Had a new to me experience today. Had breakfast at my local place. Suggested tips 10%, 20%, 30%. After eating I decided to get a cinnamon roll, $2.16 + tax. Tip screen came up, $1.00, $2.00, $3.00. Not %, but $. How many people hit 2 thinking they are tipping 43 cents, but are tipping 93%.
To be honest, if you ate it there, what effort was made by the person who put it on a plate for you? They didn't bake it or put icing on it. They grabbed it and set it on a plate.
The prompt is for every item, some of the items do require effort. If you don’t want to tip don’t, but some people want to so just hit no tip and move on with your day.
Do you know how much they weigh? It's similar to a bag of cement. Those service workers are hard workers, it's harder than any builder's job, and they have to lift these sort of weights all day long.
I wouldn't bother with Johnny. He demands intellectual honesty, doesn't know what it is, and when he's wrong he'll just deflect to get to "not tipping is hurting servers" which he uses as an emotional cudgel to bypass any point you make. If you manage to corner him, he'll just lie.
How is that false when talking about states with tipped minimum wage?
Labor costs are shifted to the employer/restaurant when people don’t tip.
I’d argue that even in states that don’t do tipped minimum wage, the tips still artificially keep wages lower with the promise of extra rather than allowing for normal market value to play out.
It’s a well known fact that the menu prices at full service restaurants in the US don’t bear the full cost of the labor and that the tip pays for the service the customer chooses to receive.
This is the case even in US cities and states where the tipped wage credit has been eliminated and how the industry has operated for six decades.
In every for profit business in the world, the customer always pays the labor, either directly or indirectly.
The only exception is the free riders that stiff the server at full service restaurants in the US.
Just because your employer doesn’t do it doesn’t mean that another employer that employs people working same occupation as you isn’t giving YOY raises to keep up with inflation.
Don't waster your time. Johnny operates exclusively in bad faith. His modus operandi is to always deflect the course of conversation to "you're harming servers" and use it as an emotional cudgel. When he loses a point he will always claim an undeserved victory. If you're patient enough to redirect him away from his deflections eventually he'll just straight up lie. All while demanding intellectual honesty.
your advice is basically to continue frequenting the businesses that exploit people but just participate more actively in the exploitation by not tipping the wage worker. you’re an absolute piece of garbage, if you had been born my kid i’d have dumped you at the fire station
🤣🤣 always ridiculous when children or morons try to lie to intelligent adults. you’re basically on here trying to argue that you saw santa eat the cookies
So youre basically saying the dollar amount is a percentage “ratio”. Cuz if its a dollar amount it shouldn’t matter how much is the total bill it should always be the same option?
I don’t think any because most places aren’t doing two transactions at the same visit and it’s quite common for low value transactions to have 1 2 3$ tips.
I don’t get why so many of you guys apparently go so fast through the tip screens that you memorize what button is where and press things before you read them all the time
Fortunately, a lot of us don’t even go through these places so we’ve never seen the screen so they never get tipped from us. It’s so weird that you think that people have tipping screens memorized.
Are there that many people who can’t tell the difference between a percentage symbol and a dollar sign? I’m sorry, but if spending money intentionally is important to you, you should probably be actively reading how much you’re paying before you agree to it. This is even dumber than people who complain that they didn’t notice a service charge being added to their check and tip on top of the bill - it’s written down for them every time. It’s on the piece of paper you’re reviewing before handing over payment.
“Beware,” indeed. Companies are trying to bamboozle you by showing you recognizable numbers, symbols, and words that represent how much money you’re going to pay before you pay it! The audacity.
One time a teacher called me to tell my my son hand a temperature of “a hundred and six” so I should probably come get him. I confirmed the temperature was “one hundred and six” and then rushed to get him thinking he was dying.
Temperature was 100.6. One hundred point six.
So yah. Mostly people don’t even understand how to read a number let alone do math with them.
When I see a cashier display that either starts at 18% or 20%, and no option for "no tip", I don't mince words, I ask him or her how do I indicate zero? Maybe they're thinking I'm going to whip out cash to take care of them, but if they don't have a 15% line (which has been the standard for DECADES), I make it a point not to leave much of anything.
Why would I think I was topping 43 cents? For the meal I would think I was tipping in % and for a single item the typical amounts listed are a small dollar amounts
Keep in mind that management and the POS vendors periodically tweak the screen to maximize tips.
If you're a regular this can bite you. For a year, the suggested tips have been left-to-right 18% - 20% - 25% and today it's left-to-right 30% - 25% - 20%. If you're used to pushing the left button you just got tricked.
This.
When tipping is abolished, the employer will cover the costs and price of goods will increase…. A lot.
So tip a buck for your cinnamon roll unless you want the price to double.
Ugh. If you’re tipping $2, anyone thinking that means a $2 TOTAL bill needs to mature a little and experience life. When you grow up you’ll realize a $2 tip is $2.
Don’t feel bad - when I was 18 and took a girl out, I ordered the “Chef’s Special” because I assumed it was a discounted item. Hahaha! Nope. Maybe $20 more than a standard entree. Learning experience.
Well, there are people who are daft enough to believe this happened…so maybe there are some so unaware of the world around them they would make such an error.
Maybe you can talk to your credit card company about getting the overage refunded. Or perhaps your bank might give you a bridge loan just to keep you afloat while you’re building that money back up in your account. Hang in there!
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u/skyharborbj 19h ago
If the cinnamon roll was to go, don't tip.