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We had 150 million people decide to keep things going the way they are. Until a major slice of shit hits the proverbial fan, nothing will change. The American population is too fat, stupid, and lazy to make the change on its own.

I think it's more of a subsidizing thing. In the UK they get all these things and can't budge due to pushback and culture, so they subsidize those costs with cuts to other places, like shrinkflation in the US, and other places. Costs went up to ship their foodstuffs all over the world, buuuut they enabled tipping at POS in the US, getting poor suckers to make up the difference (they hope)

Not an excuse, but if the US put in place the same things the UK has, fast food would lose their biggest cost subsidy for more expensive places like the UK, and prices would actually go up (because the corpo suits can't take a fuckin pay cut obviously!)

I'm so fucking done with it, that I just assume everyone behind me is too. I happily hit that "No tip" button. Unless you provided an active service for me, or went above and beyond to get me something, then why do you deserve a tip? I have to pay you extra money for you to do your job correctly?

And the default options are 20, 25, 30 some places.

I was in SoCal several months back and ended up in a candy shop. Nothing but drawers of candy on the walls and one desk in the middle with a young woman sitting behind the checkout tablet. I had a question or two, but she was neither helpful or knowledgeable (it's candy. not a difficult topic). She seemed very disinterested in engagement.

Well, I finish my selection, she scans and the tablet shows the totals with the big tip screen (NoTip-15-20-25%). I was taken aback that her job would get tips and wondered if she was paid enough before I smashed the NoTip button to finish up since she hadn't done a thing to merit one.

Probably not directly, but I think tipping fatigue is definitely affecting things. If you’ve been prompted 10 times already to tip at places you usually wouldn’t tip and then are in a sit down restaurant, you may very well feel inclined to tip less.

Considering the article specifies “full-service restaurants,” Imma go with no

I pay extra for the food because they're outsourcing to Door Dash, and it takes two hours to get a pizza.

It takes 2 hours because they're sending a bid to drivers for your delivery contract, which may also include someone else's delivery on the same route, for a base pay of $2 plus your tip. After enough drivers decline that, they add 25 cents and send it around again. This process repeats until someone (hopefully) eventually accepts it. And – whoops – the merchant''s contract with DoorDash requires the driver to have a pizza bag. So the bid only even gets seen by the subset of drivers who do.

That's $2, plus your tip. And that's if the merchant was nice enough to actually pass that tip along when they outsourced the delivery. They aren't contractually required to do so, and some don't.

As an unpaid independent contractor, if I can see it's an outsourced order (placed through the merchant instead of through the delivery marketplace), I won't even accept it, because it's also going to mean losing 10-20 minutes of unpaid time standing around waiting for the merchant (who sent out the contract way too early) to actually start making your pizza, that they already lied about being ready when they sent a notification to you and to me. It's nearly always a disaster.

Edit to add: Just order from Domino's, they do everything in-house.

Mr. Pink was definitely an asshole

My electric company has a tip line when paying the bill.

I don’t get the ones for products. I pay for a trendy pillow or whatever, also shipping at a flat rate, but then there’s a tip button? I just know that’s going straight to Shopify or management.

You know what tipping is supposed to be used for

Yes, allowing management to pay less than a living wage so that the public can cover the rest.

I get your meaning (and agree), but tipping as a practice should be dead and gone.

What's the problem?

You know the server doesn't cook, right?

Depends on the state, too. In Washington wait staff get full minimum wage, which is the highest in the country.

So I feel a lot less bad leaving a smaller tip in Washington because they're being paid the same as everyone else, not artificially paid less with "tips supposed to make up the difference."

Also, semi-related: Olympia, Washington was one of UberEats best-tipping cities in 2023.

https://www.uber.com/newsroom/2023-uber-eats-cravings-report/

Customers in Olympia, WA, Asheville, NC and Bismarck, ND were the most generous tippers in the U.S.

So a city with the highest minimum wage in the country is also one of the cities that tips the best. Interesting.

Why are you tipping if there's a line? The line implies self service.