tipping

Starbucks locations inside grocery stores/bookstores often don't even have tip jars per company policy which is pretty wrong imo

Starbucks employees don't make $2.15 an hour. Just because it's coffee and not a cheeseburger doesn't mean you're entitled to a tip jar.

everyone shd have a tip jar i carry one around with me

Congratulations did not know you were a mohel.

He's a mohel and he's looking good
He'd like to circumcise my cock it's understood

very disgusting and gross u guys

i tip and bribe according to cultural norms, h8 the patronage not the player is the only way
― ogmor, Friday, April 10, 2015 2:15 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Real question, just because I find your stance genuinely interesting: If tipping is something you're really appalled by, do you stick to a consistent 15% or 20%? Do you adjust based on the experience you have?

I have my venmo username tattooed to me forehead

what is it, i owe you for the cab on friday?

@sorryimessedup

(Everybody else also feel free to venmo me)

One of the tricky bits about tipping protocol is if you are getting something free or less, you should try to tip as though it were full price. My head cannot always math that, but I try.

My employer frequently gives out gift cards for the Palm restaurant, and they can be awkward to use. They're supposed to work only for the food and booze, not the tax or tip. One time I had a $51-ish bar tab and a $50 gift card. I didn't have any cash with me for tipping purposes (I'd been expecting a credit card slip for the overage and the taxes, to which I could then add a tip that reflected the real amount). The bartender just accepted it and said, "Yeah, we're good." It was too much trouble to reopen, and I felt bad - made a concerted effort to go back another time and tip generously to make up for it.

lol this wd stress me out so much tbh

I went to a restaurant with no money it stressed me out!

xp I definitely just go over the gift card amount no matter what it takes

buy a t shirt if you have to

Yeah, the worst thing in the world is having the card handed back and the cashier says "You've got $2.73 left!"

"Would you like to refill it?"

waiter who can't break that news gently just talked his way out of a tip imo

http://i.imgur.com/5ZWOmz1.jpg

A friend of mine once tipped £70 in error. The waiter was like "are you sure you meant to tip this much?" and he was too embarrassed to admit his mistake

aw

I put a $100 bill in the little folder last night to pay for a $50 tab. Waitress asked me if I wanted change.

i immediately whipped up my apple watch and st rated going bleep bleep bloop bloop on my tip calculator.

if the blue man is sad is the red man angry, that's a weird mouth

pplains why you walkin around with hundos

NB some of Seattle's fine-dining establishments are implementing service charges in response to the start of the minimum wage rollout, eg

http://seattle.eater.com/2015/4/21/8463303/three-renee-erickson-restaurants-will-eliminate-tips
http://seattle.eater.com/2015/3/30/8315525/ivars-salmon-house-is-eliminating-tipping

(and presumably indicating that tipping 15-20% is not expected)

will probably still tip something on top next time I go to The Whale Wins b/c that was one of the most enjoyable dinners out of my life

pplains why you walkin around with hundos

― brunch technician (silby), Saturday, April 25, 2015 12:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because Applebee's won't accept Bitcoin?

pplains is baller

lol that is incredibly presumptuous, unless she just said it reflexively w/o looking at how much was inside, which now that I think it thru is prob what happened

It is what happened. But STILL.

What if I had stuck my credit card in there? I don't always use that weird card pocket that's in the folder.

got a check yesterday that included helpful calculations for 15 17 and 20% tips that were totally wrong lol

Stay woke

Wrong in which direction?

Man, dropping a digit, doubling, and rounding up to the nearest dollar is just the easiest thing, why doesn't everyone just do that?

otm

Wrong in which direction?

― Who M the best? (Will M.), Tuesday, April 28, 2015 10:36 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u know which direction lol

As a human being who lives on this Earth, this is the proudest moment of my existence so far

https://instagram.com/p/2G8nh8v0L1/?taken-by=itsatrilby

Tipping's the quickest and simplest way to do something about income inequality, sez

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/04/want-to-do-something-about-income-inequality-start-tipping-more/?hpid=z10

thats consumer-power logic

http://ny.eater.com/2015/10/14/9517747/danny-meyer-no-tipping-restaurants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/18/i-dare-you-to-read-this-and-still-feel-ok-about-tipping-in-the-united-states/

That's another wrinkle that many people don’t know about, right? Tipping in the United States actually dates back to slavery.

The origin of tipping is really the feudal system, it’s this idea of noblesse oblige. But when tipping came to the United States, it had a real racial tinge to it, because, originally, the workers who earned tips were almost exclusively black workers—they were newly freed slaves.

There was this massive anti-tipping movement to protest the practice, a resounding populist movement that actually got anti-tipping bills passed in six states across the country, including Washington state and many southern states. What’s interesting is that that movement, the anti-tipping populist one, ending up spreading to Europe and succeeding, because the labor movement picked it up and said ‘we are professionals, and we shouldn’t have to live on tips, because we should be paid by our employers.’ That’s why you see so little tipping in Europe. What we started here spread there and actually killed it at the origin in Europe.

We, on the other hand, went in the opposite direction in the states. The restaurant industry, which was hiring newly freed slaves as tipped workers, really wanted the right to hire these workers but pay them next to nothing. So they put forth this idea that they were valueless and really shouldn’t have to be paid by their employers. They essentially made the argument that newly freed slaves should get a zero dollar wage.

And part of the racial divide, part of what made tipping such a race-specific practice, is that there was a cultural stigma where white people would balk at the idea of being tipped because they found it degrading?

Exactly. In fact, among the six states that passed tipping bans, five of them were southern states, and it was based on this idea that black workers were the only workers making tips, because there was this idea that you only tip inferiors. That is what I mean when I say the origins are noblesse oblige. The origin is that you tip an inferior. When the practice came to the United States, the newly freed slaves, the black workers, were the equivalent of the proletariat in the feudal system. When these states banned tipping, it was because they were trying to discourage whites from tipping instead of actually paying former slaves.

woah. damn.

luv 2 tip

https://1minionsopinion.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/tipping-is-unamerican.jpg

a bonus
https://49.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t782qbI51rw6lx6o1_r1_500.gif

just came here to post that article

brits, we get it, yr cheap bastards. it's kool.
― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Down with slavery.

required tipping (servers making under a livable wage) is dud, tipping people because they did great is awesome