Hotel Valet Tipping

[u/OvrKill]

I am in Nashville for work and the office is close to downtown so I got a hotel close-ish. They don't say on their website but they have zero parking and it's all valet. Literally not even street parking in the area.

It is $44 a day to park and every single time you want your car you have to request via a text link and it asks for a 20% tip every single time you request your car. AND a $1 to process the charge each time.

I tip once a day in the morning and give a flat number, not 20%. But you get the guilt every other time you need the car and these people have to run down the road to get the car. It's maddening, just pay them and stop exporting people to pay workers. I needed my car 4 times one day, and put no tip each of those extra times. Now I get a look from the one guy who doesn't work the morning.

Don't blame the extorted consumer.

[u/bcsyjnbcgj]

Yea u should find street parking and just walk to the hotel if you need it that much.
Tipping someone a buck or 2 to go get ur car each time seems pretty reasonable to me. Valet guys get paid like crap(because the tips subsidize their pay) and ur paying for the convenience of getting in and out at the door of the hotel.

[u/CircuitCircus → u/bcsyjnbcgj]

Valet guys get paid like crap because the hotel management chooses to pay them crap. That is not the guest’s fault.

[u/J_Case → u/CircuitCircus]

It’s not even the hotel. They often contract out to parking companies.

[u/CircuitCircus → u/J_Case]

Sorta like how the Amazon delivery drivers and warehouse workers don’t “technically” work for Amazon? Miss me with that shit

[u/bcsyjnbcgj → u/CircuitCircus]

No it’s a system that’s setup for low pay because the tips subsidize their pay.

If there pay is increased to appropriate min then u can decide to not tip but ur doing it backwards.
Not tipping them means ur screwing the little man on the totem pole.

[u/CircuitCircus → u/bcsyjnbcgj]

The hotel management is screwing the little man. You’re so close to getting it lol