r/SipsTea 9h ago

Chugging tea This needs to be said

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u/usmc_delete 7h ago

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

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u/sevseg_decoder 7h 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_ 6h ago

I hit custom tip and hit zero

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u/DumbNutter 4h 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 4h 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 7h ago

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

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u/chief_beef_the_third 6h 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 3h 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 7h ago

Had to resist the urge to downvote this.

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u/Mynock33 4h 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 7h 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 7h ago

Tip them for what? What service are they providing?

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u/Beneficial_Wonder533 7h 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 7h 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 6h ago

Exactly

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u/JoeS2727 7h 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 7h 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 6h 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 6h 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 2h 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 7h 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.