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Post by Lurkingpea on Feb 8, 2024 1:12:05 GMT
There are a couple of local cafes that automatically add a 20% gratuity. It is listed as such on the bottom of the menus usually, sometimes it is on the counter where you order too. That part is fine, I guess, although they are just like Starbucks type places so 20% seems high. The part that irritates me is that they then have a tip screen when you pay. They already added a 20% tip. Why would I want to tip more than that?
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Post by pilcas on Feb 8, 2024 1:21:15 GMT
There are a couple of local cafes that automatically add a 20% gratuity. It is listed as such on the bottom of the menus usually, sometimes it is on the counter where you order too. That part is fine, I guess, although they are just like Starbucks type places so 20% seems high. The part that irritates me is that they then have a tip screen when you pay. They already added a 20% tip. Why would I want to tip more than that? To me they are really trying to get the customer to double tip and it is not done accidentally.
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Post by katiekaty on Feb 8, 2024 2:12:32 GMT
Correct, the Walmart delivery service that is tip-free is called Walmart+ In Home. It's an additional $40 a year, I believe (and worth every freaking penny). Walmart+ deliveries are done by a third party. Then why is the OP complaining about tipping Walmart drivers in her initial post? Is it regular Walmart delivery? No, I have Walmart plus. It’s just not always available as the service is instacart. Deliveries are made “in home” and not delivered to the front door and left. They need to be received by someone in the household, delivered with electronic controlled garage or key. Usually to get it, you have to search for a time and the times that I have found are next day at the earliest to three or four days out. I often do 3 hours or less for a $5 charge and rarely 2 hour or less for 10 since they almost always start shopping immediately and delivery in less than an hour or two for each one.
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Post by hop2 on Feb 8, 2024 2:28:31 GMT
If I’m tipping I’m tipping cash. If I’m going to frequent a place I’m tipping well. I’m not going to be remembered as a bad tipper.
So in the OP scenario they’d have talked themselves out of their cash tip. Thats just rude. Demanding a tip is rude.
I don’t go many places but when I do I tip, I tip well, but not on my cc. One place I go to my meal is usually 13-16$ I tip $5min always. At this point, they know my name, I get extra sauces free, free chips.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Feb 8, 2024 14:14:50 GMT
There are a couple of local cafes that automatically add a 20% gratuity. It is listed as such on the bottom of the menus usually, sometimes it is on the counter where you order too. That part is fine, I guess, although they are just like Starbucks type places so 20% seems high. The part that irritates me is that they then have a tip screen when you pay. They already added a 20% tip. Why would I want to tip more than that? To me they are really trying to get the customer to double tip and it is not done accidentally. This is exactly why I said up thread that I always ask as soon as a check is brought to me, and if there is an auto grat on the check, I never, ever up it or add to it. If they take away my discretion, I certainly am not going to up it to the % I would have typically tipped. I got burned with this a few times when it first started and it really ticks me off because they were large checks that I expected to be big at an emotional time (celebration of life), and therefore didn’t notice the extra. Oh, also, if I’m eating in, and also ordered take out to take with me for my son or boyfriend at home. They want to have me tip on 2 or 3 meals, when I was the only one that ate in? Hah! Nooooooo. I actually ran into that recently where they added the 20% auto “service charge” then had a tip line, and wouldn’t remove it. I paid cash for the portion of the meal that I ate and left the take out food right there. I consider that like the ridiculous coffee shops that want you tip on the food bev, and if you buy random coffee cups, extra tea, art, etc they have that included in the recommended tip. Lord no.
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Post by Lurkingpea on Feb 8, 2024 14:36:10 GMT
There are a couple of local cafes that automatically add a 20% gratuity. It is listed as such on the bottom of the menus usually, sometimes it is on the counter where you order too. That part is fine, I guess, although they are just like Starbucks type places so 20% seems high. The part that irritates me is that they then have a tip screen when you pay. They already added a 20% tip. Why would I want to tip more than that? To me they are really trying to get the customer to double tip and it is not done accidentally. Exactly. I won't be back to any cafe doing this.
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Post by Ellie on Feb 8, 2024 22:02:28 GMT
When I went to pay at a new-to-me hair salon (we moved down to the San Antonio area from NH) I found out that they don't accept tips. Their statement is: "Tips are not expected nor accepted" and they price their services accordingly.
I must say it's very, very nice that I don't have to think about how much to tip.
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Post by melanell on Feb 8, 2024 23:12:33 GMT
I tip a lot of places, but I would never think to tip if I went and picked up a pizza at Dominos, and I do think the employee behavior described in the OP was unacceptable. What gets me is this one local place where we order and tip online, go in and pick up our stuff, pour our own drinks, and nearly every single time the order is wrong. Drives me batty. He's your tip for consistently getting it wrong.
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Post by camcas on Feb 8, 2024 23:22:42 GMT
As an Aussie ,where our culture is not to tip unless you had very very very good service ,I found it extremely difficult to navigate the tipping thing when I visited USA.I never knew how much and was a bit annoyed at the extra cost TBH
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 8, 2024 23:29:34 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. And furthermore Walmart delivery rates are absolute TRASH. My daughter did this during covid and I said do not take a walmart delivery - they do NOT compensate for mileage and are absolutely relying on customers to tip and most do not.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 8, 2024 23:46:26 GMT
As an Aussie ,where out culture is not to tip unless you had very very very good service ,I found it extremely difficult to navigate the tipping thing when I visited USA.I never knew how much and was a bit annoyed at the extra cost TBH I went to Hawaii as a 21yo, with a couple of girlfriends, and we were so worried about the whole tipping thing! We never knew when or where or how much to tip, and of course Google wasn't a thing in 1989! I remember when the guy took our bags up to our room, and we were freaking out about whether or how much to tip him. I handed him a $1 note, and he shook his head and said that we didn't need to tip him.
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Feb 9, 2024 20:11:06 GMT
I will jump in here to add that I occasionally do delivery for Walmart and just an FYI, we will also do the shopping as well for some orders. I don't know what makes them just pick-up and deliver or shop and then deliver, but either way, it's a hustle. You gotta be on that app fighting for those "routes," especially those ones where the customer has left a decent tip. Or a tip at all. Cause let me tell you, we aren't getting paid a whole lot to deliver your groceries! Delivering groceries in 110° heat during the summer for 6 bucks is not ideal. Some days, you just sit there, and nothing comes in. It's not an easy job at all. Don't get me started on house numbers, dogs, locked fences, apartments or delivering at night!! 😬
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Feb 9, 2024 20:35:28 GMT
I encountered an odd one this week. I was paying for a group, and the restaurant added a 18% gratuity. Great - if you want 18%, its yours (but I would have tipped more). THEN, they have an Add Additional Tip line, but it wasn't a line where I could bring the tip up a little if I wanted to; it was three checkboxes that added an ADDITIONAL 20, 22, or 25% tip - and you were tipping on the full meal, including the tax and tip that was already in the calculation. In short, I paid an appropriate $53.36 tip, and the restaurant asked for an additional $74.19-92.74 tip.
I don't mind tipping for traditionally tipped positions, but it seems like we're being asked to tip for more and more positions that are paid the full hourly rate, not the tipped position hourly rate. We get less service and pay more tips. I would gladly pay 20% more in food costs so that businesses could just pay their employees 20% more.
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