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I'm a generous tipper at sit down restaurants, but draw the line at places where I'm grabbing a prepackaged sandwich and drink and being asked to tip the employee to literally ring up the items at the cash register. I wonder if the expansion of this practice is turning people off of tipping even when it's warranted, hence these statistics
Yeah. The blurbs examples are places you really need to tip. They are providing a direct service to you. But pretty much every digital pay interface is asking for tips now. And a lot of them aren't even offering 15%. They start at 18% and go up. It is really souring me on going out at all.
Pretty much every sit-down restaurant now has tips calculated on the bill, and 15% is never one of the calculations. It's typically 18%, 20%, and 22%, but I've seen them start higher.
Is this due to the same machines? Since it can differ, I assume it's the owner who chooses to make it higher.
To be clear, it's never warranted. It's just some cultures that have normalized the practice for certain services. Companies should always fully pay their employees. Full stop.
Gotta love corpo news.
have made some people stingier
They’re no longer appreciating service industry workers
Shut the fuck up and pay them a living wage you animals. Don't try and continue pitting individuals against each other. "Blame the consumer for everything" is so played out at this point.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this written about so -
The reason these tipping prompts are so egregiously inescapable now is that those point of sales systems are handed out by Clover and the like when the business starts using them for POS and inventory and credit card processing.
For each CC transaction, the business pays something like 2-3% of the transaction and so the CC processor becomes incentivized to make that transaction amount higher. That’s how we got here. You’re being guilted into tipping a shitty tech company.
Carry cash. Pay cash whenever possible. That’s how you avoid that screen.
Is clover getting money for cc transactions? I thought it was the cc companies charging that fee.
Point of sale companies like Clover charge a fee and the credit card company gets a cut of that. The rest is for the point of sale's services.
From Germany, wholeheartedly, fuck off with your POS terminal tip prompts. I simply won't.
STOP TIPPING. The whole world doesn't tip, it's a strange and stupid US thing. Just stop tipping please!
Also, while you're stopping dumb shit like tipping, may as well switch to the metric system as part of the integration!
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Germany does tip sometimes. But mostly we round up to the next thing that feels right. For me it is usually between 1-5€, but I never tip a percentage or use the tip option on a payment terminal. Sometimes I just don't tip. It is never a problem. It is a bonus not a necessity here.
When they flip that screen, I cringe. US tip culture sucks.
This is the worst I've personally encountered
Shit like this is a good way to prevent me from returning. I don't want to feel bad about giving someone money I didn't need to and if I'm pushing the lowest recommended amount it feels sad.
Returning? I wouldn’t even be completing that order.
Other > zero
I went to get blood lab work done today. When I went to pay the kiosk asked for a tip.
It happened to me at the urologist. They were taking the piss!
Anyone else notice the "essential workers" never got that minimum wage increase?
I get republicans not supporting it, but the moderate Dems not fighting for them is going to hurt in November...
Voters know Republicans obstruct progress, but they need to see that Dems are at least willing to have the fight.
Where I live they got it. While it isn't law, the local fast food is all starting at $16/hour or more.
I’ll tip my waiter/waitress. I refuse to tip a PoS device. I have no shame selecting the “No tip” button on those things.
If everyone stopped tipping at the same time, say labor day, then businesses would need to properly pay their staff again. As soon as tipping became expected the whole system was fucked.
For me there's 3 tiers
Takeout/drive thru food of every kind? No tip. If it's labeled fast food and I have to drive to you to get it, you can pry that shit from my cold dead heart.
Family owned non-chain restaurants. That's a tip. These people out here trying their best against a McDonald's franchisee. Easily worth a few extra.
Delivery is where I tip, they put extra wear on a car and had to put up with the American public on roads between here and the store. That's worth the extra $5-10 Dollars. Especially if it's raining/almost midnight.
I don't know about hairdressers and drivers, but many servers are legally paid less than minimum wage because they are expected to make up the difference in tips.
So this is essentially people being fucked over by not being paid enough fucking over other people who aren't being paid enough. And if you object to them not being paid enough, the solution isn't to not tip them, it's to not go to the restaurant.
They are supposed to be paid the difference if tips plus base pay don't add up to minimum wage. But I'm guessing a lot of places don't do it.
% based tips are bullshit and always have been. And moving the scale up to 18,20,22 is insane.
Especially because a 15% tip is almost twice as good as it was 10 years ago due to rising food costs
Pizza Hut prompted me for a (minimum) 18% tip on a take out order. I could see tipping for takeout if it's a large, complicated order, but this was not. 18% is for standard table service.
i stopped tipping when i was double charged for the tip included.
i tried keeping track of each POS that included gratuity but i can only get burned so many times before i stop using that stove altogether.
And I do not do delivery apps.
As a service person, this sounds great. You actually tip your barber more than I do.
The only thing I think you didn't account for is fancier bars with elaborate cocktails, which tbf most people do not frequent. I'd do 15-20% for those, simply because it's more involved service and more involved drinks.
I quit tipping. That is not true. The last pizza I had delivered to work I gave the lady a ten. Physically gave it to her. Not added it to a app that you know is going to give them less than the tip. If they give them anything at all. I quit tipping through the checkout/payment process.
I worked in craft beer pre-pandemic. Man, beer release days were nice. Get a bunch of bozos all lined up for the minute we open, all want a whole case of the latest IPA for like $100, all of em blindly tapping the 20% tip option. Like, homie, I did nothing for that tip. I'm over here bartending, getting less from the people I'm actually serving beers to. Thanks I guess?
So now, especially that the economy is fucked, I'm very particular about what I tip on.
Yesterday I went to a juice place. Got 2 bottles of juice and a fruit bowl thing. I'm only tipping on the fruit bowl thing. I'll tip 20% on it, but you simply grabbed the bottle of juice from a fridge. That's not a service.
All in all it looks like an 8% tip, because their juice is $11 a bottle and the fruit bowl is like $20 after everything I added to it.
$4 tip. That's 20% on your $20 bowl. I'm ignoring the other $22 on the bill. That wasn't a service. I'm not tipping $9 for this interaction. A fruit bowl and two juices isn't worth $51 dollars. It's hard enough to justify the $4 tip when the juice is $11... The boss can't pay you better with margins like that? Or is the fruit vendor raking it in? Fruit isn't that expensive...
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
What's not to get? You seem to understand it just fine. Rather than actually paying their workers a living wage, they can have customers subsidize their pay.
And then when they have a bad night and end up making $4/hour, tips included, you blame the customers for not tipping and not the employer who pays you literally $3/hour.
I ain’t never been into tipping as I’m not contributing to this system by playing along.
Sure it sucks if you’ve gotta work for tips but still.
they should honestly ban tips on credit card machines and mandate a "cashback" option instead allowing 1-10 dollars of cash back.
I tip if there was something to tip. Fast casual dining with me bussing, nope. Receiving a cup for coffee that I pump and setup, nope.
