Tourist to DC here. No tipping at restaurants or anywhere else is appropriate, right?

[Anonymous]

Don’t feed the troll.

[Anonymous]

DC Food industry workers make a base wage of $10. The minimum wage is $17.50, but there is a tip credit of $7.50 applied. It baffles me that people do not want to tip when someone is literally tending to their needs and wants. If the service was good or great, I tip 20% or more. If not, then 15%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC Food industry workers make a base wage of $10. The minimum wage is $17.50, but there is a tip credit of $7.50 applied. It baffles me that people do not want to tip when someone is literally tending to their needs and wants. If the service was good or great, I tip 20% or more. If not, then 15%.

Someone is also literally cooking the food. Someone is literally mopping the floor. They don't get tipped.

[Anonymous]

Don't even bother going out in the city. I live here, but we have absolutely destroyed it in the past couple years by having ignorant people decide that they know better. Initiative 82 is just one of the horrible decisions that were made by short-sighted people who meant well but instead of asking the people who were affected what they wanted, just decided to act without thinking it through.

The answer though is that you are still supposed to tip, but in DC you can be assured that you will be subject to a variety of fees that you won't understand and may be double tipping but most likely are just hidden upcharges. Restaurants can't win, and the employees lose either way. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You still need to tip everyone everywhere

No you don’t. If servers are making $15/hour or whatever I am not tipping 20%

So you bike to spout that you believe in a living wage but really you mostly like to make sure people know their place in life?

Of course, what the server is making is the only reason restaurants are charging you $35 for salad on a fancy plate you could make at home for $3.

Can’t be bothered to respect the people who are working to make your dining experience great? Eat at home.

[Anonymous]

Yes,.that's correct. DC is increasing minimum wage for wait staff. They get well above federal minimum wage. They will be receiving minimum wages in line with DC mandates (~$17/h). It is NO LONGER the case that wait staff earn below minimum wage, therefore you may appropriately offset this increase in wages, reflected in menu pricing, with reduced tip percentage. 5-10% tipping in DC is now appropriate.

Please do not overtip. You exacerbate greed and local pricing. You must account for increased wages now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC Food industry workers make a base wage of $10. The minimum wage is $17.50, but there is a tip credit of $7.50 applied. It baffles me that people do not want to tip when someone is literally tending to their needs and wants. If the service was good or great, I tip 20% or more. If not, then 15%.

Omg, so baffling people don't get tipped for doing a job they signed up for. Welcome to 95% of the economy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is DC now has wage laws, thus service staff get wages in the city. This obviously means leave no tips anywhere, correct?

We do not tip. But we are from Europe.

Well that’s awfully ignorant and cheap of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You still need to tip everyone everywhere

No you don’t. If servers are making $15/hour or whatever I am not tipping 20%

So you bike to spout that you believe in a living wage but really you mostly like to make sure people know their place in life?

Of course, what the server is making is the only reason restaurants are charging you $35 for salad on a fancy plate you could make at home for $3.

Can’t be bothered to respect the people who are working to make your dining experience great? Eat at home.

This is the whole problem with the tipping culture. It’s not about respect and status in life. It’s about transparency and fairness to everyone including the customer. I want all restaurant staff to be paid fairly and I want to pay a fair price for my food and experience. I don’t understand why we have to muddy everything with Lady Bountiful-style handouts after the meal - which obviously costs much more than it would cost me to make, and that’s exactly what I’m paying for.

[Anonymous]

At this point tipping is just a tax on people who are overly susceptible to social pressure.

They know tipping on takeout, or for food they carry to their own table, or on top of a service fee is a scam, but they can’t muster the fortitude to just…not.

Even in this thread there are people posting how they tipped but won’t come back.

Just put on your big boy/girl pants and pay what you owe, and not what you don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You still need to tip everyone everywhere

No you don’t. If servers are making $15/hour or whatever I am not tipping 20%

So a PT employee makes $15/hour and you're not tipping? You're a cheapskate who shouldn't eat out! $15 per hour equals $30k per year, IF an worked FT, and I imagine most wait staff don't. Besides, everyone on DCUM earns between $100k and $750k, so not tipping a $30k per year employee is a completely move

That’s not the customer’s problem.

Let me break the news to you, since you are completely unaware of how the United States works. We have at will employment here. If you don’t like $15/h then get a new job. It’s it up to the customer to pay a business’ staff.


Please tell us why Japan, Korea, Australia, every country in Europe and Asia can figure it out with no tips but the US can’t.


No tips once minimum wage, sorry. Don’t like it then get new job with an employer who pays better. The market will correct for wages itself. Business that don’t pay will die because they have no employees. Those that pay appropriately will live. It’s that simple. Not the customer’s job to be your cash cow.

What you don't understand is that the customer pays whether it's a tip or increased price of food. So, what's the difference?

That the meal is the price stated on the menu-
And a tip is what it’s meant to be, an extra for extra service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You still need to tip everyone everywhere

No you don’t. If servers are making $15/hour or whatever I am not tipping 20%

So you bike to spout that you believe in a living wage but really you mostly like to make sure people know their place in life?

Of course, what the server is making is the only reason restaurants are charging you $35 for salad on a fancy plate you could make at home for $3.

Can’t be bothered to respect the people who are working to make your dining experience great? Eat at home.

This is the whole problem with the tipping culture. It’s not about respect and status in life. It’s about transparency and fairness to everyone including the customer. I want all restaurant staff to be paid fairly and I want to pay a fair price for my food and experience. I don’t understand why we have to muddy everything with Lady Bountiful-style handouts after the meal - which obviously costs much more than it would cost me to make, and that’s exactly what I’m paying for.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is DC now has wage laws, thus service staff get wages in the city. This obviously means leave no tips anywhere, correct?

Oh yeah. Sure.

*eyeroll*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Food industry workers make a base wage of $10. The minimum wage is $17.50, but there is a tip credit of $7.50 applied. It baffles me that people do not want to tip when someone is literally tending to their needs and wants. If the service was good or great, I tip 20% or more. If not, then 15%.

Someone is also literally cooking the food. Someone is literally mopping the floor. They don't get tipped.

Wait staff and bartenders are supposed to tip out the rest. I doubt that goes well though. Tips are pooled in some places, so the individual wait person does not necessarily get the tip you leave.

[Anonymous]

We had a hostess tell us they couldn’t add an extra tip on the mandatory gratuity and gave us her Cashapp code. It was weird.