What's next? Tipping the kid at the drive up window at McDonalds?
Beats me, as I brew my own at work and at home.
I may tip if they have a jar, and I’m a regular, but I’m never going to tip 15% to a guy behind a counter. If I tip, it’s at most a buck, or whatever change I got back from him.
Tipping cracks me up. I tip for meals. I tip the guy that parks my car. I tip the bartender.
I don’t tip the guy that hands me a cup of coffee, whether they have a green mermaid on their shirt or golden arches. Never have.
For food and drinks I tip if I get table service.
Period.
I only drink straight black coffee that they just have to pour into a cup. No tip for that.
My “norm” and their “norm” are 2 different norms. This is their form of “social justice”. I guarantee management tells them that customers “owe” as a way of “paying back” to the community. Starbucks can avoid pay raises this way.
I wouldn’t tip at McDs because they spend no time on your stuff, corporate goal is you’re out in 60 seconds. It takes time for the barista to make your vente thingamajig with 2 extra shots, why not give them an extra buck?
Saw a tip jar at the make your own frozen yogurt place! I got a chuckle out of that one!
No. They might fall over.
I hat them snotty nosed baristas and the wait; wait, wait for black coffee that is so friggin overpriced.
You chose Starbucks because you aren’t qualified for much else
I mean, digging fence post hole pays better.
Does the receipt now come with an insult to customer math skills?
Does their tip calculation include a tip on the tax?
I prefer cow tipping.
I’m a greedy bastid who doesn’t go to those kinds of places. If I do order anything its delivery pizza and I always tip them well.
Odd, really - I seldom tip at Starbucks or Tullys but frequently at the numerous indie places. No particular reason behind it except that the corporate places aren’t quite as hand-to-mouth as the smaller shops.
No but the McDs drive thru could become the norm, instead of Fivebucks
IF I ever would go to a Starbuck's for their crappy coffee...
And IF the coffee slingers (I refuse to use that B word) would lose the oh-so-superior attitude...I might....MIGHT think about tipping.
I never go anywhere that has a barista, whatever that is.
I tip bartenders, not baristas.
With extremely rare exceptions, nowadays operation of an Espresso machine by a “barista” involves turning a selector handle and pushing a button, not much more than complicated than operating a self-serve soda pop dispenser in a fast food restaurant.
It’s a wonder that coffee shops haven’t already turned the machines around on the counter and just let the customers self-serve. Perhaps ubiquitous self-serve Espresso machines just need one more generation of simplification before that ubiquity becomes reality.
Well no it hasn't disappeared...I abide by that rule faithfully...