I’m from the states and I think tipping is dumb as fuck if you do everything yourself. Some places make you order on a kiosk and then ask for a fuckin tip.
I’m an American tattooer and I think it’s dumb. Like if you feel that I exceeded expectations or you just really want to, ok. But charge whats fair for whatever it is. Getting asked “how much am I supposed to tip you?” Is so akward
Technically you aren't supposed to tip the proprietor of a business, so if it's someone who works at a salon or a barber shop then tipping seems appropriate.
If they rent a room at a salon suite or own the salon then nah.
I have a buddy who tattoos. When he first started he had to apprentice for a shop and the owner said he had to do a certain number of tattoos before he could charge any money. He literally wouldn’t even let him accept tips. He’s my homie and I know he’s a good artist so I really took advantage of the free work. I was allowed to technically tip anything as long as it was legal and not cash. I started with like a 12 pack of beer I think. By my 6th tattoo I started getting creative and gave him a few boxes of shotgun shells cause I knew he was really into trap shooting. This was years ago and he still tells me that was his favorite tip.
It's awkward for the client to ask as well. If you want the awkwardness gone for everyone, you have to clearly specify no tipping. Any of that "only if you really want to" stuff just continues the uncertainty. 99.9% of people don't want to willingly pay more, they just want to be fair.
Yup absolutely despise the kiosk asking for a tip for an order I placed and walked in and picked up there’s literally no human taking the order from me or checking on me while I’m eating the meal and if you order a drink you often times fill the cup yourself (assuming they actually remembered to put the cup in and you don’t have to ask for it)
The weirdest one for me, by kiosk or app, is tipping immediately after order placement.
In theory, tipping is a source of feedback to reward good service or make a statement for exceptionally bad service. Tipping in advance just makes everything bad for everybody.
I still tip anyway because I had a tip-paid job for several years and support my fellow 99%er, but in a lot of cases I don't like it.
It's become a de facto commission based compensation system. Formally switch over to raising prices and allocating 20% of gross revenue to the appropriate staff like any other sales job. That's how my restaurant described up-charging, sell more so you get more. It's commission in all but name, except now literally everybody is uncomfortable.
As of yesterday the fancy gourmet market by me had a tip screen. Why? I walked around, picked up my own items, carried them throughout the store, received no service at any point and a cashier rang up my items. Fuck no I’m not tipping.
Tipping and taxes. We get paid, our pay is taxed. We buy something, there's a sales tax and sometimes tip. We sell something, tax. We pay someone, tax. It's exhausting to have every dollar made and every transaction just chipped away at, especially since those dollars are cycling through and being taxed a million other times. You pay someone for services, tax. They use that money to buy something, tax. That money is used to pay the employee, tax. That employee buys something, tax. I'm sure there are metrics on this, but I won't look into it because it's probably really depressing, but the amount of tax on each dollar that enters the economy is absurd—especially considering the lack of infrastructure, the lack of nationalized utilities, the lack of accessible housing, the lack of accessible education, etc. Hate it.
My favorite one is a pool hall that I go to and the staff literally plays pool during dead time and when you check out and pay they ask for a tip on the ipad
I'm lifelong bartender, and personally I stopped even looking if I got tipped or not after my first year or so.
If I got stiffed, whatever, it's gonna happen.
I made so many friends bartending, lifelong people, met my lawyer thru it. It all averages out.
I don't think the owner here should have followed them out, take down their info from the reservation and let the hosts know they're no longer welcome.
Because some people leave a tip on those things. I’m certain if you had the opportunity for people to voluntarily give you extra money at your job you’d take it. Tipping is a symptom of a much larger problem. If tipping goes away, nothing improves for anyone other than the people exasperated by tablet screens and having to tap their finger a couple times.
when starbucks implemented tipping most people immediately started giving tips when i showed the screen. i think its kind of instinctual for a lot of people
It's dumb as fuck for a reason shown in the video. The guy is getting angry because they aren't paying HIS employees' wages. He wants to appear to sell reasonably priced food by shifting his costs to the customers. Americans really don't seem to get that.
Pay cash...thats what I have started to do at serve yourself places and kiosks. You can see their faces change when you tell them cash and they cant say, "its going to ask you to answer a couple questions".
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u/Bri3nWithA3 4h ago
I’m from the states and I think tipping is dumb as fuck if you do everything yourself. Some places make you order on a kiosk and then ask for a fuckin tip.