Anonymous wrote:I would rather have wages increased--which I think is coming for the wait service industry--than tipping. I hate tipping, this is not a thing where I come from in Asia.

My sibling is a bartender and neither he nor his coworkers want higher wages.

My brother makes $2.10/hr as his wage. With tips, he makes over $100k/year. He works Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday only.

He knows that when he's making $15/hr, people aren't going to leave good (if any) tips.

He works 4pm to 2am on a typical Saturday shift, so 10 hours. If he was making $15/hr and no tips, that's only $150 per shift. Who can live on that around here? He usually makes around $500 on a typical Saturday or as much as over $800 on a great night. This past Sunday he worked 9 am to midnight and made over $1,000 (World cup, 2 holiday parties, normal shift money).

Anonymous wrote:I get very paranoid when I don't tip on a takeout order. I worked in too many restaurants as a teen and college kid and know how restaurant people mess around with your food.

I forgot to add a tip to a pizza I picked up yesterday and it was terrible. I'm convinced it was on purpose because they saw no tip.

I hear you. That said, I pressed the 18% tip for a pizza I ordered online and it was terrible (from a place we go and get good pizzas)

Just tip people. Until we become Europe and places don't ask for tips at all, the staff workers get screwed if people decide on their own not to tip. If you want to be able to go to restaurants and enjoy not having to cook for yourself, you've got to support the workers. It won't help to stiff them and it's unfair to them. You can't get to the owners through their workers. You need to get the minimum wages increased and the tipping culture better regulated. In the meantime this is the system we have and you need to support the workers until the system is improved from the the top down. I have always tipped well and whenever I can unless service is bad. I really believe it has been the right thing for everyone I've been generous with and kept my karma good all these years. I would have become such a bitter old man if I had chosen another path.

I get very paranoid when I don't tip on a takeout order. I worked in too many restaurants as a teen and college kid and know how restaurant people mess around with your food.

I forgot to add a tip to a pizza I picked up yesterday and it was terrible. I'm convinced it was on purpose because they saw no tip.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone that has a beef with tipping is most likely salty because they don’t get tips themselves. Sour grapes and all. If wages were raised enough that tips were not a factor most of you would be up in arms.

They don’t have to raise prices. They have to spend their money differently. The CEO of Panera makes $3 million a year. The CEO of Starbucks makes $17 million a year. Why are we responsible for paying their staff a decent wage? Why are you protecting the super wealthy and insulting middle class people?

I would rather have wages increased--which I think is coming for the wait service industry--than tipping. I hate tipping, this is not a thing where I come from in Asia.

Anyone that has a beef with tipping is most likely salty because they don’t get tips themselves. Sour grapes and all. If wages were raised enough that tips were not a factor most of you would be up in arms.

Anonymous wrote:So tired of people complaining about this!

Even if you are occasionally taken advantage of, SO WHAT? In the grand scheme of life, get the f&^% over it. Your life is not that difficult! It will not kill you!

The vast majority of people who earn tips need them.

Your selfishness will, hopefully, be repaid to you in karma. All of you deserve it.

MY GOD. We will never solve actual problems in this country bc people by and large refuse to look beyond their check ledger. Shameful.

Amazing how you can have such ass backwards logic and are blaming the customer for not tipping in order to make sure someone makes livable wage and not placing the blame entirely on employers.

Do you realize how asinine it is to have a culture of tipping that allows employers to get away with paying trash wages while simultaneously creating an opaque system for the true cost of goods and services? It is completely stupid. Many aspects don't even make sense. Blame businesses and employers. It is not up to the customer to pay wages.

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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.

Same but I also tip the bell and valet staff.

Anonymous wrote:So tired of people complaining about this!

Even if you are occasionally taken advantage of, SO WHAT? In the grand scheme of life, get the f&^% over it. Your life is not that difficult! It will not kill you!

The vast majority of people who earn tips need them.

Your selfishness will, hopefully, be repaid to you in karma. All of you deserve it.

MY GOD. We will never solve actual problems in this country bc people by and large refuse to look beyond their check ledger. Shameful.

You’re looking in wrong place to solve the problem and blaming victims. Both the underpaid employee and the customer are victims of corporate greed. Your disgust should be with the companies, not the customers who are tired of being nickeled and dimed by hands out all the time.

So tired of people complaining about this!

Even if you are occasionally taken advantage of, SO WHAT? In the grand scheme of life, get the f&^% over it. Your life is not that difficult! It will not kill you!

The vast majority of people who earn tips need them.

Your selfishness will, hopefully, be repaid to you in karma. All of you deserve it.

MY GOD. We will never solve actual problems in this country bc people by and large refuse to look beyond their check ledger. Shameful.

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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.

There have periodically been movements to boycott tipping. I think we need to ALL boycott it and then servers will demand a better wage from their owner.

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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.

I tip prior to receiving my take out food. I don’t consider the tip having to do with the food quality, but the packaging and boxing up and QC. What’s annoying is that they almost always leave something out of my order. So I’ve essentially tipped them for poor service. The only place that seems to consistently get orders correct is CFA (we don’t tip there, I know).

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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.

This is called fraud and can have a bigger implication than him just getting fired.

Thanks for all the responses on this - I agree with everyone. This employee has been with them 10 years (he told us at the table). I always check my receipts and it's only 1 out of 1,000 something is weird but still like to check.

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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.

This is called fraud and can have a bigger implication than him just getting fired.