Tipping! If you do it, will things change now with new laws in effect?

[NickNick]

My problem isn't with tipping people in service type jobs (ie waiters/waitresses, etc) it's with more and more places automatically asking for a tip. Why do I need to tip when I am picking up food at a restaurant? I don't tip the high school kid in the McDonalds drive through. Almost every place with newer point of sale hardware/software has tip options enabled. It's getting a bit ridiculous.

 

[Spounman]

My problem isn't with tipping people in service type jobs (ie waiters/waitresses, etc) it's with more and more places automatically asking for a tip. Why do I need to tip when I am picking up food at a restaurant? I don't tip the high school kid in the McDonalds drive through. Almost every place with newer point of sale hardware/software has tip options enabled. It's getting a bit ridiculous.

Exactly, it's become ridiculous. The other day at Starbucks I had to click a tipping option and one of the option was to tip more than the price of my coffee

If I have a waiter they're getting tipped regardless but all of this tipping for picking up food is ridiculous. Pay your workers. I bought food from a restaurant the other day and they charge more if you use a card than if you pay cash. They tacked on a 5% additional charge per order if it's card. So basically they want their customers to cover their price of renting/using a Visa machine.

 

[NickNick]

Exactly, it's become ridiculous. The other day at Starbucks I had to click a tipping option and one of the option was to tip more than the price of my coffee

If I have a waiter they're getting tipped regardless but all of this tipping for picking up food is ridiculous. Pay your workers. I bought food from a restaurant the other day and they charge more if you use a card than if you pay cash. They tacked on a 5% additional charge per order if it's card. So basically they want their customers to cover their price of renting/using a Visa machine.

I don't even think it's that. Services like square the extra charge really isn't much, it's less than $0.75 on a $20 charge. I think like with a lot of price increases these days, companies see that people will pay it so why not charge it? If they all do it they aren't having to worry about competing. It's even worse with tipping because they count on the person feeling guilty if they have to manually change the tip option from the auto 10%-20% to zero right in front of the person working the register.

 

[Osculater]

Alright, I ain't tipping ever again unless she's hot and then I'll give her the tip!

 

[Fedorgasm]

It's been like that in California forever. Here we have to pay servers minimum wage even if they make tips.

And yes, they still expect a 20% tip.

So you can expect that to be the case in Nevada as well.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Simple human decency. Service jobs are hard.

They're not any harder than most other jobs.

I've waited tables and made good money on tips. I've also worked outside in 110 degrees and got no tips, and made minimum wage, and that job was way harder than waiting tables.

 

[aunshi189]

I misread your title as essentially asking if you tip differently if you're with your in-laws so I'm going to answer that instead as I don't live in America.

If I was eating with my in-laws I would be more inclined to tip higher to try and show that I am generous and financially successful and thus convince them I should be piping their daughter.

 

[Spounman]

I don't even think it's that. Services like square the extra charge really isn't much, it's less than $0.75 on a $20 charge. I think like with a lot of price increases these days, companies see that people will pay it so why not charge it? If they all do it they aren't having to worry about competing. It's even worse with tipping because they count on the person feeling guilty if they have to manually change the tip option from the auto 10%-20% to zero right in front of the person working the register.

Yeah if it's a bartender or waiter they get a good tip every time. Starbucks? Hell no I'm not clicking a tip for handing me a coffee in a drive thru. Once in a while I'll give them a dollar if I have cash but that's it.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Even if they were making $30 a hour they would still want tip. We got to abolish tipping all together

 

[IndyCovaHart]

For the first time in my Sherdog career, I today witness a tipping thread warranted by current events instead of prepubescence.

Lord, you can take me, now.

I see light…

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

Tipping in general is dumb. Not every service position needs to be tipped on top of the service charge. It’s an antiquated system.

Like said by another; many jobs much harder, and paid close to those service jobs, are not tipped out on top. Would rather tip a gardener than the wait staff.

 

[Gutter Chris]

My problem isn't with tipping people in service type jobs (ie waiters/waitresses, etc) it's with more and more places automatically asking for a tip. Why do I need to tip when I am picking up food at a restaurant? I don't tip the high school kid in the McDonalds drive through. Almost every place with newer point of sale hardware/software has tip options enabled. It's getting a bit ridiculous.

You've nailed the problem a lot of us have in the business. The systems we all have to use now all have that built in harass for tips feature and it's all but impossible to disable and it will cost you a fortune to get a custom system without it. It's a restaurant thing. The dudes at subway and McDonald's aren't actually expecting a tip. Your hair cut lady , pizza guy and server are.

people keep bringing ths tip thing up again and again and seem to be mad at the wrong people. It's the people who make the systems for the restaurants and I'm convinced they get a % of every transaction and thus always want the max swipe. But instead of getting mad at those cunts people get mad at the poor asshole who's just doing his job and has no say.

let me repeat this for a lot of you guys


When you pick up your food and the system asks for a tip ....the person at the counter 1 isn't expecting it , 2 likely won't get it and 3 when you huff and puff and get righteous and want to give a speech ....its almost always misdirected.

I have no idea where the tips on pickups paid by credit cards even go ...they certainly don't go to me .

 

[cmw43]

Knew several people who worked through college as servers making 45-50 a year. Servers make great money.

That's good they can make that in tips but there should be a liveable wage paid by the casino, they shouldn't have been able to pay their staff slave labour wages and have them rely on the generosity of customers.

 

[StonedLemur]

I always tip for good service as well.

As life has gone on and I have been fortunate to make more money, I give higher tips. Simple human decency. Service jobs are hard.

Agreed sir.
And I tip more when they deserve more.

 

[Bagatur]

Damn $2.13 an hour was beyond criminal, no wonder casinos were such big business.

They were not getting 2.13 an hour even with 0 tips. The employer must cover the difference, in case the servers didnt make minimum wage. But of course they did, they got the minimum wage and way more, and of course they paid taxes on the minimum wage amount only. The customer is the loser in this situation, scammed by both the companies and their servers. Think about that next time you tip.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

They were not getting 2.13 an hour even with 0 tips. The employer must cover the difference, in case the servers didnt make minimum wage. But of course they did, they got the minimum wage and way more, and of course they paid taxes on the minimum wage amount only. The customer is the loser in this situation, scammed by both the companies and their servers. Think about that next time you tip.

People always seem to forget that they get a "tax break" too. Just seeing that 2.13, and people make that the reality. Worked doing electrical, and I paid more in taxes than waitresses I knew who actually made more than I did. Not bitter. Go get yours. Just stop acting all doom and gloom about it all.

 

[Renard]

In Canada the min. wage is around $15, give or take depending on province, and everyone is still trying to get a tip out of you for the most basic tasks ever, like they expect a bonus reward for doing the job they've been hired and are getting paid to do. They're less aggressive about it than in the states though, I suspect.

 

[NoSmilez]

I think it doesn't make a difference. They will still feel entitled to the tip. It reminds me of this restaurant that used to give out complementary small snack that you can grab yourself. They stopped giving people access to it because people were taking too much of it. They will give one to each customer. People freaked out on the reviews.

 

[Belaya Smert]

When I start seeing 30% gratuity outside of a service industry they can F right off.

 

[Jesus X]

Amazon has a tipping option for their drivers that pissed me off folks are gonna drive up the price of getting amazon packages now.