Posted on 08/03/2025 1:06:48 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Everyone has an opinion on tipping. Whether you add a standard 20% across the board or hate a tipping screen “on principle,” you might’ve noticed those opportunities popping up more frequently these days.
Nearly nine in 10 Americans think tipping culture has gone too far — a sharp increase from the around 75% who thought the same last year. That’s according to a new report from personal finance company WalletHub, which examined Americans’ current attitudes toward gratuity. Survey respondents shared their views on this tricky subject, and it shows just how annoyed (and ultimately confused) Americans might feel about adding an extra 20%.
“Tips have gone far beyond traditional establishments, which include sit-down restaurants, bars, and hair salons. Now, it’s everywhere you look,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo tells Food & Wine. “I think that’s part of the frustration, because people are at a point where they don’t know who to tip and how much to tip.”
Lupo says that if these survey results tell us anything, it’s that Americans are “fed up” with increased tipping opportunities.
“You’re tipping for personal service. If you have a cup of coffee pushed to the end of the counter or someone’s handing you a bag of fast food through a drive-thru window, that’s not traditionally what tipping should be about,” Lupo explains. “If they feel like these tipping screens are invasive, these respondents say they’ll tip less or not even tip at all.”
A little less than half of Americans agree that tipping should be replaced altogether by an employee rating system. Still want to show your gratitude, yet don’t know where to add an extra tip? Lupo recommends tipping when possible for services (especially at restaurants and hair salons), as well as toward hotel hospitality, rideshare and cab drivers, and housekeepers...
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They’re fed up with the cost of the menu.
Their Socialist Security money doesn’t go as far, so they’re looking for a justification for being a cheapskate.
My way around this conundrum is to prepare your own food.
I’ve been pro-tipping until recently. My usual big chain haircut store put an auto $7 tip on my $16 hair receipt. I could have made a scene, but I was standing face to face with the woman who did the haircut.
I was at a bar with friends the other night and we ordered tacos and draft beers. They would not accept cash... except in their tip jar. I’m seeing this more and more often. Nothing but cards or Venmo/ PayPal accepted, and then they want to add a 3% charge when you use a credit card.
All this time I thought they were suggesting weed killer!
I tip 20-25 percent depending on service. Never below 20 percent. But like everyone else, I’m sick of tipping at Dairy Queen where it’s not sit down.
It’s basically become legalized extortion. If you don’t tip or tip below expected then you’ll possibly get an unwanted extra in your drink or food.
European phrase where the service charges have not been added to the bill. Meaning you are being charged for being served the meal you paid for, or are paying for, then comes the tip.
I tip the local breweries and our favorite restaurant which are both very small usually 30% simply because I like them and when we come in they know exactly what we want and often when they see our car pull up the brews are are already on the way to the table. If I tell them they missed something on the bill we ordered and had, it’s always.. you’re good don’t worry or it’s on us. As they’ll tell us, we don’t have customers we have friends.
It’s about service and if you enjoy the place. The gas station and fast food (which we don’t eat) tip jars are asinine along with every other tips ard appreciated nonsense.
PS: Then too, that “tip jar” next to the cashier who give you your food over the counter, like going to a take out place.
That’s one time I don’t care if they want a tip. Vacation! If I’m having fun, tipping is fun. Those workers deserve every penny. I know you said machine, but the workers actually get the tip money.
Walmart started a delivery service and they charge you $12.95 per month or $98 per year. I figured it out, at $8 per month, it’s cheaper to just have things delivered. Plus, I very much dislike our local Walmart store as the staff are 100% incompetent and the store is unkept and dirty.
Problem is, yesterday I ordered a few things and my bill came to less than $100. They delivered it in four different trips and the delivery folks added a $4 tip to each order.
Should we tip if we pay an annual delivery fee? The same is true for Amazon Prime. They have no tip system like Walmart.
I tip big on some things like my auto mechanic.
I don’t think they even have a 100% tip box.
I like the receipt that tell you what to tip. I’ve been over tipping! They actually are getting less than what I’d tip if they provide that. Same with haircut. I go to the barber and tip 10 bucks. If they decide to require 7, then I save 3.
The facade about tipping is disappearing, people are starting to feel like suckers for paying the owner’s labor costs, the menu prices should reflect all of the price of the meal and drinks, and the labor for someone to bring it to your table.
ponygirl wrote: “I was at a bar with friends the other night and we ordered tacos and draft beers. They would not accept cash... except in their tip jar. I’m seeing this more and more often. Nothing but cards or Venmo/ PayPal accepted, and then they want to add a 3% charge when you use a credit card.”
Often the move to cash is caused by employee theft.
Funny story. A country club in my area stopped accepting cash and instead all purchases has to be on the club account.
Several of the men were quite upset by this because it meant their wives could find out how much they were drinking. Before, they would order a beer and put it on the tab paying for several other beers with cash.
This just in: in a new study, evidence now shows that 1 in 10 will lie any time asked to take a survey.
Of course they don’t, It was a con Walmart told them so they would hire on. But you can bet some of them are stupid enough to actually expect that much.
Coffee shop, just this Sunday morning. I got my sweetie a Mocha, instead of going to a window which had no customers, they sent out people to scan my card. Instead of a tip jar, they asked if I wanted to tip. I said -F- no, since when do you become a panhandler. They did a bit of frowning, but instead of me throwing the change from the coffee, they turned me off forever.
Ever since minimum wage for workers, the girls at the local diner make $18 an hour. I quit tipping. They do 10-12 hour shifts. They make more than I get on retirement.
10% means 10% of the full price which is more now than when I was younger. Which means the total tip is more now but shoulf still be 10% - if the service was excellent.
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