As an adult, I’ve also kicked tipping culture to the curb.

I’m sorry, you want 10% tip to pour me a coffee and put a piece of coffee cake on a plate?

As your boss that drives a high end luxury car to pay you more.

IMO if a company can’t afford to pay a decent wage they need to rework their business plan or get lost.

I like that the image shows 5/10/15%. I haven't seen THAT since the early 2000s. More commonly, starting 15/20/25 or 15/18/20, these days.

Absolutely infuriating.

If you aren't talking about why tipping is a thing. Just shut up about this. Be an asshole or don't. But just shut the fuck up.

There's no reason to be mad at people who are underpaid. Be mad about why and how they're underpaid. Be mad at who is underpaying them.

I’ve been in Europe for a week each month this summer for work. I usually just eat in via groceries, but if it’s a café for a coffee in the morning or a dinner out with colleagues the prices are reasonable and tipping is a few €/£ for the entire group, if at all. No card tap payment is handed back to you with pre-calculated tip buttons. It just makes coming back to the US and paying relatively the same price for a meal and then being asked for 20% on top of that seem like bullshit.

Cause nobody has any money, and people want to make decisions about paying for stuff based on how much stuff actually costs.

Like if you went to a bookstore, and the book was $10, and you go to pay, and the store was like "akshually, if you don't pay $12, the clerk doesn't get paid, and the clerk is OK with that because maybe you'll pay $13.

If the book costs $12, then maybe I'm still interested in that price. But if I expect to pay $10, and then the amount is more, then I'm feeling differently about that delta.

I've tapped out of tipping culture for multiple reasons.

1. I don't tip at fast food joints because all you did was the bare minimum. Tipping is supposed to be rewarding for extra service. All you did was take my order and ask if I wanted fries with that.
2. Prices are going up, so more of the amount I would have expected to pay is going to the base meal. For regular food, I try to tip so the final price is around $15 or $20. I don't want to pay $30 for a burger and fries
3. I've seen what tipping culture looks like when it gets out of hand. Go to the Hotel Zone in Mexico, and you'll see what I mean. Nothing is genuine, everything is about milking the tourists. I was pretty disappointed by the end of the trip. Would not recommend.
4. The base % is going up to try and milk customers, so I'm putting in the effort to counter that bullshit by picking no tip.
5. Sometimes the tip doesn't even go to the workers; Sometimes it goes to the owner. How can I tell?

Edit: I should add that there are times when I do tip, and it's when good service beyond base expectations was provided. Like if I asked for recommendations and it wasn't just the most expensive item on the menu, they were pretty prompt about taking my order, and/or it's busy / during holiday season

Yeah, the older Canadians too. It's ridiculous that the owners make their workers depend on how much business they can bring in for their wages. Do it like the rest of the world and pay them a decent wage. The only way to change this is for everyone to stop tipping.

Fuck service fees, fuck tips, fuck all that shit. Pay people what their worth.

Only time I'll tip for no reason is my local pho place, they remember me and know my order so I just throw an extra $2 at em every time. But I shouldn't be obligated to do so as a service fee like that one buddy said.

Good. The only way this is going to change is if customers stop coming to places that demand a tip when an employee looks up from their phone.

Leaving a tip for decent table service is a given, but the absurdity of being asked to tip if someone literally does nothing more than presses a button on a register is a great way to lose customers permanently. We used to be regulars of a couple of small fast food places that started with this bullshit. Haven't been back since.

Oh cool, this means people are no longer patronizing establishments that have tip prompts as a way to show that they don't support companies that reply on them to pay staff, right?

Right?

Ooh, can we do another collective “fuck this thing in particular” like we did and continue to do with all things US? We need to get good at this! Let’s just all stop tipping entirely because that tip jar might as well be labelled “donate to this company’s rich asshole owners to help them cover payroll this week”. It literally has nothing to do with service anymore, and its ubiquity is their bald face admission of that.

The absolute worst is self checkouts that have the audacity to ask for a tip. What fucking service?

I don't do tips and I don't do points. I just want to pay a dollar for something worth a dollar. I think those days are long gone though.

It literally takes one to three finger presses on a machine to opt out of tipping when you don't feel like it's appropriate. I don't understand why this has to be discussed over and over. It's the lowest hanging fruit social norms change ever.

The thing is, touristy places like Vancouver will only ever see these go up because tourists are generally biased to believe that tipping 20% is normal. Get used to choosing "Other %", it's that easy.

I refuse to tip in any situation where someone just makes something and hands it to me. Bare minimum, at least take my order at the table, and deliver it to my table. That gets you 10%.

It’s an American thing, I was horrified when a newcomer said they thought it was expected here.

I stopped tipping a while ago. For most places anyway.