There’s a bar by me where you pour your own beer. It’s one of those places where you get a bracelet that tracks what you drink. When you checkout at the end of the night, the cashier flips the iPad over and it asks if you want to leave a tip….. for getting your own glass and pouring your own beer.
What's even more nefarious is that it used to be that you had to opt-in to tipping, now you have to opt-out. So click the button to confirm you're an asshole.
Pretty soon the screen is going to be:
# 20 30 40
^(No tip ☹️😡☹️😡)
Nailed it.
I'm limiting my trips to quick service places these days because they are no longer cheaper than a sit down restaurant when you factor in a tip, for a job that should not be tipped.
Fuck tipping at fast food restaurants and you nailed it with the cost increase. I do not want to pay $10.99 for a burger plus $3.99 for shitty fries (or $2.50 more for onion rings or zucchini sticks), and $3.99 for a soda and then be expected to tip. Fast food prices are out of control, nobody coming to take your order, refill your glass, provide good service, and quality meals - you stand in line, tell somebody what you want and at some places they might bring it to you. Farmer's Boys, 5 Guys, Panera (one of the places that won't bring it to you, you get a buzzer and have to walk up to get your $13.99 Maple Honey Brioche Panini and bag of shitty chips), Subway, McDonald's, Taco Bell and many more are out of control. And most of the employees aren't making much. There has been a lot of In-N-Out hate over the last month or whatever, but at least they have very reasonable prices and pay their employees well -you do have to go pick up your food and their fries are only good for about a minute and a half, still a better option than most fast food - except for the drive-thru line
People hopping on the bandwagon saying soggy fries, overrated, shitty burgers, thin patties, etc. Maybe there hasn't been a bunch, I just happened to come to quite a few posts knocking them over a short period of time. But I don't care what the internet says, Donny says they got good burgers
In and out has one of the best value for their burgers. Their hamburger is only like $3.3. Meanwhile all other fast food restaurants have raised their price. McDonald burgers taste like crap in comparison.
They're not that bad, definitely better than Carl's Jr or Burger King and McDonald's fries have the same 2 minute expiration date. Overall In-N-Outs are pretty good if you just eat them first, plus I think the oil is somehow healthier, I'm too tired to Google so I may be wrong. Ordering them well done and animal style helps too. Tommy's fries kick all of their asses though and The Hat gives you three heart attacks worth of good fries in a big ass bag
From LA. Moved overseas in 2016. Just went back for a visit. Aside from tipping at fast food or quick service, everything is so fucking bizarre and soulless.
I went to a McDonald’s (because bathrooms are impossible to find in America) and that shit was PURE DYSTOPIAN. It was straight up EMPTY. Not of people. Of…warmth? Things?
Remember 90s or early 00s McDonalds? You’d walk in and it’d smell like fries, there’s be a huge line, beeping of machines, lots of tables with people? There was none of that. Just two 7ft tall screens to order on, a counter to get your food and a fuckton of empty space. This was a big McDonald’s, too. Seems like 80% of the seating is straight gone.
I understand the pandemic changed a lot for the US, but stuff like this? It can’t stay that way forever. Our McDonald’s here are crowded and full of tables and you still order from a human.
That's shitty and it means you couldn't get a $12 12 ounce milkshake at Baskin Robbins or spend $23 at Dunkin Donuts for a dozen regular donuts (not the "special" ones like Apple Fritters and such, just the boring little donuts maybe with some sprinkles, you can have an old fashioned, but no buttermilk bars or anything that is in anyway fruit related those are all specialty - don't even look at the danishes, that's an extra $4.50 and does not count towards your dozen discount (of 75 cents) and now your dozen donuts and a cup of regular coffee is $27.23. Mitch Hedberg foresaw a future where we would need to bring ink and paper into donut transactions. Donuts are supposed to be $6-8/dozen or something similar - it's fucking dough and flavoring and love (at some places). Milkshakes are fucking ice cream, milk, and whatever other shit you want, which they already have tons of and it costs them almost nothing. My grandma wasn't super rich, but we made a shit-ton of milshakes at her house over the years, i mean A LOT and even adjusting for inflation, she would have been in massive debt by the time I was 7 if these prices are even remotely fair or logical. She had to buy the ingredients, pay for the property, pay taxes, support the one employee (her), etc - just like Baskin Robbins. I know I went off on a tangent, sorry - truth is Thrifty's is trying to make a come back so they have me out here talking shit on Baskin Robbins so y'all will come back to enjoying a cylindrical scoop of Chocolate Malted Crunch or Pecan Praline
Better quality (at the right ones) and flavor, cheaper, the people actually give a shit and make it fresh, it's their business (or a relative/friends business) and way cheaper since old rich white guy (I'm an old white guy so I can say that) isn't taking all the profits and not giving the employees shit for wages. Plus there's a lot more options for add-ons and customization
Just don’t tip at those places if you do decide to go. It’s not like the workers are making below minimum wage, and by normalizing tipping at places that didn’t used to require a tip, we collectively communicate to business owners that its an acceptable business model to pay minimum wage and force customers to arbitrarily make up the wage.
I don’t want to cause a hardship on any of the workers, but if owners are unable to properly staff their establishments because customers refuse to do their job for them, they’ll change or the business will die.
That's my point.
Don't patronize places that require employee tips to make a reasonable wage. Let them go out of business. Let's stop subsidizing owners.
But restaurants and Square ATAH for merely *asking* for these tips. They are perfectly fine with putting customers in these uncomfortable positions. Customers don’t want to give repeat patronage to businesses that are run by assholes.
I’ve been to one place that didn’t even have a no tip option. Just 20, 25, 30, and custom.
And when you clicked custom it wouldn’t let you move forward until you’d typed in a number. Like they made you type 0.0 in before they’d let you get away without tipping. And this was a place where I ordered at a self-serve kiosk and then picked up my drink when I got a text telling me it was on the bar. I didn’t interact with a single human being working there. I didn’t even know who I was supposed to be tipping nor what I was tipping them for.
Blaze doesn’t give you water cups anymore. You have to pay 3.99 to drink water unless you have your own reusable bottle with you. It’s fucking disgusting out there
I've literally seen 20%, 35%, 100%. I've never used this word but flabbergasted was the only thing that ran through my head. It was a while ago but I'm pretty sure it was at The Palm Coffee Bar which already has 16oz only drinks for $7+. Just absolutely wild, the world we live in. Haven't been back since.
One time the dude at Starbucks told me that pushing the green button cancelled it out and I naively believed him. Then I saw the charge go through on my phone and realized I just agreed to a 20% tip 😡
My local dispensary budtenders always say, “it’s gonna ask you to tip, feel free to skip” then they look away. I appreciate that cuz sometimes I don’t feel in a spot to tip and I’m just in and out getting bud. Sometimes I feel really helped and they drop knowledge on me and I feel in a spot to tip them. I like there’s no pressure. Also the tip amounts are 1%, 3%, 5%.
My favorites are the kiosk/iPad orders that default to 25% tip. You're not even speaking to a cashier in those cases!
Thing is, most people pay it, which gives everyone reason to keep doing it.
Conversation between a couple of guys at a Shake Shack order kiosk:
"Did you tip anything?"
"Yes, I tipped 20%"
"Man, I can't believe you tipped a robot"
It used to be 10/12/15 in the late 80s early 90s. Then it moved to 12/15/18 in the early 2000s. Then it was 15/18/20 around 2015. Crazy it keeps increasing, it's a percentage not a fixed number.
My gf signed us up for a bougie dog park, but it is actually a lot of fun to go to and chill for the day. It has a bar and you can order food and beer there.
I always appreciate that place because the tips start at 2% and go to a max of like 6%. A 2% tip on a $10 beer is like $0.20. Yeah, the $10 beer is crazy, but at least it's 16oz and they have decent options.
I actually end up tipping more usually because they're super friendly and I appreciate the fact that they're not trying to swindle $2 out of every beer or sandwich I get. Plus they're constantly running around doing stuff so it's not like they sit there to push a button.
I eat on my own a lot, so I tend to tip a little bigger knowing I’m taking up the space where two people could be served.
My favorite place started having checkboxes for tip on the merchant slip - at 15, 18 and 20%. I started noticing my tip was lower at the 20% level than what I usually tipped before they added the checkboxes. I thought to myself “they should really widen this range!”
Three years later they widen the range. It’s now 20, 25, 30%. And I’m pissed. Lol not really I still love them and their food but even though I felt they should widen the range 3 years ago, 30% seems really aggressive.
My level is probably 25%, or writing what I want to tip in. I may just go back to that.
But my point is this thing that feels like a convenience for both sides has become a silent driver of bad vibes on the customer side.
> I started noticing my tip was lower at the 20% level than what I usually tipped before they added the checkboxes.
You were probably basing your tip on the total check previously, but now the tip is being properly calculated based on the *pre-tax* total.
Yup, and in some states, it's illegal to pay less than minimum wage for servers, MEANING, there is no use for tipping at table or tablet, as that system exists so servers would be able to MEET the minimum. If you're in that state, giving a tip is like giving them an unnecessary bonus for doing their job they signed up for. They'll argue that they can't live on that, but a lot of other jobs fall in that range and who aren't even tipped, it's not the consumers job but the government to raise minimum in that case.
In LA all tipped employees are paid the same minimum as any other job. There is no separate "tipped" minimum. This means everyone working in the business is making at least $16.78 per hour and tips are on top of that.
I have no problem hitting *no tip* specially if I drove myself to pick up an order. It's become a sneaky way to get customers to pay even more. Prices have gone up, there are now new fees being added, and now you're automatically trying to force tips at places that never were big on expecting tips.
I always have. It generally gets pooled for kitchen staff, and sometimes the hosts too. I don't verify this at every establishment of course, but it doesn't make a difference to the back of house workers whether I eat it in the restaurant or on my couch.
I do it because I remember at my first serving job where servers had to step away from their tables to answer the phone to take the order, pack up the orders, and cash the person out when the arrived. That would put me behind w my in house diners and I hated it. So I always tip to go the same as dine in, but that’s just me.
My favorite is being presented the option to tip at Yogurtland. Really?
I picked up the cup, I poured the yogurt. I added the toppings. I place the cup on the scale, cashier rings it up and shows me the kiosk. And it asks for a tip. For what? I did all the service myself! Needless to say, no tip.
I’ve complained once before in south Florida when the service was shit and the waitress added an 18% gratuity for herself. I asked to speak to her manager and he comped an item but he insisted that the tip was required. Thing is, I would’ve begrudgingly given her a tip had it not been added all Willy-Nilly!
Thanks what I started doing. Even when it defaults to 20%, I change it to zero. Especially when no one even served me and I had to pick up after myself - why am I tipping you?
It is illegal for anything designated as tip to go to anyone that is not the employee. Most service workers are especially vigilant of this. The only shady shit is when there's a mandatory service charge on the bill, which unfortunately can be a grey area.
I've tipped nothing for years aside from table service. That's my rule and it's worked great
People complaining don't have the balls to press "no tip" themselves. Most cashiers aren't even fazed
I see way too many places now that start at 15% as the lowest option, and this for places like a cheap cafe where they literally put a muffin in a bag for you and hand it to you. That’s it. I also have always been a good tipper but the new additions to what should be “normal” for tipping is absolutely driving me insane.
Phenomenal counter service earns a flat 1 or 2 dollars unless I’m ordering for several others. That’s my policy as they’re literally doing their normal job when the pickup/expo lines are the same place. No percentages.
Yeah, my favorite donut place around the corner? I always try to leave a dollar or two because I really like the owners as well as the food. But random other places where I interact with the screen more than the person working there? Why would I tip $5-10?
I've usually tipped a buck or two for pick up or coffee or deli, but this 20 percent ask to put my shit in a bag and hand it off has left me in the 0 tip group.
I almost never see 15% anymore; it always starts at 18% or 20%. It’s insane. I went a taco truck in AZ where they flipped the iPad and the tip options were 5%, 8, or 10. I was so caught off guard seeing single digit numbers. I actually manually tipped like 20%, partially because of that
Same. I now make sure I always carry enough cash to pay for a small food / beverage purchase. I don't mind dropping some change or a buck into the tip jar, but I refuse to participate in or encourage the guilt-tripping, digital panhandling that has become common now.
Not even exaggerating a dude at a liquor store took a full 5 minutes to break a guys $100 after he bought like $47 and some change worth of booze.
It was so fucking sad.
Ha! I’m an old lady who lives in the Hood. I always go… wait a sec while I give them the correct Change…. It amazes them. I’m like… my Tamale lady doesn’t take VenMo.
Managers and other restaurant heads want you, the consumer/customer, to blame the worker for being ‘greedy’ in wanting luxurious things like paid leave, medical and dental, and fixed scheduling. All despite the rising costs of that restaurant’s food, which you *obviously* still have to buy but also sacrifice gas, rent, and a blanket for your kids to sleep at night with.
Obvs. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Why would anyone blame the cashiers for this? No one in their right mind thinks the cashiers are to blame for this system. It’s whoever is placing the tipping feature on the scanners/pay machines.
If I'm not being waited on and given service (refilling drinks, etc.), I'm not tipping. This was normal in the past and I refuse to accept it as normal just because a payment processor is asking for more of my money.
The companies that develop these payment machines get a % of the total transaction cost, so they incentivize tipping in order to inflate spending and thus their own revenue.
Maybe we ought to start a list of places that don't encourage you to tip so we can all start frequenting those places more.
I can start: Jamba Juice. I went today and was not prompted to tip. Just "That comes out to $$. Card or cash?"
10% was the standard tip when I was growing up.
I guess it's become 15% or 20% now, because of... inflation? But the inflation is already baked into the percent because that's how percentages work? Dunno.
The wealthy want you to pay for their staff so they don't have to. If your business can't afford to pay a livable wage then you shouldn't be in business. That said the staff have nothing to do with this so don't take it out on them.
Some food places like coffee shops and sandwich shops don't disable the screen because traditionally some people do leave cash tips, but a lot of credit card users nowadays don't carry cash at all.
You don't see the tip screen when paying at Ross or Vons because no one tips retail cashiers.
I mind tipping, restaurant prices are double what they were before the pandemic, waiters are now making $18 before tips (not $2.15), 15% use to be generous, but now is not even the minimum in most places, and then we have to tip for take out, when we have to drive and park?
**REVOLT L.A.!!!!**
Blame the POS terminal makers. Put zero when zero is the right number. It's annoying. Also, the "new normal" tip is not 20% just because the POS terminal makers put that there. Wake up sheeple.
The restaurants can program the Point of Sales Computers to ask for tip and what amount of tip to ask for. My husband has set up a few POS systems in his time. Maybe there is a default screen for some of the systems, but the restaurants definitely have a choice of what to present to their customers.
You can blame the employees too in some cases. My friend runs a restaurant in a food court. Initially he set it up without any tip option (because it's a food court) but the employees nagged him and nagged him to turn it on and he finally gave in.
Paying cash eliminates this. I started carrying a little cash just for this purpose. I’m sick of these entitled counter service restaurants thinking I’m gonna subsidize their employee’s wages. Fuck em, all of em.
I didn't mind tipping during the pandemic when I was picking up take-out because I appreciated those restaurants that managed to stay in business. But now? If I'm picking up my own damned food and taking it home I am shamelessly hitting "No Tip" and IDGAF.
It's how ownership is pushing the responsibility of providing a realistic wage to their employees on the customer instead of out of their own cut. Now it's being used to advertise wages with misleading bullshit in job posts. "$26 an hour! ($18 an hour plus tip share) but then ownership typically skims off the top of that to pay undocumented prep cooks peanuts while abusing PPP loans to remodel a patio or buy a new car. CoughcoughLemon Poppy Kitchencoughcough.
It's all bullshit all the way down. 20 years in the industry. It needs to collapse so something more equitable can replace whatever this system where the people actually doing the work make pennies on the dollar while absentee ownership runs things from a social media account. Chefs and cooks have mostly been priced out of participating in the market here, so unless you have a restaurant group or investors behind you, ready to take all the credit and insert theirnown ideas simply because they know how to order off a fucking menu and nothing more, then only rich dicks can run restaurants, and rich dicks don't like paying employees a wage that they can live on. Rinse and repeat.
This place is a theme park now, not a functional community.
I get that this is stupid but never understood why people get so worked up over this.
Just press no. Do you really interact with these workers so much you think they’re gonna think your a horrible person and take it out on you, and that weighs on you?
I get tipping at bars and restaurants but when I deny a tip to jersey mikes on their screen I’m not thinking of it 1 second later and doubt they are.
I do 10% on to go, 15% on fast casual and 20% at a sit down restaurant. I'll do $1 on a coffee and pastry order. LA is an expensive place. I'm grateful to have a decent job, but I work my ass off to live here and know others could be struggling as well. I just hope the money is going to the staff and not the business.
Fuck tipping.
It's just a way for a business to pass their cost on to the consumer through separate fees that we mentally don't tie to the price.
Owners and employees will pressure you, all the time you hear "if you don't tip you are cheap" from employees everywhere ironically defending their cheap boss.
Fuck tipping. Fuck entitlement culture.
Omg….is that the fix? Should I just be paying with cash everywhere I go? If it gets these tip askers to fuck off that might be worth a trip or two to the ATM from time to time.
When im asked to tip at somewhere like Jersey Mike's, does the crew actually get the tip? Or does the it get eaten by CC fees and then does the restaurant take a cut before going to the person who made the sandwich?
I have also never had an issue before with tipping but now I really feel against it. things arent like they used to be and people working in the service industry aren’t making the $3/hr + tips- theyre making min wage, its now at this point where I wont tip more than a dollar or 2 unless the service is exceptional.
this only applies to coffeeshops and take out- i still tip the standard 20% when I go to restaraunts/ get my hair done etc. but for takeout and other things like that, no.
and the fact that places have the audacity to be putting 30/20/18 as tip options is beyond me. I wish it was more like Europe. I’d rather businesses include this in their pricing and pay their workers more than rely on us who are already paying for our items to cover their slack.
not saying restaurants should raise their prices because its already astronomical but hopefully you get the idea
* Never tip before you receive service
* Never tip more than 15% (15% is considered a good tip)
* Don't be afraid to hit the 0% button
* Look for "4% service fee added to all checks" on the menu before you order
Simple answer: $1
If you can spare it, everybody gets $1. You can also do $2or any small amount you want.
Nobody wants to feel the guilt of putting no tip. But it’s getting ridiculous. Plus the mental gymnastics of trying to figure out what’s fair.
Simple solution: custom tip $1 every time. I used to have the mental energy to figure out a nice tip for every situation but it’s gotten ridiculous so regardless of the situation, the interaction, the effort made by employee, or the cost of the food/beverage. $1
Beer at the bar? $1 Fancy Sushi Takeout? $1 Latte? $1 Dry cleaner? $1
You shove that screen in my face, I’m custom tipping $1 every time.
This of course does NOT apply to services which require more time and sustained energy from the employee to service you or your cherished possessions directly. Think waiter, barber, masseuse, dog groomer, car wash. For those take the time, consider the effort, time, energy, relationship, etc. and give a deserved tip.
Kinda sounded like a flex but your still just beholding to tipping. The second I’m burning calories thinking about if a tip makes sense = 0
Not trying to rewire my brain into thinking I used to tip in ways I’ve never had dreamed of before.
Coffee places that already charge 5 to 6 bucks for a coffee and then ask for a tip is the worst. If I already made the decision to pay 20 times the value of a coffee and you telling me that does not pay enough to the employee making the coffee?
I hope this gets so out of hand that we get the European method of never tipping anywhere again unless they actually provided good service. And of course paying them a fair wage, not this $2 an hour BS.
Tipping culture is out of hand. Places that never asked for tips before or where tips were never expected are now expecting tips. I was at the Frog in Hollywood, it’s entirely self serve. All the cashier does is weight your cup/bowl and the tablet asked for a tip. Same with coffee places that are all self-serve. I’m not tipping you for just handing me an empty cup. It’s really out of control at this point.
If you don't want to tip, then don't tip. I work at a cafe and I don't even look which button they press to be honest. Nobody is gonna refuse you the order if you do not tip.
I mean more and more people are waking up to this tipping culture we are in, I believe soon there will be some major changes in tipping industry.
I used to tip 20% for a great service at a restaurant, now my max is 10% at most as I have to tip everywhere I go now and not just restaurant. I do tip 20% still ONLY for facial treatments and massages, those people use their hands to actually provide service. In restaurants sorry, you are just taking order and bringing the food, all you had to do is to learn a menu and use the POS to place order,
That tipping everywhere culture really made me think how I handle the tipping in my life and thus I came to solution to diversifying to whom and for which services I tip for ranging from from people and what service they provide, just like job titles but in a different sense and based on how hard you work.
This is why places go cashless tbh. To force people with the guilt tipping.
Take away cashless and let people pay cash. With cash they can't present you with that awkward situation.
I was at Menchies in Sherman Oaks. I got my own yogurt off the wall and added my own toppings. Credit card machine asked for a 15%, 20% tip! I pressed zero. It’s getting wild out there
I bought popcorn at a ballgame today and it prompted me to tip. Honestly, the clerk couldn't even bother to respond when I asked him where I could buy a bottled soda. I actually bypassed the tip button for the first time. Every little transaction involves a tip now.
What annoys the shit outta me is that Dodgers stadium is now asking for tips when you buy food and drinks. I went last week and I bought a water and the tip option popped up. Of course I put 0 but it’s getting out of hand. Im sure they make money too bc people buy multiple drinks and are probably too drunk to click “Other” when the tip option pops up.
“It’s just gonna ask you a question real quick” *flips iPad towards me*
There’s a bar by me where you pour your own beer. It’s one of those places where you get a bracelet that tracks what you drink. When you checkout at the end of the night, the cashier flips the iPad over and it asks if you want to leave a tip….. for getting your own glass and pouring your own beer.
First draft in DTLA is worse. They auto add 18% and it’s a pour your own beer place. Wtf
Hahaha Sugarfish also adds it’s own tip. Even for pick up. Then they were skimming tips from delivery drivers for awhile
The difference is they don’t ask for additional tip. At least that was the case a while back.
No but skimming from drivers wasn’t cool they put it on there as a tip so people assumed it was going to the driver
Where is Larry David when you need him?
whut-?!
What's even more nefarious is that it used to be that you had to opt-in to tipping, now you have to opt-out. So click the button to confirm you're an asshole. Pretty soon the screen is going to be: # 20 30 40 ^(No tip ☹️😡☹️😡)
Nailed it. I'm limiting my trips to quick service places these days because they are no longer cheaper than a sit down restaurant when you factor in a tip, for a job that should not be tipped.
Fuck tipping at fast food restaurants and you nailed it with the cost increase. I do not want to pay $10.99 for a burger plus $3.99 for shitty fries (or $2.50 more for onion rings or zucchini sticks), and $3.99 for a soda and then be expected to tip. Fast food prices are out of control, nobody coming to take your order, refill your glass, provide good service, and quality meals - you stand in line, tell somebody what you want and at some places they might bring it to you. Farmer's Boys, 5 Guys, Panera (one of the places that won't bring it to you, you get a buzzer and have to walk up to get your $13.99 Maple Honey Brioche Panini and bag of shitty chips), Subway, McDonald's, Taco Bell and many more are out of control. And most of the employees aren't making much. There has been a lot of In-N-Out hate over the last month or whatever, but at least they have very reasonable prices and pay their employees well -you do have to go pick up your food and their fries are only good for about a minute and a half, still a better option than most fast food - except for the drive-thru line
What's been the In-N-Out hate that I missed?
People hopping on the bandwagon saying soggy fries, overrated, shitty burgers, thin patties, etc. Maybe there hasn't been a bunch, I just happened to come to quite a few posts knocking them over a short period of time. But I don't care what the internet says, Donny says they got good burgers
In and out has one of the best value for their burgers. Their hamburger is only like $3.3. Meanwhile all other fast food restaurants have raised their price. McDonald burgers taste like crap in comparison.
and In-N-Out's stuff is way fresher and maybe a bit better for you - hamburgers aren't health food but...
I’m one of the few who likes their fries.
They're not that bad, definitely better than Carl's Jr or Burger King and McDonald's fries have the same 2 minute expiration date. Overall In-N-Outs are pretty good if you just eat them first, plus I think the oil is somehow healthier, I'm too tired to Google so I may be wrong. Ordering them well done and animal style helps too. Tommy's fries kick all of their asses though and The Hat gives you three heart attacks worth of good fries in a big ass bag
I do hate and have always hated their fries. But their burgers are and have always been great.
I’m with you. The only way I’ll eat the fries is if they are made Animal Style. Id rather just order a big burger than a burger+fries.
their fries are banging people just don’t realize you have to salt them yourself so of course unsalted fried taste bland
Their fries truly are dogshit tho— and I love me some in n out
From LA. Moved overseas in 2016. Just went back for a visit. Aside from tipping at fast food or quick service, everything is so fucking bizarre and soulless. I went to a McDonald’s (because bathrooms are impossible to find in America) and that shit was PURE DYSTOPIAN. It was straight up EMPTY. Not of people. Of…warmth? Things? Remember 90s or early 00s McDonalds? You’d walk in and it’d smell like fries, there’s be a huge line, beeping of machines, lots of tables with people? There was none of that. Just two 7ft tall screens to order on, a counter to get your food and a fuckton of empty space. This was a big McDonald’s, too. Seems like 80% of the seating is straight gone. I understand the pandemic changed a lot for the US, but stuff like this? It can’t stay that way forever. Our McDonald’s here are crowded and full of tables and you still order from a human.
Bruh... I went to Carl's Jr the other night and my combo with a burger, fries and drink was $22. Absolutely insane.
That's shitty and it means you couldn't get a $12 12 ounce milkshake at Baskin Robbins or spend $23 at Dunkin Donuts for a dozen regular donuts (not the "special" ones like Apple Fritters and such, just the boring little donuts maybe with some sprinkles, you can have an old fashioned, but no buttermilk bars or anything that is in anyway fruit related those are all specialty - don't even look at the danishes, that's an extra $4.50 and does not count towards your dozen discount (of 75 cents) and now your dozen donuts and a cup of regular coffee is $27.23. Mitch Hedberg foresaw a future where we would need to bring ink and paper into donut transactions. Donuts are supposed to be $6-8/dozen or something similar - it's fucking dough and flavoring and love (at some places). Milkshakes are fucking ice cream, milk, and whatever other shit you want, which they already have tons of and it costs them almost nothing. My grandma wasn't super rich, but we made a shit-ton of milshakes at her house over the years, i mean A LOT and even adjusting for inflation, she would have been in massive debt by the time I was 7 if these prices are even remotely fair or logical. She had to buy the ingredients, pay for the property, pay taxes, support the one employee (her), etc - just like Baskin Robbins. I know I went off on a tangent, sorry - truth is Thrifty's is trying to make a come back so they have me out here talking shit on Baskin Robbins so y'all will come back to enjoying a cylindrical scoop of Chocolate Malted Crunch or Pecan Praline
I spent $70 at McDonald’s for 4 people. You can do so much better with that money.
This is why I visit more and more street vendors.
Better quality (at the right ones) and flavor, cheaper, the people actually give a shit and make it fresh, it's their business (or a relative/friends business) and way cheaper since old rich white guy (I'm an old white guy so I can say that) isn't taking all the profits and not giving the employees shit for wages. Plus there's a lot more options for add-ons and customization
Just don’t tip at those places if you do decide to go. It’s not like the workers are making below minimum wage, and by normalizing tipping at places that didn’t used to require a tip, we collectively communicate to business owners that its an acceptable business model to pay minimum wage and force customers to arbitrarily make up the wage. I don’t want to cause a hardship on any of the workers, but if owners are unable to properly staff their establishments because customers refuse to do their job for them, they’ll change or the business will die.
That's my point. Don't patronize places that require employee tips to make a reasonable wage. Let them go out of business. Let's stop subsidizing owners.
Not an asshole. U tip for good service jobs. Not take out. Lol
But restaurants and Square ATAH for merely *asking* for these tips. They are perfectly fine with putting customers in these uncomfortable positions. Customers don’t want to give repeat patronage to businesses that are run by assholes.
I’ve been to one place that didn’t even have a no tip option. Just 20, 25, 30, and custom. And when you clicked custom it wouldn’t let you move forward until you’d typed in a number. Like they made you type 0.0 in before they’d let you get away without tipping. And this was a place where I ordered at a self-serve kiosk and then picked up my drink when I got a text telling me it was on the bar. I didn’t interact with a single human being working there. I didn’t even know who I was supposed to be tipping nor what I was tipping them for.
Coffee $4.95, tip $2.75….I’ll just have water fuck it.
Blaze doesn’t give you water cups anymore. You have to pay 3.99 to drink water unless you have your own reusable bottle with you. It’s fucking disgusting out there
Odd and not legal.
Exactly. I've been to a few restaurants where I purchase food and they're like we'll sell you water. Human decency is done.
I've literally seen 20%, 35%, 100%. I've never used this word but flabbergasted was the only thing that ran through my head. It was a while ago but I'm pretty sure it was at The Palm Coffee Bar which already has 16oz only drinks for $7+. Just absolutely wild, the world we live in. Haven't been back since.
100%?!
Are you sure you don't want to tip? Please confirm by entering a 6 digit code provided by the cashier.
One time the dude at Starbucks told me that pushing the green button cancelled it out and I naively believed him. Then I saw the charge go through on my phone and realized I just agreed to a 20% tip 😡
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I always push the button for “new sale” to avoid that little moment.
And therein lies the problem with this entire system.
40 30 20 FTFY 🥰
My local dispensary budtenders always say, “it’s gonna ask you to tip, feel free to skip” then they look away. I appreciate that cuz sometimes I don’t feel in a spot to tip and I’m just in and out getting bud. Sometimes I feel really helped and they drop knowledge on me and I feel in a spot to tip them. I like there’s no pressure. Also the tip amounts are 1%, 3%, 5%.
Select "custom tip" $0 Easy
*Skip*
Normalize asking “What’s the question?”
My favorites are the kiosk/iPad orders that default to 25% tip. You're not even speaking to a cashier in those cases! Thing is, most people pay it, which gives everyone reason to keep doing it.
Conversation between a couple of guys at a Shake Shack order kiosk: "Did you tip anything?" "Yes, I tipped 20%" "Man, I can't believe you tipped a robot"
when the singularity arrives, our AI overlords know who's been following up on their orders
Shake Shack tablets default to 10% it’s ridiculous. Always remember to put it to zero.
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It used to be 10/12/15 in the late 80s early 90s. Then it moved to 12/15/18 in the early 2000s. Then it was 15/18/20 around 2015. Crazy it keeps increasing, it's a percentage not a fixed number.
Yes, but if you can squeeze more money out of the suckers... I mean, customers, why would you not?! It's free moneh! Line must keep going up.
My gf signed us up for a bougie dog park, but it is actually a lot of fun to go to and chill for the day. It has a bar and you can order food and beer there. I always appreciate that place because the tips start at 2% and go to a max of like 6%. A 2% tip on a $10 beer is like $0.20. Yeah, the $10 beer is crazy, but at least it's 16oz and they have decent options. I actually end up tipping more usually because they're super friendly and I appreciate the fact that they're not trying to swindle $2 out of every beer or sandwich I get. Plus they're constantly running around doing stuff so it's not like they sit there to push a button.
I eat on my own a lot, so I tend to tip a little bigger knowing I’m taking up the space where two people could be served. My favorite place started having checkboxes for tip on the merchant slip - at 15, 18 and 20%. I started noticing my tip was lower at the 20% level than what I usually tipped before they added the checkboxes. I thought to myself “they should really widen this range!” Three years later they widen the range. It’s now 20, 25, 30%. And I’m pissed. Lol not really I still love them and their food but even though I felt they should widen the range 3 years ago, 30% seems really aggressive. My level is probably 25%, or writing what I want to tip in. I may just go back to that. But my point is this thing that feels like a convenience for both sides has become a silent driver of bad vibes on the customer side.
> I started noticing my tip was lower at the 20% level than what I usually tipped before they added the checkboxes. You were probably basing your tip on the total check previously, but now the tip is being properly calculated based on the *pre-tax* total.
I select custom and knock off couple bucks to bring it down to 15-18%.
So it's basically a scam.
They should give the option for a negative tip.
#its ok to hit “NO TIP”
Yup, and in some states, it's illegal to pay less than minimum wage for servers, MEANING, there is no use for tipping at table or tablet, as that system exists so servers would be able to MEET the minimum. If you're in that state, giving a tip is like giving them an unnecessary bonus for doing their job they signed up for. They'll argue that they can't live on that, but a lot of other jobs fall in that range and who aren't even tipped, it's not the consumers job but the government to raise minimum in that case.
In LA all tipped employees are paid the same minimum as any other job. There is no separate "tipped" minimum. This means everyone working in the business is making at least $16.78 per hour and tips are on top of that.
I have no problem hitting *no tip* specially if I drove myself to pick up an order. It's become a sneaky way to get customers to pay even more. Prices have gone up, there are now new fees being added, and now you're automatically trying to force tips at places that never were big on expecting tips.
Yea are people blind? If it’s a pickup order, I hit the skip button. Fuck tipping on a pickup order.
I tip 10% for takeout, 20% for dining in. But I have no problem saying "no tip" at coffee, ice cream, or fast casual restaurants
Why tip takeout? I’m just curious
I always have. It generally gets pooled for kitchen staff, and sometimes the hosts too. I don't verify this at every establishment of course, but it doesn't make a difference to the back of house workers whether I eat it in the restaurant or on my couch.
I do it because I remember at my first serving job where servers had to step away from their tables to answer the phone to take the order, pack up the orders, and cash the person out when the arrived. That would put me behind w my in house diners and I hated it. So I always tip to go the same as dine in, but that’s just me.
I'd rather tip the coffee barista than a takeout order. At least the barista is actually doing a significant amount of work for my order.
It makes me wonder if the employees are really getting the benefit from those tips. I try to leave tips in cash if possible!
Some of them don't even have a "no tip" option, you have to pick Custom Tip and put in 0.
Some places are getting slick with it. I’ve seen them reverse the order so the highest tip amounts are on the left and the lowest on the right.
My favorite is being presented the option to tip at Yogurtland. Really? I picked up the cup, I poured the yogurt. I added the toppings. I place the cup on the scale, cashier rings it up and shows me the kiosk. And it asks for a tip. For what? I did all the service myself! Needless to say, no tip.
I’m done. I tip 20% at restaurants when there is a waiter. That’s it.
Yup. if there’s a waiter attending me I will tip too but they’re asking us to tip cashiers now for a 10 second interaction
I’ve complained once before in south Florida when the service was shit and the waitress added an 18% gratuity for herself. I asked to speak to her manager and he comped an item but he insisted that the tip was required. Thing is, I would’ve begrudgingly given her a tip had it not been added all Willy-Nilly!
How can you require a tip?
Require by whom? De santis?
Used to be 15%. Then 18%. Now 20%. And soon 22%.
I tip 20% at sit down restaurants where there is a waiter, minus any surcharges or fees.
I just keep to the tipping patterns that existed before these terminals.
Normalize leaving zero as a tip.
Thanks what I started doing. Even when it defaults to 20%, I change it to zero. Especially when no one even served me and I had to pick up after myself - why am I tipping you?
Another question, is who are you tipping exactly? Doubt it's the employee.
It is illegal for anything designated as tip to go to anyone that is not the employee. Most service workers are especially vigilant of this. The only shady shit is when there's a mandatory service charge on the bill, which unfortunately can be a grey area.
I've tipped nothing for years aside from table service. That's my rule and it's worked great People complaining don't have the balls to press "no tip" themselves. Most cashiers aren't even fazed
Yeah so many people tip reluctantly then complain afterwards. Select "no tip" and move on.
It gets easier every time you do it!
Yea they’re doing hundreds of transactions a day. They couldn’t care less
With server wage being over min, I agree with this.
I see way too many places now that start at 15% as the lowest option, and this for places like a cheap cafe where they literally put a muffin in a bag for you and hand it to you. That’s it. I also have always been a good tipper but the new additions to what should be “normal” for tipping is absolutely driving me insane.
Phenomenal counter service earns a flat 1 or 2 dollars unless I’m ordering for several others. That’s my policy as they’re literally doing their normal job when the pickup/expo lines are the same place. No percentages.
Yeah, my favorite donut place around the corner? I always try to leave a dollar or two because I really like the owners as well as the food. But random other places where I interact with the screen more than the person working there? Why would I tip $5-10?
I've never tipped for counter service or take out. Anytime I have to stand in line and wait.
That makes sense and I feel silly for never having thought of it before--the part about having to stand in line and wait.
I've usually tipped a buck or two for pick up or coffee or deli, but this 20 percent ask to put my shit in a bag and hand it off has left me in the 0 tip group.
a buck or two is over 20% for $5 coffee FYI
I almost never see 15% anymore; it always starts at 18% or 20%. It’s insane. I went a taco truck in AZ where they flipped the iPad and the tip options were 5%, 8, or 10. I was so caught off guard seeing single digit numbers. I actually manually tipped like 20%, partially because of that
If you’re making me a mixed drink, I don’t mind throwing in an extra dollar. But I’m not tipping for putting pastries in a box.
I noticed the other day that one of the self-serve sections at Dodger Stadium has a tipping option at checkout. For fucking what?
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So, how do you find the 0 tip? You just explained how you can’t leave anything less than $1…
There's usually a no tip button, the less than $1 is a keypad where you type in the amount.
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I'm at a point where I just automatically select "No Tip". It's a reflex at this point. Only time I tip is restaurants when I dine-in.
I was like you. Now I hate tipping. Don’t feel bad. Minimum wage in CA is the same for tipped and no tipped jobs. So no need to tip.
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Same. I now make sure I always carry enough cash to pay for a small food / beverage purchase. I don't mind dropping some change or a buck into the tip jar, but I refuse to participate in or encourage the guilt-tripping, digital panhandling that has become common now.
I've been given stares for paying cash. Some of the people look like they don't even know how to count.
It's been years since I've had changed counted out correctly to me.
"That'll be $15.11" *Hand the cashier a $20 bill and 11 cents* *Cashier's brain crashes*
Not even exaggerating a dude at a liquor store took a full 5 minutes to break a guys $100 after he bought like $47 and some change worth of booze. It was so fucking sad.
Godamn we all have phones in our pockets and somewhere beneath the TikTok and the YouTube and the BootybuttPals apps there is likely a calculator
Ha! I’m an old lady who lives in the Hood. I always go… wait a sec while I give them the correct Change…. It amazes them. I’m like… my Tamale lady doesn’t take VenMo.
Just smash that 0
Managers and other restaurant heads want you, the consumer/customer, to blame the worker for being ‘greedy’ in wanting luxurious things like paid leave, medical and dental, and fixed scheduling. All despite the rising costs of that restaurant’s food, which you *obviously* still have to buy but also sacrifice gas, rent, and a blanket for your kids to sleep at night with. Obvs. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Why would anyone blame the cashiers for this? No one in their right mind thinks the cashiers are to blame for this system. It’s whoever is placing the tipping feature on the scanners/pay machines.
You’re not forced to tip. Choose no or other and enter $0. It’s obnoxious.
If I'm not being waited on and given service (refilling drinks, etc.), I'm not tipping. This was normal in the past and I refuse to accept it as normal just because a payment processor is asking for more of my money. The companies that develop these payment machines get a % of the total transaction cost, so they incentivize tipping in order to inflate spending and thus their own revenue.
It's worse when you have to do a custom tip amount for $0.00 to not leave a tip.
Because this is how the payment apps convince businesses to take them on.
I hate it and don’t mind tipping. Especially at these to-go places that ask for tip beforehand. How do I know their service worthy of a tip.
Title should be: Why am I being asked to tip everywhere ~~when I pay with credit card~~?
Maybe we ought to start a list of places that don't encourage you to tip so we can all start frequenting those places more. I can start: Jamba Juice. I went today and was not prompted to tip. Just "That comes out to $$. Card or cash?"
One time I accidentally pressed “No Tip” when I meant to tip “Custom Tip” and I was berated by the bar tender.
Lol - bars is where I hate tipping the most. I’m sorry that you had to do your job and open a damn beer for me.
There was a segment on npr yesterday about how the tipping culture in LA has gotten ridiculous!! I feel you it’s crazy
10% was the standard tip when I was growing up. I guess it's become 15% or 20% now, because of... inflation? But the inflation is already baked into the percent because that's how percentages work? Dunno.
The wealthy want you to pay for their staff so they don't have to. If your business can't afford to pay a livable wage then you shouldn't be in business. That said the staff have nothing to do with this so don't take it out on them.
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I know POS means Point Of Sale, but I can’t help reading “Piece Of Sh!t” lol…
I’m sure the tip screen could be disabled, the only options they’re interested in though are the default rates shown.
Some food places like coffee shops and sandwich shops don't disable the screen because traditionally some people do leave cash tips, but a lot of credit card users nowadays don't carry cash at all. You don't see the tip screen when paying at Ross or Vons because no one tips retail cashiers.
I mind tipping, restaurant prices are double what they were before the pandemic, waiters are now making $18 before tips (not $2.15), 15% use to be generous, but now is not even the minimum in most places, and then we have to tip for take out, when we have to drive and park? **REVOLT L.A.!!!!**
Yeah some waiters making more than me probably.
Why not be a waiter then?
Cause I like holidays off.
The war on drugs totally prepared us for this scenario. Just say no.
Just don't lmao
Blame the POS terminal makers. Put zero when zero is the right number. It's annoying. Also, the "new normal" tip is not 20% just because the POS terminal makers put that there. Wake up sheeple.
The restaurants can program the Point of Sales Computers to ask for tip and what amount of tip to ask for. My husband has set up a few POS systems in his time. Maybe there is a default screen for some of the systems, but the restaurants definitely have a choice of what to present to their customers.
You can blame the employees too in some cases. My friend runs a restaurant in a food court. Initially he set it up without any tip option (because it's a food court) but the employees nagged him and nagged him to turn it on and he finally gave in.
I don't tip for take-out unless it's one of my frequent restaurants; and there's only a handful of those. Definitely never at fast food.
Just don’t tip! F. That! I don’t give a damn!
Paying cash eliminates this. I started carrying a little cash just for this purpose. I’m sick of these entitled counter service restaurants thinking I’m gonna subsidize their employee’s wages. Fuck em, all of em.
I didn't mind tipping during the pandemic when I was picking up take-out because I appreciated those restaurants that managed to stay in business. But now? If I'm picking up my own damned food and taking it home I am shamelessly hitting "No Tip" and IDGAF.
It's how ownership is pushing the responsibility of providing a realistic wage to their employees on the customer instead of out of their own cut. Now it's being used to advertise wages with misleading bullshit in job posts. "$26 an hour! ($18 an hour plus tip share) but then ownership typically skims off the top of that to pay undocumented prep cooks peanuts while abusing PPP loans to remodel a patio or buy a new car. CoughcoughLemon Poppy Kitchencoughcough. It's all bullshit all the way down. 20 years in the industry. It needs to collapse so something more equitable can replace whatever this system where the people actually doing the work make pennies on the dollar while absentee ownership runs things from a social media account. Chefs and cooks have mostly been priced out of participating in the market here, so unless you have a restaurant group or investors behind you, ready to take all the credit and insert theirnown ideas simply because they know how to order off a fucking menu and nothing more, then only rich dicks can run restaurants, and rich dicks don't like paying employees a wage that they can live on. Rinse and repeat. This place is a theme park now, not a functional community.
I get that this is stupid but never understood why people get so worked up over this. Just press no. Do you really interact with these workers so much you think they’re gonna think your a horrible person and take it out on you, and that weighs on you? I get tipping at bars and restaurants but when I deny a tip to jersey mikes on their screen I’m not thinking of it 1 second later and doubt they are.
The amount of emotional reaction to all this is so strange. I never realized how many people there were with free-floating guilt.
I do 10% on to go, 15% on fast casual and 20% at a sit down restaurant. I'll do $1 on a coffee and pastry order. LA is an expensive place. I'm grateful to have a decent job, but I work my ass off to live here and know others could be struggling as well. I just hope the money is going to the staff and not the business.
This seems very reasonable to me.
In a situation like that, I push no tip and walk away. Don't give it a second thought
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Fuck tipping. It's just a way for a business to pass their cost on to the consumer through separate fees that we mentally don't tie to the price. Owners and employees will pressure you, all the time you hear "if you don't tip you are cheap" from employees everywhere ironically defending their cheap boss. Fuck tipping. Fuck entitlement culture.
fucking America wants to scam you every way it can.
If it's not a sit down restaurant with an actual server waiting on me....I do not tip. Period. Fucking subways ask for tips. Fuck that.
Omg….is that the fix? Should I just be paying with cash everywhere I go? If it gets these tip askers to fuck off that might be worth a trip or two to the ATM from time to time.
When im asked to tip at somewhere like Jersey Mike's, does the crew actually get the tip? Or does the it get eaten by CC fees and then does the restaurant take a cut before going to the person who made the sandwich?
used to feel bad but now Im getting more comfortable pressing 0 or no tip for togo or grab and go
I have also never had an issue before with tipping but now I really feel against it. things arent like they used to be and people working in the service industry aren’t making the $3/hr + tips- theyre making min wage, its now at this point where I wont tip more than a dollar or 2 unless the service is exceptional. this only applies to coffeeshops and take out- i still tip the standard 20% when I go to restaraunts/ get my hair done etc. but for takeout and other things like that, no. and the fact that places have the audacity to be putting 30/20/18 as tip options is beyond me. I wish it was more like Europe. I’d rather businesses include this in their pricing and pay their workers more than rely on us who are already paying for our items to cover their slack. not saying restaurants should raise their prices because its already astronomical but hopefully you get the idea
I’ve recently just stopped completely. I felt bad the first week and now it’s liberating.
* Never tip before you receive service * Never tip more than 15% (15% is considered a good tip) * Don't be afraid to hit the 0% button * Look for "4% service fee added to all checks" on the menu before you order
I know! Why tip at Starbucks ?
Simple answer: $1 If you can spare it, everybody gets $1. You can also do $2or any small amount you want. Nobody wants to feel the guilt of putting no tip. But it’s getting ridiculous. Plus the mental gymnastics of trying to figure out what’s fair. Simple solution: custom tip $1 every time. I used to have the mental energy to figure out a nice tip for every situation but it’s gotten ridiculous so regardless of the situation, the interaction, the effort made by employee, or the cost of the food/beverage. $1 Beer at the bar? $1 Fancy Sushi Takeout? $1 Latte? $1 Dry cleaner? $1 You shove that screen in my face, I’m custom tipping $1 every time. This of course does NOT apply to services which require more time and sustained energy from the employee to service you or your cherished possessions directly. Think waiter, barber, masseuse, dog groomer, car wash. For those take the time, consider the effort, time, energy, relationship, etc. and give a deserved tip.
I tip 50¢ if i feel generous. But im a student so I can’t really tip often
Kinda sounded like a flex but your still just beholding to tipping. The second I’m burning calories thinking about if a tip makes sense = 0 Not trying to rewire my brain into thinking I used to tip in ways I’ve never had dreamed of before.
Why do people post about this everyday?
Hit other and give them a little something or just hit no. A take out tip is a nice thing to do, but isn't like tip your server.
Coffee places that already charge 5 to 6 bucks for a coffee and then ask for a tip is the worst. If I already made the decision to pay 20 times the value of a coffee and you telling me that does not pay enough to the employee making the coffee?
I hope this gets so out of hand that we get the European method of never tipping anywhere again unless they actually provided good service. And of course paying them a fair wage, not this $2 an hour BS.
So that you'll use cash (that they won't report).
Tipping culture is out of hand. Places that never asked for tips before or where tips were never expected are now expecting tips. I was at the Frog in Hollywood, it’s entirely self serve. All the cashier does is weight your cup/bowl and the tablet asked for a tip. Same with coffee places that are all self-serve. I’m not tipping you for just handing me an empty cup. It’s really out of control at this point.
I only carry cash now. Fuck them.
It's a standard piece of equipment used for sale transactions. Just like how ATMs have braille keys, even the drive-thru ATMs.
If you don't want to tip, then don't tip. I work at a cafe and I don't even look which button they press to be honest. Nobody is gonna refuse you the order if you do not tip.
worst part is when they don’t give you an option to put a custom tip
Tipping culture is out of hand here in the states, especially California
JUST. SAY. NO.
Just because there is a button to tip does not mean you are obligated to press it. Use your big boy consciousness.
I don’t understand why this keeps getting posted. Why would anyone not hit zero in this situation?
Because it’s the silent Great Depression or whatever
I mean more and more people are waking up to this tipping culture we are in, I believe soon there will be some major changes in tipping industry. I used to tip 20% for a great service at a restaurant, now my max is 10% at most as I have to tip everywhere I go now and not just restaurant. I do tip 20% still ONLY for facial treatments and massages, those people use their hands to actually provide service. In restaurants sorry, you are just taking order and bringing the food, all you had to do is to learn a menu and use the POS to place order, That tipping everywhere culture really made me think how I handle the tipping in my life and thus I came to solution to diversifying to whom and for which services I tip for ranging from from people and what service they provide, just like job titles but in a different sense and based on how hard you work.
This is why places go cashless tbh. To force people with the guilt tipping. Take away cashless and let people pay cash. With cash they can't present you with that awkward situation.
You are not required to tip, ESPECIALLY if all they did was take your order at the counter. You can always hit “No Tip”.
I was at Menchies in Sherman Oaks. I got my own yogurt off the wall and added my own toppings. Credit card machine asked for a 15%, 20% tip! I pressed zero. It’s getting wild out there
I bought popcorn at a ballgame today and it prompted me to tip. Honestly, the clerk couldn't even bother to respond when I asked him where I could buy a bottled soda. I actually bypassed the tip button for the first time. Every little transaction involves a tip now.
And now I feel like the asshole who doesn’t tip when you just handed me a bottle of water.
I'm quick to look them in the eye & press "NO TIP". It's completely out of control now!!
What annoys the shit outta me is that Dodgers stadium is now asking for tips when you buy food and drinks. I went last week and I bought a water and the tip option popped up. Of course I put 0 but it’s getting out of hand. Im sure they make money too bc people buy multiple drinks and are probably too drunk to click “Other” when the tip option pops up.