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Nice! I’ve started only tipping on fridays for coffee, etc. I’m a great tipper at restaurants But being hit up for a $5 tip for a $4 drink is way wrong. I’d ti
by zippyman55 8mo ago
Nice! I’ve started only tipping on fridays for coffee, etc.
I’m a great tipper at restaurants
But being hit up for a $5 tip for a $4 drink is way wrong.
I’d tip you, but today is Thursday!
- kstrauser 8mo agoI tip great at sit-down restaurants. I don't tip at fast food places, or carry-outs where they don't actually provide and service, or at the oil change place. Summary: if I didn't tip in a situation 10 years ago, I'm not going to start now.
- kulahan 8mo agoI tip my barista and budtender a dollar every visit, personally. I love those people though. Restaurants get 20% unless they fuck up, then it's 15%, unless it was absolutely egregious. That's it. I cut my own hair.
- kstrauser 8mo agoMy barber earns his fat tip taming my unruly cowlicks. Barista and bartender? Definitely. Cashier at a convenience store? Oh hell no.
- eclipticplane 8mo agoMy barber earns his fat tip by being my therapist.
- kstrauser 8mo agoI get it. That's worth the compensation.
- codazoda 8mo agoI also cut my own hair, but sometimes I’m lazy and just hit up the Barber shop. She charges me $15! I tip +$25 and it’s still a cheap haircut. My haircut has to be one of the simplest around, but 9 out of 10 stylists will leave me fixing it myself later. Once I paid $50+tip for the same cut at a swanky joint and STILL went home and fixed it. She doesn’t know what she’s worth.
- bigstrat2003 8mo agoIMO restaurant tips (and other service businesses) are 15% by default, 20% if they do well, 10% if they do poorly. If they do especially poorly (like, completely ignoring the table for an hour while chatting with coworkers off to the side), they get $.02. If they do especially well, more than 20% (I've gone as high as 50% once).
- elAhmo 8mo agoThis mentality of doing 20% by default for something you already paid is what got us in this situation. People should be paid a living wage by default.
- kulahan 8mo agoOnce someone can tell me what, specifically, a living wage is, I imagine this will stop being the most annoying phrase on the planet.
- ebonnafoux 8mo agoThere can be a lot of definition but I propose " a wage where you do not need to annoy your customer for tip".
- Yizahi 8mo agoDo you tip your local cashier in the groceries store? Do you tip the bus driver who took you to work? Do you tip a bank clerk who processed your application? If no, then this is a living wage. Also not having "tips" prevents freeloaders from not paying taxes, which every other worker in the country pays fairly.
- rudolftheone 8mo agoYou understand that you are PAYING EXTRA for the especially poor service?
- Larrikin 8mo agoHave you taken into account that tips are no longer taxed and adjusted these arbitrary percentages?
- PopAlongKid 8mo ago>tips are no longer taxed Tips (if reported) are always subject to 7.65% FICA tax. And there are several conditions that must be met before tips are excluded from federal (not necessarily state) income tax. (U.S. tax law). In short, many tips are still fully taxed despite false promises to the contrary.
- hbs18 8mo agoAs a European, I never understood why you'd tip automatically. I get that waiters are allowed to be paid less, but I don't see why that would be the customer's problem.
- latexr 8mo agoI also don’t get the logic of tipping a percentage of the cost. Asking for several cheap beers is more work for the waiter than a single bottle of expensive wine, yet the latter earns them more?
- kulahan 8mo agoBecause it's part of our culture and it's an easy way to show appreciation. You don't have to do it anywhere. Waiters also explicitly aren't allowed to be paid less. They must make at LEAST minimum wage. If they don't make minimum after tips, their hourly rate is raised each paycheck to equal minimum wage. It's literally not the customer's problem. You should probably learn how things work here if you're that curious!
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- basilikum 8mo agoIf you have something to add to the conversation then just do that. Don't make bad faith interpretations and unsubstantiated accusations against people.
- nobody9999 8mo ago>If you have something to add to the conversation then just do that. Don't make bad faith interpretations and unsubstantiated accusations against people. You mean like you just did? Tipping culture in the US is absolutely rooted in bigotry[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. That's not a "bad faith interpretation," it's well-documented history. [0] https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-tipping/ https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-tipping/ [1] https://www.povertylaw.org/article/the-racist-history-behind-americas-tipping-culture/ https://www.povertylaw.org/article/the-racist-history-behind... [2] https://stop-tipping.org/history-of-tipping/ https://stop-tipping.org/history-of-tipping/ [3] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/17/william-barber-tipping-racist-past-227361/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/17/william-b... [4] https://inequality.org/article/tipping-is-racist-and-harms-us-all/ https://inequality.org/article/tipping-is-racist-and-harms-u... [5] https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-racist-history-of-tipping https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-racist-histor... [6] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbsn-originals-documentary/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage... [7] https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants-civil-war/ https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurant...
- IshKebab 8mo agoIn the UK the sort-of rule is that you tip for 10% food if you pay after receiving it (and that's pretty much the only situation where anyone tips). It seems like since the pandemic even that is less expected though, which is nice.
- roryirvine 8mo agoTaxis used to expect tips, black cab drivers often still do. People used to play this whole unpleasant game of saying "round it up to £30 if you do me a receipt", and the driver providing a fistful of blank receipts in return - almost as if expenses fiddling was less shameful than tipping. Thankfully, the likes of Uber and mandatory card payment terminals in cabs have ended all that.
- Symbiote 8mo agoI think people also used to tip the postman, newspaper boy and binmen at Christmas.
- roryirvine 8mo agoOh, yeah. And I remember a columnist in one of the Sunday papers in the late 90s talking about tipping the butcher for the Christmas goose, but I think that was probably a bit of a "look how old-fashioned I am!" affectation even back then.
- Mr-Frog 8mo agoMy current strategy for how much total I'll pay for a coffee is FlOOR(price+.50) + 1, which keeps the bill nice and clean and kicks some goodwill towards someone who makes less than 1/5th the average earnings of my coworkers.
- SoftTalker 8mo agoI make my own coffee. It's not hard.
- cactusfrog 8mo agoSometimes I want coffee before I make my coffee
- wxre 8mo agoThe trick is to prep your coffee machine the night before. I've only done it a few times, but it was very nice to wake up to that surprise.
- foo12bar 8mo agoI'm going to charge you $1.50, then.
- IshKebab 8mo ago> kicks some goodwill towards someone who makes less than 1/5th the average earnings of my coworkers. The coffee shop owners? They're probably making a decent amount of money no?
- SoftTalker 8mo agoProbably not. Food service is ruthlessly competitive and making a profit after paying for product, rent, utilities, labor, financing and/or franchise fees is easier said than done.
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- School-Cotton 8mo agoWhere asks you for a $5 tip for a $4 drink? I’ve never seen anything like that.
- zippyman55 8mo agoIve totally seen it at local coffee shops in the Pacific Northwest. When I do see it, and if I’m in a tipping mood, I slide the other way.