It has gotten SO BAD. I went to Baskin Robbins and they shove this device in my face at the drive through and ask "Do you want to tip?"... Tip you for putting a scoop of ice cream in a paper cup?😭😭😭😭
Options at some places are listed as: 15%, 25%, 30%, Custom Tip, (tiny text under it all) no tip... No matter the order or service. At least with cash you usually don't mess with that screen...
If Geega is American then I think they care about tips too much. My dad makes good income so when I see him tip services 20฿ the workers really appreciate it. Either that or let them keep the change.
@@hitokitty Damn, it's that bad huh? In Thailand, we don't even have the option like that. If you wanna tip, you either put it in the envelope that they provide you with when given the bills, or put it in a box at the front counter. Cash only, no tipping options for credit card
Just to note for the USA the history of lower minimum wage since tips originated from paying $0 for employees in the service sector in the aftermath of slavery era ending.
Not shocked. About... damn, 9yrs ago, I started at a fast-food place. Everyone got "the da book of rules" booklet, and one section specifically mentioned the part-timers and how their tips contributed to their wages. They were basically treated like freelancers and were paid $5 an hr + whatever tips they got and were expected to report the tips on their taxes. It was just another loophole to let the company not pay them benefits. They get hurt on the job, they're screwed over.
I am unaware of any evidence of this practice starting in the post-sIavery South and, if you think about it for two seconds, do you think working-class whites, _especially_ in the South, would meekly accept being paid near-sIave wages, the same as their black counterparts? Of course not! It's from the Great Depression era, when people paid the absolute minimum for the food, then did what they could for the service. Then, with the economic boom after WW2, they realized that tips often worked in their favor over a standard wage. This is still the case in high-end restaurants, which is why servers in such places are vehemently opposed to massive minimum wage hikes. Unfortunately, in most places, the fact that real wages have stagnated since the 1970s means the practice has become increasingly untenable.
@@spk1121 railroads had tipping for jobs that were primarily done by formerly enslaved people. The Pullman Company hired nearly exclusively black men as porters where they were paid a pittance and relied on tips. The Great depression lead to tipping in more industries with tipping being codified in 1938. Stagnant wages is a seperate though not completely unrelated issue.
Nah, even in Canada tipping for anything food related is rampant, including the whole tipping at the counter without any additional service. People don't see the irony in demanding tips for food service yet don't tip at non-food serving businesses (by law in my province everyone makes at least minimum including servers/cook staff).
There isn't the same level of typing culture here in the UK (we sometimes tip, but it's not the standard and nobody gets offended if you don't tip). However, companies that operate in the US and the UK just make one app for payment and use it in both locations, so we always go through a screen which doesn't make much sense in UK culture. If I want to give the pizza guy a tip, I'll give it to him when he shows up at my door rather than on the app. And if my receipt says "A 5% service charge/gratuity had been applied" then you KNOW I'm going to make a stink.
Same in Australia. Its getting worse. Like we do tip when we do get extra service, you give a gratitude tip. A couple bucks to the delivery driver for your pizza. No where near the amounts or % you see in the US. ... but now those ordering applications are made in America, and you start seeing them appear in places/occasions that you would never tip, asking for US sized tips. I went to a pub, order food with a QR code application and its asked for 15% be default... and I had to go and grab my own food when they buzzed me. F-OFF!!!
Am I wrong, or is the US the only country in the world where tips are a culture and is expected to be done when in restaurants or when some sort of extra service is performed?
Yeah… It originated from a European thing of where a tip was supposed to be a bonus for servants and hospitality and came to America after. It was affected by a lot of factors and undeniablly some was due to racism, but not all of it. A very interesting deep dive when historians go into it, but it was highly due to the fact that is revolved around US and EU areas that tipping isn’t really widely seen elsewhere.
US tipping culture stems from the Prohibition Era, when they banned alcohol, you would "tip" your waiter to get a glass of the finest bathtub gin or Canadian imports. Since the staff were pocketing the booze money... the restaurants could ledger the legal money from the food in full. Clever accounting. Following Prohibition... was the Great Depression, so restaurants couldn't afford to pay the staff what they were earning, and money was tighter... so they convinced patrons to keep tipping staff. If you want to go to a restaurant that had staff and service, you had to go to a restaurant that required tipping. 100 years later, they still don't pay their staff their true value.
It's not just restaurants, now it's delivery drivers also asking for tips, and it keeps spreading. There's already situations where a worker is asking for a tip where tipping makes no sense whatsoever. And it's bullshit.
My family has spent their entire lives trying to convince me that tipping is mandatory for service that's even the bare minimum because it's apparently the only way workers can earn money for themselves. This was especially drilled into me by my sister who was a waitress at a Denny's. I still don't tip unless service goes above and beyond. America is wild.
Yeah USA tipping culture has balooned waaay out of control since quarentine its disgusting and I hate it. Hopefully we start getting restaurants that pay a living wage soon
As a former restaurant employee who got tipped, this also makes me mad. Employees at Jason's Deli, Culver's, Subway and similar fast food joints are paid hourly wages that are higher than the tipped wage of waitstaff.
I will typically tip in those situations only when it's like a mom & pop place that I want to support and keep in business. Especially if they serve bomb-ass food.
In D.C. there was an issue where employers would use tips as an excuse to pay their employees below minimum wage so that it balanced out to amount that still met the minimum wage requirements.
Yeah, it has become so deranged now. But I don’t typically tip unless it’s at a dine in restaurant. I got stopped once because I left a tip at the table wrapped in the paid bill which is what my family normally does. They got more annoyed when I said “Did you check the dam table? I left something extra for the waitress. Why is it you are trying to get me to tip with my card?”
I tip two places that i do takeout from. One is a local chinese place I've been going to for over 20 years, aka most of my life. The second is a bagel place nearby, because I've gone for like five years and I know the employees there at this point.
If I knew tips went directly to the server then I'd be more inclined to tip because there's an added incentive for them to do a good job. That's not the case at many restaurants as tips go into a pool to be divied up. I also draw the line at servers but the line has moved to include cooks, bussers, bartenders and others...
Honestly, pools are better. I worked at a restaurant back when I was in HS and we didn't pool tips. I was a greeter/busser and made minimum wage despite working harder than any of the serving staff. On a good day they brought home hundreds of dollars for simply being polite, writing down orders, and handing them to the cooks. I dealt with angry customers as a greeter more often than they dealt with them as a server. They were technically supposed to help bus their own tables but they almost never did and since I was responsible for getting people seated I was the one who would get in trouble if the bussing wasn't done. The servers made $3.50 an hour iirc and the min wage at the time was $6.50. But if they ever made less than minimum after tips the restaurant was required to make up the difference. I hate tipping culture and feel like it should be done away with, but honestly in most places the cooks and bussers deserve the extra cash more than the servers. It's the same in my current job. I'm an engineer, the only one my company has, and I don't make any cut of sales for the products I design, but the Sales guys get commission and take home way more than me. American culture seems to value charisma and direct interaction with customers as far as who we pay.
@@ctom42 Quit your engineering job and find a different place to work for or renegotiate your contract and if they say no then quit AND REFUSE TO TRAIN YOUR REPLACEMENT. They will say they are looking into it and in the meantime have you train someone only for you to find out that they are having you to train your replacement after they fire you for asking to get a better paycheck
Went to a Starbucks drive-thru with my sister the other day. Ordered just a coffee and a breakfast wrap. They didn't take my card at the window like they're supposed to-like literally everyone else does. They brought the card-reader out, held it in front of me, and had the GALL to show the tipping screen. IN A DRIVE-THRU? I know it's always been bad here, but this is out of control. Literally everyone selling a bottle of water is asking for a 15% tip. The workers probably hate it more more than the customers, honestly.
I do cash tips to servers, the companies that say they can pay garbage wages because of tips also tell employees to refuse tops and they'll be punished if they are caught taking tips
The minimum wage for tipping is 2.17 an hour. Thing is, in the US, the poorest people tip the most and richest tip the least. You have no idea how many server friends who would serve at massive parties for millionaires that tipped a grand total of $20 collectively. They really enjoyed those $200 bottles of wine though.
I tip the delivery guys that actually have to put theit vehicles, licences and ssfety to deliver my products but tippihg for having your stuff made and put on a counter is egregious.
It should be noted for servers and such that get paid below standard minimum wage, if the tips don't make up the difference, employers HAVE to fill in the remainder, that is a federal level thing
Generally I'll tip for any service. So restaurants, food delivery, ride share, I try to tip 20%. Anything else I won't. Not tipping for takeout, for example since there wasn't a service provided. I appreciate the cooks making the food for me, but there's no one to tip.
Yeah, America's tipping laws come from some archaic English common-laws. But, when these laws were lobbied into law, employees didnt have health, vision, and dental insurances to pay out of their checks. Employees also have no pensions and have to pay for their own 401K with $2.13 USD/hour wages. It never made sense since the U.S. and Eritrea are the only countries that charge you federal taxes for being a citizen no matter where you are. Seems like saying "let my employees collect money off the books" would never fly.
I hate tipping because of how employers put the burden on customers rather than pay their employees good wages. Tipping should be an additional bonus for good service and such, not someones primary income
I know that pay in restaurants and gastro is really nothing much but this would be extremely rude to me and i would never go there again , in my country it is normal to leave something for example if you have to pay 193 you have exactly that amount or you give 200 and say it ok and they say thank you and leave no percentage or anything
I don’t care if they scold me, or if they hate me, but unless they go out of their way to make the service memorable, I’m not tipping. They can shove a screen in my face or guilt trip me all they want. Customers shouldn’t be expected to pay extra because businesses and higher ups don’t pay their employees adequately. Some people don’t have the income or don’t feel comfortable tipping 15-20%, especially for bare minimum service.
This kind of tipping is forcing consumers to pay for the fact that the company's business model is exploitative and doesn't pay workers what it should. They want YOU to pay the workers, while they recoup those costs. Hold the company accountable.
if it’s a drive through or I’m carrying out nope I don’t tip, plus more and more places are charging additional fees for using a card. So you want a tip on top of the 4 dollar fee. Nope
I've heard of US tipping culture and it's just a cancer. Even in the UK they started copying this and its just horrible, especially when you don't get good service, order on the counter or they have a "ethical cost", where they show how much your meal costs and then they expect you to pick how much you want to give to the workers as a tip aka living wage
not sure happen in other countries here canada some stores add stupid tip screen on credit card machine and you cant skip it until you put a tip, it f**king stupid
Tips are not supposed to be tax free. Servers are required by law to report their tips, but obviously many do not. The point of tipping culture existing in the modern day for food service companies to shift the burden of playing their employees to the customer in a way that many people don't factor in to how much they are willing to spend when making initial ordering decisions. The entire system is a scam. You can't not tip because then the employees make minimum wage (They are paid lower than minimum as a base salary but if their tips don't bring them up to minimum then by law the difference has to be made up by the employer).
So if everybody stops tipping in a restaurant, they have to pay the servers at least minimum wage and their income will become stable and they no longer have to worry, if they get enough customers who also tip?
The problem is minimum wage is NOT A living wage in the US anymore and hasn't been for over 20 years, and several businesses will just cheat or drag their feet on paying the difference to their employees. Have you heard people talking about tipping pools in the comments here? Those are straight up illegal. Still a common practice, because restaurant owners are very rarely scrutinized by regulatory bodies if it's not a straight up health issue... and even then, some companies get away with some pretty disgusting food prep.
@@viice_ Yeah. The service industry has been VERY bad in the US for a while. There's a reason why everyone here is simultaneously anti-tipping in policy while still insisting on tipping most of the time. If you don't tip, some people will have to choose between heat, medicine, shelter, or food. Glad I could help illuminate the issue though.
Honestly i say people in the US should just stop tipping and get rid of the toxic ass tipping culture AND PAY THE PEOPLE MINIMUM WAGE. Leave it to Americans to find some way to have legal slavery, like it's fucking stupid as these days the servers don't even get to pocket the tips yet the places still use the excuse on why to have it.
Oh wow, I never thought about tipping being taxable. I always just used my card and wrote down the tip amount for them to take. Note to self, make sure always have cash
Any tips that a waiter pockets (at least up in Soviet Canuckistan but I would presume in US too) is considered part of their earnings and is taxable income. The issue I have with tipping culture is where the line is drawn - at the servers who bring your food or the cooks who make your food and everything down the line. My line is servers and it has to be earned.
@@jrdds so for US tax law it’s been awhile but I think you only have to tax if you make over a certain amount, or if you get a single tip over that amount. Do not quote me. I remember one time I literally was punching above my weight class and was like “$100 tip for the server (plus they were serving ten people and did phenomenal)” and they legit asked me to lower it for my sake cause “I’m not gonna see a percentage of that and I’d rather you save your money” again this was YEARS ago so who knows.
By the way the biggest reason why the messed up tipping culture in America exists is because of wait staff itself. They want this tipping culture, because tips can very easily be kept under the table. That's why they always try to defend tipping culture and shame you into tipping. They don't want an actual salary because that would leave them with less after taxes.
I absolutely respect wait staff and others in the service industry, but US tipping culture is a total dogshit. Tips through card transactions is a little ok because you can just choose the "don't tip" option despite the disgusting look the cashier gives you but the worst is when you pay by cash and it's not the exact amount (which is usually the case) and they subtract the change they gave you for "tipping charge"
I used to tip all the time at counter pickups, idk, company probably pays them frick all and they were usually nice to me. I haven't gone out to eat since the hell virus arrived tho. Switched to cooking at home. Also I hate cash, or really CHANGE, COINS, I hate those things, awful. Maybe if coins were "the currency of the realm" I'd have a coin pouch on my belt or some garbage but no thanks i'd rather just use plastic - besides, if i LOSE the plastic it's meaningless, I can just call and cancel the card and have a new one sent, not like cash, where if you lose it, oops F you I guess.
If you're feeling bad about not tipping, DON'T! If NO ONE tipped, that employer would still be legally responsible for paying that server whatever the missing amount would be to make their total wage-per-hour equal minimum wage~ DO NOT let the predatory tactics they use to suck more money out of you so they can pay their workers less work!
It has gotten SO BAD. I went to Baskin Robbins and they shove this device in my face at the drive through and ask "Do you want to tip?"... Tip you for putting a scoop of ice cream in a paper cup?😭😭😭😭
Bruh i thought i was taking crazy pills when i saw that shit at baskin robbins
Damn, the tipping culture there is so crazy. Here in Thailand, we don't really have tipping culture.
Options at some places are listed as: 15%, 25%, 30%, Custom Tip, (tiny text under it all) no tip...
No matter the order or service. At least with cash you usually don't mess with that screen...
If Geega is American then I think they care about tips too much. My dad makes good income so when I see him tip services 20฿ the workers really appreciate it. Either that or let them keep the change.
Some restaurants subtract the change they give you if you don't pay the exact amount and call it "tipping charge"
@@rain8767 Oh damn.
@@hitokitty Damn, it's that bad huh? In Thailand, we don't even have the option like that. If you wanna tip, you either put it in the envelope that they provide you with when given the bills, or put it in a box at the front counter. Cash only, no tipping options for credit card
Just to note for the USA the history of lower minimum wage since tips originated from paying $0 for employees in the service sector in the aftermath of slavery era ending.
Not shocked.
About... damn, 9yrs ago, I started at a fast-food place. Everyone got "the da book of rules" booklet, and one section specifically mentioned the part-timers and how their tips contributed to their wages. They were basically treated like freelancers and were paid $5 an hr + whatever tips they got and were expected to report the tips on their taxes.
It was just another loophole to let the company not pay them benefits. They get hurt on the job, they're screwed over.
I am unaware of any evidence of this practice starting in the post-sIavery South and, if you think about it for two seconds, do you think working-class whites, _especially_ in the South, would meekly accept being paid near-sIave wages, the same as their black counterparts? Of course not! It's from the Great Depression era, when people paid the absolute minimum for the food, then did what they could for the service. Then, with the economic boom after WW2, they realized that tips often worked in their favor over a standard wage. This is still the case in high-end restaurants, which is why servers in such places are vehemently opposed to massive minimum wage hikes. Unfortunately, in most places, the fact that real wages have stagnated since the 1970s means the practice has become increasingly untenable.
@@spk1121 railroads had tipping for jobs that were primarily done by formerly enslaved people. The Pullman Company hired nearly exclusively black men as porters where they were paid a pittance and relied on tips. The Great depression lead to tipping in more industries with tipping being codified in 1938. Stagnant wages is a seperate though not completely unrelated issue.
This is why I like geega. She says some real $hit.
tipping is a big america thing, the rest of the world pays their staff.
Nah, even in Canada tipping for anything food related is rampant, including the whole tipping at the counter without any additional service. People don't see the irony in demanding tips for food service yet don't tip at non-food serving businesses (by law in my province everyone makes at least minimum including servers/cook staff).
There isn't the same level of typing culture here in the UK (we sometimes tip, but it's not the standard and nobody gets offended if you don't tip). However, companies that operate in the US and the UK just make one app for payment and use it in both locations, so we always go through a screen which doesn't make much sense in UK culture. If I want to give the pizza guy a tip, I'll give it to him when he shows up at my door rather than on the app. And if my receipt says "A 5% service charge/gratuity had been applied" then you KNOW I'm going to make a stink.
Same in Australia. Its getting worse.
Like we do tip when we do get extra service, you give a gratitude tip. A couple bucks to the delivery driver for your pizza. No where near the amounts or % you see in the US.
... but now those ordering applications are made in America, and you start seeing them appear in places/occasions that you would never tip, asking for US sized tips.
I went to a pub, order food with a QR code application and its asked for 15% be default... and I had to go and grab my own food when they buzzed me. F-OFF!!!
Am I wrong, or is the US the only country in the world where tips are a culture and is expected to be done when in restaurants or when some sort of extra service is performed?
Yeah… It originated from a European thing of where a tip was supposed to be a bonus for servants and hospitality and came to America after. It was affected by a lot of factors and undeniablly some was due to racism, but not all of it.
A very interesting deep dive when historians go into it, but it was highly due to the fact that is revolved around US and EU areas that tipping isn’t really widely seen elsewhere.
The current situation, exception in the law to pay below minimum wage actually has an origin in slavery.
US tipping culture stems from the Prohibition Era, when they banned alcohol, you would "tip" your waiter to get a glass of the finest bathtub gin or Canadian imports. Since the staff were pocketing the booze money... the restaurants could ledger the legal money from the food in full. Clever accounting.
Following Prohibition... was the Great Depression, so restaurants couldn't afford to pay the staff what they were earning, and money was tighter... so they convinced patrons to keep tipping staff. If you want to go to a restaurant that had staff and service, you had to go to a restaurant that required tipping. 100 years later, they still don't pay their staff their true value.
It's not just restaurants, now it's delivery drivers also asking for tips, and it keeps spreading. There's already situations where a worker is asking for a tip where tipping makes no sense whatsoever. And it's bullshit.
My family has spent their entire lives trying to convince me that tipping is mandatory for service that's even the bare minimum because it's apparently the only way workers can earn money for themselves. This was especially drilled into me by my sister who was a waitress at a Denny's. I still don't tip unless service goes above and beyond.
America is wild.
Yeah USA tipping culture has balooned waaay out of control since quarentine its disgusting and I hate it. Hopefully we start getting restaurants that pay a living wage soon
As a former restaurant employee who got tipped, this also makes me mad. Employees at Jason's Deli, Culver's, Subway and similar fast food joints are paid hourly wages that are higher than the tipped wage of waitstaff.
I will typically tip in those situations only when it's like a mom & pop place that I want to support and keep in business. Especially if they serve bomb-ass food.
This is so True. Everyone expects a tip all the time. It’s ridiculous and should be illegal. Also shout out to whoever chose the BGM. Very fitting
In D.C. there was an issue where employers would use tips as an excuse to pay their employees below minimum wage so that it balanced out to amount that still met the minimum wage requirements.
Videos like this make me glad to live in Australia
nz here,
there’s a reason i became an immigrant 16 years ago.
i still miss the days when eggs didn’t cost an arm and a leg here.
Based. Cash and coin are good. Never trust the banks or fake currency
The auto-tip screens with these new systems are crazy. I’m all for a tip jar nearby, but having reject the tip is super manipulative
Yeah, it has become so deranged now. But I don’t typically tip unless it’s at a dine in restaurant. I got stopped once because I left a tip at the table wrapped in the paid bill which is what my family normally does. They got more annoyed when I said “Did you check the dam table? I left something extra for the waitress. Why is it you are trying to get me to tip with my card?”
Generally I write cash in the tip line if I'm going to do that so that they know that there should be cash on the table.
Cash from the win
Aahh America. You are learning.
Based Geega
I tip two places that i do takeout from. One is a local chinese place I've been going to for over 20 years, aka most of my life.
The second is a bagel place nearby, because I've gone for like five years and I know the employees there at this point.
If I knew tips went directly to the server then I'd be more inclined to tip because there's an added incentive for them to do a good job. That's not the case at many restaurants as tips go into a pool to be divied up. I also draw the line at servers but the line has moved to include cooks, bussers, bartenders and others...
Honestly, pools are better. I worked at a restaurant back when I was in HS and we didn't pool tips. I was a greeter/busser and made minimum wage despite working harder than any of the serving staff. On a good day they brought home hundreds of dollars for simply being polite, writing down orders, and handing them to the cooks. I dealt with angry customers as a greeter more often than they dealt with them as a server. They were technically supposed to help bus their own tables but they almost never did and since I was responsible for getting people seated I was the one who would get in trouble if the bussing wasn't done.
The servers made $3.50 an hour iirc and the min wage at the time was $6.50. But if they ever made less than minimum after tips the restaurant was required to make up the difference.
I hate tipping culture and feel like it should be done away with, but honestly in most places the cooks and bussers deserve the extra cash more than the servers. It's the same in my current job. I'm an engineer, the only one my company has, and I don't make any cut of sales for the products I design, but the Sales guys get commission and take home way more than me. American culture seems to value charisma and direct interaction with customers as far as who we pay.
@@ctom42 Quit your engineering job and find a different place to work for or renegotiate your contract and if they say no then quit AND REFUSE TO TRAIN YOUR REPLACEMENT. They will say they are looking into it and in the meantime have you train someone only for you to find out that they are having you to train your replacement after they fire you for asking to get a better paycheck
Went to a Starbucks drive-thru with my sister the other day. Ordered just a coffee and a breakfast wrap.
They didn't take my card at the window like they're supposed to-like literally everyone else does. They brought the card-reader out, held it in front of me, and had the GALL to show the tipping screen. IN A DRIVE-THRU?
I know it's always been bad here, but this is out of control. Literally everyone selling a bottle of water is asking for a 15% tip.
The workers probably hate it more more than the customers, honestly.
I do cash tips to servers, the companies that say they can pay garbage wages because of tips also tell employees to refuse tops and they'll be punished if they are caught taking tips
The bosses expect you to supplement their crappy wages. The restaurant I work at, the servers only make $2 an hour.
I had this happen to me recently at fast food place. I pressed 0% and didn't think anything of it. They didn't deserve anymore
The minimum wage for tipping is 2.17 an hour.
Thing is, in the US, the poorest people tip the most and richest tip the least. You have no idea how many server friends who would serve at massive parties for millionaires that tipped a grand total of $20 collectively. They really enjoyed those $200 bottles of wine though.
She's so incredibly based.
They wanted me to tip at Dairy Queen 💀💀💀💀
I tip the delivery guys that actually have to put theit vehicles, licences and ssfety to deliver my products but tippihg for having your stuff made and put on a counter is egregious.
It should be noted for servers and such that get paid below standard minimum wage, if the tips don't make up the difference, employers HAVE to fill in the remainder, that is a federal level thing
Generally I'll tip for any service. So restaurants, food delivery, ride share, I try to tip 20%. Anything else I won't. Not tipping for takeout, for example since there wasn't a service provided. I appreciate the cooks making the food for me, but there's no one to tip.
not just restaurants.
I’ve gone back to cash.
Yeah, America's tipping laws come from some archaic English common-laws. But, when these laws were lobbied into law, employees didnt have health, vision, and dental insurances to pay out of their checks. Employees also have no pensions and have to pay for their own 401K with $2.13 USD/hour wages.
It never made sense since the U.S. and Eritrea are the only countries that charge you federal taxes for being a citizen no matter where you are. Seems like saying "let my employees collect money off the books" would never fly.
I hate tipping because of how employers put the burden on customers rather than pay their employees good wages. Tipping should be an additional bonus for good service and such, not someones primary income
I know that pay in restaurants and gastro is really nothing much but this would be extremely rude to me and i would never go there again , in my country it is normal to leave something for example if you have to pay 193 you have exactly that amount or you give 200 and say it ok and they say thank you and leave no percentage or anything
I don’t care if they scold me, or if they hate me, but unless they go out of their way to make the service memorable, I’m not tipping. They can shove a screen in my face or guilt trip me all they want. Customers shouldn’t be expected to pay extra because businesses and higher ups don’t pay their employees adequately. Some people don’t have the income or don’t feel comfortable tipping 15-20%, especially for bare minimum service.
This kind of tipping is forcing consumers to pay for the fact that the company's business model is exploitative and doesn't pay workers what it should. They want YOU to pay the workers, while they recoup those costs. Hold the company accountable.
... and the lowest recommended tip starts at FIFTEEN PERCENT!
if it’s a drive through or I’m carrying out nope I don’t tip, plus more and more places are charging additional fees for using a card. So you want a tip on top of the 4 dollar fee. Nope
Tipping is how America crowdfunds better pay for their wait staff.
based
Just pay the employees livable wage for fuk sake.
I've heard of US tipping culture and it's just a cancer. Even in the UK they started copying this and its just horrible, especially when you don't get good service, order on the counter or they have a "ethical cost", where they show how much your meal costs and then they expect you to pick how much you want to give to the workers as a tip aka living wage
not sure happen in other countries here canada some stores add stupid tip screen on credit card machine and you cant skip it until you put a tip, it f**king stupid
Would literally be illegal here in Europe.
No tip for take out
Tips are not supposed to be tax free. Servers are required by law to report their tips, but obviously many do not. The point of tipping culture existing in the modern day for food service companies to shift the burden of playing their employees to the customer in a way that many people don't factor in to how much they are willing to spend when making initial ordering decisions. The entire system is a scam. You can't not tip because then the employees make minimum wage (They are paid lower than minimum as a base salary but if their tips don't bring them up to minimum then by law the difference has to be made up by the employer).
So if everybody stops tipping in a restaurant, they have to pay the servers at least minimum wage and their income will become stable and they no longer have to worry, if they get enough customers who also tip?
The problem is minimum wage is NOT A living wage in the US anymore and hasn't been for over 20 years, and several businesses will just cheat or drag their feet on paying the difference to their employees.
Have you heard people talking about tipping pools in the comments here? Those are straight up illegal. Still a common practice, because restaurant owners are very rarely scrutinized by regulatory bodies if it's not a straight up health issue... and even then, some companies get away with some pretty disgusting food prep.
@@DairunCates thx for explaining. I didn't know that minimum wage is a joke in the us ☹️ time for me to read more comments i guess 👍🏻
@@viice_ Yeah. The service industry has been VERY bad in the US for a while. There's a reason why everyone here is simultaneously anti-tipping in policy while still insisting on tipping most of the time. If you don't tip, some people will have to choose between heat, medicine, shelter, or food.
Glad I could help illuminate the issue though.
Tiprica
Honestly i say people in the US should just stop tipping and get rid of the toxic ass tipping culture AND PAY THE PEOPLE MINIMUM WAGE. Leave it to Americans to find some way to have legal slavery, like it's fucking stupid as these days the servers don't even get to pocket the tips yet the places still use the excuse on why to have it.
Oh wow, I never thought about tipping being taxable. I always just used my card and wrote down the tip amount for them to take. Note to self, make sure always have cash
Any tips that a waiter pockets (at least up in Soviet Canuckistan but I would presume in US too) is considered part of their earnings and is taxable income. The issue I have with tipping culture is where the line is drawn - at the servers who bring your food or the cooks who make your food and everything down the line. My line is servers and it has to be earned.
@@jrdds so for US tax law it’s been awhile but I think you only have to tax if you make over a certain amount, or if you get a single tip over that amount. Do not quote me. I remember one time I literally was punching above my weight class and was like “$100 tip for the server (plus they were serving ten people and did phenomenal)” and they legit asked me to lower it for my sake cause “I’m not gonna see a percentage of that and I’d rather you save your money” again this was YEARS ago so who knows.
By the way the biggest reason why the messed up tipping culture in America exists is because of wait staff itself. They want this tipping culture, because tips can very easily be kept under the table. That's why they always try to defend tipping culture and shame you into tipping. They don't want an actual salary because that would leave them with less after taxes.
I absolutely respect wait staff and others in the service industry, but US tipping culture is a total dogshit. Tips through card transactions is a little ok because you can just choose the "don't tip" option despite the disgusting look the cashier gives you but the worst is when you pay by cash and it's not the exact amount (which is usually the case) and they subtract the change they gave you for "tipping charge"
Good. Cash good. Also omits banks Talking precentage off paynent so instead of 2.30 for sandwich, local mom and pa place gets 2 dolars. Sucks balls
I live in America and I have never tipped nor will I. It’s not my job to subsidize worker’s wages.
Maybe tipping was a mistake...
Funny how it comes from a vtuber that's surviving off of tips :)
the only funny thing i can see is you being funny in the head
She's the opposite of me when it comes to paying for things. I don't use cash hardly ever. Debit/credit is more convenient for me
When I get cash back for credit, why would I ever use cash?
I used to tip all the time at counter pickups, idk, company probably pays them frick all and they were usually nice to me.
I haven't gone out to eat since the hell virus arrived tho. Switched to cooking at home.
Also I hate cash, or really CHANGE, COINS, I hate those things, awful.
Maybe if coins were "the currency of the realm" I'd have a coin pouch on my belt or some garbage but no thanks i'd rather just use plastic - besides, if i LOSE the plastic it's meaningless, I can just call and cancel the card and have a new one sent, not like cash, where if you lose it, oops F you I guess.
you should start a blog.
If you're feeling bad about not tipping, DON'T! If NO ONE tipped, that employer would still be legally responsible for paying that server whatever the missing amount would be to make their total wage-per-hour equal minimum wage~
DO NOT let the predatory tactics they use to suck more money out of you so they can pay their workers less work!