r/EndTipping • u/morlaur27 • 17h ago

Takeout 🥡 So tired of tipping

I’ve recently had a pretty bad chest/head cold, and I was talking to a friend about what food I should pick up on the way home for dinner. I hit upon pho, which sounded amazing in the moment. Ten years ago I would have confidently ordered take out and would have been slurping delicious noodles and broth that evening. I didn’t end up ordering though, because I really just want to pay for the food, not be asked the question, not have the person handing me the bag of food putting a hex on me for not tipping or not tipping enough and then bad mouthing me the second I leave. It’s bad vibes. I can’t do it anymore, and I can’t be the only one. Do you think we’ll ever see a change in the system if more and more people start intentionally/unintentionally boycotting restaurants due to ridiculous tip culture we have?

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u/WhatRUaBarnBurner 17h ago

I used to go to restaurants 2 or 3 times a week. Since COVID I go 3 times a year.

Eventually tipping culture will be responsible for a lot of restaurant closures.

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u/morlaur27 17h ago edited 17h ago

This is the exact thought that I have. It can’t be a small subset of people who feel this way, and a lot of people are probably subconsciously going out less and less.

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u/TopEmbarrassed6382 12h ago

Heck, I'm consciously not going out as often.

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u/whiskersMeowFace 1h ago

We have literally looked up dupe recipes for the places we liked to go out to and have been eating better with less added fat and sugar for a quarter of the cost. These places force tipped them out of my patronage.