , tips no longer serves any useful function . The paper analyzes numbers they got from 2547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants . The connection between larger tips and better service was very weak . Only a tiny part of the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service . Tipping is better explained by culture than by the money people spend . In America , the custom came into being a long time ago . It is regarded as part of the accepted cost ofa service. In New York restaurants , failing to tip at least 15% could well mean dissatisfaction from the customers . Hairdressers can expect to get 15% — 20% , and the man who delivers your fast food $ 2. In Europe , tipping is mon . In many restaurants the amount of tip is decided bya standard service charge . In many Asian countries , t