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Anonymous wrote:Your tip money - just like your "Round Up for Charity" - goes to offset the cost of running a business so the CEO can have three homes and a private jet to fly to them all. And also so the organization has enough money to buy up other companies so that you have less choice.

Say no to tipping.

But you are not punishing the restaurant owner. Unless you call him/her over, explain you're not tipping and why, all that will happen is that the server will make less money.

This is an adolescent perspective. You’ll understand in 20 years.

Anonymous wrote:Your tip money - just like your "Round Up for Charity" - goes to offset the cost of running a business so the CEO can have three homes and a private jet to fly to them all. And also so the organization has enough money to buy up other companies so that you have less choice.

Say no to tipping.

But you are not punishing the restaurant owner. Unless you call him/her over, explain you're not tipping and why, all that will happen is that the server will make less money.

Your tip money - just like your "Round Up for Charity" - goes to offset the cost of running a business so the CEO can have three homes and a private jet to fly to them all. And also so the organization has enough money to buy up other companies so that you have less choice.

Say no to tipping.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like having to tip BEFORE I get my food and drinks at the cashier. I don’t know if it’s good before I can tip. I have to say that it discourages me from buying takeout. That was supposed to be cheaper without tipping bc you take it home.

You're not tipping on the quality of the food and drink--you're tipping on the cost. The server or cashier has little to nothing to do with the quality of the comestibles.

Anonymous wrote:Sort of off topic but would love anyone's opinion.

a waiter revised my receipt and tipped $10 (instead of $4) on a twenty dollar ticket. I checked my credit card history compared to my receipt.

My sister was aghast that I wanted to report it. She said I'd get the waiter fired.

I don't care about the money but that is so screwed up!

You SHOULD call and report him. He SHOULD be fired-that is outright stealing from the customer. And definitely call the CC company to have the charge removed. The guy is a thief and I can only imagine what he's taking from his employer.

I don’t like having to tip BEFORE I get my food and drinks at the cashier. I don’t know if it’s good before I can tip. I have to say that it discourages me from buying takeout. That was supposed to be cheaper without tipping bc you take it home.

Anonymous wrote:Inflation is so out of control these days, the creeping of tipping culture into other areas is the last straw. I’m severely cutting back on going to to eat and getting coffee. A Starbucks venti iced coffee was just over $3 a couple years ago, now it’s $5!!! And now with the half expected tip of 10-20% it pushes up the price even more. Sorry I’m not spending $6 on an iced coffee, I’ll make coffee at home. Consumers need to fight back against inflation and refuse to pay so much for these unnecessary conveniences

Good for you, pp. I never understood why people didn’t make their own daily coffee themselves with all the great coffeemakers out there but welcome aboard!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the *way* we tip actually makes no sense at all. We're not tipping based on the amount of work (or service) provided, but on the cost of service. Your $150 a cut hairdresser is not working hard to do your hair than your $50 a cut hairdresser, but if you go by % you are tipping a lot more. Ditto for servers--it always annoyed me when I was one. If I have a table full of people drinking water and iced tea, and I have to run back and forth a zillion times for refills vs a table of full of same# of people who order one cocktail a piece and never ask for anything else, guess who is more work? Guess whose bill is much higher, and then the corresponding tip? It's stupid.

When my friend was a waitress she used to dread my parents coming in...ice water with lemon that needed umpteen refills and then a shared entree. The bill would end up being the price of the entree ($25) and even though they were polite and nice, they were just as much work as a pricier table.
I always tip but I drew the line at a medspa where they expected 15, 18 or 20% on a $350 microneedling service. Hell no.

Do you do a reduced tip on that or just no tip at all? I never know what to do!

I did not tip, she is a REGISTERED NURSE who co-owns the medspa.

Anonymous wrote:Why not go out less, buy less, but tip well when you do go out. This going often and not tipping or tipping little is against the workers, not the business.
Amazing how the little man gets screwed over and over again. If less people come, but tip more, we are able to keep only the good workers. If business can't handle less spenders, they can close.

I think you’re missing the point. The anti-tippers here aren’t complaining about tipping waitstaff who make $2.15 an hour. Or a bellhop. Or an Uber driver. It’s that everyone has their hand out for every transaction we make no matter what their hourly wage is or what they do- in some cases no person is there at all. The problem is corporate greed. Companies are just trying to appease their staff by putting customers in the unpleasant position of declining a tip as a part of the standard payment process - or making them tip out of guilt which works.

I’ll tip a server at a restaurant 20-30%. Tipping for my to-go pizza that I ordered online and drive to go get ridiculous. That seems to be the general consensus here.

Inflation is so out of control these days, the creeping of tipping culture into other areas is the last straw. I’m severely cutting back on going to to eat and getting coffee. A Starbucks venti iced coffee was just over $3 a couple years ago, now it’s $5!!! And now with the half expected tip of 10-20% it pushes up the price even more. Sorry I’m not spending $6 on an iced coffee, I’ll make coffee at home. Consumers need to fight back against inflation and refuse to pay so much for these unnecessary conveniences

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Anonymous wrote:Even the *way* we tip actually makes no sense at all. We're not tipping based on the amount of work (or service) provided, but on the cost of service. Your $150 a cut hairdresser is not working hard to do your hair than your $50 a cut hairdresser, but if you go by % you are tipping a lot more. Ditto for servers--it always annoyed me when I was one. If I have a table full of people drinking water and iced tea, and I have to run back and forth a zillion times for refills vs a table of full of same# of people who order one cocktail a piece and never ask for anything else, guess who is more work? Guess whose bill is much higher, and then the corresponding tip? It's stupid.

When my friend was a waitress she used to dread my parents coming in...ice water with lemon that needed umpteen refills and then a shared entree. The bill would end up being the price of the entree ($25) and even though they were polite and nice, they were just as much work as a pricier table.
I always tip but I drew the line at a medspa where they expected 15, 18 or 20% on a $350 microneedling service. Hell no.

I'm a water person. I dont like soda or juice. I do like wine. If you'd just bring a pitcher or bottle of water to the table I could leave you alone.

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Anonymous wrote:Leave it to dc to raise the pay of crappy waiters/bartenders and lower the pay of great waiters/bartenders.

Restaurants should just double their prices. Give the people what they want… higher prices and communism level motivation.

Dc restaurants should raise the prices to Swiss levels if it means we get waiters that are in shape and multilingual

One thing I love about Switzerland is service staff seem in shape and healthy and normal. It makes me want to go out more

In the us, service staff almost seem to be a new form of indentured servitude— it’s sad.

Why do the servers need to be fit?

Anonymous wrote:I was at Newark Airport this week and had to grab a sandwich from one of those CIBO grab and go places. There was one person stocking the shelves but the store was otherwise unstaffed. I paid $13 for a 2/10 quality sandwich, checked myself out (self check was only option), and the screen default to 18% tip. I wanted to scream. No one spoke to me the whole time I was in there. Wtf is the money even going?!

Scream? You sound very dramatic.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no problem tipping for things that we've always tipped - wait staff, hairdressers, and perhaps pet sitters.

But the new tipping culture... like for takeout? I'll do $1 an entree perhaps, but not more. Definitely not tipping 20% for picking up half a dozen bagels. Come the F on guys.

I hear you on this.

I will tip my hairdresser, wait staff, and $5/day for the hotel room. I will even do a few dollars for curb-side pickup where someone goes outside to give me my food bag. But I refuse to be victim to the tip for every damn thing.

I tip hotel room cleaners $5/day but only outside the US. Hotel staff in the US have benefits - I don’t even get health insurance!!

I was on a flight recently (United) and an older gentleman asked outside of the regular service for a glass of water for his wife. When it was provided he tried to tip. The flight attendant said "Sir, if you expect to pay for water, you're flying the wrong airline." No great fan of United but this was refreshing.