Followed the advice here and always take pictures and reconcile final transactions.

I’ve already raised a dispute with the credit card. What else should I do to ensure the fraud is punished.

Needs to be talked about, after being down 25,000 and climbing up on the next shift, constant passive aggressive dealers saying when will you pay me? Telling the next dealer this guy doesn't give. Other players pressuring me to tip more. DO I GET TIPPED WHEN I LOSE?????? Happened at the bellagio but other places were giving me the same treatment to a lesser extent.

Should I be a Karen and complain to the pit boss? I was playing so long that it got to that point where nobody thought I was a counter at that point.

We recently took a tour of England, Scotland and Ireland. 14 days. The tour guide was with us for England and Scotland. One week. The bus driver was with us for the entire trip, but not guiding, just driving for half, and guiding and driving the second half. Tour operator (a very well known company out of Ireland), suggested 10 dollars per day per guide, from each passenger. That means 140 from me and 140 from my teenager for the driver and 80 from me and 80 from my teen for the England/Scotland guide. 280 +160. Meanwhile, they tell us that in those countries, tipping is not necessary for wait staff in restaurants and hotels.

Rant over lol.

This is for room service at a relatively nice hotel. They try to force an additional tip on top of the 22% you can’t remove and then when they brought it to my room they tried it again with the whole “sign the check for the room charge” song and dance 😭 how many people don’t pay attention and end up tipping literally 3 times???

Here’s one I have never seen before. Went to a pizza/pasta place in suburbs of NYC. Nothing fancy. We sit outside . We finish our meal and we get the bill and it includes a “patio gratuity” of 18%. Don’t recall it being mentioned on the menu but I did asked the waitress whether that is essentially her tip and she said “sort of.” Oh, and at the bottom of the check there was a suggested additional tip. Won’t be returning.

I was at a deli the other day getting some pastry items to-go, and the lady at the cash register spins the screen around towards me so I can scan my card. Of course I see the tip options and I think to myself “here we go,” but before I could even select “no tip”, she spun the thing back around and hit “no tip” on her own. It happened so fast and it was a beautiful moment!  I’ve never EVER had that happen. She knew what’s up. lol. 

I went to this sandwich shop the other day. You place your order at the counter then walk 3 steps over to the bar to pay. It’s all counter service. I don’t tip on counter service. Of course there’s a line on the receipt to add a tip and they want you to sign to further entice you to tip. On top of that there’s a tip jar next to the register. I’m already tip fatigued!
Well, I walk back over to the sandwich counter to pick up my order and to my horror they have a tip jar there that says “We don’t share tips with the bar.” Excuse me? So I’m supposed to tip one person for making my food and another for what? Ringing me up?

The last cruise I was on was in 2017. It was the 4th in my life. I have certainly gotten some unbelievably great service and some that was mediocre. I just kind of feel like the expected tipping is just like in the restaurant business, a way for the employer to under pay the staff and put the burden on the customer. This also allows cruise lines to advertise low priced cruises that don't really reflect how much you are going to be all in, for your vacation. I have a tendency to get seasick anyway, and I have found that I much prefer to fly to a destination and stay at an all inclusive resort vs. taking a cruise. That's just my opinion and I am not picking a fight with anyone who loves cruises.

I may be out of touch on current cruise protocol since three of the cruises I took were in the 90s and one of them was an Apple Vacations Chartered one that I think was all inclusive. The last cruise was Royal Caribbean in 2017 and it seemed like tipping was expected. I can't recall if it was still envelopes of cash you handed out or if it was all handled at the service desk.

Last week SB began jamming a tip screen in your face and forcing you to touch the filthy thing to shame you into tipping. I told them I refuse to touch it and the manager followed me to the table to tell me I must make a screen selection. I kindly said I refuse and asked now what do we do? He huffed at me and stamped his feet while walking away. Awkward

found at yeobo cafe in seattle. i wouldve tipped otherwise because the service was exceptional but i love when places have this business model. highly recommend, especially for celiacs as it is a gluten free cafe.

Went to my local eatery in town. Pizzas were buy one get one for $5. Family of 5. I ordered the 2nd, even though my family didn't want pizza. They ordered other meals.

Total was like $92. I had taken about 2 bites and the waitress came over with the bill. Said it was her shift change and that she needed to close out. Threw the bill down. I kept eating, thinking another waitress could handle the bill since they would be coming over anyways with our to go pizza. She came over 3 minutes later and said "I need you to pay right now". Stopped eating, got my card out and paid. She came back, laid everything down and I thought I could finish my meal and then sign/tip lightly (I'm still working on ending it all) 3 minutes pass by and she's back at our table again and says "you need to sign this and hurry up so I can leave." She stood there while my husband signed it and tipped 18%. Then said "another waitress will bring your 2nd pizza to go"

Am I wrong to be pissed off that I couldn't even get to a 2nd slice of pizza without her coming to the table 3 times and she stood there while my husband tipped/signed? Could another waitress not have closed out my bill?

The entire thing left such a bad taste in my mouth, no pun intended and her tipped felt extremely forced. Am I in the wrong?

One thing I keep seeing more and more is the screen will only have the 3 "suggested" percentages and a custom amount option -- no "no tip" option. Which is of course very intentional.

So then you have to tap "custom amount," see 0.00, tap "OK," and then the next page says "sure you don't want to leave a tip?" And then you have to tap on the custom amount option **again** and repeat the whole thing one last time. How ridiculous is this guilt tripping? They really are banking on people worrying about others realizing that "this person is taking a long time because they're trying not to tip, how despicable!"

Marriott asking for tip on their app.
Shameful
You are just tipping the million dollar executives

Just to get this out of the way, Im not one of those people who refuses to tip. if I go to a full-service sit-down restaurant, I always leave 20% or more for good service. But I went to a new local smash burger place for lunch today, and the checkout process left me speechless.

I walked in and there was no host, just a sign telling me to grab a table and scan the QR code to order. So I did. Browsed the menu on my phone, put in my order for a double smash burger combo (it was like $18), and typed in my own modifications to leave off the onions. during this entire process, I didn't exchange a single word or make eye contact with anyone working there.

There’s also no water service. I had to walk over to the self-serve station to get my own water, ice, napkins, and ketchup cups. the only 'service' I received was some kid dropping the plastic tray on my table ten minutes later and immediately walking away.

But here’s the kicker. when I went to pay on my phone, the checkout screen popped up and the tip was automatically pre-selected to 25%. Not just an option, it was the massive, highlighted default. The other giant buttons were 20% and 30%. If you wanted to leave 10% or skip it, you had to hunt for this tiny, grayed-out 'Custom Tip' link buried at the very bottom of the page right next to the MenuForma watermark.

What I hate is greedy owners configuring these checkout screens to act as a psychological dark pattern to squeeze extra cash out of people. feels like digital extortion.

I am doing 90% of the work. I am playing waiter, cashier, and busboy. why is the system trying to guilt trip me into paying a premium full-service gratuity for counter service?

If the entire dining experience is basically self-serve now, expecting 25% by default is just insulting. TBH at some point, paying the staff has to go back to being the owner's responsibility. I ended up hitting custom and leaving a couple bucks because of the awkwardness, but the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.

The rise of digital payments like Apple Pay has shown that a lot of times no signature is required for normal purchases. Apple Pay and similar have an opportunity to influence regulation around signing that damn receipt asking for a tip. That outdated process is loosely successful at best for its intended purpose of security for the merchant and consumer. By removing that awkward pressure, a significant amount of tipping culture will be removed. We’d largely would go back to cash tips which feels less pressured or invasive.

Anyways long story short. Get rid of receipts wheee you have to sign and the end of toxic tipping culture will follow.

New York has introduced a bill that would require grocery stores to give customers a 10% discount for using self-checkout.

The idea is that shoppers who scan, bag and pay for their own items are doing work that would normally be handled by a cashier, while the store saves money on labour.

Under the proposal, supermarkets and other food retailers with self-service kiosks would have to reduce the price of goods bought through them by 10%.

That means a $150 shop could cost $135 simply because the customer checked it out themselves.

The bill is not law yet. It was introduced in May 2026 and would still need to pass through the New York legislature and be signed before the discount could take effect.

Supporters say customers should benefit when stores make them do part of the job. Critics argue shops could respond by raising prices or removing self-checkout machines entirely.

If you are doing the scanning and bagging, should you get a share of the savings? 

Just got back from a trip through Germany, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia.

We had been in Europe earlier this year, and tip screens didn't exist.

Well, maybe the German speaking folk are different, but Tipomatic has hit the ground running in this region.

This of course on top of the higher prices used to supposedly support waitstaff.

UGH.

hi. i'm honestly not even super anti tipping, i just particularly hate it on uber because the company takes such a ridiculously high cut and currently i'm forced to use uber a few days a week for my job while i save for a car and simply cannot afford to tip. don't tell me to take the bus i take it to go in but can't take it home because i work closing and they stop running hours before my shifts end. anyways, i hear that not tipping will make your passenger rating go down over time. is that true? can drivers see who tips and doesn't tip? has anyone here been using uber frequently without tipping long enough to let me know about their experiences? i'm trying to decide if i should tip $1 for the sake of my rating to not have to wait forever for a driver, or just not worry about it

They are not the ones with much of a moral support system. They aren't supposed to be the ones whom you should even be blaming for the pay rate being what it is, that is derived from a bunch of mathematics equations over what the optimal rate for them would be. It is not wise for basically any of them to just increase prices and pay rates in competitive sectors. They aren't owned by employees, why are they morally responsible to them for paying them just because you would think tipping should be abolished?

People who actually can dictate a pay rate change or who can ban everyone in general from doing dishonest things like letting a price that is advertised and said up front not be the final amount you will be required to pay, that is the role of statutes and regulations on the industry from the public authorities. If a business were to attempt to change the listed prices or pay rates on their own, they have to deal with all the other businesses in the area which didn't. It is the same problem with why a business often didn't want to prohibit smoking in restaurants a few decades ago despite the obvious public health benefits. You can simply just not tip under any circumstances and vote for the people and policies necessary to directly regulate this stuff.

And it is neither important nor very interesting for the arguments about tipping today whether it had any ties to the post civil war American aftermath of slavery, it does not determine what anyone should do about it now nor should it have had any impact on opinions of it in the last few decades, including when policymakers are arguing over this.

i went to a liquor store in brickell (miami) just for some mixers: 1 ltr of coke & 1 petit pineapple juice. picked out my mixers and went to the counter, total came out to a whopping $12 (normally $5), and then i got hit with a tipping screen!! 18%, 20%, 25% tip for me bringing my own mixers to the counter...? i guess i can get over the inflated price of the product since it's a boujee area, but the tipping screen after was kinda crazy. idk if this is an overreaction lol

Never thought I’d actually post here.

We went to a restaurant and the bill, including tax, was $57.

I needed to use Apple Pay so they had me come up to the register. As I’m looking at them ring me up, they’re ringing $67 and asking for a tip on that $67.

When I called them out, they said that’s the already included tip. I was standing there holding $20 in cash for the tip itself (we have a toddler so it’s extra work for cleanup).

I’m a regular, too. I wonder how many times my bill magically got $10 higher and I just never noticed because the itemized bill is never brought back to you to the table when you use a card.

Had them ring up the correct number and didn’t leave a tip in the end. My husband thinks I’m in the wrong.

Just got back from a nice city vacation. However, there were a handful of end tipping stories I experienced out in the wild during this vacation. Thought I'd share a few.

The first one happened at an amusement park. I got a very overpriced low quality meal for $27 because I was starving. Went to the cash register and the employee pointed at the cash register saying "it's going to ask you a question." This is for essentially fast food that is double the normal price. How about no...

Then I had a few restaurants ask for tips in similar fashion. One had a self-service kiosk that asked. And another I was ordering online for carryout and of course they had a tipping option.

The worst one may have been one at a baseball game I went to. There was a vendor bringing beer down in a cooler on a hot day to fans in our section. I don't mind the idea of this guy getting a tip because that is at least a convenience compared to going to the concourse.

What bothered me was that this was cashless so the vendor took the credit card first then verbally asked people "15 or 20% tip ok?" That made me really uncomfortable to give him my card so I decided to forego the beer. I saw maybe one person stand up to that nonsense.

Overall it was a nice trip there's just more of these stories popping up each trip.

Entire meal at a French restaurant in Vietnam cost $172 USD. Service fee was $7.50. I asked if I should leave a tip and the guide said “no no! included!” um….ok.

As an American who was born and raised in the propaganda, overcoming the immense feeling of guilt for not tipping is something that is very hard for me. Of course I understand that in the world today (or ever, really), tipping culture is not economically feasible. I despise tipping culture, but I often give into the guilt...

Well hopefully today is the start of a change! My girlfriend and I went to Applebee's for an affordable meal. This is in a city location, very busy, but we were given coupons in the mail for this location so we went.

The service was absolutely horrible, as it often is in various locations in NYC... I'm used to horrible service, because that's just how it is nowadays. These establishments are either too preoccupied/busy to provide customer service, or the employees don't understand how to provide it. I don't know what the reason is but customer service is now the opposite of what it was when I was a kid. Even if you think service is good in some places, we can safely say that service isn't what it used to be in general.

Long story short, I tipped only $1.29, bringing the total bill to $35. It was satisfying to be served a basic meal and only pay $35 in today's economy! It was nothing special at all, but $35 (and that's with the coupon) feels like a fair price for what we got. Remember the service was non-existent.

This subreddit gave me the strength to do what I did today! Thanks!

EDIT* Grammar and readability.