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> Pretty much across the whole personalized service industry (ie, not mass-market retail jobs like grocery and department stores), there is a soft norm of tippi
by scarface74 4y ago
> Pretty much across the whole personalized service industry (ie, not mass-market retail jobs like grocery and department stores), there is a soft norm of tipping.
There was only a norm in tipping in restaurants where your food was delivered to your table. That was never expected in fast food. Now places like QDoba have tipping options.
- tptacek 4y agoSo don't tip there. I mean, don't eat at Qdoba in the first place, but: ignore the tip prompt, the same way you ignore the "Donate $1 to the charity of our choice" prompt at Whole Foods or whatever. I'm not even arguing that the POS screens aren't a genuine social phenomenon, or that it isn't off-putting for a grocery store clerk to side-eye you for not tipping at check-out (I wouldn't!). I'm just saying, this article acts like tipping a mechanic is a shocking new intrusion, and what's actually the case is that the author just isn't familiar with the pre-existing norms of tipping.