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Nearly 9 in 10 Americans Are Fed Up With Tipping, According To a New Survey
Food & Wine ^ | Mar 20, 2025 | Nicolette Baker

Posted on 08/03/2025 1:06:48 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: Openurmind

“”””Walmart delivery persons expect 100% tips... Same as what your purchase is.”””””

I’m not buying this, people expecting $100, and $200, and $300 dollar tips based on equal to whatever the person who shops at Walmart bought that day and is being delivered, and I sure don’t believe that Walmart is hiring that way.

I think the confusion is that Walmart makes clear that 100% of the TIP, goes to the driver.


121 posted on 08/03/2025 4:26:53 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DugwayDuke

Sounds like someone’s wife slithered in there and had a talk with them about it.


122 posted on 08/03/2025 4:27:18 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Might as well bring in the robot servers then. Without tipping, there is no incentive to give service above the minimum required in the manual. If you need proof of this, go to Europe and eat in a restaurant, but be prepared to be underwhelmed.


123 posted on 08/03/2025 4:28:55 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: tired&retired
I tip big on some things like my auto mechanic.

First I've ever heard someone tipping an auto mechanic.

124 posted on 08/03/2025 4:29:33 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: ansel12

Nope, both drivers told me Walmart told them they should usually get the same in tips as the total of the delivery. 100%

I told them that was crazy, I could buy enough gas to get to Texas from Az with that.


125 posted on 08/03/2025 4:30:25 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: dfwgator

I still leave a few bucks for housekeepers but my 40 yo daughter acts like that’s crazy! They watched us leave them tips growing up, but apparently that’s gone the way of the dodo bird for millennials.


126 posted on 08/03/2025 4:32:13 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: Openurmind

Then you just ran into a couple of mental cases, Walmart has nothing to do with this story.


127 posted on 08/03/2025 4:34:29 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Mozzafiato; tired&retired

“First I’ve ever heard someone tipping an auto mechanic.”

You don’t have to, and it is not expected, but if you are ever going to go out of your way to appreciate good honest service it would be your car doctor... You treat them right and they will treat you right. They could lie to you in a heartbeat about the diagnosis and turn a $200 job into a $2000 job...


128 posted on 08/03/2025 4:35:02 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: CatOwner

Ppl need to realize that fact. Just tip on the amount before taxes or service charges.


129 posted on 08/03/2025 4:35:36 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: redfreedom

Many restaurants don’t even pay minimum wage precisely because the employee is tipped. It makes going on vacation or calling in sick a painful experience financially.


130 posted on 08/03/2025 4:38:24 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: GingisK

Everything is free in Heaven.


131 posted on 08/03/2025 4:41:13 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: untenured

Too bad Trump disagrees with you, lol.


132 posted on 08/03/2025 4:51:58 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: PIF

Nobody is making wages of $20-30/hr in the restaurant industry, with the exception of wackadoodle liberal cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco or NYC.


133 posted on 08/03/2025 4:56:08 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: Fury

We had our A/C cleaned a month or so ago and I tipped the guy who serviced it a 6 pack of Suntory Lager !


134 posted on 08/03/2025 4:58:21 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: Prince of Space

“”””Without tipping, there is no incentive to give service above the minimum required in the manual. “”””

Aside from personal character, hiring well and firing when needed is what the owner is for.

Any mediocre and indifferent employee who is hurting your service business and driving away customers, needs to go, and you made a bad hire.


135 posted on 08/03/2025 5:01:32 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Vermont Lt

Hubby has worked part time at a high-end steakhouse for more than a decade. He’s been a server for over 40 yrs and it’s not really a job for him. He routinely averages $50/hr, mainly because of his experience, but if he calls out sick or we go on vacation, he only gets $9 an hour. Things like that are why I think the “no tax on tips” law is fair.


136 posted on 08/03/2025 5:06:49 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: dfwgator

“Come on you, cough up a buck, you cheap bastard!”


137 posted on 08/03/2025 5:08:43 PM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: ansel12

And what if everyone there behaves the same? It’s not like experienced servers grow on trees.


138 posted on 08/03/2025 5:12:42 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: PIF

Don’t conflate absolute numbers with percentages...


139 posted on 08/03/2025 5:16:50 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Prince of Space

LOL, don’t hire people of low character with a lousy work ethic.


140 posted on 08/03/2025 5:16:52 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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