I worked at red lobster when the moron of a ceo decided to implement “all you can eat crab” without increasing the budget for staffing or utensils. So when people would ask for crab cracking tools on a Friday night I’d have to be this person 💀💀
US tip practice and law is what every US corporation wishes it could do to it's workers. Make the customer pay for the product and subsidize the employees wages is the pinnacle of US labor culture.
This already happens with extremely large corporations, like Walmart. They have the most employees on food stamps out of any company. That means that they are using public tax funds to subsidize the low pay they give their workers. Each year they take in billions of dollars in profits and still pay thier workers at rates that leave them below the poverty line and in need of public assistance. It is sort of like tipping except even non-customers are paying. Everyone is paying except Walmart
Franchises are just the organizational version of the same concept, corporate structure is all about removing as much liability and consequence as possible
@@sarahmellinger3335 I don't think dodging taxes (money that funds social services, which literally everyone is reliant on but especially those who are poorer) makes up for your society collectively gaslighting themselves into thinking that having no real worker rights is an advantage
the tipping posts are ridiculous, saw one on twitter the other day of someone complaining about a $40 tip on a $200 order cause 20% is too little for an order of that cost and should be at least 30%. And this post was of someone in Ontario where you have to paid a full wage and tips are not a part of your salary. I swear these people don't exist in real life.
I saw that post too. It was insanity. Servers love to larp as broke when in reality if you're making 15-20% tips at even a mid level restaurant you're making VERY good money. I've always tipped 15-18% on every order and understand that they have tip out (usually minus 3-5% tips paid to the kitchen staff) but it's insane that machines now have the MINIMUM default set to 20% I also had a server friend tr and argue that inflation is why they need to raise the percentage... Not the brightest take
As someone whose income is moderately dependent on tips, it's wild that people complain about that like the point of a percentage isn't that it scales with the price
The crazy thing too is that $200 now, in a HCOL city, is like...a pretty normal cost for a table of 4. It isn't some extravagant meal so expecting more than 20% is deranged.
@@SlamDunc_an yep im in college and have a few friends that wait tables and they make more off tips that than if they were paid a decent wage and no tips. They make $30-40/hr on decent days and much prefer being paid in tips than being paid $25/hr. This is also in a city where tips you receive don't count towards your salary.
@@-Sai 99% of people that are expected to receive tips make way more than if they were paid a high wage. I'm surprised its only 30-40 dollars an hour on a decent day. Waiting 3 tables in an hour at 10 bucks a tip is 30 bucks plus the wage, and 3 tables an hour is lightwork and 10 bucks is a small tip depending on party size/location.
I ordered a mousepad from a company website and they asked me to tip when I was checking out. Who am I tipping when the only in-person interaction I face is with a computer monitor? I'm not going to purposefully overpay like that.
Tipping culture in the US seems insane. In South America we normally tip 10%, but that's because most waiters are already paid a living wage so we're not forced to leave large tips for them to be able to subsist. That's the main problem, companies paying substandard wages so they can profit more and giving the customers the responsibility of making sure the people serving them don't starve. It sounds crazy doesn't it?
Tipping a % seems insane. How does me ordering the more expensive food make them more deserving of a tip? Does the 3x as expensive wine take 3x the effort to bring out? Them again we don't tip so maybe I just don't get it.
@@dpetersz as far as i know the rationale is supposed to be that at fancier places with more expensive food the staff is also giving better service and the turnover time between guests is a lot higher, both reasons for the waitstaff to deserve and expect more $ per table. also pretty sure the tips are split with other staff members than just your server, and if youre ordering more food/bigger dishes then the busboys+cooks gotta work harder too. never worked food service myself though and i do think it would be much better if restaurants just, yknow, paid their staff a normal hourly rate. in the USA "tipped employees" can be legally paid a much lower minimum wage so if you're not tipping a respectable amount the staff is getting seriously fucked over
It's almost like costco actually trains their cashiers instead of just telling them what buttons do what and having them figure everything else out as they go.
@slinqee Do you know how natural grocers is doing? Just joined them as a customer, and I want to make sure they aren't eventually going to turn out like whole foods, but I think the little signs are already there in some ways, but the big ones aren't there yet.
>paying extra money on every single transaction so the restaurant workers don't violate the health code >paying extra money so that the mechanics don't shit in my gas tank >paying extra money so the kindergarten teacher doesn't bludgeon my beloved, fragile child with a mace
I have mixed feelings on tipping. I do not work in the restaurant industry but I do work a job that automatically asks for tips at checkout. I make a fine hourly rate but the hours are low so tips make up a large amount of my paycheck. It's weird because I'm aware I'm very sociable and make a good first impression so it's incredibly beneficial for me, but I am an introvert when off the clock and feel for everyone who works a tip-reliant job while struggling to "turn on the charm" as it ends up becoming a huge factor in your pay. So I make sure to tip well to employees I see quietly working hard at the places I frequent. Edit: Also I always say "It's gonna ask you for a tip if you feel so inclined, no pressure." before they pay and then walk away for a second to go clean up so I'm not staring them down. Some people tip well, some people don't at all. It's not personal, in optional settings it's more a matter of financial comfort.
US is the place you pay for a premium but get below standard service. and most people haven't been to other places to understand they're getting worse quality yet paying for it
It's easy for me to say because I'm biased (some would even say based) since here in Brazil not only tipping is not mandatory but if you want to pay it's generally 10% (I've never seen a different percentage). But come on, the land of the free should've caught up on this scam already. Tipping should be something you give to reward a better than average service, because you have more money than you need or because you can't be bothered to wait for change or something. The burden of paying the employee's wages should be on the employer not on the customer.
Tipping isnt common in my country but the option is there sometimes in certain places. One time I was travelling across the country had a server go above and beyond helping us when the crappy app ordering system screwed up, they were very kind and apologetic. When it came to paying the bill the card machine popped up the option of paying a "gratuity charge". This was the first time I had seen that combination of words, and I've literally never tipped in my life, but it clicked in my head the moment I saw the poor girls face drop when I said "nah" out loud and pressed no. I assumed it was a donation to charity or something. I left asap and feel bad about it to this day.
i've been living in japan for a year now and honestly a big part of the reason i don't want to go back to the US is the tipping. i can get a really filling, healthy, and tasty meal for less than $13 here. if i want something cheap but not necessarily healthy, $5. these are sitdown restaurants too. tipping has gotten so ridiculous. the public transportation, safety, and absolutely state of cleanliness of the public toilets (which are bidets/washlets 95% of the time) helps too.
it's kind of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation in the US because your tips usually are the top contributor for the waiter being able to physically survive due to systematic reasons, so if you don't tip you're actively making someone's life significantly worse, and if you do tip, you are contributing to the problem on a societal level
@@Username-jx2ij yeah, i feel bad about not tipping so i always tipped 15%. but just hearing about how it's gotten worse, i don't know how i can live in my hometown anymore. everything has gotten more expensive overall. to live the same lifestyle in the US as i do right now in japan i would have to make like almost double the salary.
@Username™ one or two people not tipping per shift isn't going to literally drive a person into homelessness or prevent them from eating their next meal, this reasoning feels like some kind of emotional manipulation and everyone knows that it logically makes no sense, but then you're the asshole if you point out that no, the waiter isn't going to starve because you didn't give them $5 for doing their job. Most waiters make VERY good money from tips, even at basic bitch chain restaurants, because none of it is taxed. Not saying you should never tip, but if you have an awful experience (such as not getting fucking cutlery for 5+ minutes after your food is already there, guaranteeing it's gonna be lukewarm at best when you finally get to eat it), then I wouldn't worry about tipping.
People in the US are so fucking bad at budgeting that they also have the audacity to raise prices, lower portions, and still demand tips. All because they can't pay their minimal overworked staff a good wage. Like go outta business already fuck.
After being in the restaurant industry for almost 10 years now im so blackpilled on tipping. Id work 40+ hours a week making like 400$ a week and then a waitress like his would make that in a single night. If anything id rather tip the fucking cooks cuz they are the ones making the experience worth anything, waitress are glorified carhops. However always tip the bartender they work very hard
I work at a nice restaurant/bar and its true that servers can make a couple hundred in tips in one night but thats like. Saturday night during the holidays if you got scheduled to work the bar. your average weekday lunch shift is not making that.
I'm so fucking grateful for anyone tipping me 15% when I have to tip out 5% to the kitchen, seriously I have to deal with people who tip $0 - $5 on like $100 - $170 orders sometimes and you just have to smile and say "thank you for coming!" Like you just have to be grateful for the money you did make that night People who think they deserve so much more are insane - they almost never put out the extra work to ensure the customer got the best experience possible and always expect the most
@@Dmanacyde5 idk pretty standard here in Ontario where I live. Generally how it works is depending on where you work, the percentage of food sales tipped out varies restaurant to restaurant, but the server has to pay that money out of their pocket whether they received a tip or not. That money then gets put into a pool by management team, then distributed to the back of house via cash in an envelope weekly. It typically gets paid out depending on the day(s) of the week you worked, and then your total hours.
@Izuku_ That is most definitely not standard in the states. Servers and bartenders are making bank (for the most part) and BoH is getting paid barely a living wage.
@@Dmanacyde5 Yep this is a fact, actual draconian practices in restaurants and somehow servers co-opt getting paid a livable wage. It is no wonder that servers actually prefer tips to having an hourly rate (you can look it up).
Any chance we get NL talking about Tears for Fears during Only Up? I was pegged out of my mind when he said he appreciates Head over Heels as much as I do.
I was at a hotel and there was a self service kiosk with a computer and a credit card payment machine attached to it. I got a sprite. It asked me for a tip - for me to go to the open cooler and grab my drink. Lol no. Thats literally just stocking a vending machine im not fucking tipping that
I guarantee you the waiters in my state do not need 20% tips lmao. Washington minimum wage outside of seattle is like 75% of what I make and I feel rich.
Western people pretending that their artificially constructed systems are just another natural part of the world is simultaneously one of the funniest and most aggravating things ever.
nah after working in several restaurants i dont tip anymore. especially because foh was getting the same hourly wage as boh staff was, and we didnt even see the glimmer off a penny in tips
The societal pressure and illogical mechanics of tipping were a significant factor in me swearing off sit-down restaurants entirely. Getting silently judged for failing to pick up on capricious social norms is not my idea of a relaxing evening meal.
I can understand tipping waiters because they don't make minimum wage (at least in North America) but enforcing a 18% or even 20% tip is ridiculous, especially since tipping comes after tax, so when you pay a 15% tip they actually get like a 18% tip (or something like that). And it's not like they don't make decent money from all their tips. I remember when I was a cook in 2016, a waiter was bragging about making like 300$ in tips during the weekend shifts while I was there making minimum wage with no tip... Now that you are incentivise to tip when ordering take out, or in restaurants without any servers, I just stopped tipping anything other than waiters
10:20 Rare -2 from the egg, it is not the financial responsibility of the customer to pay over and above the sticker price for anything, however it is the financial responsibility for employers to pay minimum wages (in accordance with local law). The logical mistake people make is by hating on customers when they don't tip, instead of hating on their employer when customers don't feel obligated to make an arbitrary extra payment that is just social conduct. The anger directed towards people who don't tip is better served pointed at lawmakers, employers. Don't throw shade on me because: 1. You chose to work in a profession that doesn't require you to earn a baseline living minimum wage 2. You weren't able to negotiate a better deal with your boss 3. Your boss doesn't pay you more 4. The law doesn't require it Notice how none of these reasons involve the customer at all? Yet people think it should be the customer's duty to compensate for this shit. Only NA people can make the logical leaps to say that you can't have a moral position of not tipping. It's absurd.
Yeah... tipping was created to literally not have to pay workers. It's outdated and should be abolished. This is coming from someone who's made insane tips working at high end restaurants and hotels. I'd rather people be able to afford the cost of living then have big months where I make more. Also... the charity donations from corporations is literally just giving them a tax write off with your money. Donate to charity yourself if you're going to do it. Realistically I don't trust them to not take a cut either.
I tip when Im at a restaurant, ordering a delivery, at a mom and pop shop I frequent or my local drive thru coffee bc they hold the card reader out the window and I dont wanna be that guy. I refuse to tip on most pick-up food orders, and nearly every situation outside those listed because often it's there because the place uses Square and it's baked into their UI. Donating at stores is a scam. They do it so they can have a write off at the end of the year for further profits because they know some people will feel bad if they dont. DO NOT FALL FOR IT
People shame those guys who don't tip, or who don't tip high enough, and then refuse the defence that tipping culture is bad by saying that one person not tipping doesn't affect tipping culture. They're correct to say this, so far all that is right. But you know what DOES affect tipping culture? The shaming! Not tipping is bad because of tipping culture, despite tipping culture itself being bad, but shaming people for it *is tipping culture!* You're being tipping's strongest soldier!
That person complaining about getting a $30 tip and pre-emptively deflecting all critics as "anime guys" was crazy lmao. If anything, the people in the kitchen deserve the higher tip (though they should all be paid more so as to not rely on tips)
The waiters make it seem like the service magically gets exponentially harder with a bigger order. The ingredients are already paid, why is your service suddenly getting more valuable just because I bought a more expensive plate for you to carry to me?
@@arianghorbani1305your gonna be hurt for a while because his logic is sound as a server ur not going back in the kitchen and even making the more expensive meal the level of service as whole has gone down significantly since even 5 years back
@@S7ayMeloare you actually kidding? As a server, you have several tables to handle. The larger one table is, the more complex the needs of the table are; you have to keep track of all of their orders and the fact that their table will This actually isn’t worth it, you people have never spoken with a server except to ask for food and it shows lmao
@@arianghorbani1305 Oh shit, twice as many plates! Now I need to get the tableside stand and ask people who ordered what! Or 9 times out of 10 just make the busser come help instead. I'd rather have one party of 8 than 2 parties of 4. Considering a pretty similar menu price, and therefore tip, you save yourself a trip.
as a dude who has worked in a few restaurants, has had friends who have worked for other restaurants for even longer, the not reporting tips is very much a true thing. You are actively encouraged to not say anything about cash tips, so like, if you do make 200 a night in just tips, that is all untaxed and unreported. I am not saying this is a good or a bad thing. It was obviously good for me at the time, as well as more convenient, but it does happen.
I tip based on how many refills I get during my meal. If I get 3 refills, you hit he maximum 15%, which is what it was when I was a kid so it's what I'll tip now. Two refills, 10%. No refill? No tip. And if the service is egregious, no tip.
Imho as someone who relies off of tips as a pizza delivery driver if you give me any tip no matter how much you order im happy. When youre giving me 0$ on a $100+ order im taking my damn time to get to your house. If you tip 2$ on a 40$ order? Im happy. I dont get any money per delivery so that tip extra is the only thing that is making me any sort of money back. But also on the flipside i was recently asked to tip at an airport kiosk which was selling little buttons and stickers. Like no disrespect but thats kinda insane to me. I still tipped because it was like 1.62 but that was my "yeah this is a little rediculous" moment
I appricate that NL is humble enough to recognize when cashiers are faster. It always made me laugh when people would do self checkout at the place I worked because 9/10 times we would do it faster.
@Zangelin you still have to scan your shit at a self check out, too. Most people dont know where the barcodes are, and if there's produce of some kind, that shit is memorized, or at the very least more easily accessible for cashiers. And if you fuck up on self check out, say double scan on accident, you have to ask for help from a cashier anyways.
I never tip picking up an order. I tip 10% on uber deliveries (not including total service fee and tax amount). I tip 20% on actual sit down and get serviced meals. That's my system and I'm sticking to it.
Im goin out cause I want to eat out, not cause I want to support peoples jobs. I tip what I think is appropriate for the service, and sometimes that’s 0 if it’s bad enough. On the flip side I’m happy to tip 20-25% on some great service. Its all about the service
The need for unnecessary tipping is unreal. I love Chinese food but it has to be precooked and just heated up to be ready in 16 mins usually and most of the time i pick it up myself. Putting food in a box then a bag in a family owned buisness with low overhead and marked up food is not worth a tip to me.
Why is it my job to campaign for better wages for an industry I'm not even involved in? Is it my place to stand in the picket line for the writer's strike, or complain to my congressman about mining safety? When you saw the salary and took the job, you signed an agreement with your boss. If you're not happy, unionize and figure out some better agreement, don't ask the customer to fight your battles for you. No other industry does that. Tipping is a tax against being a nice person, and I tip out of pure social obligation.
As an artist most people already vocally advocate for my job to be liquidated and that I shouldn't be financially compensated for my education or practice, so in this respect I don't have to pay the crybaby guilt tax when a barista takes 10 seconds to pour me an iced coffee.
@@TheLibraryofLetourneau what if that money was needed to feed/educate Luna? Would things change? Tbh tho... Not sure why i'm doing this????? Back to memes and shit
As an aussie, screw tips all together. Its not on me to make up your wages, im here to buy my food. Not my issue. Bring it up with your boss. Also, giant corporations getting donations that they then get credit for giving to a charity and also writing it off as a tax deduction, when the money is given by customers. Gross
If you dont tip, i promise your face will be on the local server facebook page and other servers at different restaurants will spit in your food lmao 🎉
I'm a little tired of the "living wage" argument about servers and tipping. Anybody who has ever worked in the restaurant industry would 1000000% rather be in a position where they get paid $5 and hour plus tip than they would $15 an hour. Slightly location dependent, but I think it holds true way more often than not. If you wait 3 tables in an hour and they tip 10 bucks each, you've made more than 30 dollars an hour for unskilled labor. I'm not saying tipping is good or bad or anything, but can we stop pretending that if somebody doesn't tip the bartender bringing home $200 a day on a bad day is going to starve? Especially considering that in the basically impossible scenario that a server doesn't make up the difference between minimum wage and tips, they get paid minimum wage anyway?
If egg asked me for a tip i would give him the whole shaft 😎👊🏼 stay pegged every one
So true.
Holy shit, an actual original comment that’s funny as fuck.
am pegged rn.
This user is based as fuck.
-2
Thumbnail looks like my sleep paralysis demon. Another common librarian W
forgot to drop this here
+2
Bringing food out with no cutlery and saying "I'll go check" when you ask for some is so unhinged I love it
I worked at red lobster when the moron of a ceo decided to implement “all you can eat crab” without increasing the budget for staffing or utensils. So when people would ask for crab cracking tools on a Friday night I’d have to be this person 💀💀
Changing the story to make the waiter sound more unhinged is so unhinged I hate it. "The guy said 'okay, sure'."
I think it's pretty normal
You got any BEAR CLAWS?!?!
US tip practice and law is what every US corporation wishes it could do to it's workers. Make the customer pay for the product and subsidize the employees wages is the pinnacle of US labor culture.
atleast servers can dodge tax
This already happens with extremely large corporations, like Walmart. They have the most employees on food stamps out of any company. That means that they are using public tax funds to subsidize the low pay they give their workers. Each year they take in billions of dollars in profits and still pay thier workers at rates that leave them below the poverty line and in need of public assistance. It is sort of like tipping except even non-customers are paying. Everyone is paying except Walmart
Franchises are just the organizational version of the same concept, corporate structure is all about removing as much liability and consequence as possible
@@sethbarash8671 preach
@@sarahmellinger3335 I don't think dodging taxes (money that funds social services, which literally everyone is reliant on but especially those who are poorer) makes up for your society collectively gaslighting themselves into thinking that having no real worker rights is an advantage
the tipping posts are ridiculous, saw one on twitter the other day of someone complaining about a $40 tip on a $200 order cause 20% is too little for an order of that cost and should be at least 30%. And this post was of someone in Ontario where you have to paid a full wage and tips are not a part of your salary. I swear these people don't exist in real life.
I saw that post too. It was insanity. Servers love to larp as broke when in reality if you're making 15-20% tips at even a mid level restaurant you're making VERY good money. I've always tipped 15-18% on every order and understand that they have tip out (usually minus 3-5% tips paid to the kitchen staff) but it's insane that machines now have the MINIMUM default set to 20%
I also had a server friend tr and argue that inflation is why they need to raise the percentage... Not the brightest take
As someone whose income is moderately dependent on tips, it's wild that people complain about that like the point of a percentage isn't that it scales with the price
The crazy thing too is that $200 now, in a HCOL city, is like...a pretty normal cost for a table of 4. It isn't some extravagant meal so expecting more than 20% is deranged.
@@SlamDunc_an yep im in college and have a few friends that wait tables and they make more off tips that than if they were paid a decent wage and no tips. They make $30-40/hr on decent days and much prefer being paid in tips than being paid $25/hr. This is also in a city where tips you receive don't count towards your salary.
@@-Sai 99% of people that are expected to receive tips make way more than if they were paid a high wage. I'm surprised its only 30-40 dollars an hour on a decent day. Waiting 3 tables in an hour at 10 bucks a tip is 30 bucks plus the wage, and 3 tables an hour is lightwork and 10 bucks is a small tip depending on party size/location.
As a European I don't know why i even watch these videos. My brain can't handle this entire conversation.
Imagine if the pets at the pet store asked for tips.
I will tip the lizard because they are cute🫂
@@Lovelykochi Based tip take
I will now be angry at a cat who doesn't exist
17:10 Wait is UA-cam highlighting the like button whenever someone in the video says "Like"? That's crazy.
wtf
yeah it does the same with the word "subscribe" for the subscribe button, idk when that started
Holy shit that's silly. Almost kind of occult/subliminal if I could put my schizo hat on
@@HC-qc5rp take your skitzo hat off
@@PunishedDad your right a massive international corporation would never do anything for nefarious reasons
I ordered a mousepad from a company website and they asked me to tip when I was checking out. Who am I tipping when the only in-person interaction I face is with a computer monitor? I'm not going to purposefully overpay like that.
Tipping culture in the US seems insane. In South America we normally tip 10%, but that's because most waiters are already paid a living wage so we're not forced to leave large tips for them to be able to subsist. That's the main problem, companies paying substandard wages so they can profit more and giving the customers the responsibility of making sure the people serving them don't starve. It sounds crazy doesn't it?
Yeah, here in Brazil, u can go everyplace without paying any tip
Tipping a % seems insane. How does me ordering the more expensive food make them more deserving of a tip? Does the 3x as expensive wine take 3x the effort to bring out? Them again we don't tip so maybe I just don't get it.
"Living wage"
US tipping culture is a guilt tax and anti-worker
@@dpetersz as far as i know the rationale is supposed to be that at fancier places with more expensive food the staff is also giving better service and the turnover time between guests is a lot higher, both reasons for the waitstaff to deserve and expect more $ per table. also pretty sure the tips are split with other staff members than just your server, and if youre ordering more food/bigger dishes then the busboys+cooks gotta work harder too. never worked food service myself though and i do think it would be much better if restaurants just, yknow, paid their staff a normal hourly rate. in the USA "tipped employees" can be legally paid a much lower minimum wage so if you're not tipping a respectable amount the staff is getting seriously fucked over
It's almost like costco actually trains their cashiers instead of just telling them what buttons do what and having them figure everything else out as they go.
The only stores that give a shit are Costco and Trader Joe’s
@@pile_of_kyletrader joe’s is a corporate cesspool. the workers are cool but behind the scenes it sucks. source: me a former crew member
@slinqee Do you know how natural grocers is doing? Just joined them as a customer, and I want to make sure they aren't eventually going to turn out like whole foods, but I think the little signs are already there in some ways, but the big ones aren't there yet.
i ordered shoes off a website and they gave me an option to tip. i couldnt believe it.
You should make a playlist of all the covers you make at the end of videos. They're sooo good
"People don't want to work" -guy that plays an autobattler for a living
>paying the guilt tax
couldn't be me
Hope you enjoy spit in your food
@@mcbmghomejokes on you the food was already eaten before the bill was even brought out
@@mcbmghomeI doubt all servers are that despicable
>paying extra money on every single transaction so the restaurant workers don't violate the health code
>paying extra money so that the mechanics don't shit in my gas tank
>paying extra money so the kindergarten teacher doesn't bludgeon my beloved, fragile child with a mace
Damn, yellow moon goes kinda hard tbh
I love the songs at the end so much
I never tip from machines since it's unlikely the employees who actually helped me will ever see any of that money
going to the dispensary for a pipe cleaner is funny just go to the smoke shop
you can literally just go to an arts and crafts store like Michael's too lol
I’ve always assumed the “do you want to donate to charity?” message is moreso a “do you want to contribute to our company tax write off?”
I have mixed feelings on tipping. I do not work in the restaurant industry but I do work a job that automatically asks for tips at checkout. I make a fine hourly rate but the hours are low so tips make up a large amount of my paycheck. It's weird because I'm aware I'm very sociable and make a good first impression so it's incredibly beneficial for me, but I am an introvert when off the clock and feel for everyone who works a tip-reliant job while struggling to "turn on the charm" as it ends up becoming a huge factor in your pay. So I make sure to tip well to employees I see quietly working hard at the places I frequent.
Edit: Also I always say "It's gonna ask you for a tip if you feel so inclined, no pressure." before they pay and then walk away for a second to go clean up so I'm not staring them down. Some people tip well, some people don't at all. It's not personal, in optional settings it's more a matter of financial comfort.
US is the place you pay for a premium but get below standard service. and most people haven't been to other places to understand they're getting worse quality yet paying for it
the pink moon outro tho 😳
Nick Drake fans in the comments?
Respect to eggman for pulling the "le-dash-uh" discourse back around from when i was 12
I can't believe he tipped
if they aint coming to my job and tipping me 15% for my assistance, then i aint going to their job and tipping them 15%.
It's easy for me to say because I'm biased (some would even say based) since here in Brazil not only tipping is not mandatory but if you want to pay it's generally 10% (I've never seen a different percentage).
But come on, the land of the free should've caught up on this scam already. Tipping should be something you give to reward a better than average service, because you have more money than you need or because you can't be bothered to wait for change or something. The burden of paying the employee's wages should be on the employer not on the customer.
sorry man, Im poor as hell and eating out is already a luxury for me, you get 5$ it's what I can afford.
Tipping isnt common in my country but the option is there sometimes in certain places. One time I was travelling across the country had a server go above and beyond helping us when the crappy app ordering system screwed up, they were very kind and apologetic. When it came to paying the bill the card machine popped up the option of paying a "gratuity charge". This was the first time I had seen that combination of words, and I've literally never tipped in my life, but it clicked in my head the moment I saw the poor girls face drop when I said "nah" out loud and pressed no. I assumed it was a donation to charity or something. I left asap and feel bad about it to this day.
is the thumbnail ryan as the shinji trauma face
thats what i was going for but it didnt really work lmao, still thought it was funny though
i've been living in japan for a year now and honestly a big part of the reason i don't want to go back to the US is the tipping. i can get a really filling, healthy, and tasty meal for less than $13 here. if i want something cheap but not necessarily healthy, $5. these are sitdown restaurants too. tipping has gotten so ridiculous.
the public transportation, safety, and absolutely state of cleanliness of the public toilets (which are bidets/washlets 95% of the time) helps too.
it's kind of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation in the US because your tips usually are the top contributor for the waiter being able to physically survive due to systematic reasons, so if you don't tip you're actively making someone's life significantly worse, and if you do tip, you are contributing to the problem on a societal level
@@Username-jx2ij yeah, i feel bad about not tipping so i always tipped 15%. but just hearing about how it's gotten worse, i don't know how i can live in my hometown anymore. everything has gotten more expensive overall. to live the same lifestyle in the US as i do right now in japan i would have to make like almost double the salary.
@Username™ one or two people not tipping per shift isn't going to literally drive a person into homelessness or prevent them from eating their next meal, this reasoning feels like some kind of emotional manipulation and everyone knows that it logically makes no sense, but then you're the asshole if you point out that no, the waiter isn't going to starve because you didn't give them $5 for doing their job.
Most waiters make VERY good money from tips, even at basic bitch chain restaurants, because none of it is taxed. Not saying you should never tip, but if you have an awful experience (such as not getting fucking cutlery for 5+ minutes after your food is already there, guaranteeing it's gonna be lukewarm at best when you finally get to eat it), then I wouldn't worry about tipping.
People in the US are so fucking bad at budgeting that they also have the audacity to raise prices, lower portions, and still demand tips. All because they can't pay their minimal overworked staff a good wage. Like go outta business already fuck.
I mean the yen is also in the shitter so
2:40 and the crowd goes wild WOOOOOOOOOO
After being in the restaurant industry for almost 10 years now im so blackpilled on tipping. Id work 40+ hours a week making like 400$ a week and then a waitress like his would make that in a single night. If anything id rather tip the fucking cooks cuz they are the ones making the experience worth anything, waitress are glorified carhops. However always tip the bartender they work very hard
The restaurant industry is fucked on so many levels, people who aren't in it just don't understand
top tier title and thumbnail
the customer should not be responsible for paying the employee's wage
Who up culturing they tip?
did not expect to hear nick drake at the end
I work at a nice restaurant/bar and its true that servers can make a couple hundred in tips in one night but thats like. Saturday night during the holidays if you got scheduled to work the bar. your average weekday lunch shift is not making that.
I'm so fucking grateful for anyone tipping me 15% when I have to tip out 5% to the kitchen, seriously
I have to deal with people who tip $0 - $5 on like $100 - $170 orders sometimes and you just have to smile and say "thank you for coming!"
Like you just have to be grateful for the money you did make that night
People who think they deserve so much more are insane - they almost never put out the extra work to ensure the customer got the best experience possible and always expect the most
You tip out to the kitchen... the fuck? Brother I've worked in kitchens for 14 years and have never received a tip.
@@Dmanacyde5 idk pretty standard here in Ontario where I live. Generally how it works is depending on where you work, the percentage of food sales tipped out varies restaurant to restaurant, but the server has to pay that money out of their pocket whether they received a tip or not. That money then gets put into a pool by management team, then distributed to the back of house via cash in an envelope weekly. It typically gets paid out depending on the day(s) of the week you worked, and then your total hours.
@Izuku_ That is most definitely not standard in the states. Servers and bartenders are making bank (for the most part) and BoH is getting paid barely a living wage.
@@Dmanacyde5 Yep this is a fact, actual draconian practices in restaurants and somehow servers co-opt getting paid a livable wage. It is no wonder that servers actually prefer tips to having an hourly rate (you can look it up).
@@MrPikawika4444 Well if the hourly rate is US minimum wages, no wonder.
I was at a gas station buying a $3 bottle of water. Barely exchanged any words with the cashier and the card scanner said, "would you like to tip?".
Any chance we get NL talking about Tears for Fears during Only Up? I was pegged out of my mind when he said he appreciates Head over Heels as much as I do.
officially requesting a baby gronk compilation
10%: Mandatory. Easy to calculate.
15%: I REALLY liked your service.
20%: I'm rich.
0%: I hated this, and you knew.
i tip flat amounts and will give no fucks about percentages. 5$ on a 80 meal, enjoy your 6%.
00:51 PAT SAJACK???
nick drake outro goes insane
Bad service shouldn't get anything, do nothing and get 20%?
I was at a hotel and there was a self service kiosk with a computer and a credit card payment machine attached to it. I got a sprite. It asked me for a tip - for me to go to the open cooler and grab my drink.
Lol no. Thats literally just stocking a vending machine im not fucking tipping that
You donate 2 bucks and the corporation writes it off. Donate directly
I guarantee you the waiters in my state do not need 20% tips lmao. Washington minimum wage outside of seattle is like 75% of what I make and I feel rich.
I was so sure the date at the start was to show how dated his first joke was, about being out of touch
Western people pretending that their artificially constructed systems are just another natural part of the world is simultaneously one of the funniest and most aggravating things ever.
me when my waiter friends complain about low tips when they make more than I do working full time (they work 3 nights a week)
nah after working in several restaurants i dont tip anymore. especially because foh was getting the same hourly wage as boh staff was, and we didnt even see the glimmer off a penny in tips
Its so funny watching this after hawk tuah summer
Only acceptalbe tip is rouding up bill, fight me.
"It will be 18$" - "Here's 20$, keep change, I hate coins in my pokets"
But like what if your order was $169?
@@pile_of_kyle 1$
gross. stay inside
@@Star-pl1xs get a real job if it bothers you
@@Star-pl1xswith all this tipping inflation OP we all might be forced to at this point!
The societal pressure and illogical mechanics of tipping were a significant factor in me swearing off sit-down restaurants entirely. Getting silently judged for failing to pick up on capricious social norms is not my idea of a relaxing evening meal.
I can understand tipping waiters because they don't make minimum wage (at least in North America) but enforcing a 18% or even 20% tip is ridiculous, especially since tipping comes after tax, so when you pay a 15% tip they actually get like a 18% tip (or something like that). And it's not like they don't make decent money from all their tips. I remember when I was a cook in 2016, a waiter was bragging about making like 300$ in tips during the weekend shifts while I was there making minimum wage with no tip... Now that you are incentivise to tip when ordering take out, or in restaurants without any servers, I just stopped tipping anything other than waiters
Wut?
Waiters make min wage in Canada and Cali
You have to report tips on your taxes as a form of income idk why you thought you didn't
10:20 Rare -2 from the egg, it is not the financial responsibility of the customer to pay over and above the sticker price for anything, however it is the financial responsibility for employers to pay minimum wages (in accordance with local law).
The logical mistake people make is by hating on customers when they don't tip, instead of hating on their employer when customers don't feel obligated to make an arbitrary extra payment that is just social conduct. The anger directed towards people who don't tip is better served pointed at lawmakers, employers.
Don't throw shade on me because:
1. You chose to work in a profession that doesn't require you to earn a baseline living minimum wage
2. You weren't able to negotiate a better deal with your boss
3. Your boss doesn't pay you more
4. The law doesn't require it
Notice how none of these reasons involve the customer at all?
Yet people think it should be the customer's duty to compensate for this shit.
Only NA people can make the logical leaps to say that you can't have a moral position of not tipping. It's absurd.
Yes, your protest of not tipping will surely change the government's mind and get them to change the law! You're making such a big difference!
have you ever been outside in the real world? or just some weird reddit guy or even american
I've simply stopped tipping full stop. Devilish
Hell yeah. Someone else. Tipping is dumb.
I also heard the La-a story in high school. You're telling me that's not real?!
Yeah... tipping was created to literally not have to pay workers. It's outdated and should be abolished. This is coming from someone who's made insane tips working at high end restaurants and hotels. I'd rather people be able to afford the cost of living then have big months where I make more. Also... the charity donations from corporations is literally just giving them a tax write off with your money. Donate to charity yourself if you're going to do it. Realistically I don't trust them to not take a cut either.
I tip when Im at a restaurant, ordering a delivery, at a mom and pop shop I frequent or my local drive thru coffee bc they hold the card reader out the window and I dont wanna be that guy. I refuse to tip on most pick-up food orders, and nearly every situation outside those listed because often it's there because the place uses Square and it's baked into their UI.
Donating at stores is a scam. They do it so they can have a write off at the end of the year for further profits because they know some people will feel bad if they dont. DO NOT FALL FOR IT
Sorry but no cutlery at the time your food is served is abysmal service.
great video librarian!
People shame those guys who don't tip, or who don't tip high enough, and then refuse the defence that tipping culture is bad by saying that one person not tipping doesn't affect tipping culture. They're correct to say this, so far all that is right.
But you know what DOES affect tipping culture? The shaming! Not tipping is bad because of tipping culture, despite tipping culture itself being bad, but shaming people for it *is tipping culture!* You're being tipping's strongest soldier!
That person complaining about getting a $30 tip and pre-emptively deflecting all critics as "anime guys" was crazy lmao. If anything, the people in the kitchen deserve the higher tip (though they should all be paid more so as to not rely on tips)
Tips should scale the other way. The bigger the bill, the smaller a percentage should be expected. Or it shouldn't be percentage based at all.
Literally had an automatic 18% tip added onto my food at a steakhouse yesterday. An automatic 22$ tip for 2 people to eat for 30 mins. Crazy
The waiters make it seem like the service magically gets exponentially harder with a bigger order. The ingredients are already paid, why is your service suddenly getting more valuable just because I bought a more expensive plate for you to carry to me?
The degree to which this screams “has never had a job that is at all difficult” actually pains me
@@arianghorbani1305your gonna be hurt for a while because his logic is sound as a server ur not going back in the kitchen and even making the more expensive meal the level of service as whole has gone down significantly since even 5 years back
@@S7ayMeloare you actually kidding? As a server, you have several tables to handle. The larger one table is, the more complex the needs of the table are; you have to keep track of all of their orders and the fact that their table will
This actually isn’t worth it, you people have never spoken with a server except to ask for food and it shows lmao
@@arianghorbani1305 Oh shit, twice as many plates! Now I need to get the tableside stand and ask people who ordered what! Or 9 times out of 10 just make the busser come help instead.
I'd rather have one party of 8 than 2 parties of 4. Considering a pretty similar menu price, and therefore tip, you save yourself a trip.
@@arianghorbani1305 The quality of service is always proportional to the price of the food! Because IT JUST IS, OK??
as a dude who has worked in a few restaurants, has had friends who have worked for other restaurants for even longer, the not reporting tips is very much a true thing. You are actively encouraged to not say anything about cash tips, so like, if you do make 200 a night in just tips, that is all untaxed and unreported.
I am not saying this is a good or a bad thing. It was obviously good for me at the time, as well as more convenient, but it does happen.
I tip based on how many refills I get during my meal. If I get 3 refills, you hit he maximum 15%, which is what it was when I was a kid so it's what I'll tip now. Two refills, 10%. No refill? No tip. And if the service is egregious, no tip.
Imho as someone who relies off of tips as a pizza delivery driver if you give me any tip no matter how much you order im happy. When youre giving me 0$ on a $100+ order im taking my damn time to get to your house. If you tip 2$ on a 40$ order? Im happy. I dont get any money per delivery so that tip extra is the only thing that is making me any sort of money back.
But also on the flipside i was recently asked to tip at an airport kiosk which was selling little buttons and stickers. Like no disrespect but thats kinda insane to me. I still tipped because it was like 1.62 but that was my "yeah this is a little rediculous" moment
Ah, Northern
A classic
librarian always on point with the thumbnails
I’ve watched a few too many liveleak arm wrestling videos, this just made me sweaty
Am I old if I remember when tipping 12% was normal?
People who complain about their low tips to the internet might be the least likely to survive a zombie apocalypse
I appricate that NL is humble enough to recognize when cashiers are faster. It always made me laugh when people would do self checkout at the place I worked because 9/10 times we would do it faster.
How is it faster? don't you just insert the card, pay and then leave? How is that slower than a cashier scanning every item in one by one.
@Zangelin you still have to scan your shit at a self check out, too. Most people dont know where the barcodes are, and if there's produce of some kind, that shit is memorized, or at the very least more easily accessible for cashiers. And if you fuck up on self check out, say double scan on accident, you have to ask for help from a cashier anyways.
why did you tip if it was so bad?
i only tip if the service is good.
Its not a friend of a friend of a friend for me. My girlfriend makes $80,000 a year being a waitress at a 4 star restaurant downtown
NL being angry by tips, while saying thank you for the donations and the subs, trully the streamer of all time.
No chance I'd ever tip lmao why do Americans love protecting companies so much
Hey bozo it's because America sucks. Can you get with the program??
I never tip picking up an order. I tip 10% on uber deliveries (not including total service fee and tax amount). I tip 20% on actual sit down and get serviced meals. That's my system and I'm sticking to it.
what game is this
Super auto pets
Im goin out cause I want to eat out, not cause I want to support peoples jobs. I tip what I think is appropriate for the service, and sometimes that’s 0 if it’s bad enough. On the flip side I’m happy to tip 20-25% on some great service. Its all about the service
The need for unnecessary tipping is unreal. I love Chinese food but it has to be precooked and just heated up to be ready in 16 mins usually and most of the time i pick it up myself. Putting food in a box then a bag in a family owned buisness with low overhead and marked up food is not worth a tip to me.
what game is this?
what vid is yellow moon from???
ua-cam.com/video/gQ_kN1DfKmI/v-deo.html
a 10% tip in Germany is the normal tip. Everything above is a nice surprise.
Brother what?! I remember when just rounding up to the nearest euro was the standard and rounding up to the next 5 Euro was being extremely nice
Here's my tip: unionize
Why is it my job to campaign for better wages for an industry I'm not even involved in? Is it my place to stand in the picket line for the writer's strike, or complain to my congressman about mining safety? When you saw the salary and took the job, you signed an agreement with your boss. If you're not happy, unionize and figure out some better agreement, don't ask the customer to fight your battles for you. No other industry does that. Tipping is a tax against being a nice person, and I tip out of pure social obligation.
As an artist most people already vocally advocate for my job to be liquidated and that I shouldn't be financially compensated for my education or practice, so in this respect I don't have to pay the crybaby guilt tax when a barista takes 10 seconds to pour me an iced coffee.
Doesnt he live off tips?
He definitely makes more from sponsored content. I don't think he judges the chat for not subbing.
yeah but you don't get shamed for not donating and he doesn't ask for it
@@mcturtleton1256 dont waiters make more from their salary than tips in the US? Would be wild if not
@@TheLibraryofLetourneau what if that money was needed to feed/educate Luna? Would things change? Tbh tho... Not sure why i'm doing this????? Back to memes and shit
As an aussie, screw tips all together. Its not on me to make up your wages, im here to buy my food. Not my issue. Bring it up with your boss.
Also, giant corporations getting donations that they then get credit for giving to a charity and also writing it off as a tax deduction, when the money is given by customers. Gross
NL is literally Larry David but more based
bro lives off of tips 💀
ua-cam.com/video/lF3cJYoYjc8/v-deo.html 💀
If you dont tip, i promise your face will be on the local server facebook page and other servers at different restaurants will spit in your food lmao 🎉
hot
I don't care. I will NEVER tip. Worked as a server for 2 months, the pay was not worth it so I quit.
I'm a little tired of the "living wage" argument about servers and tipping. Anybody who has ever worked in the restaurant industry would 1000000% rather be in a position where they get paid $5 and hour plus tip than they would $15 an hour. Slightly location dependent, but I think it holds true way more often than not. If you wait 3 tables in an hour and they tip 10 bucks each, you've made more than 30 dollars an hour for unskilled labor.
I'm not saying tipping is good or bad or anything, but can we stop pretending that if somebody doesn't tip the bartender bringing home $200 a day on a bad day is going to starve? Especially considering that in the basically impossible scenario that a server doesn't make up the difference between minimum wage and tips, they get paid minimum wage anyway?
i used to get 5-20 bucks in tips a day ans still hear about the "some workers make 1,000 in tips" i have never even seen it once happen
25 on good service, 20 acceptable service, 10 poor service, none and never come back if it's horrible