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There has been a no tipping movement in san francisco that has worked quite well. People don't tip anymore here and it is not socially accepted to do it.
by throwaway415415 8y ago
There has been a no tipping movement in san francisco that has worked quite well. People don't tip anymore here and it is not socially accepted to do it.
- tdeck 8y agoAs an SF resident I don't seem much evidence of this movement. I get prompted to tip very frequently for counter service, even at food trucks. People must be tipping if that's the case, although I don't watch other patrons.
- the_clarence 8y agogenerally people don't give tips for these things. It's just the default for a lot of these square point of sales. I don't know why square would do this honestly, this is just encouraging wrong behavior.
- OkGoDoIt 8y agoIt’s configurable by the business, and you know exactly why they do it, to subtly push people to pay more money. There’s plenty of counter service fast food restaurants where I would never even think of giving a tip if paying in cash, but when the Square terminal prompts me whether I want to leave a 15% or 20% tip and then I have to go into “custom” and type in 0, I feel like a jerk. I know they’re just manipulating me and I hate it, but you’ve got of assume that they make significantly more money that way. Recently I’ve seen more and more restaurants adjust the default tip amounts higher, one of my favorite cafés in North Beach recently changed the settings on their Clover point-of-sale system so the tip options are “20% okay service”, “25% great service”, “30% amazing service”, and “(other)”. It’s infuriating.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoI was in SF on a layover last October. Definitely tipped on our lunch and a beer downtown. But maybe that just outed us as foreigners. We didn’t get any odd treatment for it, either.