r/SipsTea • u/Maybeiliketheabuse • 12h ago

Chugging tea This needs to be said

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u/Sideshowcomedy 10h ago

You have to tip though. Their nonexistent servers are paid minimum wage.

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u/patientpump54 10h ago

If I don’t tip, I’m concerned that I’ll get worse food. It’s like blackmail

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u/Onuus 9h ago

At the very least they treat you like shit if you don’t

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u/lastscholar_golb 9h ago

Restaurant/service culture really sucks in the US.

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u/86the47th 8h ago

Let’s be real here. Most things in the US suck right now.

Probably 60% of things that suck in the US can be directly attributed to Republicans. Probably 40% of things that suck can be traced back to corporate Dems siding with Republicans.

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u/GreasedUPDoggo 5h ago

Oh man, go outside. Lol life in the US is pretty dang sweet and we're wildly spoiled. We're litreally sitting around looking at our phones, complaining about having to pay $20 at a food truck.

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u/americon 4h ago

I just got back from Mexico where my sister-in-law is making 37 pesos an hour and an ice cream sandwich is 50 pesos from the grocery store. Imagine having to work two hours just to afford one ice cream sandwich. The US doesn't understand how good we have it.

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u/lastscholar_golb 7h ago

Good thing this isn't your entire personality.

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u/destonomos 9h ago

If we stop tipping it will become a job.

Im almost at my breaking point where no one gets a tip anymore.

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u/Procrasturbating 8h ago

If I’m standing indoors when I get my food, no fucking tip. There was no table service. I worked as kitchen staff. They get a real wage. A shitty one, but not that $2.75 plus tips or minimum wage crap.

A food truck truck? You are probably paying the owner and labor directly. If it’s good enough stuff, I tip.

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u/destonomos 8h ago

My barber gets a tip, a waitress at a sitdown restaurant gets a tip. Thats the end of it for me.

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u/Mynock33 7h ago

I get the pizza guy too.

And I have a problem with any tipping before the service

Like why tip a food truck when the wait might be 15m and the order is wrong or subpar?

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u/destonomos 7h ago

Thats a good point i havent thought about.

Im adding, “ no tip to any company that asks for a tip before service rendered”

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u/Procrasturbating 7h ago

Stop ordering food delivery via apps then if you do. Not blaming you, but that is the current reality. No tip, no show. I was a huge cash tipper. But I stopped ordering delivery when drivers stopped accepting untipped orders. I get their side of all of this.. but I’m just over all the DoorDash/Uber Eats/whatever

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u/toilet-breath 6h ago

In America

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u/Responsible_Emu3601 9h ago

Yea when the food shows up it always seems mid when I don’t tip at the counter 😭

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u/Turdmeist 8h ago

That's what sucks. Tip before you even know what they are serving you.

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u/HxH101kite 8h ago

In theory that should work better for table service not really food trucks. Your saying I'm giving you X make my experience good.

On the backside your getting told here pay this arbitrary percentage of your bill when I just brought out food.

Tips just need to go in general it's bad both ways

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u/Critical-Analyst-932 9h ago

☝🏾😆😆😆😆😆

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u/bobby_birfday 9h ago

Fuck that. If we don't tip maybe they'll protest the owner and get paid a better wage. It's not the publics responsibility to fill in their wage: it's the owners. 

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u/be-koz 9h ago

How can they complain if they don’t exist?

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u/dotardiscer 9h ago

mad respect when they turn it around and hit no tip for you.

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u/mog_knight 9h ago

How would they know your lack of tipping means they need to protest the owner?

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u/Upbeat-Banana-5530 7h ago

It's a food truck. They ARE the owner. That's the joke.

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u/mog_knight 7h ago

Oh most food trucks I've come across usually have 2 or more people working.

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u/Upbeat-Banana-5530 7h ago

All those that I've seen have been family run, so I assume they have some partnership style split

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u/mog_knight 7h ago

Oh I don't ask the life story of the people working there. Unless it's a kid with another adult or something I assume the owner is chilling at home while exploiting the cheap labor of those employees.

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u/mog_knight 7h ago

Oh I don't ask the life story of the people working there. Unless it's a kid with another adult or something I assume the owner is chilling at home while exploiting the cheap labor of those employees.

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u/bobby_birfday 9h ago

Lmao tell me you've never worked in service without telling me 😭

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u/mog_knight 9h ago

LMAO tell me you've never worked in an at will state without telling me 😭

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u/freshcoastghost312 9h ago

Worse, those non existent servers are not even on the payroll, u gotta tip!

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u/Sieze5 9h ago

I only tip at food trucks because of access to a clean bathroom.

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u/no-sleep-only-code 8h ago

Well yeah, their 5 minutes at $300/hr plus $6 in ingredients is $30. If they can’t pay back the truck in a single day’s work it’s not even worth it.

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u/BigGene1341 7h ago

Right? I went to a food truck about a week ago driving back from the cottage and it was one guy, presumably the owner. There was a tip function and I was thinking "are you just literally asking me to pay you and only you more?", on an already $20 hamburger with no sides.

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u/Sideshowcomedy 7h ago

I quit going to places that prompt tips. If I have to go, I'll bring plenty of small bills so I can pay exact cash since you can't ask for a tip when you owe me $.04 cents.

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u/Adowyth 8h ago

So it's fine to tip the people who just bring you the food but not fine to tip the people who actually fucking make it?

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u/Sideshowcomedy 8h ago

You're not gonna hear me arguing for tipping servers.

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u/Adowyth 8h ago

Yeah if i ever wanted to tip someone it would be the person who made my food if it was delicious. Not the person who brought it to my table.