Tipping is out of control 

In America? Crazy talk! That new jet the CEO of Olive Garden just got won't pay for itself.(Sarcasm)

💯 percent!!!

In some states like California, the waitresses and waiters are given at least the minimum wage. The tip makes much more sense for those in states which can legally not have to pay their wait staff minimum wage. So when I'm in California, I usually tip little or none at all if the prices seem outrageous in the first place (which isn't uncommon to see in expensive California)

Tipping culture is trying to creep into Australia too - I’ve started seeing some cafes using machines with a tip option. Before that all you’d see was a jar on the counter for coins which I still think is the best balance - if you really like the place, you can get rid of some of your loose change.

Funny you say that cause usually the restaurants that do that fail, not because they run out of money but they can't get good servers because servers make more money from tips than they would if they got paid a reasonable hourly wage.

Would have been great if everyone left at once. Also, there oughta be laws that prohibit that large of a wage decrease; at least by new owners (they knew what they were getting into during due diligence). If current owners need to cut pay that deep, there should be criteria they have to meet too.

Would have been awesome if you guys realized that that was 100% illegal and did something about it.

Wouldn’t leave anything!! The wages of staff should be paid by their employers! Going out to eat should be a pleasure not a guilt trip to help all and sundry just because their employers would not pay a living wage.

Note that my dog does not tip.

wondering why people just stay home.

That is so true. Here in Brazil that happens. They get a paid checking and the tip goes to the restaurant owner. So I always discreetly ask the waiter if the tips go to them. If they say no, I don't pay (It's optional here).

I'm the old guy that Julie was talking about, I was raised up with the 15% tip but what I will do is pay the tip in cash that way it's up to the waiter to either declare the tip or hopefully pocket it.

That’s why I try to have cash when I go out and tip goes in cash… hopefully straight to the waitstaff

I've worked in more than one restaurant where none of the staff gets paid and the servers have to share their tips with the cooks and the dishwashers and hostesses

THAT part 💯!

That's exactly how it is. At places like stadiums, they're now going cashless and asking you to put a tip on your card. So that means if I order a beer and the person has to reach behind them into the refrigerator, I should tip them?

Of course the point of the video is to make you think about *why* we tip. Is it for providing good service, any service, or just subsidizing the salaries of underpaid workers? I have a plush IT job that I can do from the comfort of my own home, and am very grateful that I don't have to work a minimum wage job handing out T-shirts, so don't mind throwing em a tip.

@@daemn42 I have an IT job where I work from home and no one is tipping me despite the long hours I put in. Do I mind tipping? Of course not. But you actually have to provide me a service other than reaching behind you and grabbing something. Then again, I’ll tip at a bar without thinking about it so I may be hypocritical.

thats sorta the issue that I have at starpukes, they fill a cup with their overpriced swill, takes 15 seconds and want a tip. ehhh.

@@JimAllen-Persona Point was, I don't need tips to pull down more than a living wage, so I don't mind sharing a bit with folks working a shit job. And ya at the bar, you're probably tipping at least a buck for someone to reach into a cooler, take out a bottle, pop the top off and hand it to you.

Nice to have a convenient option to tip people in my mind

The only profession that should count on taking a tip is a mohel.

But tips are optional. You have to be able to refuse to give a tip. And it's okay. Not everyone has a lot of money

It’s not about tipping a person, it’s about tipping a random register. Cashiers don’t typically receive tips in the US, even if they are standing behind the cash register as you are giving the tip. I have no idea where these “tips” go. And, besides, tips are supposed to be for a personal service like a server tending to your table or a bartender preparing your drink. A cashier’s job is to collect the money owed to the business. The only one who benefits from their service is the business itself, so even if it were possible to tip the cashier it wouldn’t make sense. But, maybe someone who works at a US business where they take tips at the cash register can explain what happens to these tips. I am genuinely curious.

So irritating to walk into a pizza joint and you can't just tap to pay, you gotta touch that disgusting kepaid to say no tip. I did see a cool looking loonie in their tip jar, so I traded, with permission, for a toonie.

Don't try it in NZ either, we pay first world wages. Unlike your third world wages.

I know! I had to resist that urge when traveling abroad

@@SenseiRaichuss exactly! 💯💯💯

Get over it. Appreciate different cultures.

@@SenseiRaichuss and you get crappy service and the waitstaff earn less.

What about tipping at bakeries just to buy bread?

I will always select no tip at fast food. No service no tip. At a sit down restaurant I will tip.

@@bobprice9541I could not agree with you more. What's next? Do you give the guy at Home Depot a tip just to buy a shovel?

@bmo shareholder apple shareholder it would not surprise me if the reason for pushing tips in more places is that corporations can then lower wages below minimum wage. If you don't tip, the corporation has to make up the difference between their wage and minimum wage. So I will not tip a fast food, take out, or retail.

Exactly.

As a waiter in England I can assure you the employers don't pay that well. Most go for the bare minimum wage which is £9.50 but they'll advertise the wage as £11-14 without mentioning that's inclusive of service charge. These days I won't apply for a job that offers under £13.50 an hour, with the cost of living rising I'm looking out for myself first for once and with twenty years experience I finally feel comfortable asking for what I'm worth.

@@ajc1482 yeah Andy. Do what you have to do to survive. In America, the minimum cash wage for restaurant workers is $2.13 per hour. It also depends on the state hourly wage laws as well which goes from $7.25 and up. That is terrible putting the onus of responsibility on the customer to pay a worker's wage instead of the establishment.

@@ValdestotsVoice yeah but with the tips, it comes to a better salary than Europe. Customer sided, it's a better quality service too overall because they are better paid and their better salary depends on that..

@@ajc1482 lmao £9.50 pounds is more than yours get for any server job in the US. $5.50 (£5) is the normal in 'Merica for servers. You're talking about getting paid literally double.

@@xGOverdos3 Yeah, this _can_ and sometimes _does_ happen, but most service workers don't work such lucrative shifts, and when business is slow...what, does that mean their customer service was worse that day? It's one thing if you imagine that service workers are young people who only need extra cash, but I know a lot of 30+ servers who are trying to feed their families. Not to mention the health insurance situation, I can't imagine that it's a good reliable option. I'm personally willing to take the gamble that a server will also smile and provide good service if they're well taken care of instead of us holding their well-being hostage for tips.

😂 wtf?!? I’m so glad I don’t eat out 🤦🏻‍♀️

When it's like this, I just don't tip. If there was full service (i.e. someone took my order, brought it and waited on my table the whole time), I usually do 18%, and then increase/decrease based on the quality of the service. If it's "half service" (i.e. I had to go to the counter to order, but the food was brought to me and my table was otherwise attended to), I do ~15%. But if I had to do _everything_ , then the tip is a big fat 0.

they do it because there are too many dumb spoiled kids (or adult kids) who don't understand money but are deathly afraid of being seen as cheap. It does them no harm to throw the ipad tip window at you. Worse case you don't tip, same as not asking.

For me, the extra 4% (or whatever it is) comes right off the tip amount for starters. But since wages have gone up for waitstaff, my tipping goes down.

Wth??? You raise prices to cover rising costs, not add hidden fees?????

seriously.. Where are you going? I want the no kidney option as well..

Thanks for clarifying "not the kidney part" lol

I pay in cash most of the time. Servers prefer that, as sometimes owners will hold credit cards tips for many days.

0% is the lowest option.

That's a good pun.

You don’t have to tip on those situations.

*Unless it’s for a Uber eats situation, in which case you definitely tip prior to service. Tip no longer correlates to service received at all. It’s all about “are you a good enough person to pay this person’s wages because the company won’t?”

I hate tipping at the beginning

Tipping use to be for service industry situations like waiters/waitresses/cook/"exotic dancers". Now, the tipping is so out of hand its ridiculous. You are not mandated to tip so don't tip unless you feel the service was superb.

At least then it just becomes a fixed part of the price, but the whole business of tipping is stupid.

@@klondike444 Yes, but it undermines price discovery. In places where tipping is expected you basically don't know what you are going to be asked to pay, unless you go there daily. That was the thing about western, or American commerce. Things have a price, they have a value. That drives efficiency. Tipping allowed on to get service when it was a mater of divided pressures on the wait staff, they would work for you to get a tip, and 10% would do it almost anywhere. Now they don't work for it at all, and consider the person who doesn't pay it as a social outcast who doesn't support them. If tipping doesn't work it should be abolised and we pay a flat rate and the restaurant figures out how to get their people to do their jobs. And we know what it will cost, and we can decide to buy the service or not. Obviously prices would have to go up. Also, staff feel they are owed a living, but what they are actually doing is bidding poorer people out of the service. Tipping allocates scarce resources to the wealthy for whom a tip is a non issue. So while the tippees feel they are in need of the money because they are not fairly paid, they are allowing the rich to monopolize society for a small percentage of what something like a restaurant is worth. To the rich, keeping people who could use the service priced out is great. And nothing wrong with that, but it would help if it was above board. As it would be in a place where prices were fixed and people knew what they were getting themselves into. And in a nightclub who cares. But pushing people on fixed incomes out of the sub shop, is not socially sensitive, or equitable.

@@HondoTrailside Like I said, tipping is stupid.

Exactly. It removed the incentive to perform better. But then you might say “no it doesn’t, because you can always tip 25% or 50% for amazing service”….. I’m not paying crazy amounts just for that, especially if it’s a normal restaurant meant for average, everyday people

When I last was a server I made about 1/3 hourly wage of the cooks. Unless I had a horrible night I would tip dishwashers and cooks 15% of my tips. If I was getting my ass ran and they were really saving me I would give them more. Not for the faint of heart.

Just last week I felt compelled to tip the baggers because there was a jar and a sign saying it was their only wage.

So true

That would be a good skit

If they take the bags with me to the truck I'll tip them.

they still need it though because its unpredictable. as a server, i could make 12/hr one day, 8/hr the next, and 25/hr the next (including my 4/hr hourly). we also dont get meal breaks and work an extra 30 mins before and after close. and of course no benefits. so although i do love taking home 200 in cash after a shift its never guaranteed so please tip your servers thanks

@@SparklesNJazz pretty sure they're legally required to give you breaks after working a set number of hours

That’s actually at higher end restaurants. The majority of people work at places like Olive Garden and get subminimum wage! They don’t even make it up through the tipping and don’t even try to complain about your rights or you’re screwed.

@@LaQuesaDeMI In my state at least the law requires that everybody net at least minimum wage, so if they aren’t getting tips they have to be paid more. Our minimum wage is a bit higher than the federal one too, although still not what it should be.

It's definitely after taxes in Europe were consumers mostly don't even see pre-tax prices.

In America I always calculate the tip pre-tax! I don’t know how it is on the machines though if I click a percentage.

Yeah and with Uber Eats it’s calculated after all the fees too 🙄

@@LaQuesaDeMI On a machine it is usually after tax.

Trust me, if we could we would, but uprooting your whole life is an expense bordering on impossible for the average American.

Taking away a capitalistic loophole that makes management more profits? We can't allow that here, this is 'Murrica!

@@magicdance4273 And taking in all of America is also impossible for Europe.

@@magicdance4273 and not only that, but as long as you stay a US Citizen the USA wants will make you file taxes and possibly pay on income anywhere in the world.

You don't understand America at all. Where did you get the notion that the service workers didn't get treated well here? A good bartender or wait staff gets paid very well. Their tips can be lucrative. Europeans have no idea what America is like. We aren't some tiny little country with a very narrow view of the world. There are over 330 million of us. We are the 3rd largest country by size and population. There's much more to America than what your media shows you.

What if the cost of living goes up but the wages stay the same though? Are you tipping the restaurant or the waiter...

Always remember, if you don't have enough money to tip generously, you can't afford to eat out. Make yourself some ramen. Love, the service industry

@@benvoliothefirst I am not American, are you saying 15% is not enough? What is the standard then?

@@benvoliothefirst The waiter isn't making me ramen either. If 15% isn't enough for you to bring the food and drinks then you need a different job.

Kidney

More when?

I'm in Washington too, I went to Dutch Bros the other day for a $3.25 iced tea (it's premade - all they have to do is add ice and maybe flavoring). The kid asked if I wanted to tip and handed me a tablet with the lowest option being $1. He really expected a 30% tip for handing me a drink through a window. Then he seemed offended when I said not today. Get out of here 😂

The manager should have been spoken to right away about the waiter.

What's next? You are asked to tip a librarian for bringing you the books?

My grandmother and I go to a buffet that puts tip suggestions on the bill. My grandmother now refuses to tip there. That and the owner actively watches us the entire time. Like standing across three restaurant watching us eat. We really like the place so we keep going back, but yeah. Definitely a guilt tax.

then make your own damn food lmao

@@callistified wrong. Just include the actual labor cost in the price of the meal.

@@julianwalnuss7581 what’s the difference? Then people would just complain about the high meal prices. People are just cheap

All restaurants it's required to tip. Just because they don't explicitly ask you doesn't mean you just can't leave a tip. Even though it may suck that's just how it is here for now.

Same! I just round up to the next "even number", so that it comes to around one or two euros. I once tipped 1,50€ for a pizza and a softdrink that was about 8,50€ at the time and the waiter was so happy!

@@marcokrueger3399 yeah that's what I usually do, too 👌🏼

Exactly... In this particular case, i would pay 55 dolars...

I highly prefer the American system, which earns excellent waitstaff far, far beyond what the European "fair" wage would.

@@FalconOfStorms You must be joking

awe thank youu!

But is it really her that makes the content, or the mirror version of her?

@@bryancampbell9622 Mirror Julie is definitely pulling most of the weigh in the duo.

Oh yeah such a new concept that Trevor Wallace released this exact same video 2 weeks before her.... She actually subscribes to him and that is way funnier than her entire comedy act.

Asking tips is similar to begging for money.

Yep. The minimum wage for tipped workers in some states is as low as $3.25 an hour. Craziness

@@astrea79 that’s because they get tips.

Has he considered French revolutioning his boss?

Good, then I can personally see their crushed spirit

Right there with you. If I don’t want it bad enough to leave my house for 15 minutes, then I don’t need it

because you revile the idea of paying people who are excellent at their job for what they do?

@@charlesreid9337 because I'm not paying someone extra that didn't do anything...if I go to a nice restaurant and someone actually waits on me that's one thing...but if u just hand me food through a window...hell no I'm not tipping u...and I'm not going to have anything delivered...because anything I want to eat...I can probably make myself...I worked in restaurants for a lot of years...I'm well aware of how much they pay for food and how much they charge for it...I worked in one place where I did all the alcohol ordering...( back in the 80s) ...if I ordered 10 cases of Budweiser...I got if for $5.00 a case...and we sold it for $2.50 a bottle

@@charlesreid9337 that's the responsibility of the employer

@@rayjohnson2387 that's insane but most people don't realise unless they intently do calculations. Home food is much cheaper than restaurant or takeout

Because they can get away with it. They _could_ pay minimum wage, but they're not gonna, because workers have 0 protections. Conservatives voted for Ronald "kill the poor" Reagan, and they've only picked worse and worse people since then.

because they're halflings who don't deserve real wages.

@@julienolke lol Julie

Because without legislation any business will do the absolute bare minimum they can get away with.

@@julienolke filthy hobbitses

A lunch restaurant I frequent near work started doing this recently when you order online for pickup. 15% tip is auto-selected, with pictures of their employees saying something like "show appreciation for the people who make this meal possible". I nope out of that and set 0% every time. But it's super annoying to literally be guilted by the corporation to pay their employees.

That 20% may have been calculated based on the food price AND the sales tax.

Please stop your major cursing. It is ignorant and needless.

Same... I don't like wasting my money on mediocre food and below mediocre service usually... But if I go, I am willing to tip 20%...

Then YOU are the PROBLEM if you still tip 20% for mediocre service!!! TIP APPROPRIATELY!!! Low for poor service, higher for great service.

Maybe you should go live in a cave, because tipping is now expected at a lot of places, that did not tip before.

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Unfortunately, capitalism doesn't reward people for what they deserve, it rewards them for what they can legally and socially get away with.

@@IceMetalPunk and it creates a series of horribly perverse incentives.

@@fredjkproductions Yep. There are a handful of systems that Westerners, especially Americans, generally think are "the best way to do things", which ultimately lead to terrible perverse incentives that harm a massive amount of people *and* erode our societal ability to make decent human progress, especially in ethics and empathy. ...but when I mention the specifics, I get yelled at as being "anti-American" or "an evil Communist" or "dumb because everyone knows these ways are best"... so meh. We live in a society that values money and individual freedoms over empathy and the welfare of others, and which treats the most important decisions like an episode of American Idol. Even though most people who so greatly value money don't even understand the nature of it in the first place, they're just conditioned to want more of it because under a certain threshold amount, they're told they deserve to die, and that's hard to get out of your head even once you have some. Blech.

@@IceMetalPunk could not agree more. Very well said.

If tipping was done away with, they would charge more for the meals. This has happened at every restaurant that tried to do away with tips. People got even more angry.

About thirty years ago, there were no tip jars at all.

Good points!

I would argue that if they are not paying enough to maintain staff, it is not paying properly :)

It should be 0% for everything. It is such an absurd practise.

@@gajeelnats1151 But isn't that illegal? (i.e. to give money or a "tip" to a police officer)

That kidney looked delicious 😜

She has big kidneys!!

Stunning ignorance isnt high brow. Well maybe it is for the below 100 iq crowd

The company isn't refusing to pay their employees. The employees make alot of money off the tips. It's gotten out of hand.

There are 0 worker protections. Their bosses won't do it if it can be avoided.

It *is* mandatory, because without the tips, many servers would make less than minimum wage and not be able to afford to survive. So I mean, I guess it's not technically mandatory, unless you don't like the idea of other people starving to death because you don't want to tip them.

@@IceMetalPunk just a correction: because their bosses think it's your business to pay the wait stuff their salary, and because the wait stuff agreed to this.

@@jkobain "Agreed to this" is a blurry area for people who don't have many, if any, other job opportunities. A bit like saying a fish "agrees to" have a water bottle dripped onto their gills when they've been moved to a desert.

@@IceMetalPunk can also imply «it's me they're forcing, only me!», right?)

What profession is it?