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Economy North American Consumers Increasingly Frustrated at Tipping Culture

Never tip for takeout. Only for delivery - and even for delivery unless you call the restaurants directly so many of these delivery apps add on fees and shit on top of it. Fuck that.
 
Oblivian said:
For consumers, I think it is without a doubt worse at a no-tip restaurant. It's been shown that food prices increased over 20% and you are more likely to have worse servers. It blows my mind that many people can't wrap their heads around the fact that you are paying for the labor even in a non-tip restaurant. It's all factored into price, and typically, any increase in cost will be wrapped in with also a buffer so you pay more. In my company, if we have a new expense that can fluctuate upwards (ex. fed ex rates increased recently) and it's trending towards something like $25, I'm probably going to up our fee $30 to cover the expense and then some. The $5 per transaction is extra profit now, but it also prevents me from having to up rates again if it starts trending towards $30.
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This isn't worse to me. I understand I will pay more and I'm completely ok with that. If restaurants keep sending people home trying to make an hourly wage they will find other jobs that allow them to work their full shift. I just want to stop thinking about tipping in all it's forms I want it gone. Yes I will pay more for it to be gone I'm ok with that.

As far as worse servers I don't see an issue with that. When I travel to other countries where there is no tipping we've never had an issue with worse service. All you do is grab the order, refill drinks, and bring the food. This isn't complicated and it's hard to do a bad job at it.
 
It's pretty bad. Even getting a cup of ice coffee is a 20-25 percent tip. It's just coffee with cream.
 
method115 said:
This isn't worse to me. I understand I will pay more and I'm completely ok with that. If restaurants keep sending people home trying to make an hourly wage they will find other jobs that allow them to work their full shift. I just want to stop thinking about tipping in all it's forms I want it gone. Yes I will pay more for it to be gone I'm ok with that.

As far as worse servers I don't see an issue with that. When I travel to other countries where there is no tipping we've never had an issue with worse service. All you do is grab the order, refill drinks, and bring the food. This isn't complicated and it's hard to do a bad job at it.
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It's because Americans are also bitchy about food+service. We send food back all the time or make complaints. I feel bad when I see people making the server's life hard. I just want them to bring me my food and leave me alone.
 
SandisLL said:
Naw.

IMHO it initially was like this: you want to look wealthy and had ordered stuff for for example 46,90.
You have 50 note and cos friends are watching you tell : keep exc money ( 5,1 in this case )etc.....

Bragging levels are different. Sometimes one might order a glass of whiskey or beer or vodka to everyone in pub.....and pay for this.
To show how wealthy and generous he is.:D.


Tips culture IMHO had started slowly cos ppl might like to be looked like wealthy, generous etc....

Later it was a bit something else....:(
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Not to be a dick but 50 - 46.90 = 3.1 NOT 5.1

If you were off by just a dollar I can see how you could make the miscalculation and wouldn’t have mentioned it, but damn that’s some terrible math, you’re not tipping nearly as much as you think you are.
 
It's not just that they are prompting you for tips on everything, it's the baseline level of tip they are suggesting. Last night I picked something up at Denny's and the minimum suggested tip was 22%.
 
650lb Sumo said:
www.nbcnews.com

Florida pizza delivery woman stabbed a pregnant customer 14 times over bad tip, authorities say

The woman who ordered the Marco's pizza had tipped $2. She discovered she was pregnant while she was being treated for stab wounds at the hospital, court documents said.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
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lol... Was there one rational thought put into the future consequences of stabbing someone over a $2 Tip.

And this dumb bitch would have got her tip if she carried cash with her for change.

But this story doesn't really fit into this thread. Tipping delivery drivers has been standard for decades. Even when I was a kid in the 80's. You're tipping for the service of someone bringing your lazy ass your food. lol... I'm the cheap ass that often picks up food to avoid the delivery fee and having to tip. Even pizza. Pisses me to take a $20 order and turn it into $40 because I'm too lazy to get in my truck to pick my food.

But yes... The proliferation of everyone asking for tips is out of control

Places like Subway? Chipotle? Our kolache/donut places?

lol... no

I mean... in my clubbing days, the poor guy in the men's restroom working his side hustle? I'd tip him... lololol

Soap?
Paper Towel?
Breath Mint?
Cologne?
Gas Station Sex pill?

Dude always had it covered
 
Scerpi said:
lol... Was there one rational thought put into the future consequences of stabbing someone over a $2 Tip.

And this dumb bitch would have got her tip if she carried cash with her for change.

But this story doesn't really fit into this thread. Tipping delivery drivers has been standard for decades. Even when I was a kid in the 80's. You're tipping for the service of someone bringing your lazy ass your food. lol... I'm the cheap ass that often picks up food to avoid the delivery fee and having to tip. Even pizza. Pisses me to take a $20 order and turn it into $40 because I'm too lazy to get in my truck to pick my food.

But yes... The proliferation of everyone asking for tips is out of control

Places like Subway? Chipotle? Our kolache/donut places?

lol... no

I mean... in my clubbing days, the poor guy in the men's restroom working his side hustle? I'd tip him... lololol

Soap?
Paper Towel?
Breath Mint?
Cologne?
Gas Station Sex pill?

Dude always had it covered
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Yeah you tip for delivery everywhere, not just North America.
 
Tipping used to be for bartenders, waitresses and taxi drivers. Because it was legal to pay them less than minimum wage, and their extra effort was something you could easily see and had an impact on your enjoyment. Punching some buttons on an i-pad and turning it towards me? Fack off.
 
Scerpi said:
lol... Was there one rational thought put into the future consequences of stabbing someone over a $2 Tip.

And this dumb bitch would have got her tip if she carried cash with her for change.

But this story doesn't really fit into this thread. Tipping delivery drivers has been standard for decades. Even when I was a kid in the 80's. You're tipping for the service of someone bringing your lazy ass your food. lol... I'm the cheap ass that often picks up food to avoid the delivery fee and having to tip. Even pizza. Pisses me to take a $20 order and turn it into $40 because I'm too lazy to get in my truck to pick my food.

But yes... The proliferation of everyone asking for tips is out of control

Places like Subway? Chipotle? Our kolache/donut places?

lol... no

I mean... in my clubbing days, the poor guy in the men's restroom working his side hustle? I'd tip him... lololol

Soap?
Paper Towel?
Breath Mint?
Cologne?
Gas Station Sex pill?

Dude always had it covered
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A movie theater I went to a few months ago asked me for a tips at the concession stand.
 
This thread reads like you guys are forced to tip lol I used to work at a sit down restaurant in a university town, half the customers were students who didn't tip at all. We still made solid tip money. For me I will tip 10% if they really earn it but never more. Also so many complaining about delivery fees lol just get in your car for 20s instead of creating a giant industry of Indian delivery guys who will spit in your drinks.
 
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