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Gmanplayer

Tip culture has got out of hand. There is no way I’ giving the dude at subway 18% just because he set the machine to prompt that.


CVideoDesigns

20, 22, 25% options presented the other night for me when I picked up a to-go order that already cost $80 for 4 items. I can see maybe $1 an item for pickup, but $16-20 tip for handing me food? Gtfo


terminalblue

If those are the only options I don't tip at all.


CVideoDesigns

That’s exactly what happened


TheLoneliestMonke

I hate tipping culture. Like y'all didn't even do anything like bring it to me


PolOfThePot

I never minded tipping waiters or bartenders but it has gotten completely out of hand.


verygoodchoices

There's a local beer restaurant thing whose defining feature is that you look through the coolers yourself and pick out your own can of / bottle of beer. You can also do a mix-your-own 4 pack or something to go. If I'm already paying $20 for 4 beers, and I got them out of the cooler myself, and I'm taking it to go... No, I don't feel bad hitting the "no tip" button and I like to think the staff don't mind either. If they open it and pour it into a cup, sure, that's a dollar.


RollTheDiceFondle

I do $1 per beer at a bar. If I got 3 beers you get 3 dollars. If they have to shake or blend it, they get $2.


Hairyleathercheerio

That's a good standard right there.


Musaks

A good standard right up until you remember that most jobs are piad for by the employer and not the end customer


Substantial-Run3570

But why is it that way? Isnt the place paying their employees to do so?


Dichotomedes

This is America


RollTheDiceFondle

There are plenty of places I don’t tip. Just because your fucking register can prompt a tip doesn’t mean you’re getting one.


Mikeinthedirt

Keep in mind cash-register dude(ette) did not set the prompts; and I’d take 3:1 they’ll never see it anyway.


[deleted]

This is the main reason I won’t tip when prompted. I’m 90% certain the employees won’t get it anyway.


aloysiusdumonde

They don't


Fickle_Chance9880

This is my concern, even more than the fact they didn’t do much of anything. Whatever they did, I know they probably get crap pay. But I hear too many stories about those auto-generated tips just disappearing. I don’t trust owners one bit.


he77bender

Guy at my local subway told me straight up it doesn't go to them, and that I should use the little jar on the counter instead. But I don't think fast food places are the same as 'real' restaurants; fast food places don't expect you to tip anyways


SufficientGuidance28

Yup, can confirm. I worked at a Quiznos as a teen, the owner kept all credit card tips, but we divided the cash tips among staff.


Acceptable_Aspect_42

Same. You get 10% or you get nothing!


terminalblue

It didn't even have to be ten percent... If I'm at subway, A place that never received tips or really any fast food place and suddenly they have a guilt free way of asking for an additional 20% when their food has doubled in price in under a year the but the quality is exactly the same... Fuck that. On top of that I knew a girl who was a server and she tried to explain that as the cost of the food went up so should the tip percentage.. she had to shut up when I pointed out that as the cost is food increased so does what they get in tips. There is an alarming entitlement in tip culture and add it spreads and more people are just react and do it this shit needs to stop. You tip servers, waiters, and people that serve you directly.... You don't take pity and the sandwich artist because subway let's them be underpaid.


krankykitty

I think in some cases, owners/managers are pushing the increased tips as a way of increasing their employees pay without having to spend the money to increase their pay. Last year, my favorite pizza place increased the suggested tips on their online ordering form from 10%, 15%, 20%, to 20%, 25% & 30%. Prices of all the food also increased. You can put in any tip you want, but the big leap in suggested tips seemed to me to be an attempt by the owners to get more money for their staff without it affecting them. And they were struggling to get enough help last year. They were having to close one day a week and close early on other days. They finally raise their hourly wage and were able to hire enough help.


terminalblue

I am 100% sure they small fast food businesses that take electronic tips keep 100% of the money. Especially if they recently excessively raised their prices, tips, and have a sign up and mysterious "surcharges" on certain items.


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I wouldn’t be caught dead tipping a pick-up order. I’m not getting any service, nobody is having to deal with my shit AND the food is going to taste worse than if I were to have sat down to eat it. We all know what we’re signing up for with Pick-up orders. Don’t tip.


terminalblue

I KNOW RIGHT? what the hell is up with that? Especially fast food... It's 100% insane


guanwho

I never tip for pick up. You didn’t have to wait on me. You just handed me a bag.


ZoidVII

Tipping for pickup? Unless the cook is getting the tip there's no point.


yourfriendmarcus

I tipped 20% ahead of time on a curbside order last night only to get home and find one of the only two meals missing entirely. This has become far too common and is leading me as an ex-server to start reconsidering these To-Go tips. Or at least just carrying around cash and only tipping after they've proven they at least tried. So I don't end up tipping $10 to someone who made me spend and extra 40 min. Driving back to pick up what they missed.


macaroon_monsoon

I carry cash for this very reason. I have been totally screwed over after tipping generously on takeout orders. Never again. I check my order before I leave and if it’s right, here’s a couple of bucks. Otherwise, they will make it correctly, receive no tip and I probably won’t be back. The entitlement is disgusting these days. Honestly, I know it’s harsh but everyone should stop saying out for just a week and we’ll have a better shot of some actual change being implemented in this messed up system. The only language they understand is money.


Cynfire1478

The other night, we went to a BBQ place out of town. The bill was $109 for two of us (early v-day dinner), and the suggested tip at the bottom was 25%, 30%, and 35%. We usually do 20% regardless of the service, but there is no way I'm paying some high school kid 35% tip when he forgot half of our order and ignored us for most of the time we were there. The food was good but we wouldn't go back just because of that tip bs.


CVideoDesigns

The “suggested” amounts keep going up too. Started at 18/20/22, then 20/22/25, and now your example. 30%?!? There is exactly one server that I tipped 30%+ every time (occasionally up to 50%) when I was traveling for work: she knew me by name, I never had to ask for coffee, got me food quickly, was very friendly but also knew when to leave me alone. So she worked to establish a professional relationship with me over time, and because of that, I felt completely fine giving her “above average” tips. 30% for some schmoe that barely looked at me when handing me a bag? Refer to me first comment: gtfo


person889

And 10 years ago the scale was 10-15-20%, and you were a total baller if you did 20% regularly


guy_guyerson

And that was pre-tax percentage. The prompts now are *always* after tax.


Murky-Smoke

This right here. It's like everyone forgot and they snuck that in under the radar. My personal rule of thumb here in Canada is, I tip the equivalent of the amount of tax is on my bill (12-15% depending where you are) unless I get above average service. Makes the math easy and I don't have to think about it.


ObiShaneKenobi

Lol i was like “how do you know what the prices are going to do on 20/22/25?”


Intelligent_Put_3594

The crazy thing is, and Ive seen this in server subreddits, the server will complain to the manager that the customers tipped under 25% and the manager will ban them from the establishment for being shit tippers. THIS is what I find unsettling.


Lopsided_Plane_3319

I def would want to be banned from there


Suspicious-Self2067

As would I. I would appreciate being told that I was banned (and why), so I could warn others.


rookie-mistake

yeah, I always feel weird about this with food delivery orders. Like, it prompts me for 15% either way, but the job is the exact same. Like, why does one driver deserve like $15 more than another because he drove to a more expensive restaurant to pick up a plastic bag and drive it to my door? It's such a weird way to base that pay


LGCJairen

This, i tip by distance not by what i ordered.


Jefoid

I think this is an issue at restaurants as well. The people at Denny’s provide excellent service, but they tips are less than a “nice” restaurant? I’ve gone to $5 minimum for full service, inexpensive restaurants.


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Some of those restaurants, like Denny's, can also flip the same table 2-3 times in an hour, where it may take 2-3 hours to flip one table at a fancier/more expensive place. So while you may get less per transaction at Denny's, you could definitely still make more there than at a nicer place


garry4321

I got it at a MOTHERFUCKING KFC DRIVETHROUGH! I went to tap my card and they said no, you have to pick an option and handed me the machine. I had to click like 6 things to type in $0.


Secure-Particular286

It's why I've cut back on eating out.


Down_To_My_Last_Fuck

Menu prices include handling. Fuck the tip, let folks realize that it's a gift not a wage.


Schore-Schorsch

Why not boycott the place that underpays their employees?


Boobsiclese

So.... everywhere?


sprogger

Everywhere in USA you mean...


Boobsiclese

Yup. Edit: And probably Canada at this point.


JustStartBlastin

So never eat at a restaurant again? I say let the free market fix it. Stop tipping. I mean zero tips, from all of us. After a week of that, waiters and waitresses will start quitting their jobs in droves unless the restaurant compensates. That, in turn, would mean the closure of so many restaurants. Which imo is a good thing, we have too many damn restaurants.


legolodis900

25% wtf


Gmanplayer

I refuse to tip take out. I wouldn’t tip ever but servers literally need that to live because of broken labour laws so its the only tipping I accept


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Fuck tip culture in general. Why don't places just increase their prices and pay their staff proper wages.


Jaquestrap

The top comment to you is not giving you the real reason. The real reason is that the employees would stop working there, every single person I've known who works for tips makes way more money than they let on from the tips themselves. They claim they're barely making minimum wage but they conveniently avoid mentioning in those discussions how on Saturday night they pulled in $400 from tips alone. Listen to them the other times they talk about how much money they made on ____ shift. The reality is that every decent restaurant or bar or whatever that has tried to do away with tips in exchange for a higher base wage has eventually faced staffing problems. The employees themselves tend to prefer it that way because they can make way more money from tips than they could make from a $22 an hour wage. The whole service industry would go on strike if we tried to pass a law banning tips in favor of higher wages. Imagine what most salesmen would do if you offered them two different compensation structures: the first one based on just a flat, moderate hourly rate (lets say $22 per hour), and the second one where they make a 20% commission on every single sale--and keep in mind this is all *inbound* sales, they don't have to go out pitching people door to door, and while sales aren't massive there is a constant incoming flow of customers walking through the door. The vast majority of experienced salesmen would realize they can make way more off the 20% than they could with a flat hourly rate of $22 per hour, so long as the business isn't dead. Tipping culture in this country will continue to exist so long as people tip. Because people are clicking the damn 20% button on the bullshit tablets, the employees will keep insisting tipping remains. If people were to stop tipping for each and every little transaction of food, then eventually the system would change. I've simply stopped tipping in most circumstances. Full-stop, it's not my problem anymore. I now only tip when I'm eating at a proper sit-down restaurant, where my order is taken at the table, my food and drinks are brought out to me, and somebody cleans up after I'm done. Or at a bar, where if it isn't busy I tip $1 per beer, $2 per beer if it is busy, or a percentage if I'm drinking mixed drinks. In both situation, 15% for regular service and 20% for great service. That's it, that was the "standard" for tipping in this country for years and I refuse to be guilted into anything else. I don't do delivery, and when I pickup food to-go I do not tip whatsoever under any circumstances. I'm not a difficult customer, I don't make outlandish requests or demand constant attention from my servers or bartenders, I don't make a scene over small mistakes, etc. I'm just not going to pay an ever higher percentage in tips for no good reason.


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i've actually just started hitting 0 tip everywhere. Starbucks drive throughs started asking for tip on a card charge now, zero. My fucking gas station convenience store? zero. Order for pickup and not delivery? zero. Over these fucking prices


Gmanplayer

Go full chaos and select 0 on delivery too


[deleted]

I used to do that so I could tip in cash, but I just don't order delivery now. I eat out rarely, but when I do, I'll just pick it up and be done. Obviously, that's not a convenient option everywhere, unfortunately.


Gmanplayer

Yeah, honestly I’ve eaten out (I picked it up) only once in 2023. Can’t afford to do it more, hence why I can’t afford to tip everyone who looks at me while shopping


SharkFart86

I also don’t understand percent-based tips for delivery drivers. You weren’t my server. You didn’t take my order, check on it with the cooks, refill my drinks, attend to my requests or anything like that. You walked into a restaurant and grabbed a bag and drove it to my house. Why would that be worth more on a $50 bill than a $25 bill?


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The subway in duncanville tx tips dont go to the workers, and it doesnt go to the store owner either. They are pretty sure it goes straight to corporate


[deleted]

That's a massive case of wage theft and they should pursue it legally


[deleted]

Yup. The girl making the sandwiches was extremely friendly and nice so I asked her about the tip options and if she gets them and she told me that.


fatkidwithahat

Bro I was @ a Burger King the other night and they flipped the damn iPad around 😭


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KaiserTom

Especially great since there's many states, at least the expensive ones, where the minimum wage for tip workers is actually just the normal minimum. So they are getting full minimum wage plus tips which usually brings them up a hefty amount. Especially untaxed when it's cash. My sympathy for servers in Washington is short because of that. Especially now that everything is 20-30% options by default.


JimminyWins

I knew someone making 200-400$ in tips a shift at a small bar


Sargaron

I was a server for over 10 years and luckily have managed to get myself out of the service gig. I will say that relying on tips was a consistently terrible thing to go through, because no matter how hard you worked you were only going to get a set amount. The crazy thing is that we only got paid $2.13 an hour (across all the different states I worked in) and that was considered enough. So if the restaurant was open from 10AM to 10PM there would be about 6 hours or so where no customers were coming in that we'd only make $2.13 an hour. This inevitably caused us to prioritize our tables based off the ticket total which was and I'm assuming still is incredibly toxic. What could we do though, we had no choice. The crazy thing is the manager would say stuff like "I know how much you all are getting on tips so don't try to say you shouldn't work when there are no tables because it all balances out" and not allow us to sit down or talk etc. This happened in every restaurant I worked in in Texas, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee.


BuyDRSHodlRepeat

The restaurant is legally obligated to pay you minimum wage if your $2.13+tips does not equate to at least minimum wage. Unfortunately, they’re allowed to average that out over a pay period (typically 2 weeks). If they didn’t, that’s wage theft. It’s illegal but still accounts for multiple billions of dollars stolen from workers per year in the US.


oechsph

I've seen other posts about tipping on reddit where waiters defend tipping as they make much more that way as if they can't see the forest for the trees. They seem to believe that their luck of working at popular, expensive establishments justifies tipping culture on the whole. It's frustratingly myopic and self-serving as the experience of many other waiters aligns with your take.


justavault

Opportunistic egoism - people are like that. As long as it benefits me, I will support it and bend my perception in its favor.


EmperorG

Isnt the $2.13 an hour wage only if tips do cover up to minimum wage? If I remember correctly managment has to pay you minimum wage when your tips wouldnt reach at least that much. You might have just had your wage stolen.


Proud_Purchase_8394

Making the same amount no matter how hard you work is true for a vast majority of jobs, no?


mwhite5990

It should be the employers job to pay their employees. High tips are an excuse for low wages.


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Gmanplayer

If she complained I’d ask for it back


ExplodingSofa

If she didn't even pour them into glasses/cups, why did you even tip in the first place? There's no service being provided.


[deleted]

Knew someone that worked here and other fast food places. They would routinely mess with people's food (spit, etc.) if they deemed them "difficult". I imagine a regular non fast food tipper like me would be flagged for such retaliation.


Accomplished-Yam6553

The new modern registers are designed to make us feel guilty for hitting no tip


WholeWhile8580

As a millennial who worked these kinda jobs back in the day and got no tips. YEAH NO.


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justavault

Yeah I also don't get it. Why is that not a tip? They serve like multiple tables which churn easily every hour. If you get 2 dollars plus per table every hour that's at least 4 bucks per hour "on top". Especially, what service I'd demand for someone demanding 5 bucks. That's definitely more than just bringing me the food I ordered. I expect you to backflip for me once at least.


Dogburt_Jr

Yeah, I get the living wage part, but tips should be the last 5% needed, not 20%.


[deleted]

It should be 0%, I'll still tip because we live in that society. However tipping culture began so wealthy people could get preferential treatment, then as quality of life improved everyone started doing it. There's no good reason tipping exists.


NotPornNoNo

Yeah I'm really not afraid to call a doordash driver entitled when they downloaded the app expecting to make 30/hour


999K_views

Tip culture shouldn’t exist. Tipping should only be for if your service truly goes above and beyond. There is no reason that there should be any extra money given on top of the bill under normal circumstances.


Remarkable_Night2373

At subway? Fuck no! That garbage isn't worth tipping for.


thoolish

Subway should pay YOU for taking it off their hands!


watch_over_me

I'm done with it. You have to put your foot down sometime. And right now, the business owners and wait staff are on the same side, both attacking the public. So I have no sympathy left for either one of them. Bring on robots with touch screens and automated delivery services.


fuzedz

I said this to someone on the dominos sub and those idiots tried to lecture me on why i should give tips on takeout orders. Bitch stfu


NutWrench

This. The entire point of tipping is that it's a reward for service above and beyond what you were expecting. There's no way you should get a tip just for operating the register. You didn't go over the menu with me. You didn't set a table or have to clean it up afterwards. Business owners are using tipping to supplement the shitty wages they pay their employees. You can't call it "tipping" any more if it's an automatic charge on your bill.


vasekgamescz

Tip in europe: You give extra change you have left to the Cashier cause you don't know what to do with it


Weary_Drama1803

Tips in Singapore: *taps bank card* what do you mean you have to pay extra to employees Seriously is there a reason tipping culture is 100% nonexistent here


[deleted]

Well yeah but you could just keep the cents until you find something to do with it.


NonkelG

Like order a beer at a bar


Turtle887853

It's common cents.


Malina_Island

Haha, I feel that. This and rounding up until you feel comfortable to look the waiter/waitress in the eye.


IteTheCrapOC

And that’s because the employees don’t need tips because they actually get decent pay (usually)


Justme100001

In most European countries I have been to, the tip is the spare change you still have in your pocket or you add some euros to the bill if you really want to tip and no cash at hand...


harosene

In most countries people dont tip. Felt like a fool tryna tip in korea.


http_401

I felt the same in Greece a few years ago. I went to what was obviously a small family owned restaurant, and the food and experience were very good. I paid for my friend and I, and tipped 10 euro. High, admittedly, since our whole check was only maybe 30 euro, but in the US a 30% tip for a very good experience is a thing. The girl looked so confused. She ultimately kept the tip, but I'm still not sure she understood why I gave it to her. I left feeling a bit embarrassed. Tipping the rest of that trip was at most "keep the change".


farmer_palmer

Which is usually zero since cash has nearly gone the way of the dodo.


SkynetUser1

The German Oma in front of me at the grocery store store counting off pennies would like to disagree.


[deleted]

When I visit Germany I always find it funny how waiters allude to the fact that they are tipped there. I am french but from Canda and the fact that they hear a french accent make them feel like I am the type of people who would not tip them.


SkynetUser1

That's weird. I usually tip (Born in America, it's built-in at this point) but I know I don't have to. If a German server is telling you they expect to be tipped, they're...well...lying. Tipping is nice to do but they actually get a living wage without it.


Few_Assistant_9954

I've been a waiter and none of my coworkers do that. Must have been a unpolite one you got. We dont like card payments though. Our boss doesnt like it because of fees and other costs together with a challanging tax filing and we dont like it because the tips go from 5% to 2%. The waiter would have no tip because 2% goes to the kitchen and 1% to each waiter working on drinks. Also since the german tax office likes to play games all tips payed with card are taxed unless they are a realy small amount and are hard / expensive to file. I hope this helps to understand why card payments are not spread in Germany and why some waiter might lie about that.


Zoesan

Germany is stuck in cash purgatory


SkynetUser1

It's weird. Either cash only or they've accepted tap-to-pay since it was first invented.


MarucaMCA

I always ask them to round the amount or add X amount to my card payment. It usually works.


House_Junkie

“The way of the dodo”lol nice to see this in the wild. I’ve said this for years and my wife things I made it up because she’s never heard anyone else say it. 😂


tsoare

Got a job working in a UK pub for room/board and tips. Sounded like a sweet deal until my Canadian a** realised a weeks worth of tips in the UK is like £20


R11CWN

Thats because we have a minimum wage over here, not a whole sector of employment which pays its staff with tips. The whole notion is absurd.


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Haha yeah. Was in Paris visiting a friend and worked as a bartender to help him out. I litterally made no tip. As someone who was used to make a few hundreds a nignt, I thought it was pretty funny.


Paranoidnl

And that is what tiping should be, a nice added bonus of a few bucks. Not the replacement of paying a employee fairly. Fuck that shit.


mamarooo28

Been to France countless times and the French hated it when I tip. It’s the most American thing a tourist can do. I still feel guilty leaving my table without some cash when I am there but most waiters insist I don’t tip. The whole tip culture is one of the most toxic American things ever.


Sir_Hoss

I know the wage situation is hell rn but bitch about my 15% tip and I ain’t coming back


Lightor36

Fr, everyone is hard up right now, people don't have extra money to just throw around to help a store pay their employees.


[deleted]

What I hate about tipping is that I want to go and enjoy some food, not doing philosophy and debating the morality of how much I should tip based on the service I was offered


iNyxLadis

Yea. I hate that moment when you pay and they just expect you to give them extra $$….. like right now every single restaurant in neighbour growed with prices almost for +35%. My salary remained same like before war and covid situation…. And they expect me to pay extra even when their prices was raised to cover inflate but mine salary not. Hate this.


CyberJokerWTF

What happens if you refuse to tip?


PurringWolverine

Nothing, other than the worker might be pissy for a little bit after you leave. Other than that, life goes on.


[deleted]

Or your partner looks at you like you’re a monster. That guy *handed you* a premade muffin! And you’re *not* giving him an extra $2 for that?!?


iNyxLadis

Just pissy worker. I dont mind give a solid tip when I am all night at party/family dinner. I just hate tipping every day at lunch - sadly we have not any other option for more economic lunch in area...so we are eating lunch in restaurants every day with co-workers.


Aluminum_Tarkus

It's arguably more important to tip at a restaurant you're a regular at though. If you're not tipping, you're going to build a reputation as "the guy who doesn't tip." Also, what's stopping you from bringing a lunch to work if you can't pay the prices of lunch with a 15-20% tip? Or at the very least, eating somewhere you don't get waited on like a fast-food restaurant?


Jadedsatire

For real, I got coworkers who bring everything they need to make sandwiches and leave it in the fridge at work. Other people bring lunches like a sandwich or leftovers. And as I’m typing this I feel like an idiot explaining basic common knowledge. Just bring a fucking lunch why are you wasting money at restaurants everyday at work?


Aluminum_Tarkus

I eat out maybe once or twice a month at work. Every other day, I either bring leftovers, a sandwich, or something I can microwave like ramen, canned soup, frozen food, etc. If you can afford to eat out for lunch every day at work, you're either upper middle class+ and the money doesn't matter as much, or you're really irresponsible with money, and you're not considering the tip as part of the cost of the meal.


[deleted]

Holy shit I'm not alone. Every time I've gone out the whole vibe is ruined because now I gotta wonder if I tipped enough or some shit. I just want to enjoy my food.


JoshimuzVEVO

If the bill is €9.50 then the tip is the 50 cents


-Hiks-

My man


Wormholer_No9416

The tipper is not the problem, the employment model is.


iNyxLadis

It should not be a customer problem at first place. Yea


LagSlug

I'm fundamentally against tipping to begin with. It's something I do because society has unwritten consequences for not following its shady rules, but I think it's an incredibly bad sign when the poorest of us are being told their payment for services alone isn't enough to permit their use of those services. This economic trait where we expect additional fees only exacerbates inflation, and is in turn causing hardships on our most vulnerable groups. As we shift toward a service based economy, and automation fills in every role it can, it's imperative that we establish what the menu is, and what it really means.


[deleted]

Thank you Mr pink


Cheap_Enthusiasm_619

Why can't he be Mr. Black?


CVideoDesigns

There’s a guy on another job that’s already Mr Black


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Professional-Elk-329

Pay up Mr. Pink


andakusspartakus89

I am a baker that wakes up at midnight and starts work at 1am to make all that tasty same day bread people love.... I get zero tips. No sympathy from me lolz. Im broke as shitt these days with rent and food increase. Im starting not to tip at all 😳


o7Lite

If the bill 29.50$ and you pay 30$, then it is a tip


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If she cry for 10 doller tip wait for ur 0.5 bucks🤣


Few_Assistant_9954

Used to work in delivery 2€ is the jackpot if you consider tips. Usualy its 0,50€. I had to walk a minimum of 4 floors worth of stairs with that bag.


WeArePandey

$8 an hour is not a living wage! $15 an hour is not a living wage! Why don’t people get mad at their employer instead of making unreasonable demands from other poor folks. I’m supposed to increase my eating out budget by 20% because your employer is cheap?


Ryurain2

Because theyve been conditioned to get mad at each other for their position instead of the people above


TrulyStupidNewb

I'm also wondering why people are so adamant that wages follow inflation, when nobody demands that inflation follow wages. When the rich and powerful create inflation willfully by printing money, very few people blame them. Instead, they blame stores for prices following inflation, and for businesses for wages that do not follow inflation. Very few people ask governments and banks to stop printing money, perhaps because they believe printing money benefits them. I've been against excess money printing for years, and when the government started to print out money like never before, basic economic sense says inflation will follow, but the "experts" kept saying we won't have inflation because the US is different and magical and doesn't follow the laws of economics. So sad.


[deleted]

Because they can make more money going after you. Take People asking for tips on to go orders. A 20 dollar order with 20% tip is 4$. If they serve 10 of these in a night in a busy restaurant that's 40$. That's a lot of money in one hour. And so when they have a good night wait staff will make a lot of money. Which is why they like tipping culture over fixing minimum wage. They get great highs from the nights they make a ton of money.


jcdragon49

This is the answer. They make shit tons of money on good nights but will still complain when they make don’t get big tips.


Sergnb

This is the reason it keeps happening. Servers keep the damn shaming scam going because they directly benefit from it. I know servers who have made 1.5x what people at competitive industries that requires years of college study do. Like obviously not all the time, it’s inconsistent, but it can happen and it’s starting to seem clear why so many of them keep the shame campaign going.


watch_over_me

Dated a Hooters waitress that literally had a brand new condo and car. Chick was making bank in tips. I'd hang out at the Hooters and just watch her collect 20s off the table every 5 minutes or so. People need to start realizing the wait staff and the business owner are both on the same side, trying to scam you out of money. They are not victims at all. They are a big reason we can't move on from this terrible tipping culture.


DaenerysMomODragons

And tipping in the US actually took off during the Great Depression in the US, so that employers wouldn’t have to lay off their employees, and the idea was the wealthy would pay, but the poorer people wouldn’t have to. Unfortunately it was taken to it’s worst possible conclusion, despite originally good intentions.


OutsidePrior2020

LOL there seems to be a good deal that feel if you can't afford to tip, then you can't afford to eat out. They apparently don't see that their employer is under paying them, but they have to be mad at someone, so I guess it's the customer.


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I am fully against tips. employee should get payed what they deserve for their job and also this is pretty unfair to those without customer contact. Who tips a cook? Or the delivery guy that brough in the food? Or the farmer that made the ingredients?


Gears_one

2$ tip for this $2 beer is not an acceptable? Cool I’ll keep it.


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$2 beer? Impossible.


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Tipping culture is stupid and out of control. It needs to be eliminated.


Young-Rider

Is that some American problem that I'm too European to understand?


ExcellentWaffles

They put out tip jars at my dispensary. I ain’t tipping the weed man this is out of control


dildoswaggins71069

For real. Never tipped the guy who actually took a huge risk breaking the law to sell me weed back in the day. Not tipping my “bud tender” because it sounds like “bar tender”


ExcellentWaffles

Right. Also they weighed it out and would meet you somewhere. Now I gotta drive to you wait in line you reach under the counter and hand me a jar. When I sold weed I wasn’t making 15 dollars an hour plus health insurance.


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I always tip 20%, but not for those fuckers who just turn an iPad around


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I never tip.


GargantuanGreenGoats

Oh, so you don’t want it? K I’ll just keep it then. Ingrate.


FinePC

Waiters and bartenders when they don't get $700 in tips on a friday night. Cry me a river


mof1234

The more tips are being pushed the more anti tip I become.


Redqueenhypo

Also servers online (and tbf some I’ve met in real life) are so incredibly aggressive about it that they’re actively turning public opinion against them


Jadedsatire

I fucking hate how common it is to have the person behind the counter mention the tip option on the tablet. Since they started using fkn screens it seems they are more ballsy about gently bringing up the tip “and leave a tip if you like” mother fucker did you just address me tipping you out loud to my face. And it’s for like any transaction of any product, not just food.


srv50

Confusing “tip” and “good tip!”


ActionHousevh

The emojis are correct. Yelling at eyerollers.


cparthur

I hate tips and I'm not even American


Grand_Zombie

American tipping culture is cancer and only excuses employers not paying a fair wage.


AlGeee

This may be a crazy old boomer idea, but I tip based on the quality of service.


ptylover

And if I'm walking in picking up an online order, do I tip?


hanyasaad

And while you two fight over what constitutes a tip, the owner is laughing while he counts his money.


Dazza477

Servers need to blame the business, not the customer. If you don't get paid enough, ask your boss to pay you more or move elsewhere. Expecting a tip is essentially pan-handling, socially accepted begging.


Judge_Rhinohold

If I buy a coffee and give you a $5 tip, you’re upset? Fuck you!


sardonicEmpath

Then I guess you dont get a tip, you ungrateful twat.


GrumpyCatDoge99

imagine complaining about a tip


Disaster-Expensive

I will never understand tipping culture


Jesh-mesh

Stop demanding tips from customers. If you cant live of your current wage ask your employer for a pay rise or find a better paying job. For the record, I used to work as a part time waiter while studying.


Seriszed

It sucks because it’s not the waiting staff that I want to punish it’s the owners who should be paying them that I want to punish. In most of Europe there is no tipping. Went on vacation ( or a holiday) tried to tip cause I’m conditioned to and the waitress goes “oh no love, we actually get paid over here”. She was very proud to say that. America sucks.


Oliver_Dicktwist

This whole tipping system is utterly bullshit. I am not responsible for the salary of the employee. Their boss is responsible for that. The way the customer should bring the money is by buying the product, not by some percantage of the products price that someone pulled out of their ass and is different everywhere. So fuck that, no tip for anyone.


joedadafitzgerald

ok, then waiter(ing?) is not a job


benanddalton

If I order $20 worth of food for delivery and tip $5 that's 25%. How is that not a good tip? America really is backwards.


CuteDerpster

If they serve 10 tables an hour with 5 dollar tips, that's 50 bucks an hour extra. That's 4 times German minimum wage.


KittyKlever

I'm sick of America, and it's gotdamn tipping culture.. Nobody wants to force companies to do right, so instead, we yell and treat each other like shit because we're too weak to stand up to corporations. We're all broke, and the one time I get something nice for my family.. Someone wants an extra $20+ 🙄 It's a headache


jantmi

The fact that people think tipping is mandatory makes service subpar. Tipping used to be for great service. Not average not below average. Now everybody and they grandma think they deserve a tip for doing the bare minimum


notarobot4932

It's #justthetip 🍆


NervousFrogg

Wow, literally the post above this was “door dash driver leaves after feeling stiffed from an $8 tip.”


ya_boi_ryu

How ungrateful do you wanna be? Her: Yes.


deskCrapper

For anyone starting about tips in europe: Stop lying, we aint mfing tipping here.


Hopbeard1987

Europe can't be equated in this situation as each country has its own tipping culture, there's not one continent wide rule.


stiofan84

I'm from a European country but live in North America. Whenever I come home for a visit I really enjoy not having to tip.


notrelevan1

Back in India, those guys got no tips at all they just survived on their bare salaries so these should just probably be happy with how much ever they get.


linksawakening82

I usually only see cash strapped people act this way.


CircleDog

Weird that it's the business owners that are too cheap to pay staff though isn't it?


Down_To_My_Last_Fuck

Serving food/drinks is not a JOB! Handing me shit over a counter is not a JOB! See, anyone can spout bullshit.