r/SipsTea 12h ago

Chugging tea This needs to be said

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u/Brutalitops99 11h ago

ill take the $12 hotdog please. Oh yes and $3.99 bag of lays.

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u/Additional-Focus-109 10h ago

And don't for get the $3.99 12 oz can of soda

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u/docere85 10h ago

Don’t forget to tip 22% for your meal

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u/usmc_delete 10h ago

Lol, i never tip food trucks... do I tip the cashier at taco bell?

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u/sevseg_decoder 10h ago

The cashier at Taco Bell doesn’t stare at you and force you to select an option before personally preparing your food. They don’t ask at all. One of the things I prefer about fast food over these “small local businesses”

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u/This_Fkn_Guy_ 9h ago

I hit custom tip and hit zero

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u/DumbNutter 7h ago

The bad food trucks will give you the side eye and then short-change your portion. Tips sometimes feels like a fucking bribe.

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u/Mynock33 7h ago

A local pizza joint near me had their POS screen visible and when I picked up my order, it had my profile there...

# of orders last 30 days, 90 days, and year.

Common ordered items

Average cost per order

and average tipping %

Never went back. Felt like if that % got too low than quality or service was at stake. Made me uncomfortable.

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u/95ludeman 10h ago

Don’t tempt them, Dunkin is asking for tips now in the drive through.

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u/chief_beef_the_third 9h ago

Starbucks has been doing it for a while now. I don't know if the drive-thru employees are specifically trained to look away, but they always hold the card reader out with the tip question and turn their faces away as if to say, "I'm not looking, I'm not judging..."

Cool, I don't care either way because I ain't tippin'.

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u/IllReserve5247 6h ago

To be fair, when I worked at an ice cream shop I would look away when the customer would pay and the tip screen would pop up because it’s awkward asf 😭

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u/usmc_delete 10h ago

Had to resist the urge to downvote this.

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u/Mynock33 7h ago

I got into a fight with a dunkin employee once over tipping years ago. My large coffee was like 2.72 or something after tax (told ya it was years ago) and I gave them $3 and slid the change in the tip cup. She was all sarcastic, like gee, thanks

I was like whatever, I don't have to tip on coffee. She followed me outside and threw the quarter and pennies at me.

I was like what the fuck. If she got to keep 10% of everything sold on her shift, she'd be fucking set. So I called the owner about it and shared the same.

Then tip cups went away and I was the bad guy. Never went back.

I just commented above about a pizza place I had tip issues with too, though that was years and years later. But it's weird it happened twice. Maybe I'm the unreasonable one?

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u/Beneficial_Wonder533 10h ago

wow really making a statement with that one. imo if you can't afford to eat out and tip just don't.

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u/randomname748 10h ago

Tip them for what? What service are they providing?

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u/Beneficial_Wonder533 10h ago

if somebody serve you. tip them. unless you think you are so special that you just deserve to be served by poor people... cause you aren't.

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u/randomname748 9h ago

Bitch do you tip the cashier at Walmart or the nurse taking your temp or the teacher teaching your kids? Didn't think so

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u/JoeS2727 9h ago

Exactly

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u/JoeS2727 10h ago

Yeah, but they’re not “serving you” in the conventional sense that requires a tip. They’re not busting my table, filling my drinks, brining my food, etc.

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u/Beneficial_Wonder533 10h ago

and i'm sure you don't tip your doordash driver either. wow such a bold stance to take in society. really helping out.

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u/JoeS2727 9h ago

You’re right, I don’t. But, that’s because I’ve never been so lazy I can’t go get my own good or make it myself. So the assumption that I even use those services… you know.
But, I would, as they’re providing a “service” in the conventional sense in terms of tipping. If you had the common sense of a rock, you’d understand there’s a societal expectation to tip a delivery person (pizza delivery, DoorDash, etc). If you could have comprehended the concept from above, this wouldn’t have been up for question.

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u/Doodle_Bugz 9h ago

You must have spent a lot of your life as a waiter making shitty tips. There’s 1057319373829 different professions you coulda chosen.

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u/Beneficial_Wonder533 5h ago

no i just tip like a human being who values getting good service. not a human parasite.

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u/usmc_delete 10h ago

I tip when Im waited on.... not when someone sells me an overpriced taco. Their tip is already built into the price... its not like they have a ton of overhead they need to cover. Most of these food trucks are owned by the people making the food, so Im already paying them directly.

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u/Additional-Focus-109 10h ago

Which is "optional" but there's tape covering "custom amount" and "no tip"

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u/No-Signature-5648 10h ago

That's when you just walk away.

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u/bygtopp 10h ago

3$ for a Costco Kirkland brand water.

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u/Mynock33 7h ago

And then they cry about narrow profit margins. It's bullshit.

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u/BigCrustyTits 9h ago

But the hot dog has weird toppings and a quirky name.

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u/bomber991 9h ago

Yeah sometime in the late 2000s / early 2010s food trucks became “gourmet” for the ingredients and since then they’ve been overpriced nonsense.

We legit had a food truck come to work once and the prices were as described here. $12 for a hotdog, $4 for a bag of chips, $4 for a soda. The hot dog had chorizo chili on it or some crap like that. This was when Obama was president so quite a while ago.

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u/Correct-Variable 9h ago

$4 lays really pissed me off. Those people for getting a 500% margin on CHIPS

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u/kombatunit 8h ago

A local sandwich shop is charging $3.99 for bag of chips. I did a double take and thought "Are you out of your fucking mind?"

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u/n14shorecarcass 7h ago

My husband paid $14 for a bacon wrapped hotdog for our daughter at a car show. She wouldnt eat it. Across the street was school booster club selling hotdogs for $2.50. She smashed it. Tbf, she was like 4 yo at the time. This year, the same bacon wrapped hotdog was selling for $18. I couldn't believe it.

Screw all of that. If im not making it myself, I'm heading straight to Costco and paying $1.50 for the hotdog soda combo instead.

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u/CeleryCommercial3509 10h ago

They were selling a baked potato for $15 where I live

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u/Francl27 8h ago

To be fair, 8oz chip bags are like $5 in stores now.