Readers sound off on new tipping landscape

• Ubiquitous payment screens where we must make tipping decisions while a staffer watches.
• Service fees that appear on checks at restaurants to fund a landscape of sometimes unknown and varying benefits for staffers.
• Widening gaps between different state's tipped minimum wages that range from $16.66 in Washington state to $2.13 in places like Alabama and Indiana. Chicago is $11.02.

By the numbers: 151 readers responded and told us the following:

Do you feel compelled to tip when a staffer turns the screen to you and watches?

• Yes: 51%
• No: 49%

Do you tip less when you see a double digit service charge?

• Yes: 72%
• No: 28%

Do you tip differently in other states?

• Yes: 14%
• No: 86%

Have you changed your tipping habits since Chicago raised the tipped minimum wage?

• Yes: 28%
• No: 72%

The bottom line: Some of the new developments are changing our local tipping habits but most people don't seem to consider the vastly different tipped minimum wages when traveling from state to state.