If this backlash kills off tipping in America forever, good.
Employers should be paying their employee a living wage anyways, instead of shifting the responsibility to the customers.
If this backlash kills off tipping in America forever, good.
Employers should be paying their employee a living wage anyways, instead of shifting the responsibility to the customers.
Where I live, there are plenty of restaurants with tipflation.
And then there are the worker-owned pizza joint and coffee shop, which do not even have a tip jar on the counter. They don't ask for — or make room for — tips. They pay their worker-owners well enough that they don't have to beg.
That's what tipping culture is. It's putting the worker in the position of begging from the customer instead of being assured a fair wage by the employer. And now, the management even wants to tax the receipts of this mandatory panhandling.
Now, I understand that authoritarians love this. When I was a kid, I was explicitly told that tips were necessary; otherwise the waiter might spit in your food. That is, as a child of the professional class, I was instructed that service workers must be appeased with donations to keep them from committing crimes against us.
Yeah. That's pretty messed up.
But the worker-owned venues make it clear: the restaurant doesn't need tips to attract capable & honest workers; they just need to give a fair deal.
Yet another thing that has been eye opening about living in Europe is how fucked and terrible tipping is in the states. Twenty percent AS A MINIMUM? When I’m picking up food at the counter??? AYFKM?
If a business can't afford to pay its workers a living wage that business should not exist. If we all stopped going to these places they'll be forced to fix it.
But Reddit Vs Lemmy is like a microcosm of this issue. Most people will stay on Reddit because god forbid they get inconvenienced or have to do something differently.
The same way people won't leave twitter, won't stop getting food at McDonalds or shopping at Wal-Mart, etc...
Not to mention, you can't have a percentage go up and blame it on inflation.
I’m American but lived in Japan for a couple of years. I was so shocked by the amazing customer service the Japanese workers gave me but never asked or expected a tip.
I was so confused coming back here and seeing all of stores implementing an option to tip and I’m trying to figure out… for what? Most of the workers hardly acknowledge me when I’m there and it feels as if I’m bothering them coming to order something, and then they turn the iPad around asking for a tip.
This honestly needs to stop.
I was so shocked by the amazing customer service the Japanese workers gave me but never asked or expected a tip.
That's how the entire world works outside of NA.
I always say it’s shocking what us Americans are accustomed to here in the US, and those that have never been outside of the country would never know these things. I also visited Australia for a bit and noticed no one asked or expected a tip as well.
Glad I had the opportunity to see how other countries do things outside the US 🙂
I don't support tipping culture.
It always amazes me that that tipping is still a thing. If your business can't survive paying a proper wage to your employees without the need for supplemental income from the customer your business isn't meant to survive. Isn't that the capitalism they're always on about?
If I know owners of a particular restaurant don't take care of their employees or treat them badly, then I probably won't want to eat there anyways.
My general guide for tipping
Even for point 1 it's just wrong. They should not work there for that wage and if the business needs to charge more money to pay them more then charge more money.
Relying on tips for worker pay not only shifts the responsibility for paying the employees away from employer to the customer but also makes employees getting paid optional (depending on how a random person that walked in feels).
charge more for the food
Yes! Just do this! I promise you seeing more expensive prices on the menu will annoy me FAR less than getting the check and seeing a surprise 18% "service fee."
My girlfriend and I went to a retail store one time and at checkout the cashier turned the iPad around and showed us a tip screen……
We need a competition for "most ridiculous place to ask for tips".
Someone in this thread said that their self-checkout asked for a tip. I don’t know how one could top that!
Airport grab'n'go kiosk, I thought I saw. For that extra spicy fuck you.
One time at the Starbucks drive thru, waiting several minutes for a cold brew, only a cold brew, I was irritated to see a very obvious tip cup on the drive through. After waiting much longer than it should have taken to pour a cold brew, the guy tried to solicit a tip on my card... seriously....It is absolutely irritating to have them not only provide slow service but then aggressively demand a tip for shitty service. I'll tip when it's appropriate, bartenders, waiters (20+%) and straight food delivery (fuck Uber eats, door dash etc, I won't pay 50.00 for 30.00 in food and then tip, that's stupid, so I don't use it.)
Edit(I don't use the food delivery services, I am not going to stiff their folks delivering food. )
I'm curious how many of these POS (Point-of-Sale, not Piece of Shit) systems have the default settings to ask for tips. If so, I wonder how many of these places are committing wage theft by not actually paying tips out to the employees.
Given their reliability, both are accurate.
The other day I went to a pub, and the machine at checkout suggested a 10%. You mean you expect me to tip 10% to this person whose contribution to my life was literally just putting my glass to a tap, pulling on the lever, then putting the price into the machine??
How about instead you just pay the person a proper wage to do that alongside all the other non-customer facing stuff they already have to do instead of making us top-up their wages.
Tipping culture was meant to be a bonus for exceptional service, not an expectation for all bloody services!
I'll tip for sit down service or delivery.... Anything else you can fuck right off.
I'm fine with tipping in the places where it's already expected. Wait staff and delivery and such. There those people live on the tips being given. Yeah the system is shit and we should pay them appropriately from the start, but refusing to tip doesn't fight the system; it just stiffs a worker.
I don't like it when a bakery or ice cream stand sale terminal prompts me to leave a tip. It makes me feel awkward for hitting no, even though not tipping for ice cream has been and still is standard.
You gotta learn to get past the guilt. Just hit zero. They're relying on your guilt to extract more money from you.
Oh I hit zero consistently for the normally non-tipped services. I just feel awkward doing it. Feeling awkward isn't enough to get me to do so, but it is enough to make me unhappy about being asked.
I did takeout at a Dominos the other day, and it took the idiot a full minute to figure out how to bring my order up on the computer. He's tap, tap, tapping away at the computer with no idea what he's doing. Probably high as hell. And then he's like, "It's going to ask you a question", and I was actually angry that it even gave me the option. WTF! And I still felt slightly guilty for hitting "no tip". Fuck tipping!
If anything, the fact that every business is asking for a tip makes it easier for me to feel less guilty about not tipping now.
I don't really think it's caused backlash in me - just the ending of feeling bad for not tipping. Do I want to tip for you handing me something? Do I want to tip for self checkout? Do I want to tip for you checking me out?
You make a normal wage and haven't done anything outside of the norm. Why on earth do you deserve a tip?
Pretty soon there's going to be tip options on the self checkouts.
I tried to do grocery shopping at instacart recently.
The prices looked good, I spent some time making a bigger basket(around 100$) and went to checkout. Then I found out that they charge service fee about 13$, delivery fee 4.50$, heavy fee and at the very end they also added tax. My 100$ shopping was now over 120$ but then they asked me to tip the driver and options were 10% or 20%. I tried to enter custom amount but was discouraged with a scary prompt saying that my driver will see the tip and that tips under 15% are highly discouraged as my order might be deprioritised... so all those service fees, delivery fees and heavy fees are just used to run the website?! But actually paying your own employees? Nooo... that's up to you, kind stranger on the internet! Please, be generous (we are tired to look for another poor bastard every two weeks or so)!
I just don't like tipping as an expectation. If you genuinely want to tip, you'll know and you won't need to be asked. There's nothing wrong with the idea of giving someone a tenner if they go out of their way for you, but being guilted into making a voluntary donation because someone did their job is an example of completely losing the plot. Of course tipped minimum wage shouldn't be lower either.
I also don't like the recent trend of being asked to tip before even receiving the service. Uhh... I dunno how much to tip you, you haven't done anything yet. In the context of delivery apps, it also incentivizes blackmail.
Last thing I'll point out - tipping is associated with racial and sex-based discrimination, and managers often pocket tips even though it's technically illegal in most places. So even if you don't mind it for any other reason, that alone should be enough to discourage it.
I also don’t like the recent trend of being asked to tip before even receiving the service. Uhh… I dunno how much to tip you, you haven’t done anything yet. In the context of delivery apps, it also incentivizes blackmail.
Yeah that's not a tip, that's straight up bribery. Fuck doordash.
Fuck doordash for so many reasons outside of that, but yeah, fuck doordash.
It's worth noting for anyone who does tip on delivery apps - don't. Part of your tip is a direct donation to DD. They're not technically lying when they say it "goes to the driver", but they can sure as hell lower base pay accordingly. If you can't fight the urge to tip, then tip cash.
I'm an American who has lived abroad for over a decade now. I'm amazed at how stuff has changed. When you don't go back all that often it really hits you
If tipping culture dies because of this and workers are actually honestly compensated that would be a good thing.
I went for a beer at a local brewery the other day and their point of sale tips started at 25%. Just to pour beer!
When they default that high I almost always enter 0.
if a business cannot pay their workers a living wage without having customers subsidize their wage with tips, then that business shouldn't exist.
Yeah, whenever I see a fast food restaurant ask for tips before I receive my food, I give them nothing. Is this a threat? Will my food have boogers in it if I don't tip?
Tip culture is ridiculous. Places like self-serve froyo shops shouldn't even have tips as an option. Unless the cashier is helping me make the froyo and holding it for me while I lick it, there's no way to justify tipping.
I still can't understand why americans still tolerate tip culture.
We don't have mandatory tips in Europe and still have people working at McDonald's or similar restaurants : In France, it's even one of the biggest employer of the country.
May be? I was at a sandwich place here that had the minimum tip option at 18%.
It's getting fucking stupid
If you don't want to pay a tip, don't do business at a place that underpays their staff.
If you go out to a restaurant and deprive the servers of tips, you aren't hurting the restaurant. If you want to make a principled stance against tipping, then you have to stop giving those businesses your money.
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