• Panda (he/him)
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    363 months ago

    Does anyone just not tip anymore if it’s counter service? It does not require that much effort to take something from a glass case and give it to me.

    If you’re actively walking around, giving me and checking in on my meal, that’s when I tip.

    • Pyr
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      113 months ago

      It’s an automatic $0 tip if I have 0 interaction with anyone but the cashier, that’s for sure.

  • @MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    213 months ago

    Americans, your tip coulture makes the rich richer. Having labour laws and unions in place, forcing the payment of a decent minimun wage and the extinction of tip culture would transfer the responsibility to the owner.

    Edit: before you say “prices woild go up” 1- you alredy pay “up”. 2- He can only go so much higher before he starts to loose clients.

    • @MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      Now is really not the time to be nitpicking the lesser points of American culture. We’re kind of dealing with an existential crisis at the moment.

      • @MissJinx@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        lol you are right. But maybe something small will be the last grain of sand that’ll make the bag burst

  • @FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    203 months ago

    Tip is a recognition of an excellent service, not a right. I would pay without any tip and leave some cash on the table if the service was good (few pounds usually).

    • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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      Thats europe. In north america, waiters are paid below minimum wage and the tips are supposed to make up the rest.

      15% i think is still what the gov expects for wages, so in theory thats for just plain service, forcing us to either hurt the waiter or pay the fee. It’s a terrible system. I prefer to not eat out at all than to cut tips, even for poor service i’ll leave 10% and won’t go back.

      • @MonkeyTown@midwest.social
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        103 months ago

        Most people who work the service industry don’t claim cash tips, but credit tips are required to be claimed due to the whole being electronic and traceable thing.

        If, as a service person, most or all tips are in cash, you just claim whatever brings you to minimum wage for that pay period.

        This is obviously heavily dependent upon where you work - some places want you to claim all tips (but you still don’t claim cash usually) others, especially if you make above min wage like most bartenders, don’t care.

        However, if you don’t claim those tips you can’t use that as income when taking out loans and applying for housing and whatever else. So it’s fucks people over pretty regularly.

        • @adarza@lemmy.ca
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          73 months ago

          a tipped employee who does that work for years will also see shit for social security later on, as that’s based on your reported and taxed earnings.

        • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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          Well yeah, if you dont declare all your income to dodge taxes, they shouldn’t be surprised the income can’t be used for credit. But if it’s just cash then it’s not traceable, you can declare less and keep more in your pocket than an electronic transaction

          It also depends how the company declares their outgoing tips and contributions (different in US vs canada of even states/provinces).

        • @exasperation@lemm.ee
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          23 months ago

          The vast majority of full service restaurant transactions are by card. Something like 80% of restaurant transactions are by card, and full service restaurants with servers are even higher.

          There’s not a ton of cash tips at this point, so underreporting cash tips doesn’t make as big of a difference as it used to.

          • @MonkeyTown@midwest.social
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            13 months ago

            Your experience/statistic there is very different from my experience. It definitely depends where you are and how high-end the place is.

            Place I work now, most tips are cash, by a substantial margin. Even when paying with card about half of our customers tip cash, and most transactions at this place are cash anyway. Places I worked previously were like a 50/50 split if people paid more often with cash or card, and again about a quarter of people paying card still tip cash.

            Maybe because this is a low cost of living area, and everyone knows moving claims cash tips, maybe because it’s all small town stuff, idk.

          • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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            53 months ago

            If i could vote to abolish it i would

            yeah, I’m american, same. funny we never really get the opportunity to vote on stuff like this tho. shit’s rigged.

  • @mcqtom@lemmy.world
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    103 months ago

    This business is so out of touch. Everybody knows “so-so” means the same thing as “okay”.

  • @moonburster@lemmy.world
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    83 months ago

    This always infuriates me. If your employees need tips to get paid enough, they’re just paid too little. Don’t bash the customer, bash the boss! I worked in hospitality for years and tips are purely to show gratitude for better than expected service. If you think differently about this, then you’re just brainwashed

  • @Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
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    In my area a few places I regularly visit have gone to 18% tip included. When they bring you the check they say an 18% tip is already included and all you have to do is sign the check. They are not looking for anything extra. I like this. I also appreciate that the bartenders and servers at these places tell you that the tip is already included. The worst are those that automatically include a tip but never tell you and unless you read it carefully you are tipping on the food and the already included tip

  • m-p{3}
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    Custom: 10% because you didn’t put the default 15% / 18% and gave me extra work

    • @krashmo@lemmy.world
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      63 months ago

      If the lowest percentage on the screen is 20% then you get nothing even if I was planning on giving 20%

  • @orize@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 months ago

    If anything would start a workers right reform it would be the population stop with tipping. Because if people won’t earn as much other than base salary, they will go under. It’ll be painful for those affected at first, but it’s relatively shor term and would spark a revolt. Let’s make it real.

  • @LordGimp@lemm.ee
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    13 months ago

    Saw something like this at a coffee truck once, but the lady in the truck was kind enough to be gorgeous and wearing lingerie. I assume the tip at that place is some kind of incentive for a dance? Idk. But 100% tip on a $7 drink is halfway reasonable when you might see some tiddy for it.

    • @krashmo@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      Nudity aside, 100% tip on a total of less than $10 is way more reasonable than 100% on a $100 total

  • @Yuper@lemmy.world
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    13 months ago

    In defense of this, I work on a service that uses square and allows tips. One of the issues with square tips is you can only ask for percentages, not dollar amounts. Since the service I work on usually costs $1-2, we have to put in high percentages for tips in order for it to be meaningful. I believe ours is set to 25, 50, 75 and 100%. Which is usually equivalent to <$2. They could have had a similar situation here except whatever service they offer ended up being far higher than normal.