I'll usually toss a buck or two if there's a tip jar. I'm not hurting, why not.
Why Is Tipping Everywhere You Checkout?
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#32> If a coffeeshop wants to pay their employees more they will have to raise prices This does not follow purely from the facts presented. Consider: "If a coffee shop wanted to pay their employees more, the coffee shop itself might take a smaller cut and keep prices the same."
Lol foodservice margins are already miniscule. No, you'll pay more.
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#33Some (many?) countries have demonstrated that no-tipping can work just fine.
> makes them less competitive to any nearby coffeeshops that haven't raised prices
Maybe I'm an outlier but for me I'm sick of the mental game of "Am I good member of society for the % I selected, and how much will my date judge me if I choose what used to be the norm -- 10%-15%... and am I the sucker if I choose a high amount while other people groups select low amounts?". Some of you may be too young to realize but there has been tip % inflation that is when combined with price inflation the tip amount has grown geometrically.
To me a good customer service is I order my drink, I pay the stated price -- no more or less than the next person. Tipping makes me feel both guilty/ashamed and like a sucker knowing that certain groups of tip less. (and nothing to do with means)
Why cant we just give employees dignity and a fair wage?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's a US thing. I came from Bolivia and never once tipped anywhere outside of restaurants. No, I won't tip you for packaging 4 cookies in a box at Crumbl Cookies lol.
The intent is not to reward a task. It's a nod of appreciation that there is even an employee that's willing to show up to work and service you. You give them a dollar. At least that's how I look at it. I'm not a fan either just articulating my attitude towards it.
Yeah, fair enough.. I don't like it though. That's why I work at FAANG for a high salary instead of randomly fixing open source bugs and jingling my Patreon jar at people
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#35Is there any empirical backing for this narrative? Some of this reads as pretty counter to intuition. Most suspicious in my mind is the core presupposition (not a contention, a presupposition--the article doesn't even argue for it!) that rich people will step up to the opportunity to fulfill their noble obligation to give more to the less wealthy. Having known some pretty stingy wealthy people (and some very generous…
Having owned a bar in the past I can tell you right now the most wealthy people either didn't tip at all or very little. Fellow service industry people tipped the best.
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#36Re: Why Is Tipping Everywhere You Checkout?
#37The only reason I continue to tip is the knowledge that my food will be spat in / worse if I don't. I would happily pay higher food prices to avoid tipping culture. Tipping culture simply doesn't exist in most of the world, and Americans who can't imagine a world without it here have no vision.
Ah come on now, nobody actually does that.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Question, how much to tip per drink to be a good patron? :)
A dollar is great!
I've gotten poor treatment after giving 10% on a $18 drink before.
Edit: so I guess I'd ask what is the approximate reference price for your "A dollar" comment? Cause if it's a $5 can of beer, vs a $20 cocktail those are very different tips.
Re: Why Is Tipping Everywhere You Checkout?
#39The only reason I continue to tip is the knowledge that my food will be spat in / worse if I don't. I would happily pay higher food prices to avoid tipping culture. Tipping culture simply doesn't exist in most of the world, and Americans who can't imagine a world without it here have no vision.
I suspect a common experience for Uk visitors to the US is getting off the plane, going to a hotel bar for the first time, buying drinks, paying for them, and then been told (possibly passive-aggressively) to ** off.
[It’s more usual to pay for drinks one at a time in Uk bars, and unusual to tip if not eating a meal.]
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#40Is there any empirical backing for this narrative? Some of this reads as pretty counter to intuition. Most suspicious in my mind is the core presupposition (not a contention, a presupposition--the article doesn't even argue for it!) that rich people will step up to the opportunity to fulfill their noble obligation to give more to the less wealthy. Having known some pretty stingy wealthy people (and some very generous…
Having owned a bar in the past I can tell you right now the most wealthy people either didn't tip at all or very little. Fellow service industry people tipped the best.
I would argue it's more likely that most wealthy people that are the type to let you know they're wealthy either didn't tip at all or very little. There's plenty of wealthy people that tip very well, but many of them don't flaunt it in any way.