What is your opinion on tipping?

[MikaDubbz]

They want you to pay ahead of time. Especially food apps. They expect a tip BEFORE you get the food. WTF? I will never tip before i eat. At least tipping adds incentive to perform. If I tip ahead of time and the service or food sucks then i get screwed. No way. Why should bad service food be rewarded?

See this sucks, a server can't help if the food is good or not. You shouldn't be tipping based on how the food tastes but rather how well your server was at doing their job. The chef doesn't see a dime of the tip, so no message gets relayed to them on how well they're preparing your food with how big or little your tip was.

 

[Kraken_X]

I hate tipping. It was so nice in Japan when you paid the actual sticker price and that price was less than in the USA for better food and no tipping. Restaurants are so much more expensive in the USA because you have to add 25% to the cost every time, then an additional ~10% for sales tax. Even take out you are expected to tip at least 10% now, and even when the service is bad, 15% is the minimum for dine-in. You don't tip on fast food, and they know it, so now fast food costs as much as a sit down place minus tip. Then on top of that, many restaurants steal the tip, make the server share with other worse servers, or share with the back of the house.

On the upside, I guess they can under report cash tips and not have to pay our insane taxes on them.

 

[FAST6191]

When in the US I treat it much like sales tax which for reasons best known to themselves they add on at the till and mentally add it to whatever I am doing. Though it is probably going to be more of a rounding/percentage/... thing for me than a straight percentage.

Never have takeout in the US that I don't pick up myself, and never have groceries delivered/would not have even considered that a tipping concept.

In the UK, and having sat in many a restaurant in back of house to overhear things, I might leave the odd change (I invariably pay with cash)/round up to the nearest 5 if I am in a normal place. If working on a building site in my house any installers or deliveries beyond those already there will usually walk away with a bottle of booze (beer/cider), and those on site for longer timeframes usually get food of some form (cornish pasties and bacon sandwiches in addition to whatever homemade cake, biscuits and tea/coffee).
Some people, usually on the older side, will also do end of year things for trades -- electricians often get called in at end of year to put up Christmas lights (this is not some insane US style thing you can see from space, just a string or two around the front room or on the tree) or change a few lightbulbs and get very well compensated for that kind of task with the implied expectation being "answer my call next year". Similar thing for some plumbers, and some builders/chippies might get to redo a hinge or something on a cupboard. Myself I have yet to encounter a trade that I can't steal their lunch (do all the basics) for so don't do that one.


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[AncientBoi]

On tipping? ... Watch it fall. duh

 

[smf]

Some people always tip, some never tip, some tip if they fancy the server.

It must be quite difficult for people who rely on tips.

 

[Kwyjor]

The chef doesn't see a dime of the tip, so no message gets relayed to them on how well they're preparing your food with how big or little your tip was.

Some places combine tips and then redistribute them amongst the kitchen staff, which just makes things even more confusing.

 

[Jayro]

As an American, I hate having to "tip" people for their services. It's us, the customers, making up for the lack of proper wages that their employer should be giving to them. I always leave a good 15% to 25% tip, depending on the meal cost... but I still don't like the tipping model.

 

[Caleck]

With the amount of workers basically living off of tips, I tend to leave tips as much as possible when going to places like restaurants.

If I'm using cash, then I'll tip the change.

 

[lafleche]

Tipping depends from country to country.
In Japan tipping is not done at all (considered rude), in USA (as I do understand) tipping has become part of the total income and a 15% to 20% tip is 'normal'. Over here in the Netherlands you tip when you feel like it and it is not a percentage but for example make a 'round' amount....so at a restaurant when your cheque is 27,95 I will leave 30. When it is 29,95 i will leave 35.... but when a cheque is 104,95 I will leave 110 and not 115 or 120.

 

[Uiaad]

I'm probably going to reiterate a lot of what has already been said - If I'm in a place such as the US, where I know that a lot of their wage is made up of tips I'll tip, and depending on a number of factors (size of the party, quality of the service, etc) but it's anywhere between 15% and 40%. I find it absolutely abhorrent that any employer would use tips to essentially pay for their staff's wages.
Here in the UK I rarely tip, unless they have gone above and beyond what's been expected. The one example from my life where this has happened on a large scale was a time where I was off working a job with 10 other guys and the place where we had booked into ( 2 weeks before mind) told us they couldn't accommodate us when we turned up so we ended up in a small rural pub where they pretty much treated us like royalty for the 5 hours we were there. We had budgeted (companies dime so we didn't care) for like 2 grand at this other place and had spent about a grand in this pub and gave then £500 got as a tip. The owner actually argued with us that it was too much and you better believe that we went back for breakfast the next day

 

[Ravag3]

I almost always tip 20% in restaurants, unless there were serious issues getting food in time. With delivery food it depends on the service, amazon/uber/doordash I know they are making $16-18 an hour, so I dont tip. Grubhub I do tho lol.

The concept is really fucky, I really don't agree with it, min wage should be min wage regardless of what job you have.

 

[The Catboy]

Tipping should be reserved for a job well done but should never be used to subsidize someone’s paycheck. If a company or individual can’t afford to pay a livable wage, then they shouldn’t be hiring people to work for them

 

[DancingLettuce]

It usually never comes up for me since I just either get all my food from restaurants as carryout.

 

[MasterJ360]

I stopped tipping making delivery orders, just dont have spare change lying around either

 

[FAST6191]

I always leave a tip for good work.

I also make suggestions for people doing things for me.

 

[Deleted member 42501]

Why should I subsidize the employer of someone who is obviously too dumb not to realized they're being screwed because of the job they chose with their own free will?

Its a clever shell game to shift blame and make people feel sympathy whilst the business owner creams more profits and pays less to his staff than they need.

That said when I did used to eat takeout I tipped the drivers well to ensure they bought my meal first so it was hot, fresh and free of contaminants.

Restaurants? I generally only eat in ones where we know the team and they always know to round up whatever to wherever for convenience as scrabbling with pennies looks inelegant. Also they'll tell you whats fresh, make it just how you want, get you the best seats, play the tunes you wish etc... so why would I give up all the perks to go and eat somewhere where I'm not going to get that service?

Its why we come back, bring new friends along, tell them to extend them the same courtesy and thus their business flourishes. That I don't even class as a tip. Its like unlocking real life DLC slash God Mode way of being and its worth paying for as its a fair exchange that adds so much to the experience and also creates one hell of an impression on people who don't know thats how you live.

 

[FAST6191]

Why should I subsidize the employer of someone who is obviously too dumb not to realized they're being screwed because of the job they chose with their own free will?

Its a clever shell game to shift blame and make people feel sympathy whilst the business owner creams more profits and pays less to his staff than they need.

I don't necessarily disagree with the underlying thoughts but I will note those with minimum wage skills (or indeed more than) can find such a role quite a lucrative one in the end, far more so than shelf stacking, care work or whatever else that might be within their remit -- why people would pay for porn when there is endless genuinely free and clear stuff out there I will never know but we can go find countless stories of young ladies (and sometimes not so young ladies) making quite considerable sums.

 

[Tomhusrt]

The tip actually depends on your mindset up or mood. I think for extraordinary service and work need to pay the tip, Otherwise no need.

 

[Tsukiru]

I tip when I can. I've actually had an interaction with a driver when I was a teenager ordering pizza and mentioned I'm short on cash and being told "then don't order food," like I had much of a choice. Misplaced frustration aside, it'd be avoided if we just paid people a better wage.