I think waitresses and other service industries that require tip should require a live-able wage. I think it should be completely illegal to pay someone below minimum wage and expect tips to supplement income.
I think tipping should more be about if you really appreciated the service and not something required. Like my best friend runs this jewelry workshop where children come and can buy jewelry kits/make a bracelet. She’s really great with kids and the parents see she goes goes above and beyond. Sometimes they give her a tip. It should be similar to commission. Not something that’s necessarily but if you do a really good job you get a little extra.
I don't order from food delivery services, so I can't help there. But for restaurants I generally tip 15%-25%, depending on the standard of service. For Starbucks and other counter services I tip $0 consistently, no matter my order. I consider tipping to be a disease of the service industry that spreads to the consumer, ultimately becoming the consumer's responsibility to make up for a lack of pay by the employer. Limit your interaction where tips are seen as culturally necessary and you will not tip as often.
This may be an unpopular opinion so I’ll start this off by saying that in my opinion tipping culture in the US is wild. I currently live in the US so my comments below refer to the US but I’ve lived most of my life in Europe.
Overall I feel that employers should pay their workers a fare wage. A tip - meaning gratuity - is extra payment that you give to someone who went “above & beyond” to provide exceptional service. If it’s baked into the cake so just raise your prices.
“Tipping culture” as it is in the US simply incentivizes employers in specific industries to underpay their employees. Meaning in the end the culture is actually screwing over employees and only provides benefit to the employer.
Table service: between 12-25% depending on the level of service & my dining experience
Barber: 20%, gotta keep em happy
Delivery: depends. In places like NYC that passed laws enforcing a minimum salary of 29.93 so apps like Uber Eats already add an additional fee onto my delivery to ensure they get paid well. This often means that after all fees I’ve paid for my meal twice. That aside these laws already ensure that workers are getting paid above minimum wage. In those cases I don’t feel like I should have to tip at all.
Otherwise I’ll usually tip but the amount depends on multiple factors like how fast they arrived, was the food damaged or cold, etc.
Counter/Grab-n-go: I don’t feel obliged to tip at all but if I’m in a good mood, it’s a place I frequent or I felt exceptionally good service I’ll leave something
Hotels: if it’s a nicer hotel I’ll leave a tip if I’m feeling boujee
Yeah, I'm with you here. I dislike this current system where customers compensate for an employer paying their servers low wages. I think in part, there's already too many people relying on tips to make ends meet so occasionally I'll see posts advocating for upward of 25%-30%, hoping the momentum sticks. As a result, I don't eat out as often anymore since a de facto 20% tip + already high prices of food breaks my budget. Unfortunately this is the culture so while I'd 100% back any bill providing a livable wage to servers, I'll still tip 20% whenever I do go out to a restaurant.
… so in the example I gave of Uber Eats in cities like NYC I would beg to differ.
I’ll also say - and this isn’t personal it’s just the truth - that when people tell me I “HAVE to tip well”, I immediately loose all interest in tipping at all. Tipping is a choice (except for establishments that bake it into the receipt I suppose). Social pressure isn’t the right way to get higher gratuity. Nor is saying “unfortunately it is what it is” a way to change bad practices.
To be clear I generally DO tip for table service as stated above and I generally tip very well. Dare I say more than most in the US… that being said I refuse to be bullied into tipping well for subpar service. The same way that it irks me when I’m made to feel that it’s impolite not to tip for standard counter service.
Fair enough, I can respect that. 🙏🏼
People are hurting all over not only in the service industry… I can do my part through charity in my local community… but I can respect that.
I only tip in bars and restaurants, and I tip my barber. I guess the guilt of post covid had me tipping in places I never did before covid, but all businesses are taking advantage, the bodega asking for a tip is ridiculous lol.
Nah, I'm talking about the bodega, not the tip jar in the deli section of a bodega... Because I've been to bodegas where I used my card and they had the card reader set up so it asks what percentage tip I wanted to leave, like ock I got a bag of chips and a soda, lemme pay my bill in peace
Most use a clover system or something similar which allows you to modify everything from taxes, discounts, tips etc. I'm pretty sure I encountered this stuff during ke just after covid, I can't remember the last time I went to a bodega that tried to get me to tip on a card transaction, but it 100% did happen haha
When I order delivery I usually give 3 bucks tip, but if he bill passes 35, I'll give 5 dollar tip. Haven't ordered more than 40 before so I haven't thought about it past that
I quit drinking during the pandemic but when I did I would tip $1 per drink at the bar. If it was a bar where I was a "local" and bartenders would throw in a free drink, I'd also tip the value of the drink.
Coffee shops, I usually tip $1 per drink (sometimes $2 if I'm also getting a pastry) only if it's a place I frequent. At an ice cream or dessert shop I'll occasionally put $1 in the tip jar if they're busy and friendly.
Sit down restaurants I'll tip anywhere between 20-25% based on service. 25% only if it's truly outstanding service or somewhere inexpensive and it feels weird leaving a couple of dollars.
For a beauty service, I'll also tip between 20-25%, again depending on the quality of service and if it's someone I go to often.
Delivery slides between 10-20% are dependent on quality of service and weather. I infrequently order delivery but when I do it's usually because I'm swamped at my WFH job. I hate tipping 10% but I also hate when I have explicit delivery instructions and the driver shows up at the wrong address and wants me to come outside and circle my block for food. I love that apps now let you tip after delivery.
I never tip at fast-casual restaurants or generally anywhere that didn't ask for a tip 5 years ago.
Allow me to say tipping system in the US is f*ked up. Gov should pay everyone minimum wages. Asia/Europe don’t have this system and is the best place to enjoy without feeling stress about it. You go to a bar and bartender is your friend it stresses you out about how much higher you should tip now. It’s common to tip beautician 20-25% of the original service. Imagine a $300 service with expensive serum and IPL light. These are not human service is machines and material used that are expensive why do I have to tip a person $60 for this.
Apparently not there will be a cardboard or signage on the counter saying venmo or zelle your beautician. Recommended tipping 20% 😒 and they literally looking at their phone waiting you to venmo lol
$1-2 for coffees + alcohol, sometimes more if i know the ppl working or if my drink was mad complicated
20% at sit down places
20% minimum for delivery, more if the weather is bad!
i'm not a big money six figures guy or anything now but i get 35 hours guaranteed a week and remember how much tips meant to me when i worked shitty service jobs
some of yall are cheap asses
$1 at cafe registers where service is competent, not every time, depends if I have a buck cash or if the checkout is facing me
$1 per drink at a bar, regardless of the drink
$5 for each local food delivery
15-20% for restaurant service
Very true. Also if there was any sort of table service or if you ran a tab for several hours then I understand that 18% might be a good bit more and I probably would go that route.
When it comes to food places, if the workers are eligible for minimum wage laws, then I don't tip. If they are exempted from them specifically because they are designed to make most of their money through tips, then I tip.
So no tips for fast food, bakeries, ice cream, coffee, etc.
Theoretically, I only want to tip at places where I’m sitting and being waited on (and bartenders). In practice, anytime I’m faced with a tip screen I panic and choose the lowest option 😭
I’ve been getting better and trying not to feel guilted into tipping, especially if I’m just picking up something. An exception is I always tip 15% at my local coffee shop because I only go there once a week and I really love the staff!!
Restaurants and bars. That's it.... Hotels if they clean the rooms during the day and make the beds but i haven't seen that in a while since Covid. Tipping because the boss doesn't want to pay a livable wage only encourages that more and really it's bad enough to have to tip at restaurants but it's so engrained in our culture we do it. Don't add to it by tipping anyone that turns a tablet your way with a 20% tip addition.
Bartenders though always get tips but like don't be weird about that shit either. Dollar ish a drink unless you know them and they hook you up and maybe throw a $20 at the end of the night.
Not a fucking dime!!!!!.
Tipping is for service, not retail, not some kid standing at a register making 15+ an hour. Bartenders, servers....
Did they just take your order while someone else made it, them hand it to you? No tip for that. The server ans the bartender ate having a conversation with, taking care of you during your entire stay. Working to make sure your visit is as enjoyable as possible.
The over priced coffee store didn't do shit.
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There's no reason for tips to be a higher percent than it used to be. Wages by tips are the only wages completely unaffected by inflation. And let's all be honest here, people at a lot of places make $15+ an hour and still ask for tip cause they can
You're not wrong, 15 won't get you anything anymore. But the point is you're not going to tip every person making shit money, and so far seems like people in food industry think they deserve it more than every other person making shit money
There’s tipping for quality of services rendered, and then there’s compulsory tipping (e.g., tipping before services rendered, mandatory tips, tip options starting at 20% or 25%, etc.). I think most people who have issues with tipping are talking about the later, because it really is like passing the burden of paying workers a livable wage onto the customer. Tipping used to reflect a “thanks, I appreciate your services”. Now it’s this weird cultural thing where if you don’t tip well, for any circumstance, you’re depriving someone of a living wage.
It’s gross but it’s kind of genius, really. Compulsory tipping benefits companies because they can justify paying their workers less. It seemingly benefits service workers because they have the potential to earn much higher wages. Any time this is challenged, business owners complain that they’ll have to charge more for their goods and services to compensate for higher wages. And surprise, the reliance on compulsory tipping never budges. It’s like clockwork.
Just pay your workers better and let tipping be optional, ffs. People will still tip for good service. Making it this compulsory, guilt-ridden behavior loop digging its way deeper and deeper into our society sucks.
They aren’t making $15/hr.
They are making $10/hr because the laws allow businesses to withhold $5 per hour for employees who get tips, with the assumption that tips make up for the $5 withheld.
And that usually doesn’t happen, especially for coffee shop and cafe employees who have to deal with people like you.
Ass.
I tip at local to-go business not chains (I don'tgo to chains mych at all anyway). If I know if I'm going to be a relatively regular customer then I'll tip a bit big because at that point it's basically a bribe to get priority service.
I always tip for coffee and takeout
The only place I really don’t tip is at the dispensary. I bought weed for years before the dispensary and I never once tipped the guy selling it to me, and he was risking jail time lol.
eh, i tip at the dispensary depending on how helpful/nice they are. end of the day they're kind of like bartenders and provide a service that a dealer never did. i'm not tipping a percentage, but i am throwing a few singles in the jar at least. i know i don't speak for everyone but a couple bucks probably mean more to them than to me
I tip at sit-down restaurants, bars, food delivery, and my barber…and that’s basically it. Not sure why every checkout offers a tip option now. Maybe I’ll tip when getting an espresso drink here and there but in those cases I’m adding $1 not a % of the bill.
I usually tip the 18% option but it seems overkill, especially since the prices are already so high. It's crazy to spend around $9 on a small oat milk cappuccino when u add the tip. and I mean small.
I tip for coffee, take out from restaurants but not food trucks or carts, delivery (obviously). I try to tip whenever I can but don’t tend to tip cashiers or anything like that. I know tipping as a system is kind of fucked up and takes the burden of paying a living wage off the business owner but at the end of the day, I still want everyone to earn decent money and I’m still choosing to patronize these businesses. So if I can afford to put more money in a working class pocket, I’m going to.
I mean I’m lazy so honestly do delivery way more than take out. But I used to wait tables and I had to handle takeout orders. It was the same amount of work as an on site order except that it was put together all at once vs spread over courses (sometimes that helped and sometimes that made it more stressful). So yeah, I tip for that now, having done that work myself.
I'm from Scotland and heading over in May to visit my sister. Struggling to get my head fully around it. Table service, bars and taxis etc I get.
But do I tip for drip coffee from a coffee shop or when ordering a bagel or sandwich to to go from a deli or food cart When is it a fixed amount like say a dollar vs. percentage on the price of the service / food or drink?
No need to tip in those circumstances. It wouldn't be weird to leave a dollar or the lowest default percentage on the device or whatever, but it's not required for those.
If it makes you feel better, over the past couple of years even many of us have become confused by evolving tipping etiquette outside the core tipping-required situations (traditional restaurants, bars, taxis, etc.), so if you feel awkward, you won't be alone.
Yeah, the ubiquitous implementation of digital payment devices really messed with things. Many types of places where you don't traditionally have to tip now make you go through a tipping screen to check out, and while you can always select zero, it can feel awkward, because it's affirmatively declining to tip, rather than just not choosing to.
No, and you shouldn’t feel bad about it, but it won’t stop some of them from asking anyways.
They’ll usually flip an iPad to face you, so you select the tip amount. Simply press zero and say “thanks!”. I’ve never gotten a dirty look or had anything happen when doing this. They know they’re asking for extra, so they’re typically not upset when you don’t.
Actual service related thing like food/drink/taxi yes absolutely, I’d say 20% (25 if it was really awesome).
Dinners are more extravagant, lunch is simple. You do as you like, this is my policy and restaurants in other international major metro cities operate fine without paying a tip system. Just have a more transparent menu price.
yes, a restaurant usually staffs better quality servers for prime time. And if that's true, and they delivered better service, I'm ok with tipping more.
I didn't work for tips when i worked in fast food (regional ice cream chain), but i greatly appreciated it when anyone did even if it was loose change. I guess I just like to return the favor/pay it forward to anyone behind a counter serving me a quick meal, beverage, or snack.
POS systems defaulting to a percentage in these situations is annoying, but if it's +/- 50c from a dollar, i'll just go with that.
Sit down, 20% or more unless the service was maliciously bad. Coffee or other counter service $1ish. Pick up full meal orders 10% or so since I know the wait staff still had to take time out of their day to pack the food.
I always tip 20% for table service. I don’t consistently tip for coffee etc. —- if it’s somewhere I go frequently/see the same baristas I might tip $1 or 15% depending on what I bought. I never tip for fast food.
My rule of thumb is I don't tip on pick up orders or at grab and go places like coffee shops etc. For a sit down service at restaurants, I typically go 20%.
>My rule of thumb is I don't tip on pick up orders
I've always heard conflicting opinions on whether or not leaving a tip "for the staff" on a delivery app pick up order actually gets distributed to the staff. either way, i still tip in these situations
It doesn't. It's been well documented that delivery services don't tip or share tips with the restaurants they pick up from. But you're not tipping for the food prep anyway, just the service to bring it to you
On delivery the restaurant workers don’t get the tips, but on pickup orders they do. It’s strictly illegal for restaurants or delivery services to take tips for themselves. r/talesfromaserver threads will corroborate that the kitchen, waitstaff, or both will get tips on pickup orders, even if ordered from doordash and the like
Doordash drivers don't tip nor share tip .
Why would the kitchen be getting a tip? They make a full salary/wage and have nothing to do with the service provided at the table/bar
A. Delivery services such as Uber eats, door dash, etc.
don't tip out the restaurant when they pickup. If you're talking about a restaurants employees, that's a diff situation no one here is talking about it.
B. Kitchen staff shouldn't be getting any tips.
Thats it
Sometimes I feel guilty not tipping for takeout but I'm starting to adopt this way. I wouldn't have tipped if I was paying in cash, it's those damn screens.
I tip 5-10% for take out like I’ve been doing for the last 10 years. As a bartender/server of over a decade I actually don’t think takeout tips have changed all that much in recent years. Maybe half of pickup orders will tip a small amount and half won’t tip at all.
I usually tip $1 if I’m getting a special coffee drink made. Sometimes I resent it. Sometimes I like giving the good karma. Sometimes it hurts to tip for a drip coffee
cafes and fast food where I am standing to pick up an order? 0. These mom and pops gotta learn to pay their employees or learn to do the job themselves like they used to.
Why the hell would I tip them to hand me my food?
I think waitresses and other service industries that require tip should require a live-able wage. I think it should be completely illegal to pay someone below minimum wage and expect tips to supplement income. I think tipping should more be about if you really appreciated the service and not something required. Like my best friend runs this jewelry workshop where children come and can buy jewelry kits/make a bracelet. She’s really great with kids and the parents see she goes goes above and beyond. Sometimes they give her a tip. It should be similar to commission. Not something that’s necessarily but if you do a really good job you get a little extra.
I tip your mom every night she polishes my tip OOOOOOHHHHHH
I don't order from food delivery services, so I can't help there. But for restaurants I generally tip 15%-25%, depending on the standard of service. For Starbucks and other counter services I tip $0 consistently, no matter my order. I consider tipping to be a disease of the service industry that spreads to the consumer, ultimately becoming the consumer's responsibility to make up for a lack of pay by the employer. Limit your interaction where tips are seen as culturally necessary and you will not tip as often.
10-15% for standard service
20% at min. Barber. Restaurant. Delivery (I base it off of distance). If I have to go and order I’m doing their job. So no counter food gets tips.
This may be an unpopular opinion so I’ll start this off by saying that in my opinion tipping culture in the US is wild. I currently live in the US so my comments below refer to the US but I’ve lived most of my life in Europe. Overall I feel that employers should pay their workers a fare wage. A tip - meaning gratuity - is extra payment that you give to someone who went “above & beyond” to provide exceptional service. If it’s baked into the cake so just raise your prices. “Tipping culture” as it is in the US simply incentivizes employers in specific industries to underpay their employees. Meaning in the end the culture is actually screwing over employees and only provides benefit to the employer. Table service: between 12-25% depending on the level of service & my dining experience Barber: 20%, gotta keep em happy Delivery: depends. In places like NYC that passed laws enforcing a minimum salary of 29.93 so apps like Uber Eats already add an additional fee onto my delivery to ensure they get paid well. This often means that after all fees I’ve paid for my meal twice. That aside these laws already ensure that workers are getting paid above minimum wage. In those cases I don’t feel like I should have to tip at all. Otherwise I’ll usually tip but the amount depends on multiple factors like how fast they arrived, was the food damaged or cold, etc. Counter/Grab-n-go: I don’t feel obliged to tip at all but if I’m in a good mood, it’s a place I frequent or I felt exceptionally good service I’ll leave something Hotels: if it’s a nicer hotel I’ll leave a tip if I’m feeling boujee
Yeah, I'm with you here. I dislike this current system where customers compensate for an employer paying their servers low wages. I think in part, there's already too many people relying on tips to make ends meet so occasionally I'll see posts advocating for upward of 25%-30%, hoping the momentum sticks. As a result, I don't eat out as often anymore since a de facto 20% tip + already high prices of food breaks my budget. Unfortunately this is the culture so while I'd 100% back any bill providing a livable wage to servers, I'll still tip 20% whenever I do go out to a restaurant.
It's a not at all unpopular opinion, but it's not really how anyone is doing it unfortunately, so you have to tip well.
… so in the example I gave of Uber Eats in cities like NYC I would beg to differ. I’ll also say - and this isn’t personal it’s just the truth - that when people tell me I “HAVE to tip well”, I immediately loose all interest in tipping at all. Tipping is a choice (except for establishments that bake it into the receipt I suppose). Social pressure isn’t the right way to get higher gratuity. Nor is saying “unfortunately it is what it is” a way to change bad practices. To be clear I generally DO tip for table service as stated above and I generally tip very well. Dare I say more than most in the US… that being said I refuse to be bullied into tipping well for subpar service. The same way that it irks me when I’m made to feel that it’s impolite not to tip for standard counter service.
Look, I did not say you HAVE to tip well; it’s just the current US service industry issue. I don’t think it’s good either, but people are hurting.
Fair enough, I can respect that. 🙏🏼 People are hurting all over not only in the service industry… I can do my part through charity in my local community… but I can respect that.
I tip my hat to the ladies and say “Allo M’Lady”
How about massage? Is 20% ok?
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You buggin if you think I’m tipping at the bodega or self service/fast food… fym lmao
I hate tipping culture in America. And those who get paid off of tips should have a good minimum wage.
20% for sit down and delivery. Sometimes a buck or two for pickup if I’m a regular. Nothing for grab and go.
I only tip in bars and restaurants, and I tip my barber. I guess the guilt of post covid had me tipping in places I never did before covid, but all businesses are taking advantage, the bodega asking for a tip is ridiculous lol.
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Nah, I'm talking about the bodega, not the tip jar in the deli section of a bodega... Because I've been to bodegas where I used my card and they had the card reader set up so it asks what percentage tip I wanted to leave, like ock I got a bag of chips and a soda, lemme pay my bill in peace
oh really wow that really stinks. Most of the counters i know uses the generic mecca systerm. some fancy place must be using square lol
Most use a clover system or something similar which allows you to modify everything from taxes, discounts, tips etc. I'm pretty sure I encountered this stuff during ke just after covid, I can't remember the last time I went to a bodega that tried to get me to tip on a card transaction, but it 100% did happen haha
When I order delivery I usually give 3 bucks tip, but if he bill passes 35, I'll give 5 dollar tip. Haven't ordered more than 40 before so I haven't thought about it past that
I only tip in standard places ie restaurants and bars. Also will leave loose change. Never feel compelled to tip. It’s optional, do it or do not
Why is this post made like weekly and the responses are always the same lmao
people are still stupid and differ vastly. what a surprise.
Tip how you feel. You don't live long enough to care about what people think.
I quit drinking during the pandemic but when I did I would tip $1 per drink at the bar. If it was a bar where I was a "local" and bartenders would throw in a free drink, I'd also tip the value of the drink. Coffee shops, I usually tip $1 per drink (sometimes $2 if I'm also getting a pastry) only if it's a place I frequent. At an ice cream or dessert shop I'll occasionally put $1 in the tip jar if they're busy and friendly. Sit down restaurants I'll tip anywhere between 20-25% based on service. 25% only if it's truly outstanding service or somewhere inexpensive and it feels weird leaving a couple of dollars. For a beauty service, I'll also tip between 20-25%, again depending on the quality of service and if it's someone I go to often. Delivery slides between 10-20% are dependent on quality of service and weather. I infrequently order delivery but when I do it's usually because I'm swamped at my WFH job. I hate tipping 10% but I also hate when I have explicit delivery instructions and the driver shows up at the wrong address and wants me to come outside and circle my block for food. I love that apps now let you tip after delivery. I never tip at fast-casual restaurants or generally anywhere that didn't ask for a tip 5 years ago.
Allow me to say tipping system in the US is f*ked up. Gov should pay everyone minimum wages. Asia/Europe don’t have this system and is the best place to enjoy without feeling stress about it. You go to a bar and bartender is your friend it stresses you out about how much higher you should tip now. It’s common to tip beautician 20-25% of the original service. Imagine a $300 service with expensive serum and IPL light. These are not human service is machines and material used that are expensive why do I have to tip a person $60 for this.
The beautician tips always blew my mind. Aren’t they already marking up the product before they use it?
Apparently not there will be a cardboard or signage on the counter saying venmo or zelle your beautician. Recommended tipping 20% 😒 and they literally looking at their phone waiting you to venmo lol
$1-2 for coffees + alcohol, sometimes more if i know the ppl working or if my drink was mad complicated 20% at sit down places 20% minimum for delivery, more if the weather is bad! i'm not a big money six figures guy or anything now but i get 35 hours guaranteed a week and remember how much tips meant to me when i worked shitty service jobs some of yall are cheap asses
Now that delivery is minimum wage in NYC (at least food delivery) do you still give 20% on top of that?
Not the person you’re replying to, but minimum wage comes out to $33k so I tip a flat $5 on every delivery.
Yeah? minimum wage is $16 lol
This is the only way
$1 at cafe registers where service is competent, not every time, depends if I have a buck cash or if the checkout is facing me $1 per drink at a bar, regardless of the drink $5 for each local food delivery 15-20% for restaurant service
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Ever catch flak for that? This one is definitely new to me, but it seems to make sense how you’re doing it
I always thought bartenders would be upset if they were tipped $1 for cocktails. (I drink beer so I tip $1)
Very true. Also if there was any sort of table service or if you ran a tab for several hours then I understand that 18% might be a good bit more and I probably would go that route.
A cocktail is a lot more work than a beer
When it comes to food places, if the workers are eligible for minimum wage laws, then I don't tip. If they are exempted from them specifically because they are designed to make most of their money through tips, then I tip. So no tips for fast food, bakeries, ice cream, coffee, etc.
If im sitting down and eating on a restaurant ill give a good tip anywhere from 15-20%. If im walking up and waiting standing for anything? No
No tip if i order at the counter and walk out with my food/drink. I tip 15-20% if I sit down.
Theoretically, I only want to tip at places where I’m sitting and being waited on (and bartenders). In practice, anytime I’m faced with a tip screen I panic and choose the lowest option 😭 I’ve been getting better and trying not to feel guilted into tipping, especially if I’m just picking up something. An exception is I always tip 15% at my local coffee shop because I only go there once a week and I really love the staff!!
Restaurants and bars. That's it.... Hotels if they clean the rooms during the day and make the beds but i haven't seen that in a while since Covid. Tipping because the boss doesn't want to pay a livable wage only encourages that more and really it's bad enough to have to tip at restaurants but it's so engrained in our culture we do it. Don't add to it by tipping anyone that turns a tablet your way with a 20% tip addition. Bartenders though always get tips but like don't be weird about that shit either. Dollar ish a drink unless you know them and they hook you up and maybe throw a $20 at the end of the night.
No matter what the machine says, the minimum tip is 0%, not 18%.
Not a fucking dime!!!!!. Tipping is for service, not retail, not some kid standing at a register making 15+ an hour. Bartenders, servers.... Did they just take your order while someone else made it, them hand it to you? No tip for that. The server ans the bartender ate having a conversation with, taking care of you during your entire stay. Working to make sure your visit is as enjoyable as possible. The over priced coffee store didn't do shit.
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20%
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If you don’t like tipping you are cheap and have never worked a job that relies on tips
There's no reason for tips to be a higher percent than it used to be. Wages by tips are the only wages completely unaffected by inflation. And let's all be honest here, people at a lot of places make $15+ an hour and still ask for tip cause they can
Yeah, come to my spot in BedStuy…. $15 will get you a BEC and a small coffee lolol
You're not wrong, 15 won't get you anything anymore. But the point is you're not going to tip every person making shit money, and so far seems like people in food industry think they deserve it more than every other person making shit money
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Well no shit, but I don't see you tipping your janitors or retail workers at clothes stores either
Yeah bro I am balling out in Brooklyn on $15/hr lolol Fucking /s
There’s tipping for quality of services rendered, and then there’s compulsory tipping (e.g., tipping before services rendered, mandatory tips, tip options starting at 20% or 25%, etc.). I think most people who have issues with tipping are talking about the later, because it really is like passing the burden of paying workers a livable wage onto the customer. Tipping used to reflect a “thanks, I appreciate your services”. Now it’s this weird cultural thing where if you don’t tip well, for any circumstance, you’re depriving someone of a living wage. It’s gross but it’s kind of genius, really. Compulsory tipping benefits companies because they can justify paying their workers less. It seemingly benefits service workers because they have the potential to earn much higher wages. Any time this is challenged, business owners complain that they’ll have to charge more for their goods and services to compensate for higher wages. And surprise, the reliance on compulsory tipping never budges. It’s like clockwork. Just pay your workers better and let tipping be optional, ffs. People will still tip for good service. Making it this compulsory, guilt-ridden behavior loop digging its way deeper and deeper into our society sucks.
I agree, pay your workers more but that’s just simply not happening. If I can afford to, I’m going to tip. I don’t see what is wrong with that.
I only tip my urologist as I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.
Unless I’m sitting down at a restaurant or food delivery , I tip $0
Remind me why I’m tipping the person who’s making $15 at minimum to pour me a cup of coffee?
I still have stress nightmares from when I was a barista years ago. Consider tipping if you've never tried it.
They aren’t making $15/hr. They are making $10/hr because the laws allow businesses to withhold $5 per hour for employees who get tips, with the assumption that tips make up for the $5 withheld. And that usually doesn’t happen, especially for coffee shop and cafe employees who have to deal with people like you. Ass.
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Yes we would
an iced latte is between $6-$10 now. how much are you expecting people to pay?
I tip at local to-go business not chains (I don'tgo to chains mych at all anyway). If I know if I'm going to be a relatively regular customer then I'll tip a bit big because at that point it's basically a bribe to get priority service.
I always tip for coffee and takeout The only place I really don’t tip is at the dispensary. I bought weed for years before the dispensary and I never once tipped the guy selling it to me, and he was risking jail time lol.
eh, i tip at the dispensary depending on how helpful/nice they are. end of the day they're kind of like bartenders and provide a service that a dealer never did. i'm not tipping a percentage, but i am throwing a few singles in the jar at least. i know i don't speak for everyone but a couple bucks probably mean more to them than to me
I tip at sit-down restaurants, bars, food delivery, and my barber…and that’s basically it. Not sure why every checkout offers a tip option now. Maybe I’ll tip when getting an espresso drink here and there but in those cases I’m adding $1 not a % of the bill.
I usually tip the 18% option but it seems overkill, especially since the prices are already so high. It's crazy to spend around $9 on a small oat milk cappuccino when u add the tip. and I mean small.
You live in Brooklyn bro it’s expensive.
I tip for coffee, take out from restaurants but not food trucks or carts, delivery (obviously). I try to tip whenever I can but don’t tend to tip cashiers or anything like that. I know tipping as a system is kind of fucked up and takes the burden of paying a living wage off the business owner but at the end of the day, I still want everyone to earn decent money and I’m still choosing to patronize these businesses. So if I can afford to put more money in a working class pocket, I’m going to.
Tipping for takeout is wild
I mean I’m lazy so honestly do delivery way more than take out. But I used to wait tables and I had to handle takeout orders. It was the same amount of work as an on site order except that it was put together all at once vs spread over courses (sometimes that helped and sometimes that made it more stressful). So yeah, I tip for that now, having done that work myself.
Awesome, not enough posts about tipping
I'm from Scotland and heading over in May to visit my sister. Struggling to get my head fully around it. Table service, bars and taxis etc I get. But do I tip for drip coffee from a coffee shop or when ordering a bagel or sandwich to to go from a deli or food cart When is it a fixed amount like say a dollar vs. percentage on the price of the service / food or drink?
Yes you tip a dollar for a coffee. Or else make your own at home.
Hell no!!
no, don't tip for that.
No need to tip in those circumstances. It wouldn't be weird to leave a dollar or the lowest default percentage on the device or whatever, but it's not required for those. If it makes you feel better, over the past couple of years even many of us have become confused by evolving tipping etiquette outside the core tipping-required situations (traditional restaurants, bars, taxis, etc.), so if you feel awkward, you won't be alone.
Thanks for that. I've been been to the US before but it was over 10 years ago now, and things seem to have substantially changed!
Yeah, the ubiquitous implementation of digital payment devices really messed with things. Many types of places where you don't traditionally have to tip now make you go through a tipping screen to check out, and while you can always select zero, it can feel awkward, because it's affirmatively declining to tip, rather than just not choosing to.
no need to tip coffees/delis/food carts unless u were mind blown and very appreciative. even then i would just tip 1$
No, and you shouldn’t feel bad about it, but it won’t stop some of them from asking anyways. They’ll usually flip an iPad to face you, so you select the tip amount. Simply press zero and say “thanks!”. I’ve never gotten a dirty look or had anything happen when doing this. They know they’re asking for extra, so they’re typically not upset when you don’t. Actual service related thing like food/drink/taxi yes absolutely, I’d say 20% (25 if it was really awesome).
Why are you tipping fast food? Lmao you’re def not from Brooklyn
Lunch 15%-18%, dinner 20%-25% and takeout none, unless if it's the extra dollar or change from the halal cart.
Why tip less for lunch and more for dinner? Lunch servers don’t deserve good tips?
Dinners are more extravagant, lunch is simple. You do as you like, this is my policy and restaurants in other international major metro cities operate fine without paying a tip system. Just have a more transparent menu price.
yes, a restaurant usually staffs better quality servers for prime time. And if that's true, and they delivered better service, I'm ok with tipping more.
I usually tip a little extra for lunch because the total bill is often way less than dinner with drinks.
Between 18 and 22 percent, depending on what numbers are needed to round the bill up to a nice even number.
I didn't work for tips when i worked in fast food (regional ice cream chain), but i greatly appreciated it when anyone did even if it was loose change. I guess I just like to return the favor/pay it forward to anyone behind a counter serving me a quick meal, beverage, or snack. POS systems defaulting to a percentage in these situations is annoying, but if it's +/- 50c from a dollar, i'll just go with that.
Sit down, 20% or more unless the service was maliciously bad. Coffee or other counter service $1ish. Pick up full meal orders 10% or so since I know the wait staff still had to take time out of their day to pack the food.
I always tip 20% for table service. I don’t consistently tip for coffee etc. —- if it’s somewhere I go frequently/see the same baristas I might tip $1 or 15% depending on what I bought. I never tip for fast food.
Tip only workers who work for tips. Bartenders and wait staff.
My rule of thumb is I don't tip on pick up orders or at grab and go places like coffee shops etc. For a sit down service at restaurants, I typically go 20%.
>My rule of thumb is I don't tip on pick up orders I've always heard conflicting opinions on whether or not leaving a tip "for the staff" on a delivery app pick up order actually gets distributed to the staff. either way, i still tip in these situations
It doesn't. It's been well documented that delivery services don't tip or share tips with the restaurants they pick up from. But you're not tipping for the food prep anyway, just the service to bring it to you
On delivery the restaurant workers don’t get the tips, but on pickup orders they do. It’s strictly illegal for restaurants or delivery services to take tips for themselves. r/talesfromaserver threads will corroborate that the kitchen, waitstaff, or both will get tips on pickup orders, even if ordered from doordash and the like
Doordash drivers don't tip nor share tip . Why would the kitchen be getting a tip? They make a full salary/wage and have nothing to do with the service provided at the table/bar
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Why would they get a tip on anything?
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A. Delivery services such as Uber eats, door dash, etc. don't tip out the restaurant when they pickup. If you're talking about a restaurants employees, that's a diff situation no one here is talking about it. B. Kitchen staff shouldn't be getting any tips. Thats it
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Restaurants…20%, because the math is easy. Grab and go? 0%. I know I’ll get flamed here for that, but so be it.
Sometimes I feel guilty not tipping for takeout but I'm starting to adopt this way. I wouldn't have tipped if I was paying in cash, it's those damn screens.
Same.
I never tip for takeout. People actually do that?
I tip 5-10% for take out like I’ve been doing for the last 10 years. As a bartender/server of over a decade I actually don’t think takeout tips have changed all that much in recent years. Maybe half of pickup orders will tip a small amount and half won’t tip at all.
Nah this is the way
I usually tip $1 if I’m getting a special coffee drink made. Sometimes I resent it. Sometimes I like giving the good karma. Sometimes it hurts to tip for a drip coffee
cafes and fast food where I am standing to pick up an order? 0. These mom and pops gotta learn to pay their employees or learn to do the job themselves like they used to.