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[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 219 points 3 months ago

I know tipping culture is extreme, but I've never seen 100%. I don't think this is real.

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 129 points 3 months ago

I can't find the original image, it's just been reshared dozens of times on Xitter, Threads, Facebook and Reddit, but nobody is adding context or naming and shaming.

So yeah, probably just ragebait.

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[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

I've never seen 25% until 10 years ago

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[-] Plasma@lemmy.ml 145 points 3 months ago

If any place said a 30% tip is so so, I'm not tipping.

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 144 points 3 months ago

If you can't afford living wages for your staff so they're not dependant on tips, your store shouldn't be open.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 127 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Everyone working a job should be making a living wage. "Oh, but then the price of my McDonald's cheeseburger will skyrocket!!" Fucking good. If it's not economical to produce a product without abusing people, that product shouldn't exist. Period. I will die on this hill.

[-] archchan@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Oh, but then the price of my McDonald's cheeseburger will skyrocket!!" Fucking good

I don't know why people keep repeating this propaganda. Plenty of countries pay actual wages to their employees, don't have tipping, and the prices are still fucking cheaper than America.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Apologies, I'm not trying to say that that argument is true or has any basis in reality, more so that the argument is completely irrelevant

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[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

They did away with most of their staff and their prices went up over 100% over the last 5 years or so anyway. It's corporate greed all the way down.

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[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 128 points 3 months ago
[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 71 points 3 months ago

Custom: -100%

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[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 98 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

10-15% IF you went above and beyond or performed particularly well. It's a tip, I am not your employer. I used to be a huge tipper until I realized just how fucked that whole system is. Also, NEVER PRE-TIP. That is insane!

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 55 points 3 months ago

Pre-tip? I think that's called a bribe

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[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 3 months ago

What's pre-tipping? A tip before you've even had service?

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[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 13 points 3 months ago

Complain all you want, but not tipping is straight up taking money from someone who is getting paid $5 an hour. Complain to ownership, write your congressman and state legislators, but not tipping only punishes someone who is barely scrapping by.

[-] SoJB@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So, dear reader, notice how whenever defenders of tipping come along, it’s always the same story.

Oh boohoo my poor minimum wage (which is pegged to the same minimum wage as non-tipped workers in states where most people live).

Ever wonder why it’s always about the minimum wage and never about how much money they make?

Any server with 2 brain cells clears $40 an hour in untaxed cash wages every shift.

They never report it on their taxes, and yet they will cry about their poor wittle wage at every opportunity expecting people that make half their salary to tip them 100% for rudely dropping off a plate once and never coming back, making you wait 20 minutes to close a check.

Notice the pattern. Remember how I was right next time.

Ask them if they’d rather abolish tipping next time. Notice how none of them say “yes”.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 12 points 3 months ago

I'm 100% on board with ending tipping, i am just saying that stiffing your server won't do anything to end it.

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago

It will when servers refuse to work those jobs

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[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

Also tipping is for actual table service. If you just hand me some food I'm not tipping you for handing me food.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

I’m tired of this excuse. These people took the job knowing what the pay rate was, and are demanding the customer pay their salary directly rather than the employer like virtually any other conventional job does. Customers have had it, they’re being told to give employees raises along with rising food costs, even at businesses that don’t do a damn thing for the customer except maybe hand them a to-go box. 20% for that? F no. Grow a spine and demand real pay, people have had it. IDK how I can travel almost any modern place else in the world, pay for a good meal, and only have to leave the approximation of $1 or so for appreciation of the service, but in America I pay for the food and a separate charge for the employee’s “pay”.

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[-] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

Those same people only getting paid 5 an hour have literally fought and complained against any attempts to change the law and bring a proper wage. Why? Because they make more in tips than they would hourly. Whole system is messed up.

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[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago

Back when 15% was considered standard I liked tipping closer to 30%, but as a direct result of the push to try to make 15% seem low I no longer tip more than 15%.

[-] Kyatto@leminal.space 17 points 3 months ago

My tipping follows the inverse of how much I am paying for the product. If the product is well priced and the service was good I have been known to tip 100% for excellent service. Now that everything is nearly double the cost of what it used to be I am more inclined to tip 50 cents to a dollar max.

They should be paying exceptionally well for what they are charging, but we know that isn't the case. I don't have unlimited wealth to spend either, fuck me for being poor and wanting some comfort "restaurant" food occasionally.

[-] IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

The food prices went up 20% so my logic is if I continue to tip the same % the waiters should still make more money. Increasing the food prices and also doubling the tip is just double dipping. My work isn’t paying me 20% more every year so I can’t be paying for everyone’s inflation.

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[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 months ago

Select "Custom" and type 0.00 without breaking eye contact. Be careful, though, that 0.00 can quickly turn into 8.88 if you're not looking.

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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

This was at a self-service kiosk, too, right?

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[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 months ago

30% is soso? Go fuck yourselves.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

30%: underpaid

40%: immorally underpaid

50%; criminally underpaid

100%: Les Miserables

[-] VerilyFemme 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Custom: 0%

Every time.

If they give me the No Tip option, I usually tip a little bit. But fuck off with this idea that you should be tipped. It helps no one.

[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

This would get an immediate Custom -> 0% from me the moment I see it.

Fucking "soso" for a 20% tip the hell

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

As a dev I would try negative value in the custom field.

[-] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

There's no 20 it's 30%!! Insane.

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[-] rosco385@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago

It doesn't have to be like this, America. Not only is tipping not expected in Australia, but when the "Choose tip" screen comes up on US made software, all the servers I've ever had skip straight through it and choose zero.

Servers deserve to be paid fairly.

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

I'm not even paying the bill at that point.

[-] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

The moment they ask for a tip they are not getting anything nor a repeat customer.

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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

We need to bring back the public stockades.

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I frequent a bagel place that automatically adds a fairly hefty (not THAT hefty) tip when you pre-order online for in-store pickup.

If not for the fact that they are by far the best place to go for bagels in my area (we have few choices), that alone would stop me from ordering.

Their bagels are good, and I'm not above tipping at a bagel place. But their prices are already very high for a bagel place (they know what they got), they do brisk business, and they should damn well be paying their employees more rather than trying to sneak a 25% tip into every online order. It doesn't even present it as in OP - it's just there in the itemization in the end and you need to manually edit it out before ordering.

Edt - oh and if real, I ain't never going back to the place in OP after seeing that one time.

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[-] nimble 12 points 3 months ago

Relevant post from earlier this month

Honestly if it starts at 30% then im 0% tipping and they can fuck right off.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

30% is "soso" but a 100% is only "Thank You"? In this case the 100% should be "Walk over to the other side of the register so the boss can blow You".

[-] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago

Isn't 10% the usual tip amount?

[-] Shortstack@reddthat.com 25 points 3 months ago

It was 30 years ago, but the tipping percentage has been subject to inflation for some reason right alongside the cost of the service.

Feels like an intentional double dip as a fuck you to me.

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[-] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

I've actually seen 2 recent practices that I hate more than this. While this is frustrating, at least you can input a custom tip. I've also seen them where they show 3 different dollar amounts that don't indicate percentage but doing the math, it's definitely way over the usual 20%. Then there's the one I hate the most which I keep seeing at places where you don't usually tip. You go to pay with your card and the little transaction/card machine shows different tip amounts, the default of which is already set. If you don't want to leave a tip, you have to figure out which button to push to do so. They're all different and it can be very confusing. I even saw one where each option was labeled in correlation with a button on the screen, except that they didn't match up. And what do you do then? Ask the person at the register how not to tip them?

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