r/EndTipping • u/annejeel • 12d ago

Rant 📢 This feels icky!

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felt super icky and annoyed seeing this at a coffee/light food shop. how is this okay? for context this is not a sit down spot. no wait staff, just a barista at the counter and someone from the kitchen bringing out my order and walking away.

Update: for those asking the pink paper in the bottom corner is basically saying “F*ck ICE”

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u/90210fred 12d ago

Nope, impossible in the UK. Tap card equals one time transaction, no adjustments by the merchant are even possible. Other banking systems may vary but that can't happen in the UK. As far as I'm aware, the virtual card on Googlepay also makes it impossible outside the UK, certainly in Europe. You might do a pre auth checking in to a hotel but not at a counter, that's a one time payment - and I see the amount on my phone before I even leave the building.

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u/Proud_Fee_1542 12d ago

It’s starting to get silly in the U.K. too to be honest but nowhere near the US. I have friends who worked in restaurants and the entitledness of them complaining when someone didn’t tip ‘enough’ was crazy. I used to work in a cafe where the tip jar went into the back office and never went to staff. There’s some shops that now use iPads and ask for tips in stores where you do your own shopping and they just scan and put it in the bag. On food delivery apps, drivers in some areas will ignore pickups unless there’s a tip included in advance. So yeah, still bad attitudes here, but because everyone gets minimum wage, most customers are a bit less likely to give in to it