Tipping Is Out Of Control in America 

Tipping really is out of control. I can't believe I'm being guilt tripped by the Glizzlord to tip him for entertainment.

I think we should just make it the customers responsibility to pay 100% of the employees income and let the owners/execs pocket even more money that they totally need and deserve.

I was homeless, and I would go to the dennys and get like the $1.30 hot chocolate or the $2 pancakes, and I would tip 10% every time, I didn’t get refills, I was literally just there to read into a climate controlled environment and sleep in their parking lot lol, and after like a week, one of the waitresses came over and complained to me and explained that none of the waitresses wanted to help me because I tipped so little (10% of like $2 isn’t much). And I was like mam, I’m homeless?

Tipping is bizarre for someone who doesn't live in America. Like I live in Australia and you have the option to tip if you go to like a really good restaurant or whatever, but it's never expected. It's so crazy that you have to pay like 20% on top of your meal just so a person can afford their rent, even when the restaurant charges more for food then they do in Australia. It feels so damn dystopian

I have gotten exceptionally skilled at not giving tips to non-waiters and never rounding my groceries up to the nearest dollar. I wish this skill could get me a job

I work as barista, and I’ve noticed that some older folks (and tourists, for that matter) don’t always know what they’re doing when confronted with a tip screen. Whether it’s unintentional, tipping on sleek iPad-looking POS systems like Clover can be deceptive and exploitative. One older gentleman accidentally tipped $32 dollars buying, quite literally, a cup of coffee. I don’t know how he managed to mistakenly give %1000. My coworker noticed the mistake, and I dashed outside to find him. I caught him, but it makes you wonder how many instances that error is left unchecked.

I work at a small toy store where we do complimentary gift wrapping but aren’t allowed to accept tips. It doesn’t bother me much, but it’s so weird having customers say “no I insist” when I turn them down, and have to follow up with “no, I literally can’t take this.” Part of me is glad that no one feels pressured to tip at the store because the expectations these days are crazy, but another part of me is like, “I make minimum wage dude, let me have this win.”

I worked at Olive Garden with us getting like 2-3 bucks and hour without tips. In recent years they got rid of automatic gratuity for large parties of guests, which is great for Olive Garden and horribe for the actual employees. Especially in lower income areas like mine, a lot of people don't know that servers don't make minimum wage, and thus don't tip. A couple of friends/coworkers of mine worked a party of 40 for their entire 6+ hour shift, and were tipped $2 to split between the two of of them. The worst part is that Olive Garden has servers automatically pay a percentage of their sales to the bartends and bussers based on what they "expect" servers to be tipped. So, my coworkers because of the parties' lack of tip, lost money coming to work that day. There is supposed to be measures in place to supplement pay if servers make under minimum wage that day, but it is never actually talked about and very rarely enforced even if the server pushes for it.

I’m in a very unique position. I am a waiter in Canada, where just last year it was put into law that all waiters must make minimum wage, we used to make under minimum. And now we have a 16$ minimum wage. We get that while piggy backing off of U.S customs of tipping your waiter. Since the pandemic I have noticed my bottom line go up because I still get an average of around 18-20% in tips while also making the standard 16/hr. It’s not uncommon for me and my peers to bring home 40-50$/hr because of this increase. It also puts me in a weird position when other places, like subway or or Tim Hortons asks for a tip, because it would be kind of hypocritical for me to expect tips but not actively give back. But I do not believe a fast food worker should be tipped the same as a waiter. And I feel as if I have to walk on eggshells around the subject of tipping for that reason.

As a british person I always found tipping weird. These massive food chains cant pay their employees a living wage so customers have to do it?

I specifically choose “other amount” and select zero and breathlessly stare into their eyes until they ask me to leave. EDIT: fuck somebody said that in chat already that’s what I get for forgetting what happened in the stream 🤦‍♂️ not even a real glizzy guy

I go to a Mexican restaurant every Tuesday for a taco Tuesday deal and the default tip options are 45% 50% and 55%. Absolutely absurd. It takes like a minute to select custom tip and manually type in the amount while the server is standing there waiting. Super cringe.

Fun Fact: Tip Minimum wage is not a thing in Washington state. Employers must pay the State minimum wage to all employees

the stupidest thing to me is the fact that the law technically says if the tips dont add up to minimum wage your employer is supposed to compensate the rest but that rarely if ever happens in my experience

Cool and interesting thought. Why cant we just pay "tipping employees" a normal standard wage? And not feel pressured to tip the random guy that genuinely relies on it to make his wage. And then just ignore tf out of random "tips" from service jobs if we believe they didnt do a good job. Its gratuity, it shouldnt be a necessary thing for a worker to RELY on to make their full wage.

Every single employer be like: "Hey, we don't want to pay any salary to the workers so let's call this tips. But people will call us greedy bastards... Alright let's force this thing to be a TRADITION! People respect traditions!" No we don't. Come on that is disgusting.

I'm a server and the reduction in tips we receive has been noticeable. My coworkers that have been there longer than I have are saying they are making barely over half what they made at the same time in years past. The frequency of people leaving no tip has gone from maybe once or twice a week across the whole restaurant to us keeping a tally of who gets the most per week. I've seen nights where cumulatively we'll have 5-6 tables that won't leave anything. And the tables that do leave something are leaving 15% or less. Hell, we have several known regulars that refuse to tip, but we still have to take the table. Just this past month I had 2 different shifts where I had to be paid extra from the managers to be above the state's 7.50/hour minimum wage.

I stopped going to 3 starbucks near me because I got attitude from the baristas 7 times in a fucking row for hitting no tip in the fucking drive through. I also stopped going to one of my favourite restaurants because they sneakily added in an automatic 20% gratuity to every check, and then also prompt you to add a bonus tip on top that when paying. The only way you can even find out about the new automatic gratuity is if you analyze your receipt, or if you spot the super tiny sign that's out of the way when you walk into the restaurant. Tipping has gotten to the point where I feel like people need to just start hitting no tip on everything. Maybe that way employees will start to realize they cant rely on customers to prop up their wages, and they'll start pressuring the companies to stop cucking them.

I've seen these tipping prompts in self checkout of all places. It really has gotten out of control.

It feels like everyone wants to copy what restaurants have been doing forever which is making their employees reliant on tips so they can weasel out of paying them a fair wage. In theory this is supposed to incentivize employees to work harder which at least makes a little sense when we're talking about waiters/waitresses. But when you take tipping out of the context of actually RECEIVING SERVICE then it starts to make less and less sense like why am I being guilt tripped by 15 year old cashier at a SELF SERVE frozen yogurt place when all they did was turn a tablet around, stare at me with a judgemental look on their face and say "couple questions for ya there". The responsibility should not be on the costumer to pay an employee's rent when costumers are struggling to pay their own rent.

The lack of tipping was one of the really nice things about living in Japan. It's actually very weird there, and it was so refreshing. You get a bill and just pay the amount, with no guilt or anything

it even asked me to tip for my comment this is getting out of hand

Tipping the coffee cow just for some brew IS out of control, thank your for exposing this Big A ❤

Hey Big A! So I work at Subway and at some point in the video you asked how much goes back into the employees check, I can't say for certain every place's policies but for my workplace it works like this, the percent you press gets taken and taxed then put directly into a future paycheck. That's the main downside with card tips is that they are taxed unlike cash tips, however cash tips are also split by all the employees currently in the store so card tips do give us more in most cases. I hope this answered a few questions, also yes we do think about it sometimes lol

As a European, this shit is beyond dystopian. We tip our servers, for sure, but for good service. We're not guilt-tripped into it because we actually pay our servers a living wage. Novel, I know.

The only thing tipping does (for non service industry positions-I.e. waiters) is offset the costs of employment for the business. They pay employees less than minimum wage and then use your tips to offset their costs. As someone who used to work a job that asked for tips like this, I did not feel bad at all when people didn’t tip. Card tips go straight to the business and you’re lucky if even 5% of it goes to the employee. Save your money or tip cash. Fuck the establishment

As a server for a Michelin star restaurant in Los Angeles…. I agree lmao the tipping shit is out of hand, especially being in the industry I feel bad for skipping the option but ultimately some positions just shouldn’t have tips for wages they should just be paid more 😂😭

I’ll say as a Starbucks employee that has a tip option for the drive thru credit card reader, I don’t expect you to tip unless your order is very large and/or your order was insanely complicated

Meanwhile in Europe, a Tip is a Tip not a extra payment you’re forced to pay.

10:20 I have worked in a restaurant that tip shares EVERY employee, including the accountant, the head chef, the manager, the owner. And they have openly said " I just split the tips up based on who I think deserves it more that week."

Btw, most of those iPad tips don’t actually go to anyone but the owners of the shop. I’ve actually had plenty of service workers actively click the zero percent/no tip options for me and say if I *want* to tip to pay cash.

Im in Quebec, and you can really see the difference between tipping by card or cash, the company i work for (Timmy Hortons) we dont have an option for tip by card but we accept cash tip, my sister’s workplace has the option of tipping that appears before paying. In the end i make like 15$ max in an 8h shift while they can get close to a 100$ for the same number of hours, but usually less clients too 🤦‍♂️😂 so yeah this method makes wayy more money

If I am tipping on an Ipad I generally just hit no. I have no trust that those tips are getting to the people that I want to have it.

Last week I slightly flamed a Subway employee because he questioned me about responding "sure" to whether I wanted it toasted and I was like, "sure means yes" but he continued to be like, "sure doesn't mean yes, I don't know what sure means" before I just told him not to toast my sandwich out of spite. I still tipped 20%, I just don't have that dog in me.

At a restaurant if it’s a food receipt and you sat and ate it’ll either all go to the server, get split between the servers, or it’ll go mostly to them with a small split to the hosts and such, and if it’s takeout same thing but sometimes the hosts will get 100% of the tip

As a former service worker, the tips made on digital kiosks have a number of fees and taxes taken out of them that cash tips do not have. It I’m prompted for a tip on a kiosk at a restaurant, I always select no but make sure I have some cash for the waiter so they can keep all of the money I choose to tip

I was buying food at a stadium and ofc the tablet asked for a tip. As I went to tip, the lady who gave me my food stopped me and said "Thank you, but we don't get any of that." Not sure how this is legal.

In Canada they recently raised the wage for tipped positions to match minimum wage. I see a lot of these, but rarely ever feel the need to push yes to a tip. The only one that scares me is not tipping delivery drivers because I'm scared they will mess with my food.

As an Australian, I am glad that this is not a problem here.

If you tip, always tip cash and not card. If you tio card, in many places, it gets split between ALL the workers

Atrioc should tip us for watching his videos and providing exposure

I’ve heard from friends who work at places that use the digitized tips that they see a very small portion of it if they see any. Typically the tips go into this massive pool and then it gets distributed to different places and then the actual workers get the leftovers. One of them literally told me to just not tip where they work cause they won’t see any of it.

my first job we went to a new system for POS. It always asked how much you want to tip at first we would just tell them not to tip because nobody got the money aside the company. Eventually we just took the verifone away and had to press the button for people because people felt bad and still tip. I asked why we have that option enabled and apparently they could not remove it.

Important note about service worker minimum wage: *you only make $2.13 an hour if that + your tips = regular minimum wage or greater*. If you go a whole shift and make $0 in tips, you aren't supposed to earn $2.13/hr for that shift, you're supposed to get paid the regular minimum wage to make up for that difference. I'm sure there are companies that don't follow this rule but there is legal protection for those situations. That's part of why tipping culture isn't going away in the U.S. Waiters and waitresses usually make so much in tips that they'd rather keep it than go to a flat minimum wage salary without them. You can look it up, anytime a business tries to change their model to pay their staff a regular wage at the cost of taking away tips, there's a huge pushback.

As a European, this is the funniest thing ever.

I applied at 7brew because the job ad said $18-$21 based on experience. Turns out it's minimum wage+ tips, which usually came out to $14/hr. I work takeout at a BJ's restaurant, they do the same, I applied to a manager position at Jersey mikes. Turns out it wasn't for a manager, it was for the lowest level employee with a chance of one day competing to be a manager in 3years when they plan on opening a new location. Payed minimum wage plus tips. This is in Arkansas. Job market sucks.

I mean Im not from US but I see that some of the "tipping culture" is spilling into my country too. I only tip in restaurants and only of the service was exceptional. If someone from any other industry hands me that tablet with "how much do you want to tip" I make it a point to stare into their eyes and decline

As a bartender with a decent livable wage I'll take a stab. I work for small business with about 15 employees. We earn on tariff rather than minimum or set wage, with about 20-25 dollars /hour The tipping system in Norway is not mandatory but is often seen as a gesture of good service. Most norwegian, I would say about 90% do not tip and probably half considers it an unnecessary/dying practice With my hourly pay I earn slightly above 30k a year but with tips and closing in at 40k. To me at least it makes my work a viable career pursuit. I have a university degree which I can realistically either work as a copywriter, teach at highschools or work in research (all previous jobs). With the tipping system I earn slightly less, talking 10-20% of my yearly salary in teaching or research. I have to do less work, less responsibility and I can often take days off when needed. It's an absolute no-brainer to work anything else and I couldn't do that if there wasn't an implement tipping system To add on that, in Norway, tipping is considered a gift by law so businesses can't take a cut. 100% of the revenue goes to the service. But because everything is digitized we tax as if it was normal income

Im actually scared to visit USA, because in Europe you're not forced to tip. The only time I tip, if I'm in the restaurant and the service is excellent. If I wait too long or the waiter forgets something, why would i tip lol. Tipping when you're in the line is crazy. I can see why you would tip delivery (I've done this several times in my whole life though)

10:30 when I was working at Tim Hortons about two years ago, there was an option to tip digitally but none of the on for employees ever saw any of that, only cash tips would be split amongst the employees, the rest of it just went to the owners of the branch. I don't know if that's normal but it does seem like a lot of the time when there is digital tipping the employees don't really see that at all, it's just the people who own the business or that specific branch. I had a friend who worked at Jack Astor's at one point and they had this weird system where you had to pay the kitchen out of your own salary in advance and your tips even that amount out, so if you don't get any tips or little to none, you're essentially losing money and being paid less than minimum wage. Maybe that's normal, I don't really know but it all seems sort of skewed and messed up.

Hot, super unpopular, absolutely crazy take here but, maybe customers don't have to pay excruciating more than they expect, and employees don't have to be so dependent on the generosity of strangers if bosses and corporations just paid their workers adequately enough. Perhaps this entire conversation is just anyway the working class go at each other's throat while they sit back and profit off of our collective stupidity to see through it.

As an Australian that just came back from Hawaii, I feel that tipping is totally out of control. Lots of things had a 20% tip auto added and then also asked for additional tip. There was a “recommended tip” on the bottom of all receipts that started at 18% and said 25% tip was normal. Taxi drivers gave no change just expected that the few dollars were a tip. Uber tips were the worst. In Australia we never tip. I ended up spending at least $500 on tips in a week. I’ve heard people say “if you can’t afford to tip you can’t afford to eat out”. Well as a tourist who’s dollar is worth 60 cents to the US dollar, I can’t afford to tip people $10 5 times a day!

Tipping as a concept is just really weird. Why couldn’t we just pay the institution, and have the institution pay the worker appropriately?? Why do tips even exist

As bad as flat tips are, where I live 10% is no longer an option on most tip machines. Like they start at 15% or 18%. And I have literally given no tip trying to pick another amount on accident. The card machines are criminal where I live.

I would literally never tip my mechanic. Them sabotaging my car is horrible for their business. People don't come back if you do a crap job.

I'm autistic, I can hardly hold a conversation because of social anxiety. Sometimes when I am asked to tip I do crazy mental gymnastics regarding "Why this person deserves all my money" and eventually I always tip more than they deserve. I often do not even respect, or value, the work they are doing. When Atrioc said these tip machines are built to take advantage of awkward people, its me, but worse.

Living in the UK, tipping is already a relatively foreign concept to me. I have never ever been asked for a tip, let alone seen a tip happen in person, albeit it does exist optionally in certain businesses with no pressure such as delivery, tattoo artists and on the screens of self service stands in fast food chains (the last one is a little predatory as the 'no' options are usually small and/or hidden between more button presses or under a 'charity' option, and almost always asked *before* any service has happened) - however the concept I don't understand more is the act of physically giving your card to the person serving you so they can scan/put the transaction through for you. You can usually tell someone isn't from where I'm from when in my retail job someone's first instinct is to hand me their card when paying and I look at them confused as the card machine is next to them to do themselves. I am not touching, let alone taking your card for this. It makes me uncomfortable handling someone else's money, especially if it's a stranger.

I was asked to tip on an ipad when paying $10 for a shower at a music festival I had spend nearly $500 dollars to attend. I hit the custom tip option I quickly pressed 0 and enter, cause why would I tip for a shower. I noticed too late that the custom tip option defaulted to 10%. So when I hit the 0 and enter I had accidentally tipped 100% meaning I paid $20 for a shower. Crazy

As someone who helped operate a small restaurant business, we paid our employees standard minimum wage not tip worker wage. We couldnt stay in business because of it in the long run. Our competitors paid tipping wage and ran us out of business with their menus lower prices. Our operating costs were so high because of regulatory things like commisions and inspections mandated by the government to certify us and allow us to operate. Followed up by the ridiculous amount of tax we have to pay, there was no profit to be had. After paying our employees full wages, and paying the government so we can exist, me and the owners worked for 4 years with no income from the business and eventually had to shut down with no light at the end of the tunnel. If we had instead paid our employees $2.14/hr it would have been easy to be profitable

I'm not american, nor have i ever travelled there, and I literally have never been asked for a tip before. When I first learnt about tipping as a teenager I was so confused

At the little pizza shop I worked at, we averaged about $1.50 an hour in tips spread between all the employees throughout the week. After we implemented Toast POS we averaged over $4 for the first quarter. Then it balanced down to $3.50.

I work service, and I totally understand where people are coming from when they say tipping is out of control (which it definitely is), but I feel like a lot of people don’t truly reckon with the fact that by not tipping, you are making it substantially more difficult for someone not to be able to provide for themselves because they aren’t being paid a living wage. That’s the real problem, the fact that we’ve normalized the fact that business should be able to outsource their own employees wage on to the consumer is insane to me.

I work at a coffee shop in town, I can say on the note of "Do the employees get the digital tips" As far as my store goes, yea. We use clover, and the sales report at the end of the shift hand off also confirms the total tipped thru the digital system.

Can we just appreciate Atriocs amazing comeback on youtube

Yeah, I refuse to tip more than 15% and I only tip at full service restaurants. If I have to stand in line to order, get my own food, choose my own table, fill my own drinks, take my trash and plates up when I’m done, pack my own to go box or any combination thereof, I refuse to tip. I never do delivery because I would only tip what I save on gas and even then it would appear like it’s too small of a tip. I generally don’t tip on to go orders unless it’s a place I frequent. I do have a list of restaurants to never go to and those are either with poor service, bad tasting food or more frequently now, restaurants that put automatic tips regardless of party size, service charges, service fees, or employee health insurance fund. These restaurants never get my business again.

Dude why can't i disable this?

very specific to 10:20, all of what you tip goes to servers currently. you dont have to worry about square taking a cut of tip or anything like that. for what its worth

As a European, American tipping culture is so bizarre. I tried tipping a waitress in my country and she just looked at me weird and said "nah I'm good, keep it" (it was only 15% on a 40$ bill). I can't ever imagine paying someone 15% fee for picking up a sandwich or whatever from a glass cage for me

12:16 the tip percentage may have gone down slightly but restaurant prices have gone up significantly.

It's crazy that companies don't pay their employees enough so customers have to pitch in, tipping culture could be obliterated if people were just paid more right?

If I owned a small business I would put a giant sign on the window that says "We won't ask for tip, because we pay our staff more"

I really only tip when the waiter has done an exceptionally good job. For example, on a vacation with my guys, one waiter was so funny with his jokes, that he got the whole table laughing mutliple times. He got a tip, because he was and is awesome.

Idk how it is in other places but I work in moving. I get paid 17 an hour (I live in Los Angeles), I don’t get paid for the time I’m preparing the truck or for the time we take to get to the customer or the time it takes us to go back to base from the customer. Obviously 17$ an hour is not enough here. The problem is that moving companies that pay well don’t survive because people are deathly afraid of big numbers but then they complain when that ends up with me relying on big tips to be able to support my family.

Just remember: If you dont like tipping dont pretend youre on some moral high ground and decide to not tip your waiter at a restaurant or any other tipped wage employee. These people literally depend on making tips if they want more than $7.25 an hour in most areas as only a few places in the US have real wages for tipped employees. Most places can legally pay them ~$2.15/hour and then let tips make up the difference. As long as they average more than $7.24 an hour the restaurant does not have to make up the difference in federal minimum wage or state minimum wage, whichever is higher. If you dont like tipping thats completely valid, but you should be boycotting places that use tipped wage employees, not using them and then not tipping. The only person you are hurting if you use tipped wage services and don't tip is the employee, and they have virtually no control over the wage laws and business wages so its like boycotting sweatshops by beating up sweatshop employees.

I work at a carwash for tips, I feel kind of guilty sometimes due to how expensive the washes are ($25 to like $50!), but at the same time, when you math it out it's the best paying job per hour I've ever had and the flexibility of the hours makes it perfect for me since I'm a student. It really sucks having to rely on the generosity of random people to come home with more than $6.15 an hour, but ironically that's like, way better than what most servers get. I'd rather get a lower overall with more hourly long term though, the stress of tips isn't worth it forever

This is one of the things I love about living in Japan. There is no tipping culture. I haven't paid any tips since moving here and the one time I tried to tip a taxi driver, my friend stopped me because it can be seen as rude

Tipping used to literally only be for waiters or delivery drivers. My first job was a bus boy, I'm not going around tipping a barista on an overpriced cup of coffee. I have no anxiety turning down absolutely dumb tips, you're not going to shame me into "tipping". Another thing I'd like to mention is that flat tips should be used for small orders. If I go into a diner alone and only get something for 10 bucks, it's not worth the waitresses's time to only get a 2 dollar tip. Give a 3 dollar tip minimum, until the bill is high enough to warrant a 20% tip

the fact that minimum wage hasnt changed at all for like 2 decades is just absurd and openly sad.. idk why NOBODY seems to be doing anything about it... we should be at 10 dollars AT LEAST.

Just to expand on the bell ringing one person pays the tip concept, in Germany, bars have an almost stock market on drinks, the more one table and people in general buys a specific drink, the lower the price goes until it hits a bottom, a bell is rung and people have like 5-10 minutes to buy the drink until the price resets. Bars/clubs will have sections dedicated to this practice its nuts

Tipping is the first step to losing workers rights

I don't know how Americans convinced themselves that adding a gratuity charge in the bill would cause the collapse of society

Some places i go to have the check out employees hit 0% tip themselves before turning the thing to you to pay.

20% is too high

As someone in the credit card industry I just want to say TOAST charges a LOT and has liquid damage contracts.. meaning if you pay $500 a month for their software and services and try to cancel 8 months into your contract. It's a $20k cancellation fee (48m contract, 40x$500= cancellation fee) and clover LEASES are the same and iron clad. The thing is in both contracts it states it doesn't matter what the sales person said to you it the contract is all that matters and both tend to raise their agreed upon rates 1-2 times annually.

as a barista I have to say I completely rely on tipping to pay my bills. And I still make 15 an hour base

In my country, if you leave a tip on the table, that money will be picked by random stranger

It’s kinda crazy how much america relies tips. I live in Australia and when I went to America for a trip, we had no cash, and just got scared by how angry they were.

I'm so glad I'm a Hermit since I'm on a diet I meal prep everything for myself and the only interaction I have with people in regards to food is when I go to Sam's to get my pickup order and even then they just toss it in the trunk and I leave lol for real tho tippings getting a bit out of hand just charge me slightly more for whatever it is I'm buying and pay ur staff more I'm in no mood to be doing math

Really just gonna steal Biggest A Clips content such trashy behavior. At least give the guy some credit

Meanwhile the winery I work at defaults to "no tip" and the highest it goes is 15%, or people can customize the amount. We're the lowest tip percentage winery in the valley, and yet one of the biggest wineries in it. Shit's insane. I agree that tips should be abolished, and employers should just give their employees a livable wage... but like that's not the world we live in, and I spend more time with our customers than a server at a restaurant (Not to compare, as my restaurant brethren should be equally compensated). We sell $100 bottles of wine. This winery makes millions upon millions every year, and I'm living paycheck to paycheck

The tipping vets and non service workers is crazy. But tipping baristas is understandable. It's often an underpaid, high-stress job that is more than "pouring coffee". Starbucks has whole books to train their baristas.

tipping culture is creeping into the UK as well. We to a restaurant where i had zero interaction with the staff, ordered via an app (that they suggest) and it asked for a 10/15/20% tip

In the UK tipping is not really a thing in the same way. The prices is the price and tips are for good service, not just "service". Generally (and I definitely don't mean always) tips are not assumed as part of the makeup of staff wages (doesn't mean they're paid well, but you're not paid on the assumption that you'll also get +x% tips to make up your wage. If we want to tip for good serve I always ask the server if the tip gpes directly to the server. Of course, american culture influences UK culture, so what I've said is more or less true depending on where you go.

ive been tipping more for almost the last two years. but its because i started working in a restaurant and know the feels. on another note, there are those kids asking for donations for their basketball team or whatever but i heard they usually work for some crooked adults who underpay them and exploit them. so yesterday i gave the kid 3 bucks but told him that the money was for him and he could decide to use it for his team or not. he seemed happy about it.

I don't think giving people the option to tip is an issue but it's very difficult when you have existing tipping problems like America. Because even if tips aren't an issue in some jobs, there could be conflation and expectations. I'm in the UK and the amount of tipping requests during or before payment is almost 100% outside of corner shops, and i've never heard any complaints and most people I know rarely tip unless they are feeling good. So it really just feels like the issue is the conflation of the existing issue of the minimum wage for tipped employees being different from normal employees

unfortunatley the way the industry works nowadays, at least for full service restaurants, if im tipped anything under 10 percent I actually pay money to have served that table, since i have to tipout 10 percent of my total sales to the support staff and kitchen. If im tipped 5 dollars on a 100 dollar bill, so 5 percent, i still have to tipout 10 dollars (since thats 10 percent of the sale, 100 dollars) to the team, meaning i just spent 5 dollars. however, i do live in washington, so i make over 15 an hour which is our minimum wage, and in 42 of the 50 states, they can legally pay servers 2 dollars an hour if they make tips. Its all very confusing, but the main thing to remember is, most servers are expecting 20 percent, if they are nice, tip them that. If they are rude, or dismissive, tip them less. If your meal got fucked up, or it took a while, or they forgot something, TIP THEM 20 PERCENT STILL. they could be relying on it to live (in those 42 states).

Prices are so inflated and on top of tipping, I don't even consider ordering any food or getting coffee. The only place I gotta tip is the barber.

3:41 Excuse me, throw coins to the RUBBLE? lmao. Rabble.

I work at a local family entertainment place and we take tips on clovers. 10:29 We take how many tips we made on the clover out of the register in a day and write that amount on the days sales summary so its accounted for.

The way I always try to have people look at it is that tipping although pressured by society is optional. If magically every profession that had tips were to vanish overnight, the food or service would just cost more for everyone instead of an optional amount in order to keep employees on. There’s no way it would disappear and businesses would pay more to keep employees and eat the cost without raising prices to counteract that change