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Post by jenb72 on Feb 6, 2024 17:08:09 GMT
I do not tip for counter service. I just don't. I tip pretty well in other areas (my hairdresser, wait staff at a restaurant, delivery drivers for local food places, etc.) unless the service is bad. I also tip in cash whenever possible. But if I am walking into your establishment, either because I ordered online or to order at your counter and then pick up the food myself, I do not tip. I've not ever had any counter service person question it let alone call a shift manager or GM over to ask me about it. I know many POS systems have it added into their process automatically and I just select "no tip" if it's counter service. (I've never had it not give me a No Tip option.)
Jen
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Post by basketdiva on Feb 6, 2024 17:16:08 GMT
In a VERY odd happening---3 friends and I met for lunch. All of us tipped appropriately (20%). Later we looked at the receipt and all of us had been charged 33 cents for gratuity. Mine was a $10 lunch, so how did 33 cents play into that? I'm thinking it's the 3% credit card fee they have to pay.
In my area small restaurants have started adding a 3% or more fee to the bill if you use any plastic to pay. It's the credit card fee they are charged ( which they have always been charged for and should be calculated into their pricing).
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Post by Rhondito on Feb 6, 2024 17:22:14 GMT
walmart delivery asks for tips. There drivers are their own employees who are compensated for their mileage. Sometimes I tip if weather is rainy or extremely cold, but hey, you didn’t shop for or chat or ask if ok to sub something. You just carted the crap from your trunk to the house! Drivers don’t really need a tip! Isn’t that what Walmart plus is about? Same with the other store deliveries? I have the Kroger delivery (gift) and they want a tip too! What about when I do pickup? Same thing? I was on your side until I got to this. These people are doing you a service and deserve a tip. They are taking away the inconvenience of driving to a store in traffic, going in and dealing with people while you shop, and driving home in traffic. Instead you get to spend your time doing something less aggravating and annoying. Tip.Them.
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Post by papersilly on Feb 6, 2024 18:07:55 GMT
we have a Ramen place near us that has a "no tipping" policy. they automatically add 16.5% to your bill. if you want to tip or less than their amount, you can opt out and put in your own amount. i am ok with this.
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Post by scrapmaven on Feb 6, 2024 18:08:54 GMT
I tip when I receive service and I do tip for takeout, but not fast food. I tip when the service is good. I don't tip at retailers. I'm already paying the retail price for my item. At retail stores put your tip jar away. It's not my responsibility to pay your staff.
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Post by Merge on Feb 6, 2024 18:10:48 GMT
I only eat out or get delivery if I can afford to tip. Otherwise, I make my own food/go get my own stuff. Just my preference. I agree that it's part of our culture. Tipping waitstaff who are paid a tipped-worker wage is part of our culture. Tipping every single person for everything is not. I tip when I feel it is appropriate and won't be bullied into it otherwise. In the OP, at the point a second person harrassed me, I would not return to that establishment. That’s fine. I feel our culture has changed to include these other forms of tipping. You have a different feeling and that’s ok, too. No one here is trying to bully you.
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Post by Merge on Feb 6, 2024 18:13:34 GMT
If I’m doing YOUR job, YOU don’t get a tip. Tip or don't tip, but this attitude is condescending to service people IMO. If you're at a counter service restaurant with a self-service drink machine, you getting your drink is not "doing the employee's job." In that restaurant, that's not part of their job. You don't get to decide what is their job and what is not, the company does. I totally understand why a lot of people don't tip in counter service restaurants, but there's no need to make it sound like they don't deserve it because they're lazy. They're working hard at a crappy job. I agree. I tend to tip people who are doing a job I don’t want to do myself. Just how I roll.
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Post by littlemama on Feb 6, 2024 18:25:54 GMT
Tipping waitstaff who are paid a tipped-worker wage is part of our culture. Tipping every single person for everything is not. I tip when I feel it is appropriate and won't be bullied into it otherwise. In the OP, at the point a second person harrassed me, I would not return to that establishment. That’s fine. I feel our culture has changed to include these other forms of tipping. You have a different feeling and that’s ok, too. No one here is trying to bully you. Oh, I didnt mean that anyone here was bullying. I felt that the people in the OP were bullying her at Dominos!
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Post by littlemama on Feb 6, 2024 18:28:02 GMT
In a VERY odd happening---3 friends and I met for lunch. All of us tipped appropriately (20%). Later we looked at the receipt and all of us had been charged 33 cents for gratuity. Mine was a $10 lunch, so how did 33 cents play into that? I'm thinking it's the 3% credit card fee they have to pay.
In my area small restaurants have started adding a 3% or more fee to the bill if you use any plastic to pay. It's the credit card fee they are charged ( which they have always been charged for and should be calculated into their pricing). In my state (and possibly others) it is illegal to add a charge for using a DEBIT card. The workaround to that is to offer a discount for paying cash, but I know lots of places still charge on debit cards
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Post by mcjunkin on Feb 6, 2024 18:52:32 GMT
I heard that Waffle House is now adding automatic gratuity fees to all to-go orders now. Not sure, as I have not been myself. And will never know, because I, like the OP, refuse to tip on something like a to-go order.
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Post by mikklynn on Feb 6, 2024 19:18:31 GMT
My jaw dropped at the battery store where I went for batteries for my car remotes. There was a printed sign, by the management (it said so) asking for tips for their hard working employees. WTF. That was an easy no.
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Post by busy on Feb 6, 2024 19:27:07 GMT
I'm thinking it's the 3% credit card fee they have to pay.
In my area small restaurants have started adding a 3% or more fee to the bill if you use any plastic to pay. It's the credit card fee they are charged ( which they have always been charged for and should be calculated into their pricing). In my state (and possibly others) it is illegal to add a charge for using a DEBIT card. The workaround to that is to offer a discount for paying cash, but I know lots of places still charge on debit cards That is most likely only when it's a debit card used with a PIN. If it's a debit card that's Visa/MC branded and run as credit (meaning no PIN), it's generally permissible to pass along interchange fees.
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Post by used2scrap on Feb 6, 2024 19:44:25 GMT
I generally tip on to go orders that have to be put into various special containers and extra sauces and sides etc, then carefully bagged up (ie sit down restaurants making to go orders). They’re doing extra work for me. I wouldn’t tip for fast food that’s wrapped in the same paper whether for here or to go, and I’d be pretty sure that’d be my last pick up at dominos if they acted like that.
I definitely tip for grocery delivery because they’re doing me a huge service.
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Post by lisae on Feb 6, 2024 20:08:22 GMT
Yes it has gotten ridiculous, and I agree with you completely about the point of service examples you gave.
What gets me is that people who really deserve tips can't get them. It was in the contract I signed for my mother's assisted living facility that I could not gift or tip any employees there. The CNA's make poor wages. It's above minimum but not by that much. And they have to clean up after people and put up with a lot in their jobs. They work nights and holidays. They are responsible for people's safety. It is a lot more demanding and important work than many of the jobs where tips are expected.
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Post by littlemama on Feb 6, 2024 20:15:27 GMT
Yes it has gotten ridiculous, and I agree with you completely about the point of service examples you gave. What gets me is that people who really deserve tips can't get them. It was in the contract I signed for my mother's assisted living facility that I could not gift or tip any employees there. The CNA's make poor wages. It's above minimum but not by that much. And they have to clean up after people and put up with a lot in their jobs. They work nights and holidays. They are responsible for people's safety. It is a lot more demanding and important work than many of the jobs where tips are expected. Agree 100%. My son is an OT in a Skilled Nursing Facility and if a patient gives him anything, he has to turn it in (if he cant refuse it on the spot). I understand it is somewhat to protect the employees- you wouldnt want Great Aunt Hilda with a bit of dementia to give a CNA a family heirloom and then have the family accuse the CNA of theft. However, if a family wants to give the caregiver a $10 Target gift card, I think that should be ok.
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Post by myshelly on Feb 6, 2024 20:15:51 GMT
Tipping is part of US culture whether or not you like it. Should everyone be paid a living wage by their employer and tipping be phased out? Sure, but take that up with your state legislature and Congress for allowing absurdly low hourly wages and tip credits that count on customers to pay employees' wages instead of the employers. You can choose not to tip, it's up to you. But tipping is expected in restaurants and other service establishments. Of course people shouldn't be rude about it, but you also shouldn't be surprised if you buck what's expected and people don't appreciate it. Tipping has always been expected in restaurants. What is happening now is completely different and beyond that. Tipping in fast food, stores, booths at craft fairs, self checkout, etc. has never been part of US cultures and has never been expected.
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Post by librarylady on Feb 6, 2024 22:02:49 GMT
In a VERY odd happening---3 friends and I met for lunch. All of us tipped appropriately (20%). Later we looked at the receipt and all of us had been charged 33 cents for gratuity. Mine was a $10 lunch, so how did 33 cents play into that? I'm thinking it's the 3% credit card fee they have to pay.
In my area small restaurants have started adding a 3% or more fee to the bill if you use any plastic to pay. It's the credit card fee they are charged ( which they have always been charged for and should be calculated into their pricing). Except my friends paid cash and I was the only one of us who used a credit card.
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Post by smasonnc on Feb 6, 2024 22:03:05 GMT
Tipping is part of US culture whether or not you like it. Should everyone be paid a living wage by their employer and tipping be phased out? Sure, but take that up with your state legislature and Congress for allowing absurdly low hourly wages and tip credits that count on customers to pay employees' wages instead of the employers. I'm not going on a crusade to Congress because I don't want to tip at Dominos. It's a free market. When they can't find help because people are sick of being unfairly paid, they have to pay more. In the meantime, I'm not going to tip everybody who turns their screen around. That is not part of the US tipping culture which I actually like because you get decent service in a restaurant. In places where they don't tip, the service is rubbish.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Feb 6, 2024 22:21:32 GMT
IMO, if I wanted to tip I would have gotten delivery instead of pickup. I’m also sick of the expected or asked for tips when it is a situation where you wouldn’t have been expected to tip a few years ago. I also wouldn’t be happy with hidden back of the house fees. Just increase your prices so that I know what I’m spending when I decide to go there.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 6, 2024 22:38:11 GMT
I only eat out or get delivery if I can afford to tip. Otherwise, I make my own food/go get my own stuff. Just my preference. I agree that it's part of our culture. I meant to ask you a while ago, but forgot..... did you tip anywhere while you were here? I always wonder whether restaurants here expect a tip from US tourists, because they know you have a tipping culture there. Every now and then we might tip at a sit down restaurant, but it's not really expected, and if we do it, we just round it up to the nearest 10. I would never ever tip in any other scenario.
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Post by Merge on Feb 6, 2024 22:45:48 GMT
I only eat out or get delivery if I can afford to tip. Otherwise, I make my own food/go get my own stuff. Just my preference. I agree that it's part of our culture. I meant to ask you a while ago, but forgot..... did you tip anywhere while you were here? I always wonder whether restaurants here expect a tip from US tourists, because they know you have a tipping culture there. Every now and then we might tip at a sit down restaurant, but it's not really expected, and if we do it, we just round it up to the nearest 10. I would never ever tip in any other scenario. I think DH put a tip on the ticket our first sit-down meal there, which was in the hotel, but then we googled whether tipping was expected in Australia and didn't do it any more.
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 6, 2024 23:14:54 GMT
I only eat out or get delivery if I can afford to tip. Otherwise, I make my own food/go get my own stuff. Just my preference. I agree that it's part of our culture. I meant to ask you a while ago, but forgot..... did you tip anywhere while you were here? I always wonder whether restaurants here expect a tip from US tourists, because they know you have a tipping culture there. Every now and then we might tip at a sit down restaurant, but it's not really expected, and if we do it, we just round it up to the nearest 10. I would never ever tip in any other scenario. I always look up tipping culture before I travel .
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Post by gar on Feb 6, 2024 23:23:37 GMT
I only eat out or get delivery if I can afford to tip. Otherwise, I make my own food/go get my own stuff. Just my preference. I agree that it's part of our culture. I meant to ask you a while ago, but forgot..... did you tip anywhere while you were here? I always wonder whether restaurants here expect a tip from US tourists, because they know you have a tipping culture there. Every now and then we might tip at a sit down restaurant, but it's not really expected, and if we do it, we just round it up to the nearest 10. I would never ever tip in any other scenario. I’m sure we’ve covered this before but you’ll have to excuse my meno brain 😌 So you don’t tip your hairdresser or beauty therapist? We always tip in sit down restaurants and I do tip my hairdresser and beauty therapist but not in other scenarios off the top of my head.
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Feb 6, 2024 23:27:24 GMT
we have a Ramen place near us that has a "no tipping" policy. they automatically add 16.5% to your bill. if you want to tip or less than their amount, you can opt out and put in your own amount. i am ok with this. that sounds more like mandatory tipping than no tipping
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 6, 2024 23:41:44 GMT
I meant to ask you a while ago, but forgot..... did you tip anywhere while you were here? I always wonder whether restaurants here expect a tip from US tourists, because they know you have a tipping culture there. Every now and then we might tip at a sit down restaurant, but it's not really expected, and if we do it, we just round it up to the nearest 10. I would never ever tip in any other scenario. I’m sure we’ve covered this before but you’ll have to excuse my meno brain 😌 So you don’t tip your hairdresser or beauty therapist? We always tip in sit down restaurants and I do tip my hairdresser and beauty therapist but not in other scenarios off the top of my head. Never ever ever, my goodness! I'm already paying her $220 which is $73 per hour (not including product). Not one single person I know has ever tipped a hairdresser. It's just not done. I am actually shocked/surprised that you DO tip a hairdresser in the UK. I don't have a beauty therapist, but if I did, I would not be tipping for that service either. Unless she made me look like Margot Robbie.
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Post by gar on Feb 6, 2024 23:50:31 GMT
I’m sure we’ve covered this before but you’ll have to excuse my meno brain 😌 So you don’t tip your hairdresser or beauty therapist? We always tip in sit down restaurants and I do tip my hairdresser and beauty therapist but not in other scenarios off the top of my head. Never ever ever, my goodness! I'm already paying her $220 which is $73 per hour (not including product). Not one single person I know has ever tipped a hairdresser. It's just not done. I am actually shocked/surprised that you DO tip a hairdresser in the UK. I don't have a beauty therapist, but if I did, I would not be tipping for that service either. Unless she made me look like Margot Robbie. I’m sure she could do that 😘
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Post by jmad122 on Feb 7, 2024 0:16:51 GMT
I try to tip well, especially at restaurants. But, I'm just now learning that not everyone tips their hairstylist, especially if they own the salon. I've been going to a new salon since Covid. The owner is the only stylist with a couple of helpers. She charges me $160, so I tip $30 or $40 so it rounds to an even $200. Do I not need to tip? It feels odd not to tip.
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Post by busy on Feb 7, 2024 0:22:38 GMT
I try to tip well, especially at restaurants. But, I'm just now learning that not everyone tips their hairstylist, especially if they own the salon. I've been going to a new salon since Covid. The owner is the only stylist with a couple of helpers. She charges me $160, so I tip $30 or $40 so it rounds to an even $200. Do I not need to tip? It feels odd not to tip. It's now considered the norm to tip salon owners the same as you would a regular stylist. But of course, tipping is always up to the individual, regardless of what the norm is.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 7, 2024 0:29:51 GMT
I like that Sonic shows the carhop how much the tip is and it immediately goes on their next paycheck as they swipe their badge before carrying out to the car. It is the only place that I like tipping because I know it goes directly to the carhop.
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 7, 2024 0:38:23 GMT
I try to tip well, especially at restaurants. But, I'm just now learning that not everyone tips their hairstylist, especially if they own the salon. I've been going to a new salon since Covid. The owner is the only stylist with a couple of helpers. She charges me $160, so I tip $30 or $40 so it rounds to an even $200. Do I not need to tip? It feels odd not to tip. My mother was a hairstylist. In the 1960s. She relied on tips! It has never occurred to me not to tip my stylist.
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