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Comment by CamelCaseName | Hacker News Reader

Many countries have far better service without tipping, China and Japan come to mind.

Japan is amazing in some places, that you can order with a tablet apps then you pick up your food yourself when it arrived. Very minimum interaction and employees needed.

If I go to a restaurant and it’s all handled through a tablet I leave. I can get that treatment at the airport.

It's good for some neurodivergent people.

Overly-solicitous hospitality staff can make me tense.

At the far end of the scale are bathroom attendants who want to help me wash/dry/moisture my hands after using the facilities.

Or the sales staff in the fancier retail stores that after I tell them I'm just looking around, will proceed to stand behind me and stare at me.

Maybe they judge me too poor for their products and it's an attempt to get me to leave...

>At the far end of the scale are bathroom attendants who want to help me wash/dry/moisture my hands after using the facilities.

I've never ran into these and I hope I never will.

You can order drinks at a bar and on an airplane, what's your point? Do you go out to eat specifically to talk to cashiers? If i want fine dining, being served is part of the experience. But if I want a good bowl of ramen, I can't see how using a tablet is some sort of deal breaking issue. What vital experience do you get giving a regular food order to a cashier?

The market works better in China: Competition is fierce and nowadays with online reviews most restaurants are so scared of a bad review that they go the extra mile and staff go all out as soon as you raise a slight concern.

Yes, and South Korea too.

Efficient service, good food, good prices (for a foreigner), no tipping expected or even possible.

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