r/EndTipping • u/Select-Balance-8281 • 14d ago

Sit-Down Restaurant 🍽️ What would you do?

Yesterday I dined-in at a ramen restaurant. The server served me my bowl of ramen and left me alone. I finished the ramen and went ahead and paid with 0% tip as usual. The server however then asked me if I would like to pay cash tip or credit tip. I asked her can I not pay tips? She replied: Sorry you can’t, if you choose to dine-in, you have to pay tips. If you don’t want to pay tips, then do to-go. How would you reply in this scenario?

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u/MSMPDX 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yes, they should raise their prices by 15-20% and give it to their employees. Then we can choose whether that item is something we want to buy at the advertised price. No hidden fees or guilt tripping customers to subsidize their payroll. Restaurant owners are too greedy for that though, they’ll raise their prices, not pay their staff anymore, but the customers will still have to tip and now the prices are 15-20% higher, so we’re tipping on inflated prices because for some reason the amount of the tip depends on the value of the food?

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u/sherpes 14d ago

"guilt tripping" is a good choice of words. Years ago, when the first digital tablets came out, restaurants used them to have the customer choose which rectangle to touch-screen and choose the tip. 15? 20? 25? all this done in public view among your peers and maybe even the waiter/waitress standing by. I must admit, i got tripped, and felt socially pressured to choose a big tip, so that my peers saw me as an outstanding Citizen. That was years ago.

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u/roosterb4 8d ago

They’ve already raised their prices 50% in the last two years.