I'm so fed up with the tipping culture!

[Anonymous]

I tip 10% for food pick up and casual dining.
The wait staff do almost nothing for us - take order, bring drinks, bring food, bring check. Sometimes even that takes forever.
Packing up a $20 take out order takes less than 30 seconds. The cook did the work. Ordering was online.

Wait staff is not a high paid job and the pay fluctuates. And they tell you this up front. So wait staff complaining about poor tippers because they won’t make “$1000 in tips” that week is stupid. There was never any guarantee they would - not by the customer or the restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Minimum wage for tipped employees:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped

I would think this was for restaurants only, but perhaps it is also for the shampoo girl?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course, everyone in DCUM is or claims to be a super generous over-tipper, so guess I'm alone in this, but...

I'm so fed up with this endless and ever-growing list of services that come with an silent mandatory +20%. Nothing else will do, otherwise you're cheap, rude, scumbag, not a decent human being, and shouldn't leave the house.

Put the actual prices that you want to receive for your goods and services on your actual pricelists, if giving or not giving a 'gratuity' is not up for choice anyhow.

If they're just going to increase prices 20%, then really, what's the difference to you? Just bad at math?

No, then you can make a choice beforehand whether or not to patronize the establishment without the shaming. I have been places where the default a certain tip and then flip over the Ipad and make you opt out of a certain tip amount in order to check out. The shaming and sleight-of-hand BS is out of control.

Agree with this. I also feel like people will turn their nose up at an 18% tip versus a 25% tip and wonder if it gets me worse service. I'd just like to know up front how much something is going to cost without dealing with this guessing game over what they are expecting me to add.

By the time you pay the tip the service is completed though, right?

[Anonymous]

My salon has a button to press for automatic tip - 20, 25 or 30

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tip 10% for food pick up and casual dining.
The wait staff do almost nothing for us - take order, bring drinks, bring food, bring check. Sometimes even that takes forever.
Packing up a $20 take out order takes less than 30 seconds. The cook did the work. Ordering was online.

Wait staff is not a high paid job and the pay fluctuates. And they tell you this up front. So wait staff complaining about poor tippers because they won’t make “$1000 in tips” that week is stupid. There was never any guarantee they would - not by the customer or the restaurant.

I normally pay 10%, but during pandemic have been paying 20%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My salon has a button to press for automatic tip - 20, 25 or 30

Ridiculous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp, personally I hate all the extra new tips (fine with restaurants, hair cutters, taxis) but I would rather the minimum wage be increased by localities (as in the same minimum does not work in Iowa as it does here) and bake in the fair wage to the total price.

I do not tip on those take out place screens like at coffee spots and stopped ordering from spots like Door Dash as they crazy fees made me nuts.

Yeah I don't tip on coffee or takeout. I only use Doordash etc when I have a deal or money off that cancels out the fee.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My salon has a button to press for automatic tip - 20, 25 or 30

Ridiculous

This is what the bakery uses where I get the donuts. Nobody is using cash. Cashier swings the credit card gizmo my way and suggests I press the button for the 20% tip. And then it gets awkward, because I politely decline, and get a glare from her.

[Anonymous]

I hope the service workers appreciate learning how little a shit those Zooming away at their same jobs throughout this pandemic give for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the service workers appreciate learning how little a shit those Zooming away at their same jobs throughout this pandemic give for them.

Oh, get off of your high horse!! It’s been said repeatedly in this thread, pay them more and include it in the cost up front!! The spread of this ridiculous culture predates COVID anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the service workers appreciate learning how little a shit those Zooming away at their same jobs throughout this pandemic give for them.

I think they just don't understand the fact that restaurant servers are paid so little hourly and taxed on their sales. I do not understand why folks who don't like tipping choose to patronize full service restaurants. It's baffling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the service workers appreciate learning how little a shit those Zooming away at their same jobs throughout this pandemic give for them.

Oh, get off of your high horse!! It’s been said repeatedly in this thread, pay them more and include it in the cost up front!! The spread of this ridiculous culture predates COVID anyway.

Who is going to pay them more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the service workers appreciate learning how little a shit those Zooming away at their same jobs throughout this pandemic give for them.

Oh, get off of your high horse!! It’s been said repeatedly in this thread, pay them more and include it in the cost up front!! The spread of this ridiculous culture predates COVID anyway.

Who is going to pay them more?

Their employers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the service workers appreciate learning how little a shit those Zooming away at their same jobs throughout this pandemic give for them.

I think they just don't understand the fact that restaurant servers are paid so little hourly and taxed on their sales. I do not understand why folks who don't like tipping choose to patronize full service restaurants. It's baffling.

Hello? Are you being deliberately obtuse? Please re-read the thread, this goes far far beyond full service restaurant.

[Anonymous]

I agree and hate tipping. I still don't get why cab drivers get tips when they do absolutely nothing (don't handle suitcases, etc.) but, in this world of covid, I started tipping all the folks that are working through this. I feel like it's my little way of thanking them - not for sliding over a latte for me, but for coming into work, wearing a mask all day and taking the additional risks that a lot of us aren't taking. Right now, I tip every server that I order from.