I only tip when tipping is earned.
There are placed I tip, and I tip generously.
There are places where I don’t tip. And I feel nothing about it.
With a $25,000 a year deduction for tip income expect to see more places try to move the employee compensation to a tip model.
Grow a thick skin and don’t buy into the “tip culture.” I find it hilarious when someone tries to force me through a 25% tip screen for buying a donut. Even the employees are embarrassed.
When I had a waitress follow me into the parking lot to protest the 20% tip I gave at a business lunch 20 years ago I was done with tipping.
If it’s a sit down meal or a haircut I give 15% and that’s it.
The new thing with fast food places and other stuff having a tip on the card reader I just pass on by.
He’s right. The percentages have got out of control, too.
“Would you like to ‘Round up’ to help starving children in Botswana?”
It’s EXTORTION.
Pizza place wanted a $10 tip for large pie & 3 sodas brought to our table. Unreal.
If some goes to the trouble of serving my meal they will fet a tip: “Don’t stare directly into the sun.”
I pay cash to skip screens where they demand tips.
Never tip except drivers, sit down servers, bartenders, bellman, and curbside luggage people.
About a year ago I ate at an airport restaurant. When I asked for my bill, the waitress pointed to a QR code and told me that I had to pay with that.
Grudgingly, I did. I had to manually enter my credit card info after navigating their website.
Since the waitress only did 2/3 of her job (take order, deliver food) She only got 2/3 of the normal tip (10%)
The restaurant stupidly included a survey then had the temerity to reply that I was wrong for not loving their new system and not fully tipping their waitress.
I replied by telling them that I travel 50-60% of the time for my job, eat out a lot and won’t be patronizing TGI Friday any more.
Truth. Sick and tired of of every transaction requesting tips.
I worked in the food and beverage service industry when I was younger. It’s not easy at times when your income fluctuates. A few big tables can carry you over another week. But we always had tables of 10 or more people who would want the check split up, but when you added up all the tips it wouldn’t even add up to $15.
The concept of tipping however has just gone off the deep end.
But all of these POS machines, with the prompts to add a percentage, or donate to some cause is too much. It’s at the grocery stores now, and pet stores.
Great video by Matt Walsh, as always. Thanks for posting it.
In our house, the dog charges an exorbitant, ‘Cheese Tax.’ If you have cheese, you had better be giving some of it to her!
T.I.P.S. = ‘To Insure Prompt Service’
Feed me quick, or you get no tip. :)
I’m probably in a restaurant 4x a year and myself and the other three I’m usually dining with always split the bill and the tip, so it’s never been a problem.
If Beau is paying, it’s also not my problem. He’s a big tipper WHEN DESERVED. :)
There are tip jars for the most mundane services, like I was at a convenience store and I chose what I wanted and there was a tip jar at the checkout counter. For what?? Taking my money? Then too, shouldn’t we get a discount for checking out our own stuff at a self check unit? I mean, we checked out our own stuff, not a clerk.
Actually it’s employers realizing that when they declare their employees tipped they can pay less. In most states, with odd regulations from place to place. But by and large, it’s just employers trying to pay less.
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.