I haven’t been to a Subway in ages, but I don’t ever remember them asking for tips or having a tip jar.
But it seems like every place is asking for tips now- even fast food joints.
My first part time job as a teenager was at KFC. We were prohibited from taking tips and were instructed to politely refuse on the rare occasion they were offered.
We American tourists have ruined Europe, too.
I read that many establishments now add a gratuity to the bill.
These kids in Ca. are making $20.00 an hour now and now they want tips too, the damn sandwich prices have gone sky high because of food and labor costs now they want a tip!! I was in the food industry my entire life, when in college worked as a server for $2.17 an hour we lived on our tips!! These damn kids are getting $20.00 an hour to make a damn sandwich!!
Lately I’ve noticed when paying with a card a lot of places have 20% tip defaulted right into the device software when doing the transaction......YOU have to change the tip amount to less or zero....if you miss it, it charges you automatically.
That just makes me not want to tip anything.
My rule of thumb is, if a server isn’t taking care of me at a table chances are a tip ain’t in the equation.
Same when I worked at McDonald's in the early 70s. One guy got fired for accepting a tip.
As an aside, Costco has a firm no-tipping policy. I tried to tip a tire shop guy who had noticed a low tire on my car as I was parking and he was shuffling cars around. He firmly refused it. I went and found a manager and told him he had a great employee, and that I really appreciated his noticing and calling out that problem.