People in the US have normalized low wage pay and tipping as a way to fund employee salary to the extreme! This tipflation is getting out of hands. Servers are now expecting 20% as a standard tip, which is ridiculous!! Everyone is asking for a tip. Uber, doordash, hairdressers, etc. Heck, the food truck people also ask for a tip. Why? I am walking to you and you aint waiting tables for me. So done. TC: 120k in hcol 🥜 #tip #inflation #money
Entitlement spotted. It’s our custom, kind of messed up not to follow it.
Call me what you want. I work hard for my money too. And I am not stupid to not understand wage theft.
The system is broken for sure. But you need to tip these people it makes up the majority of their income. I’m sure there are broken systems in your country you adhere to.
Bro. 20% has been standard for as long as I can remember. This isn’t a new thing you just discovered.
It used to be 15%… 10-15+ years ago
You’re obviously young. It was 15% a decade ago.
I offer 20% for good service (pre-tax). 15% for “it was acceptable”. The only exception is the rare instance I use DoorDash , I over-tip to get faster delivery. Personally, I’d love to see everyone paid a fair wage and tipping culture be reduced to either “exceptional service” or to simply disappear.
No matter what I tip DD delivery is the same. Can they see tip amount anyhow before dropping off the order?
They can see a general “you make X amount on this delivery” as I understand. So much higher profit will stand out and get picked up earlier. It’s not an explicit “X tip”. And by over tipping I tend to aim at 25%. It stands out against the 10-15% many people offer.
Agree. Whole tipping thing is asking me to go out less; they also make optional tipping like a mandatory thing, I especially hate those POS machine that turns to you to select tipping and all options start at 18%. WTF!!!
thank the restaurants, starbucks, bars etc. they can fully control if they want to show the tip screen or which options will show up as default ... this was a feature request because they eventually want to normalize 25%
I always chopse no tip while not feeling any guilt whatsoever. I get enough harassment during my oncall to know the worth of my money. Btw my oncall is every 4th week cause we laid off people.
Pls update us on how this goes for you
I think I will be fine. It is not like someone will shoot me for it.
Lol any restaurant you go to, just know that after your first appearance there, the entire wait staff will learn of what you did and things will start happening to you and they will add a tip regardless. It’s not gonna work out well for you. If you show up with cash and pull that same move twice, you will be publicly shamed by the manager at the host stand when you request a table on your third appearance and will be asked to leave. That is, if you successfully make it out the doors after finishing your second meal. Many times our manager caught them before they left the second time. Happened many times where I used to work at a super nice restaurant downtown.
It’s a messed up situation but even more messed up to stiff a server. 9/10 chance they will add a tip in that situation. They have nothing to lose and those jobs are a dime a dozen and they have the same cost of living as you w.r.t. food, rent, shit their cost of food is prob higher than yours cause they’re on their feet running around all day for you and this burns tons of calories. Still a messed up situation all around but ya know.
It depends on what state you live in (some are better about ensuring some level of fair pay even in absence of tips). Tipping culture is stupid. It would be nice if it could be eliminated and everyone still got actual pay.
I didnt ask for a messed up situation. If I cannot change it then I am showing it my back.
I tip 3$ no matter what.
Bravo!!
Even if you buy 1$ candy?
15% used to be standard..Now the default starts at 18% at most of the places….I recall someone presented me an option to tip for a fucking water bottle at a truck
Yup. They feel no guilt asking a tip for kiosk service then we should not feel guilty declining to tip.
It gets even worse. A lot of restaurants automatically add about 20% to the bill if the party size is six or more. There's some that have started doing it for even four. Then there will be a line item for tip ranging from 20% to 35%. My experience is that in such cases, service tends to be abysmal as they are guaranteed their tip one way or another.
They will always ask. Doesn’t mean you need to. Hair dressers for women makes sense. If they did a good job, I usually tip 20%. I’ve been to bad ones before and a great one is a godsend. You don’t have to give a tip just because someone asks. Pick and choose
But the cultural enforcement is tip no matter what. Lower percentage for bad service but DO tip. I hate it
Tip culture was created by employers who don’t want to pay their employees.
It is astonishing how much people are complacent with this. Everyone accepts it is a broken system but when someone tries to say or do something against then they are the villian in the story.
Because you are - you are depriving minimum wage workers from their livelihood by being cheap, self centered, entitled asshole. Or do you really believe that what you are doing is changing anything?