Tipping is out of control

[Anonymous]

Please pay your workers - in whatever business you have.

The requests for tips are out of control.

Pre-Covid tipping was at restaurants where a server too the order, answered questions, brought food to the table, refilled beverages, and so forth.

Now everyone has a hand out.

[Anonymous]

Agree. I am honestly over the at restaurants too. There is no “great” service anymore, anyway. Servers do the bare minimum of taking your order, depositing food, taking your payment. That sounds like typical work for an hourly wage- there is nothing above and beyond about that. I’d rather if they just charged a higher fee for dine-in menu and payed servers a normal wage. It feels like a total rip off to pay $20+ tip to what equated to a total of a few minutes of their work

[Anonymous]

Nothing is going to change, there are posts like this on DCUM weekly and there's a HUGE subreddit about it.

[Anonymous]

They don't need to end tipping, they need to end the $2 minimum wage for tipped employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't need to end tipping, they need to end the $2 minimum wage for tipped employees.

Pretty much the only people making that is restaurant servers. Yet everyone else wants a tip for everything too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't need to end tipping, they need to end the $2 minimum wage for tipped employees.

Pretty much the only people making that is restaurant servers. Yet everyone else wants a tip for everything too.

For real, and me, the consumer, is supposed to know who is tip dependent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't need to end tipping, they need to end the $2 minimum wage for tipped employees.

Pretty much the only people making that is restaurant servers. Yet everyone else wants a tip for everything too.

For real, and me, the consumer, is supposed to know who is tip dependent.

Only restaurant servers.

[Anonymous]

Restaurants also don’t increase their menu prices but then add a surcharge. It’s so deceptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree. I am honestly over the at restaurants too. There is no “great” service anymore, anyway. Servers do the bare minimum of taking your order, depositing food, taking your payment. That sounds like typical work for an hourly wage- there is nothing above and beyond about that. I’d rather if they just charged a higher fee for dine-in menu and payed servers a normal wage. It feels like a total rip off to pay $20+ tip to what equated to a total of a few minutes of their work

You say this -- but then you'd be screaming about what it costs to go out to eat.

[Anonymous]

Takeout tipping makes no sense the more you think about it. When you order takeout online from chipotle for pickup, you are prompted to tip. But if you go there and order from a person, pay a person at the register, sit down and eat, you are not. By ordering online, you used less employee time than by ordering in person and sitting at a table, but yet you are asked to tip. It’s illogical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Takeout tipping makes no sense the more you think about it. When you order takeout online from chipotle for pickup, you are prompted to tip. But if you go there and order from a person, pay a person at the register, sit down and eat, you are not. By ordering online, you used less employee time than by ordering in person and sitting at a table, but yet you are asked to tip. It’s illogical.

I don’t tip online takeouts.

[Anonymous]

I was in Tatte this morning and there was a little sign saying tips were encouraged. It annoyed me. I'm not tipping just for a takeaway croissant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Takeout tipping makes no sense the more you think about it. When you order takeout online from chipotle for pickup, you are prompted to tip. But if you go there and order from a person, pay a person at the register, sit down and eat, you are not. By ordering online, you used less employee time than by ordering in person and sitting at a table, but yet you are asked to tip. It’s illogical.

Yes the screen in the restaurant will prompt for a tip too

[Anonymous]

I am a former tipped employee - waited tables and bartended in DC from about 2004-2011 - and I AGREE. Especially with the dour, unhelpful, stone-faced “service” endemic today. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't need to end tipping, they need to end the $2 minimum wage for tipped employees.

Pretty much the only people making that is restaurant servers. Yet everyone else wants a tip for everything too.

For real, and me, the consumer, is supposed to know who is tip dependent.

Only restaurant servers.

Then why do we tip...say, hair stylists? Nail techs?