Tipping & Boomerasking

Dangerous Dave talks about the state of tipping in 2025. Plus, "Boomerasking", it is when you ask a question to someone so you can talk about yourself, the conversation comes back like a boomerang.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please September in the den with dangerous day. Few stats
on America's tipping habits in twenty twenty five. Average tip
now eighteen point nine percent. Men tip more nineteen point one,
women a little less at eighteen point six. Millennials are
the biggest tippers at nineteen point five, Gen Z nineteen
point three, Gen X eighteen point two, and boomers at

(00:20):
sixteen point four. My is tipping state Delaware just over
twenty one percent. Through other states tip more than twenty
percent Indiana, West Virginia, and New Hampshire. California leaves the
worst tips at seventeen percent, but servers in California make
sixteen fifty an hour compared to two dollars and twenty
three cents in Delaware. Federal minimum wage for tipped employees

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two dollars thirteen cents an hour. By the way, what
makes us tip more? Quality of service top answer, followed
by how much it cost? Social pressure not knowing how
much the server makes an hour. Seventy nine percent of
us usually leave a tip at a sit down place,
sixty three percent at fast food joints, fifty five percent
at delivery drives, twenty three percent even when picking up

(01:02):
our own takeout. As tipping got out of control in
the left past five years, seventy one percent of people
said yes suspected too often and suggested tips are too high.
Nine percent think the current state of tipping is ideal.
Seven percent of Americans said they never tip. You could
be the best waiter in the world. They're still drawing
the line on the receipt. And I agree. When somebody's
working hard for you, they give you a really good service,

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you should tip. If I go into your store and
you handed me a cookie that I picked out, I
don't know if you're going to tip deeper in the tip.
Have you heard of boomer asking? Not about baby boomers.
It's something you've probably done or at least experienced. Boomer
Asking is when you ask somebody at question so you
can talk about yourself. The question comes back to you
like a boomerang. A common example of this is when

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you had a good weekend, You show up on Monday
and you say, Hey, did you do anything fun this weekend? Oh? Yeah, Well,
listen to this, you can talk about yourself. A blogger
coined the term a few years ago, but it's trending
after a study found there's three common versions of boomer asking,
ask bragging, like how is your vacation? Oh yeah, well
mine was great. How about ask complaining? How was work?

(02:06):
Well yeah, I had the worst week? And ask sharing,
and like ask bragging, it's without the bragging, but you
ask about something random so you can talk about something
like what do you think of cybertruck sir? You want
to talk about how dumb they are or whatever you think.
The study found that we do it because we think
it's a polite way to bring up something we want
to talk about. Doesn't always land that way because we

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realize that when somebody's boomer asking, we tend to think
that they're self absorbed. Do you ever boomer ask? Well,
you think you do. Listen to this Tune again for
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