Posted on 05/17/2023 3:37:32 AM PDT by dennisw
A bill passed in Colorado would clear the way for all workers to accept cash tips. Some businesses, including Walmart and McDonald's, don't allow employees to accept cash gratuity. Americans are encountering more requests for tips, even when it isn't clear who is serving them. Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday.
Workers at businesses like McDonald's and Walmart could soon be able to accept cash tips under a proposed law before the Colorado legislature.
If enacted, the bill would keep an employer "from taking adverse action against an employee who accepts a cash gratuity offered by a patron of the business," per a summary of the proposal. The bill passed the Colorado state house and senate earlier this month and is now headed to Governor Jared Polis for a signature.
Tipping has become more common at shops and restaurants, with many businesses adding a prompt asking for a tip to digital payment screens. But some businesses, including big names in retail, don't allow their employees to take cash tips from customers.
Walmart, for example, has historically forbidden its employees from accepting cash tips, as has McDonald's. Neither company immediately responded to requests for comment on their policies or the Colorado bill from Insider.
Rep. Alex Valdez, a Democrat representing Denver in the state house, told Colorado Politics in February that the bill is aimed at minimum-wage workers struggling to make ends meet.
"We need to get back to being a society that encourages good service and good work," Valdez said. The bill passed both houses largely along party lines, with most Democrats supporting the measure and most Republicans opposed. Democrats control both houses of the state legislature in Colorado.
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Republican State Senator Jim Smallwood, who voted against the measure, told CNN that accepting cash tips should be left to individual business owners.
“We should probably rely on employers to know what is best for their customers and their employees,” Smallwood said.
Requests for tips, both cash and digital, have popped up in new places lately, including self-checkout kiosks at airports and sports stadiums.
Some customers describe “tipping fatigue” as requests for tips become typical during more transactions.
You ask Jose at the MacDonalds take out window. -—”Where can I buy some mushrooms and some non-fentanyl laced weed?” He clues you in with a dope and mushrooms delivery phone number. So you give him a $5 tip.
Same scenario plays out with Mary, the Walmart greeter.
i offered a tip to the kid at Walmart for loading mulch into my trunk- he said no- like he was going t get in trouble. Thats the only reason I’d tip at Walmart- if someone was assisting with something heavy.
Fast food companies should should pay customers to eat there because 99% of them suck. Walmart tips... I’ve got a few but it’s not money.
I offer Kudo’s on line for those those who do a good job.
It seems the prices rise every week at these fast food places. A family of four . . . each ordering a Big Mac meal $8.89 can end up paying with tax almost $40. Not a fan here. . .but I do like their cookie totes at $4.49. If they raise the price again...forget it!
Bet they’ll be taxable, too...
Tips are taxable and reportable. Say hello to another recording and reporting department. It also takes pressure of the employer for wage increases.
It’s entertaining to watch know-it-all politicians, who never held a real job, sticking their nose into business decisions.
At least it’ll give some of those 87,000 new IRS employees another low/middle class target to harass.
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“Tips are taxable and reportable.”
Another reason for the demand to go to digital currency, so the gooberment can capture ALL the income they can get their hands on.
I’ve probably eaten at all the McDonald’s in Tallahassee and my nearby rural town. The food is dry and tasteless. The service is not as good as it once was, which is amazing considering how limited each job is. But now I guess there will be yet another reason not to stop there.
We already are expected to tip every person out there who does a service job, even though they are paid same as all the rest of us, to do a job. I wont hardly go out to eat anymore cause the servers expect to be paid 20% of whatever the meal costs. I’ve had them to beg me.
I’ve always tipped well for good service, dont beg me just do your job.
We already are expected to tip every person out there who does a service job, even though they are paid same as all the rest of us, to do a job. I wont hardly go out to eat anymore cause the servers expect to be paid 20% of whatever the meal costs. I’ve had them to beg me.
I’ve always tipped well for good service, dont beg me just do your job.
Such tips will actually do the opposite, as customers are held hostage by employees looking for tips for simply doing their jobs.
I’ve wondered if putting tips on every transaction screen and tip jars next to every cashier is the companies’ way of counting everyone in the restaurant a tipped employee subject to the $2.13 federal minimum wage instead of the normal $7.25.
Maybe if Walmart would employ more checkers so we don’t have to wait 20-30 minutes in line OR go through the self-checkout, I might tip. I doubt it though.
These new app driven POS (point of sale) systems are sold to customers (business owners) as ‘solving problems’ and increasing tips to employees, thereby reducing salary pressure on the owners.
The effect of a screen presented to me upon payment means only one thing:
NEVER will I click a button for a default tip and neither will I patronize an establishment with either compulsory gratuity or guilting into tipping.
If I receive good service, 20% is the norm.
If I do not receive good service, $2 or 2-5% is what it is.
And ALWAYS cash regardless, and NEVER will I write in a tip on a receipt to be manually entered by staff after I leave.
These new pressures on tipping are having the opposite effect, all to deaf ears with proprietors.
3 different restaurants in the past 2 weeks, no refills on drinks/coffee. Pathetic.
They are paid well for burger flippers. Thanks to covid. AI is taking over those jobs anyway.
“Ok kid, here is a tip....get a real career”
More government intrusion.
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