Reminders to tip your server or service provider are everywhere: On credit card terminals at coffee shops and restaurants, on many of the apps we use, at other retailers and even on the menus at restaurants near Vancouver’s cruise ship terminal — in several languages.

More than three in five Canadians aged 55 and over (64 per cent) say they tip “all the time,” along with 56 per cent of those aged 35 to 54, and 41 per cent of those aged 18 to 34. Women are more likely to say they tip all the time at sit-down restaurants (55 per cent) than men (51 per cent).

Canadians in the highest income bracket are more likely do this (67 per cent) than those in the middle and lowest brackets (56 per cent and 41 per cent, respectively). The same is true for over half of those who voted for the Liberal Party (52 per cent), the Conservative Party (55 per cent) and the NDP (65 per cent) in last month’s federal election.

Food servers at sit-down restaurants can expect tips “all the time” from majorities of........

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