Posted on 07/10/2025 5:44:04 AM PDT by Morgana
Matt Walsh exposes how tipping culture has spiraled out of control—from sit-down restaurants to self-checkout screens. It’s not generosity anymore, it’s emotional blackmail.
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I recently gave a tip to our waitress.
It was a suggestion to increase her
Dessert sales.
I saw it on a video.
This video had this guy telling his secret of
Always having higher dessert sales than everybody else.
Afterwards, I told the table, hey we gave her a tip.
We still tipped.
Weaponized tipping is mostly a cost shifting move by food service establishments. The pressure to pay more than the legal minimum is reduced if they can get the customer to pick up the slack.
Not at all. Ignore the noise. Move forward. My (bowling) ProShop had a tip line on their bill...after paying $60 for a custom sport drill of a new bowling ball. I told the guy if it appears on my bill again, then I will not buy another ball here. I walked out on the next purchase...after he had already drilled it. Congrats assholes.
Check the bill closely since some locations are adding it in and hoping you won’t notice. I a tip is added on the bill, send it back and have it taken off.
Exactly. I’m going to start getting the address of the maker of the device begging for a tip and send the tip to them.
“Also, used to be just on the base amount of the bill, not with the tax added in.”
An excellent point. I always calculate my tip on the net bill, not the total that includes tax.
They should be helped in three ways:
1. the druggies/alcoholics go to jail or treatment, their choice.
2.The mentally ill go to mental hospital and get their medication.
3. All the rest live and work at a poor farm just like 150 years ago. It worked then, it will work now if society and politicians grow a more reality based thicker skin.
>>Recent trip to grocery store - “want to round up?”... <<
Me: “Oh, yeah, I gotta stop at Lowes on the way home and get some Round-Up! Thanks for reminding me!”............
Tip:
Sit-down restaurant servers
Bartender
Pizza or food home delivery
Uber/Taxi driver
Hotel staff (housekeeper, valet etc.)
Barber/hair salon
Pet groomer
Car detailer
Plumber/home repair/mechanic if sole proprietor or Mom and Pop shop
Envelope or gift at Christmas:
Trash collector
Mailman
Attorney
CPA/Tax preparer if not employee of HR Block etc.
Family doctor
No tip:
Any food service picked up at a counter
Employees at big box stores who wheel stuff to your car
Any medical service at time of procedure/office visit
Auto service done at car dealer/big box store/franchise shop
FedEx/UPS delivery
As minimum wages have increased and restaurants have increased their meal prices accordingly, tipping has become a thing of the past.
European diners do not tip because the workers are paid an appropriate wage for the work they do.
Zero tips will be common as the USA adopts the European model.
Yep. When I was growing up a full tip was generally 15%, and that was the max if the person did everything right, and as you said it was on the pre-tax total. What has happened is that the left’s “living wage” propaganda has infected the minds of service employees, making them think that they are owed a particular standard of living, no matter what their job is. So they no longer view a tip as a voluntary favor, but instead as an obligation of the customer to fund their desired income level.
I spent six weeks in Japan back in March and April, and their no-tipping culture was heavenly. Not only was there no expectation of a tip, but if you attempt it they view it as an insult because they’re already being paid to do their best work. And the level of service they provide is in another universe from the entitled attitude of all the tattooed, pierced, purple-haired weirdos that populate the service industry in the U.S.
I remember fifty plus years ago I was working as a cook at the Steak House in Knott’s Berry Farm, a waitress had a table of eight and when they left there was a quarter in the tip tray. She chased them down in the crowd outside and very loudly said you forgot your quarter, you need more than I do.
This insanity with tipping really took off with covid when everyone started putting all sorts of crap out, paper drink cups, coffee mugs, tin cans, whatever with a scribbled sign that said tips, as if all of sudden taking your order or passing you a bag at fast food and such suddenly was service deserving of a tip🤬
That’s exactly what happened and exactly why I’ll never patronize them again
we were out at dinner with a friend at a place the looked really good. When they told us we had to do all the work, we got up and walked out.
When I go out to dinner, I go out to be served, not to do the work myself.
OK, we’ve beaten this horse to death, now let’s do having to show your receipt to leave a store.
I smile and wish the door tender a nice day as I breeze past. They don’t have any right whatsoever to make me prove that I own the property that I just paid for.
That option is almost non-existent.
My state had 6000 beds in 1955 for the mentally ill. Today there are 135.
And there are a heck of a lot more customers for those beds today than there were in 1955.
I NEVER ROUND UP AND NEVER GIVE TO THEIR 'CHARITY OF CHOICE'.
I donate thousands of dollars a year to places that I decide deserve MY money, not at a gas station that is selling fast food.
I was buying shoes and the card machine defaulted to a 20 percent tip. F that.
Same.
“He’s right. The percentages have got out of control, too.”
And that’s higher percentage on top of higher food prices - it’s compounded!
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