Yep. My rule - I ONLY tip AFTER consumption and knowing how good the SERVICE was. I MUST be paying after the service.
This idea of tipping when you pay for your sandwich at a counter, or picking up pizza, before you eat, is ridiculous. It’s about personal service, was it good or bad?
I had a purely natural response when picking up pizza, I was paying and the employee asks, “do you want to put a tip on that?”...immediately, I just reacted, “No, why would I want to do that?”. They went quiet. Now nobody asks, ever (at that pizza place).
I think COVID skewed things. We felt bad that food service employees weren’t able to get tips. So people gave tips anyway, even though they were just picking up food. Then people started asking for tips on anything, before service has been received, or even when there’s no service.
That said, I do think things are normalizing again. Seems to be happening less, at least around me.
A buddy told me he ordered something on his phone before he even got there and the app asked for a tip. No human had even seen his order yet.
XD XD. These companies are absurd.
But people do it, or they would stop. Much like the modern day hobos that beg on the corner. They go from town to town in RVs. Look for it, you’ll see it parked somewhere close. And next week it’ll be an entirely different troupe. Workin’ the morons.