Republican State Senator Jim Smallwood, who voted against the measure, told CNN that accepting cash tips should be left to individual business owners.
“We should probably rely on employers to know what is best for their customers and their employees,” Smallwood said.
Requests for tips, both cash and digital, have popped up in new places lately, including self-checkout kiosks at airports and sports stadiums.
Some customers describe “tipping fatigue” as requests for tips become typical during more transactions.
i offered a tip to the kid at Walmart for loading mulch into my trunk- he said no- like he was going t get in trouble. Thats the only reason I’d tip at Walmart- if someone was assisting with something heavy.
Fast food companies should should pay customers to eat there because 99% of them suck. Walmart tips... I’ve got a few but it’s not money.
Bet they’ll be taxable, too...
I’ve probably eaten at all the McDonald’s in Tallahassee and my nearby rural town. The food is dry and tasteless. The service is not as good as it once was, which is amazing considering how limited each job is. But now I guess there will be yet another reason not to stop there.
We already are expected to tip every person out there who does a service job, even though they are paid same as all the rest of us, to do a job. I wont hardly go out to eat anymore cause the servers expect to be paid 20% of whatever the meal costs. I’ve had them to beg me.
I’ve always tipped well for good service, dont beg me just do your job.
We already are expected to tip every person out there who does a service job, even though they are paid same as all the rest of us, to do a job. I wont hardly go out to eat anymore cause the servers expect to be paid 20% of whatever the meal costs. I’ve had them to beg me.
I’ve always tipped well for good service, dont beg me just do your job.
Such tips will actually do the opposite, as customers are held hostage by employees looking for tips for simply doing their jobs.
I’ve wondered if putting tips on every transaction screen and tip jars next to every cashier is the companies’ way of counting everyone in the restaurant a tipped employee subject to the $2.13 federal minimum wage instead of the normal $7.25.
Maybe if Walmart would employ more checkers so we don’t have to wait 20-30 minutes in line OR go through the self-checkout, I might tip. I doubt it though.
They are paid well for burger flippers. Thanks to covid. AI is taking over those jobs anyway.
“Ok kid, here is a tip....get a real career”
More government intrusion.
My wife and I made the move in 2017 to get our out of control personal finances under control. Central to that was the creation of a budget and the will to keep at the budget.
Once we realized how much money we were wasting every month and how much consumer debt we had acquired, we proceeded to cut out much of our unnecessary spending until our finances were stable.
5 years later we found ourselves debt free, mortgage paid off and savings in the bank. Our situation to get to this point required that we cut our spending and that meant no eating out for a short time. What we realized is “fast food” isn’t really very fast and that it is way overpriced.
So my message to anyone in the service industry is I can live without you, i can eat better for less and if you want me to tip you, you better do something deserving of that tip. You do well I tip well but don’t expect it just because you have a need or think you are special.
Say I’m shopping an unfamiliar store, looking for a specific item, and I’m in a hurry. I ask an employee for help, and he gets me taken care of quickly. A few bucks in the form of a “thank you” would not seem inappropriate.
Others would argue that the employee is just doing his job. They wouldn’t be wrong either. This is one of those YMMV topics.