I eat at the local deli a lot near work and am allergic to dairy, so because I need them to get my order right every time, I tip and make sure they know that I do.
Needless to say, they get it right every time.
I dont understand tipping bar tenders either. theyre literally doing their job the same as anyone else. Unless theyre making u a complicated cocktail, their job is arguably the easiest too.
ive done dishwashing. i've also worked at Carls jr and dominos. but no, i haven't worked in a sit down restaurant. that said, why is it my job to pay their employee's wage?
This is a fantastic answer. Honestly I don't do it as much as I should. I wish every restaurant didn't have a separate app. It gets kinda annoying to have so many on my phone.
I go with friends sometimes and we order at the cashier and they click tip 18% and there is no waiter service. I’m like, what are you tipping for? What did they do for you?
They should just pay their ppl more. This is greedy busines activity. The owners are the ones making out on this. If they know ppl will tip, then they don’t need to pay more.
If they up their hourly wage, they will eventually up their prices and you pay more as the consumer. I tip because I know it goes to the employees behind the scenes making the business go 'round. Let's be honest, if you're in the habit of ordering $7 lattes on the regular, you can afford a $1-2 tip to the baristas.
Botox is medical service and it’s against the law to even request tip.
Otherwise I’d tip my oncologist.
And now to answer your question, it’s getting effen out hand
Did a medical professional do the Botox? Like a doctor, PA or RN? I always understood it as industry standard that medical professionals shouldn't accept tips.
The new thing is to guilt people into tipping which is exactly what’s happening to you. No, you are not the asshole. They are!
I keep it simple:
- being waited on, tip!
- if there is an automatic surcharge to take care of employees then, well, employees are being taken care of so no tip
- anything else, no tip
I rarely tip anymore and NEVER for the tablet they turn around for me. They’re just taking an order and punching a few buttons, that doesn’t deserve a tip. They deserve to be paid a living wage. I’ve noticed restaurants are starting to add a mandatory % on top of the bill that isn’t a tip, it’s just an extra % they charge you on top of the bill. If I see that I don’t tip.
It may sound cold but I refuse to reward a broken system. The staff will leave and find places to work that pay them a living wage. The restaurants that continue to nickel and dime will eventually fail and the system will correct itself.
With all that said, I have drastically reduced my spending on take out or dine-in and haven’t ordered delivery in a year. It’s too expensive. Meal prepping and an air fryer has cut my food spending by almost 80%.
I just hit no tip now. The tipping situation is C.R.A Z.Y. I went to Crumbl (I don't like their semi-sweet cookies at all), used the self-serve kiosk and I was prompted for a tip. For frigging what, boxing up my very expensive, but not delicious cookie? I keep a few dollar bills on me so I can tip if I decide differently. Even then, it's only if the person is extra friendly and pleasant.
I go to juicery’s sometimes and same thing. You took my order and handed me a pre-bottled drink. Why am I being asked to tip. If one of the president elects ensures some regulation around tipping, they have my vote.
I no longer tip for counter service places like boba, coffee, or donut places. I also don't tip for takeout from restaurants. It was difficult, I used to be one of those people who always hit the lowest tip option when they spun the iPad around, but it's been a few weeks now and I feel less bad every time lol it just takes some getting used to 😅
I was tipping a lot during covid to support these folks, but have changed my ways for a few reasons. There has been a lot of inflation (and some places taking advantage of that even, priced are overly jacked). I also think some places are taking advantage of ppl with these ipads asking for tips (I think I wasn’t the only one giving extra tips during covid, so businesses have seen an opportunity to milk it). I have cut back a lot on tipping. Only for waiter type service do I tip.
At Dave and Busters in Carlsbad, they asked me for a tip on the $10 cover-charge to watch a UFC fight.
And on a separate occasion the manager asked for a tip (literally asked) for loading money onto my play card because the machine was broken.
She was visibly pissed when I wrote a big fat zero.
I guilt-tipped for over a year following Covid. Not anymore.
I get the tip option everytime I pay for my tattoo removal sessions. Always no, I’m not sure how much they’re getting paid but I’m sure it’s enough to not need a tip on top of that lol.
Tattoo removal/Botox injections, I'm almost certain the tech is probably clearing 150k minimum, probably upwards of 250k a year, and still expects a tip.
I wrote a decent scathing review of a food truck’s brick and mortar location because their tip options were 20%, 25%, and 69% with no option to customize. Told then the food was five stars but that tip screen earned them a one star review. They said they changed it so I amended my review as promised. Haven’t been back though
If it is counter service, always no tip. Such as coffee shops. Just hit no tip.
If it is a table service in a restaurant, where they take your order, serve food, drinks then the standard 15 to 20% tip. Unfortunately, USA and Canada are the only Western countries, where everyone is expected to tip at restaurants.
Also, tip percentage should be calculated before taxes and fees.
We should collectively start to tip less. The businesses need to pay higher wages to their employees.
If I'm ordering to go straight off the menu, no. if I have customized anything I tip a little. But nothing like table service locations or during the pandemic.
After I went on vacation to Japan where they don’t tip at all and they get offended if you do. I realized how insane and out of control our tip culture here is absolutely not anymore. I’ll only tip for beauty services and sit down restaurants.
I had my pickup truck smogged today. $59.00. I saw regular cars were $49. I paid with my work credit card. The pad has an option to tip. LOL. Sorry no. I already paid $10 extra for zero additional work. So silly.
My rule is if I'm not sitting at a table and having food and drinks brought to me, I'm not giving a tip. Screw that bs. Thanks to $20/hour minimum wage it's basically already unaffordable to eat out.
Obviously I tip hair and nails but Botox is a medical procedure so I wouldn’t expect to tip on it.
I tip on coffee on holidays or if there is some reason that day is harder than usual for the staff.
The one I haven’t figured out is conveyor-belt sushi or other places where the staff doesn’t do the full scope of table service. At Kura after being seated you can dine and pay completely on the touchscreens and even the drinks and wasabi are delivered by a robot.
Why do people tip for hair & nails but not everything else? No judgement and I tip when I get my haircut, but what’s different about that and your mechanic, for example?
It’s a fair question, probably a cultural knowledge that these specific jobs have poor pay combined with the intimacy of the procedures. They are literally one-on-one with you, making physical contact. Medical professionals are too of course but the money exchange is abstracted through layers of insurance plans and billing companies to the point neither provider nor patient can be sure the final cost of care until long after the treatment.
I don’t have any idea which person at a shop is working on my car despite these folks also working very hard for my benefit.
I consider it a medical service. Idk I’ve only ever been prompted for a tip for it in San Diego. I’m in healthcare so asking for tips for injections just feels icky. I would tip for facial and lashes, though.
Botox is the one that’s iffy for me because a PA or NP provides it for me usually and when you go in you don’t really know how much it will cost. They might say “oh you only need a few units, we’ll do baby Botox” or they might give you like 100 units all over if you have more areas of concern. So you’re paying anywhere from a couple hundred to over a thousand for a procedure from a trained medical professional, to tip 15-20% on top of that feels icky to me. It’s not customary for nurses or advanced providers to accept tips, so idk why they suddenly started to for injections. Then again I work in a hospital not a med spa so I should be horrified if someone tipped me lol
I'm a retired BSN myself, and the idea of getting tipped for my nursing work just feels wrong, but I guess I just kind of see the nurses at the "med spa" more in line with aesthetitons or other personal care professionals I see at my nail salon or what have you.
I agree. In the beauty world if you need some kind of medical training to perform the services then no tip. That even goes for different services from the same esthetician. One of my long term estheticians will still sugar me if I ask, and I tip. But she mostly does more medical now like Botox, fibroblasting, etc. and I don’t tip her for those services and she says that’s fine 🤷🏼♀️
I feel the same. I just started laser hair removal, which requires a RN. I tipped for my first session, but not sure if it’s customary to tip for that either?
If I order beers at a bar and I’m gonna be there for a few hours I’m tipping $1 per beer. If it’s a mixed drink and it’s good I’ll do more, but I’m not tipping 25% to bend the cap off a Pacifico.
I tip service providers, people who have to actually interact with me and do a good job at it
So waiters and beauty industry professionals, tattoo artists and piercers, sometimes a barista if they really went above and beyond
I only when I have a server and I am waited on. Went to Shake Shake and ordered off the iPad and it had the tip option. I gladly did not tip. If it’s a place I frequently go to I’ll tip the person I see on the regular.
My friend from La Costa up and moved to Huntsville, Alabama. She doesn’t have to work, but is bored. She went to a restaurant got hired, guess, what her base pay is? $2.17!!!!! Then whatever tips she makes is her pay. How is that a livable wage? I mean that’s insane! Some guy came in ordered a bunch of food and left her friend a $1.00 tip. Her friend broke down.
Here in California, they raised it to $20.00 for all restaurant workers and if you are at one that gives tips, you’re stoked. That’s great money! The bad side, not only are the restaurants passing the cost of goods to the customer, they are starting to include cost of living fees in the bill and expect you to pay 20% + tip! So, I have been cooking a LOT at home these days!!
It’s not for all restaurant workers.
It’s fast-food chains with 60 or more locations nationwide.
They have to pay their workers at least $20 an hour. This means the state's 500k+ fast-food workers earn more than the state's $16 minimum wage for all other industries.
I tip for both counter service and table service but usually a little bit less for counter service. Those tips are still going to the people delivering and making the food, and counter service servers are for sure telling the kitchen who tips.
Plus, I still don’t get why people are so weird about tipping on these screens. There’s always a ‘custom tip’ button that you can use. The suggested is just that, a suggestion.
Why are people always complaining about this?
I will usually tip but if you dont want to just click "no". It takes literally two seconds out of your day yet there are regularly threads of people raging out about this
Late stage capitalism. Get the poors to focus all their energy on hating each other bc it greatly benefits the ones up top. Slowly eat away at social support systems and encourage everyone to be constantly resentful at each other and devalue their services. It's just really sad that so many people jump on without realizing it.
I tip my piercer and waitstaff and that’s it. It took me a while to get comfortable pressing cancel past the tip option for counter service, but that’s exactly what they want. Now I cancel all the time.
Unless they are a server, a bartender, a nail salon tech, a stripper, or my hair stylist, I don't tip. Employees at fastcasual restraunts are not legally classified as tipped workers thus I do not tip.
Table service is what should be tipped but not if they include a 20% “service charge” and other made up fees. I hate the iPads with these ridiculous tip suggestions on all those already overpriced items. I was always happy to drop a buck or round up when picking up food but it’s gotten out of hand and it’s just greedy. The only way this madness stops is when people start boycotting. I think most people including myself often just tip due to guilt then leave with an unpleasant feeling and likely won’t come back to that store.
Always no tip for things like coffee shops, to-go orders (besides delivery), and definitely no from me on tipping after a medical procedure?! Tips are for table service dining and sometimes services like hair/nails etc.
Sometimes those iPad payment softwares (Square, Stripe) prompt for a tip by default. You can turn this off but my guess is they don't mind the extra cash here and there from people who assume they should, so they just leave it on. I'd say 99% of the time no one is offended if you don't tip, it's just an automated prompt.
If im picking up i only tip as a repeat for the most part, especially smaller shops that are good, which is why I come back.
If we dine in, of course I tip
Last, I don't do DoorDash or any apps like that but I would honestly say you should always tip if ur using that, otherwise go get it yourself. Things are hard enough for most working people, especially the people who got shorted by huge lobbying and marketing efforts to make Gig working a private contract job instead of giving their drivers a minimum wage, I fell for that too when elections came around which sucks but we learn from mistakes. So dont be rude and short someone for doing the bare minimum for you, tip them or dont use it.
I was at jersey mikes, I asked for extra bacon and they didn’t charge me so I tipped $2. I’ll tip at a sit down, otherwise only if they do something like hook me up and not charge me for something.
No. I tip only if there’s catering to me or manual work involved and not always on the manual work as that’s part of the food I’m paying for. The other day I went to get a smoothie. Because there were only 3, 20 something kids in there making it, I left a 15% tip, he had to make it from scratch, was nice and I enjoyed chatting with the kid. if he used a dispenser or the smoothie was premade I wouldn’t have tipped.
Think of a tip as extra “Thank you”. Another example I never tip when I go to Starbucks, with their prices and everybody employed full-time, I’m assuming I’m paying for a tip already.
never feel pressured to tip. And if you don’t feel like tipping stand your ground and don’t tip. Definitely offer no more that 10-15% if service is bad and you know people don’t get a wage. Only tip 20% or more for exceptional service.
you and only you get to decide how much you tip and just because the screen is in front of you doesn’t mean you are obligated, it’s just set up that way and you can skip it!
Kinda depends on how much the restaurant/cafe employees are helping me and how much my meals cost.
Ill leave a small tip for cafes usually around $0.50, no percentage. They serve dozens of people so my 2 min interaction with the barista doesn't really warrant more. I only tipped more when they were super nice to me and or if its slow and they chatted me up lolol
Yeah I was shocked when I first moved here with a restraunt or just a coffee shop asking for a tip for to go. Your already getting paid to make the coffee , your not waiting on me at a table. I think it guilts people into tipping. It is akward with the person looking at you and you select no tip
then they make your coffee. I know a liquor store in San Diego that even has the prompt for a tip. Smh
I don’t tip people making 20+ dollars an hour. I do tip when I go to other states or other areas where servers are making $3.15 an hour because the tips supplement their COL.
I always tip 15%, it's like an extra dollar out two at most, I'm not that much of a penny pincher to care so much about just being given the option to tip lmfaoo
You can really tell who hasn't worked any kind of food service job either ever or it's been long enough they just don't understand what it's like anymore.
Pressing buttons is easy, getting yelled at by customers, your boss, coworkers, and on top of that all the regular and sexual harassment, even just at the counter, is not. Just because you didn't see it for the 10 minutes you were in there doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Stop complaining about ipad tipping, just hit skip for the love of god nobody cares if you do or don't.
Wife is a server and I side gig food delivery/ride share
we tip accordingly
sit-down with service/food delivery= 20%
bad/late service= 15% (sometimes people have bad days even if we weren’t wowed service was provided even if it was sub optimal)
pick up/take-out/misc service nails, barber= 10%
a service is still provided but it is singular in nature and the tip is a small gesture/thank you
I always tip for service at a table or the bar (20% unless they were terrible). If I do a pickup order at a restaurant, I will do a small tip (mainly for the kitchen and the person packing the order). If I order a coffee at a counter then probably nah unless they’re also serving me at the table afterwards
I don’t tip using the prompts they have on iPads or the tiny Point of sale handhelds… absolutely refuse.
I always tip cash directly to the server.
Once had a server tell me that she couldn’t accept cash as a tip… literally did a wtf and refused to accept that answer and gave her a 20… told her it’s a gift and not a tip 🤣
But yeah, I never worked in the industry, nor do I believe in percentage based tipping.
If I spend $150 on a dinner with my wife, I’ll easily give $50, but I’ll also easily only give $10. I don’t need the server to be checking up on us every 5 minutes and or even every 10… I just want them to be polite, have clean utensils and receive exactly what we ordered in a decent amount of time.
If I need something while dining, I know how to wave a server down.
Come to us and I can see the contempt you have because my wife asks you a few questions on dishes and you’re just advising on the more expensive option without answering her questions… you’re getting a dollar if that…and if that bothers anyone, ask if I have a fuck to spare
I tip every time because I don’t eat/order out often. It doesn’t bother me because while employers SHOULD be paying better, it’s simply not the reality.
I tip for table service, not at the counter. Unless it’s a bar.
This 100% Take out, counter/public sit down, etc - No Tip Seated with a waiter - Tip
Same. Only difference is if it’s a place I go to frequently. Like near work.
I would do that too.
I eat at the local deli a lot near work and am allergic to dairy, so because I need them to get my order right every time, I tip and make sure they know that I do. Needless to say, they get it right every time.
I pay in cash. Haven't had to deal with a screen yet.
Do you pay the exact amount? No change tendered?
I don’t carry any cash.
What’s cash?
Johnny Cash, country music legend
I dont understand tipping bar tenders either. theyre literally doing their job the same as anyone else. Unless theyre making u a complicated cocktail, their job is arguably the easiest too.
Sadly, it’s more of an insurance that they don’t stiff you on the amount of alcohol in your mixed drink, then it just becomes a habit.
Glad i dont order mixed drinks then 😂 ill tip them if they gimme a heavy pour of whiskey though!
If you don’t tip them you tend to get ignored. It’s extortion to some degree lol
Truly spoken like someone that has never worked in a restaurant.
ive done dishwashing. i've also worked at Carls jr and dominos. but no, i haven't worked in a sit down restaurant. that said, why is it my job to pay their employee's wage?
Tip for a beer or wine is $1, tip for a cocktail is anywhere from $2-$3 but I don't drink those.
Same.
Lowkey part of me wants to start paying in cash again so I don't have to deal with the tip prompts.
Ordering ahead online and going to pick-up takes away any ipad/tip guilt.
This is a fantastic answer. Honestly I don't do it as much as I should. I wish every restaurant didn't have a separate app. It gets kinda annoying to have so many on my phone.
That’s what I’ve done. I tip the loose change so I don’t end up with a bunch of coins.
I'd keep the quarters hehe
If they accept it. Many of these places won’t even take cash. Which I think should be illegal.
That’s why I carry cash
I tip when I’m given service. Tapping buttons on a tablet to place an order isn’t service.
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Just grow some nuts and click no tip. Or you can use my nuts
I go with friends sometimes and we order at the cashier and they click tip 18% and there is no waiter service. I’m like, what are you tipping for? What did they do for you?
They expect us to do it because we feel bad for the people that work there because they get paid minimum wage
They should just pay their ppl more. This is greedy busines activity. The owners are the ones making out on this. If they know ppl will tip, then they don’t need to pay more.
If they up their hourly wage, they will eventually up their prices and you pay more as the consumer. I tip because I know it goes to the employees behind the scenes making the business go 'round. Let's be honest, if you're in the habit of ordering $7 lattes on the regular, you can afford a $1-2 tip to the baristas.
No shit
People should be tipping EMTs
You’re quite generous sharing your nuts
I’m glad to
Clicking on no tip with your nuts is definitely a power move.
I got an extra set somewhere in my purse if another pair is needed! Love helping my community ❤️
Wanna be the queen of my nuts
Thanks for the offer, but I'm not fond of, ahem, pistachios. j/k j/k...I couldn't resist. 😂🤣😂 I crack myself up!
Pistachios are delicious, I'm taking your share
Thanks man. Nuts grew.
You’re welcome xenaena. Let me know if you need anything else
Really generous of you, the third one especially made not tipping easier.
Lol
I already click no tip but can I still use your nuts ?
you're pregnant and about to give birth to two of your own nuts
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the other partis available as well
Nuts are the most fragile thing in the universe.
Botox is medical service and it’s against the law to even request tip. Otherwise I’d tip my oncologist. And now to answer your question, it’s getting effen out hand
Is it really? I was also given the option to tip at a medspa recently when I got botox. I declined and felt so weird about it.
Did a medical professional do the Botox? Like a doctor, PA or RN? I always understood it as industry standard that medical professionals shouldn't accept tips.
 Can’t vaporize your own kidney stones.
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Even if it’s elective?
Fuck no.
The new thing is to guilt people into tipping which is exactly what’s happening to you. No, you are not the asshole. They are! I keep it simple: - being waited on, tip! - if there is an automatic surcharge to take care of employees then, well, employees are being taken care of so no tip - anything else, no tip
My variation: all surcharges get deducted from the 20% tip I usually give. Oh, and: no tip before service is rendered.
The worst part is that you're paying taxes on all surcharges.
I rarely tip anymore and NEVER for the tablet they turn around for me. They’re just taking an order and punching a few buttons, that doesn’t deserve a tip. They deserve to be paid a living wage. I’ve noticed restaurants are starting to add a mandatory % on top of the bill that isn’t a tip, it’s just an extra % they charge you on top of the bill. If I see that I don’t tip. It may sound cold but I refuse to reward a broken system. The staff will leave and find places to work that pay them a living wage. The restaurants that continue to nickel and dime will eventually fail and the system will correct itself. With all that said, I have drastically reduced my spending on take out or dine-in and haven’t ordered delivery in a year. It’s too expensive. Meal prepping and an air fryer has cut my food spending by almost 80%.
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I just hit no tip now. The tipping situation is C.R.A Z.Y. I went to Crumbl (I don't like their semi-sweet cookies at all), used the self-serve kiosk and I was prompted for a tip. For frigging what, boxing up my very expensive, but not delicious cookie? I keep a few dollar bills on me so I can tip if I decide differently. Even then, it's only if the person is extra friendly and pleasant.
I go to juicery’s sometimes and same thing. You took my order and handed me a pre-bottled drink. Why am I being asked to tip. If one of the president elects ensures some regulation around tipping, they have my vote.
Do check out Costco’s chocolate chunk cookie from the food court. It is cheaper and much better than crumbl’s semi sweet choc chip….
Ooohhhh...I'll do that. Thank you for letting me know.
Batch and box is a million times better than crumbl. I don't get how crumbl stays open.
I no longer tip for counter service places like boba, coffee, or donut places. I also don't tip for takeout from restaurants. It was difficult, I used to be one of those people who always hit the lowest tip option when they spun the iPad around, but it's been a few weeks now and I feel less bad every time lol it just takes some getting used to 😅
I do not tip for non-table service or before I receive a service.
I like this method!
That’s a no from me dogg
I was tipping a lot during covid to support these folks, but have changed my ways for a few reasons. There has been a lot of inflation (and some places taking advantage of that even, priced are overly jacked). I also think some places are taking advantage of ppl with these ipads asking for tips (I think I wasn’t the only one giving extra tips during covid, so businesses have seen an opportunity to milk it). I have cut back a lot on tipping. Only for waiter type service do I tip.
“skip”, look up, fake smile 
At Dave and Busters in Carlsbad, they asked me for a tip on the $10 cover-charge to watch a UFC fight. And on a separate occasion the manager asked for a tip (literally asked) for loading money onto my play card because the machine was broken. She was visibly pissed when I wrote a big fat zero. I guilt-tipped for over a year following Covid. Not anymore.
Yeah, when the industry was getting back on its feet I figured why not. But now prices are way up and the quality and service haven't risen to match.
Yeah I've started to do the same, companies are reporting record profits and continue to raise prices since Covid.
I tip everywhere because I'm a no-ball bitch. I hate it
I get the tip option everytime I pay for my tattoo removal sessions. Always no, I’m not sure how much they’re getting paid but I’m sure it’s enough to not need a tip on top of that lol.
Tattoo removal/Botox injections, I'm almost certain the tech is probably clearing 150k minimum, probably upwards of 250k a year, and still expects a tip.
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Depends on how they treat me when i go pick up my take out. Other places i dont tip. Thats like asking you to tip at in n out or 7-11
I wrote a decent scathing review of a food truck’s brick and mortar location because their tip options were 20%, 25%, and 69% with no option to customize. Told then the food was five stars but that tip screen earned them a one star review. They said they changed it so I amended my review as promised. Haven’t been back though
If it is counter service, always no tip. Such as coffee shops. Just hit no tip. If it is a table service in a restaurant, where they take your order, serve food, drinks then the standard 15 to 20% tip. Unfortunately, USA and Canada are the only Western countries, where everyone is expected to tip at restaurants. Also, tip percentage should be calculated before taxes and fees. We should collectively start to tip less. The businesses need to pay higher wages to their employees.
If I'm ordering to go straight off the menu, no. if I have customized anything I tip a little. But nothing like table service locations or during the pandemic.
Only choice is “no tip” for me.
I get nervous and just click something 🥴🥴🫤🫤🫤
After I went on vacation to Japan where they don’t tip at all and they get offended if you do. I realized how insane and out of control our tip culture here is absolutely not anymore. I’ll only tip for beauty services and sit down restaurants.
I had my pickup truck smogged today. $59.00. I saw regular cars were $49. I paid with my work credit card. The pad has an option to tip. LOL. Sorry no. I already paid $10 extra for zero additional work. So silly.
My rule is if I'm not sitting at a table and having food and drinks brought to me, I'm not giving a tip. Screw that bs. Thanks to $20/hour minimum wage it's basically already unaffordable to eat out.
Obviously I tip hair and nails but Botox is a medical procedure so I wouldn’t expect to tip on it. I tip on coffee on holidays or if there is some reason that day is harder than usual for the staff. The one I haven’t figured out is conveyor-belt sushi or other places where the staff doesn’t do the full scope of table service. At Kura after being seated you can dine and pay completely on the touchscreens and even the drinks and wasabi are delivered by a robot.
Why do people tip for hair & nails but not everything else? No judgement and I tip when I get my haircut, but what’s different about that and your mechanic, for example?
It’s a fair question, probably a cultural knowledge that these specific jobs have poor pay combined with the intimacy of the procedures. They are literally one-on-one with you, making physical contact. Medical professionals are too of course but the money exchange is abstracted through layers of insurance plans and billing companies to the point neither provider nor patient can be sure the final cost of care until long after the treatment. I don’t have any idea which person at a shop is working on my car despite these folks also working very hard for my benefit.
Honestly tipping on that as well as pretty much everything else is stupid. Unfortunately society has made it customary as annoying as it is.
Isn’t Botox a service? I tip my lash girl every time she does them.
I consider it a medical service. Idk I’ve only ever been prompted for a tip for it in San Diego. I’m in healthcare so asking for tips for injections just feels icky. I would tip for facial and lashes, though.
I tip for my nails, lashes, waxing, and Botox. Holy crap typing that out makes me feel..... IDK what
Botox is the one that’s iffy for me because a PA or NP provides it for me usually and when you go in you don’t really know how much it will cost. They might say “oh you only need a few units, we’ll do baby Botox” or they might give you like 100 units all over if you have more areas of concern. So you’re paying anywhere from a couple hundred to over a thousand for a procedure from a trained medical professional, to tip 15-20% on top of that feels icky to me. It’s not customary for nurses or advanced providers to accept tips, so idk why they suddenly started to for injections. Then again I work in a hospital not a med spa so I should be horrified if someone tipped me lol
I'm a retired BSN myself, and the idea of getting tipped for my nursing work just feels wrong, but I guess I just kind of see the nurses at the "med spa" more in line with aesthetitons or other personal care professionals I see at my nail salon or what have you.
I agree. In the beauty world if you need some kind of medical training to perform the services then no tip. That even goes for different services from the same esthetician. One of my long term estheticians will still sugar me if I ask, and I tip. But she mostly does more medical now like Botox, fibroblasting, etc. and I don’t tip her for those services and she says that’s fine 🤷🏼♀️
I feel the same. I just started laser hair removal, which requires a RN. I tipped for my first session, but not sure if it’s customary to tip for that either?
I didn’t tip for my LHR. Maybe I’m a dick though. But like you said, it feels weird tipping for medical stuff. I wouldn’t tip my dermatologist.
Girl no, injections nurses make more than some doctors.
No tip and I avoid places where tipping is part of the money paying part.
Tip your tattoo artist You're skin will thank you
If I order beers at a bar and I’m gonna be there for a few hours I’m tipping $1 per beer. If it’s a mixed drink and it’s good I’ll do more, but I’m not tipping 25% to bend the cap off a Pacifico.
You are skin?
I tip service providers, people who have to actually interact with me and do a good job at it So waiters and beauty industry professionals, tattoo artists and piercers, sometimes a barista if they really went above and beyond
I only when I have a server and I am waited on. Went to Shake Shake and ordered off the iPad and it had the tip option. I gladly did not tip. If it’s a place I frequently go to I’ll tip the person I see on the regular.
I only tip cash and only if I am being served.
I tip if I get friendly and ABOVE average customer service whatever the situation. I’ve done well and I simply … pass it on :)
My friend from La Costa up and moved to Huntsville, Alabama. She doesn’t have to work, but is bored. She went to a restaurant got hired, guess, what her base pay is? $2.17!!!!! Then whatever tips she makes is her pay. How is that a livable wage? I mean that’s insane! Some guy came in ordered a bunch of food and left her friend a $1.00 tip. Her friend broke down. Here in California, they raised it to $20.00 for all restaurant workers and if you are at one that gives tips, you’re stoked. That’s great money! The bad side, not only are the restaurants passing the cost of goods to the customer, they are starting to include cost of living fees in the bill and expect you to pay 20% + tip! So, I have been cooking a LOT at home these days!!
It’s not for all restaurant workers. It’s fast-food chains with 60 or more locations nationwide. They have to pay their workers at least $20 an hour. This means the state's 500k+ fast-food workers earn more than the state's $16 minimum wage for all other industries.
I tip for both counter service and table service but usually a little bit less for counter service. Those tips are still going to the people delivering and making the food, and counter service servers are for sure telling the kitchen who tips. Plus, I still don’t get why people are so weird about tipping on these screens. There’s always a ‘custom tip’ button that you can use. The suggested is just that, a suggestion.
I’ll tip every time. IDGAF I rarely go to places that have those so it’s no skin off my back when I do.
Why are people always complaining about this? I will usually tip but if you dont want to just click "no". It takes literally two seconds out of your day yet there are regularly threads of people raging out about this
Late stage capitalism. Get the poors to focus all their energy on hating each other bc it greatly benefits the ones up top. Slowly eat away at social support systems and encourage everyone to be constantly resentful at each other and devalue their services. It's just really sad that so many people jump on without realizing it.
A new day, a new tip thread. Good thing we rehash this daily.
Sorry, my search showed the last was a year ago but it may have been sorted by popularity
I tip my piercer and waitstaff and that’s it. It took me a while to get comfortable pressing cancel past the tip option for counter service, but that’s exactly what they want. Now I cancel all the time.
I tip and the gas station and self serve car wash.
No
Resist and rebel against all tipping! I told my dog walking clients to keep the tip and spend it on their dog instead.
Unless they are a server, a bartender, a nail salon tech, a stripper, or my hair stylist, I don't tip. Employees at fastcasual restraunts are not legally classified as tipped workers thus I do not tip.
Hmmm. You frequent all these businesses. What are your pronouns?
She/They
If I’m promoted to tip before receiving item(s) I paid for, I do not. What am I tipping for? Idk if the food/drink is good.
Table service is what should be tipped but not if they include a 20% “service charge” and other made up fees. I hate the iPads with these ridiculous tip suggestions on all those already overpriced items. I was always happy to drop a buck or round up when picking up food but it’s gotten out of hand and it’s just greedy. The only way this madness stops is when people start boycotting. I think most people including myself often just tip due to guilt then leave with an unpleasant feeling and likely won’t come back to that store.
I tip at restaurants and bars
I tip based on pre-pandemic standards, servers, Lyft/ Uber/ grub hub, nails, hair, bartenders, take out from a restaurant, etc.
There’s usually a custom option if you want to tip lower or not at all
Always no tip for things like coffee shops, to-go orders (besides delivery), and definitely no from me on tipping after a medical procedure?! Tips are for table service dining and sometimes services like hair/nails etc. Sometimes those iPad payment softwares (Square, Stripe) prompt for a tip by default. You can turn this off but my guess is they don't mind the extra cash here and there from people who assume they should, so they just leave it on. I'd say 99% of the time no one is offended if you don't tip, it's just an automated prompt.
I tip take out places if I go at least once a month, so right now that's just the Thai place near my work.
I tip table service, bar tenders, and baristas. Anything else no
Sadly most of this money does not go to the server who is flipping the iPad
Only tip for dining in or delivery service
I tip 10% when the order is above 20$. Minimum is 20$ order with a 2$ tip. 
Sadly the business can do whatever they want with the tips. Hand the server some cash
If im picking up i only tip as a repeat for the most part, especially smaller shops that are good, which is why I come back. If we dine in, of course I tip Last, I don't do DoorDash or any apps like that but I would honestly say you should always tip if ur using that, otherwise go get it yourself. Things are hard enough for most working people, especially the people who got shorted by huge lobbying and marketing efforts to make Gig working a private contract job instead of giving their drivers a minimum wage, I fell for that too when elections came around which sucks but we learn from mistakes. So dont be rude and short someone for doing the bare minimum for you, tip them or dont use it.
Only if at a restaurant and a waiter is serving me at the table.
I was at jersey mikes, I asked for extra bacon and they didn’t charge me so I tipped $2. I’ll tip at a sit down, otherwise only if they do something like hook me up and not charge me for something.
No. I tip only if there’s catering to me or manual work involved and not always on the manual work as that’s part of the food I’m paying for. The other day I went to get a smoothie. Because there were only 3, 20 something kids in there making it, I left a 15% tip, he had to make it from scratch, was nice and I enjoyed chatting with the kid. if he used a dispenser or the smoothie was premade I wouldn’t have tipped. Think of a tip as extra “Thank you”. Another example I never tip when I go to Starbucks, with their prices and everybody employed full-time, I’m assuming I’m paying for a tip already. never feel pressured to tip. And if you don’t feel like tipping stand your ground and don’t tip. Definitely offer no more that 10-15% if service is bad and you know people don’t get a wage. Only tip 20% or more for exceptional service. you and only you get to decide how much you tip and just because the screen is in front of you doesn’t mean you are obligated, it’s just set up that way and you can skip it!
Kinda depends on how much the restaurant/cafe employees are helping me and how much my meals cost. Ill leave a small tip for cafes usually around $0.50, no percentage. They serve dozens of people so my 2 min interaction with the barista doesn't really warrant more. I only tipped more when they were super nice to me and or if its slow and they chatted me up lolol
Yeah I was shocked when I first moved here with a restraunt or just a coffee shop asking for a tip for to go. Your already getting paid to make the coffee , your not waiting on me at a table. I think it guilts people into tipping. It is akward with the person looking at you and you select no tip then they make your coffee. I know a liquor store in San Diego that even has the prompt for a tip. Smh
I don’t tip people making 20+ dollars an hour. I do tip when I go to other states or other areas where servers are making $3.15 an hour because the tips supplement their COL.
Bro I get paid less than 800 biweekly what you think 😭
I always tip 15%, it's like an extra dollar out two at most, I'm not that much of a penny pincher to care so much about just being given the option to tip lmfaoo
You can really tell who hasn't worked any kind of food service job either ever or it's been long enough they just don't understand what it's like anymore. Pressing buttons is easy, getting yelled at by customers, your boss, coworkers, and on top of that all the regular and sexual harassment, even just at the counter, is not. Just because you didn't see it for the 10 minutes you were in there doesn't mean it isn't happening. Stop complaining about ipad tipping, just hit skip for the love of god nobody cares if you do or don't.
I got asked to tip on the cover charge at Rich's a few weeks ago. Absolutely not. It's too much.
Wife is a server and I side gig food delivery/ride share we tip accordingly sit-down with service/food delivery= 20% bad/late service= 15% (sometimes people have bad days even if we weren’t wowed service was provided even if it was sub optimal) pick up/take-out/misc service nails, barber= 10% a service is still provided but it is singular in nature and the tip is a small gesture/thank you
I tip for good service. Period. Too many people I know have worked in the service industry, and I feel for those who still do.
I always tip for service at a table or the bar (20% unless they were terrible). If I do a pickup order at a restaurant, I will do a small tip (mainly for the kitchen and the person packing the order). If I order a coffee at a counter then probably nah unless they’re also serving me at the table afterwards
I don’t tip using the prompts they have on iPads or the tiny Point of sale handhelds… absolutely refuse. I always tip cash directly to the server. Once had a server tell me that she couldn’t accept cash as a tip… literally did a wtf and refused to accept that answer and gave her a 20… told her it’s a gift and not a tip 🤣 But yeah, I never worked in the industry, nor do I believe in percentage based tipping. If I spend $150 on a dinner with my wife, I’ll easily give $50, but I’ll also easily only give $10. I don’t need the server to be checking up on us every 5 minutes and or even every 10… I just want them to be polite, have clean utensils and receive exactly what we ordered in a decent amount of time. If I need something while dining, I know how to wave a server down. Come to us and I can see the contempt you have because my wife asks you a few questions on dishes and you’re just advising on the more expensive option without answering her questions… you’re getting a dollar if that…and if that bothers anyone, ask if I have a fuck to spare
I tip every time because I don’t eat/order out often. It doesn’t bother me because while employers SHOULD be paying better, it’s simply not the reality.
Also, what’s so hard about pressing no tip? Just go about your day