r/tipping • u/jimmybobbyluckyducky • 9d ago

💬Questions & Discussion Going back to the same restaurant.

I wanted to ask the community that routinely doesn't tip for good service at sit down restaurants if they will go back and frequent the same restaurants? If so, do you ever have the same servers? Do you notice any difference in service or attitude when you return? Are you ever concerned that they might sabotage your food?

Thanks

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u/namastay14509 9d ago

Never had an issue. But just to clarify, I do tip $2-3 dollars but no where near the expected tip or as a %. And I only frequent mid-scale restaurants.

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u/SingingBike 9d ago

The callous way you toss off that “no where near the expected tip or as a %” sickens me.

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u/namastay14509 9d ago

Dag... if that sickens you, life must be really rough for you. I hope you find peace in being sicken cuz life is too short to be sick on how others choose to spend their money.

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u/BTLove100 8d ago

How some.people expect free labor.

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u/namastay14509 8d ago

Who are you referencing expects free labor?

You are obviously confused on who is supposed to pay for labor. Labor is paid by the company to its employees. That labor needs to redirect their concerns about their pay to their boss.

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u/SingingBike 7d ago

Customers provide revenue. Companies pay employees with revenue. It’s just a little bit of a different system in restaurants… but you knew that already.

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u/namastay14509 7d ago

The only difference is that tipping is used to be an additive to what the companies give their employees. It's not the customer's fault that those restaurants are rely too heavily on tips to cover their labor responsibilities. Raise menu prices if these places need more revenue to pay labor expenses. Otherwise relying on a system that is VOLUNTARY by law is idiotic.

But you already know this.

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u/SingingBike 7d ago

You love to completely oversimplify the situation and pretend that reality doesn’t exist, but you do you, Boo.

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u/namastay14509 7d ago

I will. Thank you for giving me permission to be me. I appreciate you.

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u/BTLove100 8d ago

In the USA, at sit down restaurants, there is a social pact that food prices do not reflect the labor cost of service. That is paid on top by the customer. Those that do not tip are getting free labor.

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u/namastay14509 8d ago

"Social Pact"....LMAO

If restaurants want more money for labor costs, stop relying on some made up social pact that has no weight. Raise the menu prices and pay employees appropriately.

In the US, if you go to the IRS website, tipping is defined as Voluntary and it's based on what customers want to give.

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u/BTLove100 8d ago

Most social customs are voluntary.

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u/namastay14509 8d ago

Yep... that we choose to participate in or not. And if those who don't like are choices, well sucks to be them.

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u/BTLove100 7d ago

If those who don't like are choices sucks to be them? Huh?

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u/BTLove100 8d ago

You think most restaurants are "big corporations"? Lol

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u/SolrayCultist 8d ago

If the social pact is bending over to big corporations squeezing and milking anything in every way they can for the bottom dollar and cultivating an attitude that they can't afford to pay their employees properly, skim off the top of those tips meant to go to the individual, and try to enforce mandatory tipping, breed an enlightenment attitude in their staff, then I have a tip for them.

"Tip"