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This is a moral dilemma that was invented and forced upon Americans by the latter group. If they invented it, they can fix it. I refuse to play along with a fi

• selectodude 4y ago
  >This is why I rarely go to restaurants whenever I'm in the States now. Please lower that number to zero if you refuse to tip.
  • usui 4y ago
    No I won't, I will continue to go outside. Legally there is nothing the service renderer can do to me. I don't care how they think of me as a result. I've never been refused service before. They give me a total price, I pay it without issue, and that's how it goes.
    • selectodude 4y ago
      That's fine. Legally nothing will happen to you. Morally, I've never met you and I think you're a bad person.
      • dcow 4y ago
        What's the moral dilemma here? Who's being harmed? And who is responsible?
        • selectodude 4y ago
          The moral dilemma here is that there is a societal expectation of a tip. The employee is not paid a living wage and are working for tips. You're welcome to opt out of tipping by opting out of dining at restaurants. Taking advantage of the societal norms is just taking advantage of your fellow human because it's "not illegal". It's shit. No different from driving in the shoulder because you don't feel like sitting in traffic or cutting a line and daring people to do something about it.
          • dcow 4y ago
            Sorry what's the moral dilemma? Not participating in society norms? That's immoral, you're kidding right? As far as I understand society expects that people working hourly make a minimum wage. If they're not paid minimum wage, then it's illegal and their employer is liable for damages and punishment. What's immoral is a situation where an employer is not paying an employee the wages our laws require. There's no "social minimum wage" for tip workers. There's a market for their services. If somebody wants to do more valuable labor in some other capacity nobody is stopping them just as nobody is forcing them to work for tips. Driving on the shoulder is justifiable in certain scenarios, like if you need to get to a hospital. It's not absolutely immoral.
            • threatofrain 4y ago
              I'd also add -- do people tip Walmart workers? Waitstaff can easily make more money than a Walmart worker. If the argument is that it's morally wrong to pay a sub-living wage, then whether restaurant work is more skilled is immaterial to the moral problem of unlivable wages. But somehow it's moral not to tip a Walmart worker simply because of American norms?
              • AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
                Or just don't shop at Walmart.
• midoridensha 4y ago
  Yep, I live in Japan now and it's like heaven going out to eat here. No tips, no annoying servers constantly interrupting my meal, the full price is shown right on the menu, the payment process is easy and fast and doesn't depend on the server or involve someone taking my card away so they can photograph the card number and use it for fraud, I could go on and on. I wish I never had to go back to the States.
  • usui 4y ago
    Precisely!! And unlike 10 years ago, credit card usage increased within the past few years, so that eliminated one of the few remaining complaints I had about carrying lots of cash/coins. Most establishments accept all common cards now, so going out and living in general has become smooth all around.
  • seanmcdirmid 4y ago
    Tap to pay is common in the states, even at many sit down places, and is ubiquitous at fast food or more casual places.
    • midoridensha 4y ago
      I've never seen it at sit-down restaurants, and I'm not sure how they'd even do it, since frequently the cash register is someplace where customers can't even go. With fast-food, it's easy of course, since you have to stop at the cash register to pay, so the tap reader is right there. In Japan, it's the same as American fast food (even at sit-down restaurants): you have to go to the register to pay, usually next to the door. In Europe, however, my experience has been that most restaurants have a portable payment terminal they bring to the table for you.
      • seanmcdirmid 4y ago
        Strange. Almost all sit-down restaurants here have a portable POS (like you describe for Europe), they just bring it to your table and you can either chip or tap. A lot of Chinese restaurants use QR menus instead, you can pay by your table number at the website it opens. At fast food restaurants, you just pay at the terminal you ordered your food at. At places that don't have that, like Dick's, you just pay at the terminal they have at the register. The non-chain places usually have Stripe or Square, they all support tap or chip. I can't remember the last time I gave my card to someone.