{"id":417116,"date":"2026-07-29T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417116\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:56:07","slug":"washington-shoppers-among-worst-tippers-in-u-s-just-above-d-c-and-california-kiro-7-news-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417116\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington shoppers among worst tippers in U.S., just above D.C. and California \u2013 KIRO 7 News Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE, Wash. \u2014 Washington restaurant-goers are among the worst tippers in the United States, according to a new study from Toast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The study, which collected transactions from nearly 171,000 locations using the Toast POS system in Q1 2026, breaks down into two main categories: full-service restaurants and quick-service restaurants.<\/p>\n

While full-service restaurant tips average out at about 19.3% in the entire country, the average quick-service tip is sitting at 15.8%. <\/p>\n

In Washington, the average full-service restaurant tip is 18.2%, while the average quick-service tip is 15.7%.<\/p>\n

By averaging the total amount of tips and dividing it by the Gross Processing Volume, the average Washington restaurant tip is 17.8% — just barely above D.C. at 17.5% and California at 17.3%, according to the study.<\/p>\n

On the opposite end, the states with the highest average tip are Delaware (22.1%), West Virginia (21.0%), and New Hampshire (20.9%).<\/p>\n

As for major changes in tipping behavior, Toast notes that tipping has \u201cstayed relatively stable over the past two years.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE, Wash. \u2014 Washington restaurant-goers are among the worst tippers in the United States, according to a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,7853,87461,87938,166840,558,166841],"class_list":["post-417116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-seattle","tag-tipping","tag-toast","tag-toast_pos","tag-washington","tag-worst_tippers_in_america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}