What do people tip at these massage places ? Had a massage for $65 tipped $5 and the guy at front smirks at me. Am like if you don’t want that I will gladly take it back bi*** tf
U tip 15-20 percent. He smirked at you because you’re cheap. If you can’t afford the proper tip for a service you can’t afford the service.
Happy ending?
I tip 20-25% for massages. It’s just a lot of physical labor and masseuse get a small cut out of your regular payment. Are you a woman?
No happy ending, no tip. Simple. 😊
For massage places they want $20 tip for $65 massage
They are big on tipping. I tipped $15 for a $80 massage and basically got the same reaction. In my opinion that was already too much
20% for GOOD massage, haircut, wax etc. 15% for nothing special (why go then?) These people are up in your business and working for tips. Is it stupid? Well yes, it would make more sense to just raise their price 20%. But then they have to compete with a higher price, and explain it's all the same since no tip. If someone is searching Google or Apple map they aren't reading all that. They are just thinking it's overprice. I think the rules have changed for (non chain) barista too. 15-20%.
20% on top of the 8$ small latte. Yea right
20 to 30 % for massages
I’ve had former friends who were massage therapists and hair stylists, so my take: I have heard ‘rent’ described by massage therapists, professions like hair stylists, and even therapists. They are often independent contractors (not badged employees) of the business. In the US, the professional you’re seeing has gone to and paid for specialized education, and rents space (chair if stylist, table or chair if massage therapist). Depending on the individual business it may take money from the massage (so your massage therapist may get $20-40 instead of $65 (pre-tax)), or the therapist may pay “rent” for use of or space for a massage table or stylist chair. Some places also require these professionals to pay for their own supplies as well (lotions, candles, tables, etc.). Say it takes (fake numbers) 45 massages in a month to “make rent” and buy supplies and they can do 70 tops, then tips are a big part of their income. It’s typical to tip around 20%-30% for these types of services, which is also taxed, like a server in a restaurant. These professionals also develop specific job related overuse injuries (shoulders, elbows, wrists), which means their careers may not last as long as other professions. The tipping issue in the US is broken, absolutely. But it’s not the fault of the person we tip, but by the businesses who fail to pay living wages because they leave it up to consumers.
Ok so if enough ppl don’t tip then these ppl won’t survive and also they won’t even know how much they gonna earn each month cuz it’s already a fluctuating business so leaving the tips up to customers makes it even harder to plan their life omg. I don’t get why they mandate the service charge as you see in some places like restaurants for group of 5 above 15-20% is mandatory
Yes - about the limited to no tips = no survival. I completely agree with the fluctuation and leaving it up to consumers being unfair. The mandate, as long as it’s a tip and not a charge that the restaurant or business takes, is often because of issues that restaurants have seen in the past. When I was in college working at a restaurant I once saw a family of 20 take an entire section of one server. Every woman and child split meals, they ate a lot of bread (free), and the spouses split one beer. Their bill was under $200 total. They ran the server to the ground for free drink refills for the kids and for more bread and then tipped her $10, after almost 3 hours. In 3 hours she could have turned over 10-15 small tables with $10-20 in tips at each table per hour. We had a good manager who, once they left, did some creative adjustment to how the bill split up - so she removed a few beers and made that part of a “tip” so the server didn’t lose all of her money coming to work. It was awful. Don’t get me started on people who split bills instead of Venmo-ing one person. If my food + 1 drink + 20% tip is $50 and I leave $55 to be nice to a great server, but someone in my group just throws $40 on the table (but they ate/drank $60+ worth of food + 3 drinks), the person who is impacted at the end of the day is often the server. <- this is a big reason for the standard fee, to ensure my first story isn’t what happens. So whereas I despise this culture, in a way we created it by allowing it to happen, and it has deep roots in the US. It’s up to us to vote in people who will make laws to raise minimum wages and make things more fair for workers so consumers don’t foot these bills… Here’s some very basic history about tipping culture that most people don’t know about: https://civilrights.org/edfund/resource/yes-tipped-minimum-wage-rooted-racial-injustice/#:~:text=Although%20the%20practice%20of%20'tipping,tipping%20was%20not%20socially%20welcomed.
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Services typically want 15-20% tip. If you don't want to tip, don't do it at all.
$65 is for the service what else is there other than service
Then don't tip. Even barbers want 20%. It's the norm. You don't have to follow the norm if you don't want to.