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[@kara6320]

The sentiment about Instagram/Tik Tok "you spend hours consuming other people's lives and wasting your own" how true is that...Really enjoyed the chat about becoming your higher self!

[@sarahiroman8201]

Don’t feel bad about not tipping. It’s getting ridiculous everywhere. Employers are expecting customers to make up for the money they don’t want to cough up. 🙄

[@VanessaShowShow]

I love your vlogs - slices of life that I appreciate you presenting and speaking on some topics like a distant friend is here

[@ic3482]

That hair length and curls you did for the boat ride suits you so well!!

[@madhadder5]

The bathroom higher self pep talk 🙌🏼 Thank you for sharing. It definitely helped ya girl out today.

[@JenniferxKi]

put your reuseable bags in the car and also already put your wallet in one and another bag as well! you just have to get used to it, its sooo easy!

[@13kristaa]

I totally agree with the whole tipping thing. It's gotten ridiculous in Canada. The whole point of tipping is for the service provided. I give a little tip for delivery if i get take out but I'm not going in to eat, specifically because I don't want the service so I'm not going to tip for it. I wouldn't tip for a drive through coffee either!

[@gabbyiversen8915]

Love this whole vibe of this Vlog!! It helps motivate me as well to be my higher self. Thanks Melissa ❤

[@katrinacool]

Really loved this week in the life - and thank you for sharing Tika with us! 🥰❤️😊☺️ Adorable! I'm organizing my bathroom this week and purging stuff I'll never use. Gratitude is essential to mental and spiritual health. I tip twenty percent at a restaurant but the drive through is ridiculous. However it's becoming the new normal. Thank you for an informative video and hugs to you and Tika! Plus your hair is looking lovely lately! ☺️😊🥰❤️🌴🦩☀️🥰

[@allthingshealthy2314]

My husband and I talk about the excessive tipping culture all the time. There was a grocery store where we used to live and there was a tipping screen that would come up at checkout. It was like omg I literally got my own groceries and you just rang me up what the heck? We only do it at restaurants

[@Kat-dw5xk]

I don’t tip for that either lol awkward but wtv 🤷‍♀️ I only do it at restaurants where I’m sitting down and getting served

[@karenhothi1520]

I only tip at sit down restaurants - fellow cdn here- the tip option is ridiculous

[@terrib9664]

In reference to the Starbucks tipping- absolutely not. My hubby and I experienced this just last week at our own Starbucks drive through. We sat in line for X number of minutes waiting, so hard pass on that. I believe tipping culture is out of control, so I've had to become quite comfortable skipping/declining this option when presented to me at walk up services (from the US btw).

[@user-rz5nu9mg7c]

I LOVE Tika! omg she makes my day so happy. More please.

[@itsmitzi]

I mean no offense to people working in the food industry. But the tipping system means they’re not getting paid enough for their job and employers are relying to customers to fill that gap. If we promote tipping, sooner it will be mandated like in most establishments in the US. Already considering the prices of the items, adding tip is just too much. The companies’ executives get ridiculous amount of money, employers should be able to allot some of that to the rank and file.

[@aakankshasingh8893]

loved the blue dress, you looked really pretty!

[@alexst.germain1545]

There are restaurants where I live that don't have tipping and instead pay their employees above minimum wage, give health and financial benefits, and paid sick days. There is no a fight for the high volume days because you make the same prepping stations and wrapping cutlery on a slow tuesday afternoon as you do on a busy saturday night. There's no competition amongst servers for regular clients who are better tippers or "thats my section". And if they need to take a day off, getting the shift covered is much easier. It's gotten rediculous that patrons of a business are expected to offset with 20+% tipping the shitty pay that the restaurant industry allows, all while the owners and operating businesses get to use salaries as a business expense to offset revenues. Servers often have multiple jobs to just live and it is my opinion that if you work 40 hours a week for any business that you should be able to afford to live.

[@catharinailg9269]

Hi Melissa, we just always leave at least one re-usable bag in the car, so that we always have one when we you shopping.

[@maliaferrozzo435]

From WA state and when it comes to coffee specifically when tipping I am more likely to tip at an Espresso Stand because it is a local business versus Starbucks is a corporate company. Not that I don't think the barista at Starbucks deserves a tip, but since Starbucks is corporate I am unsure if the tips are actually going to them, idk I question that

[@leoneboshoff9717]

Your hair looks so pretty curled. ❤

[@ervinsmoviecorner8748]

A nice week in the life vlog, Melissa!❤❤

[@jenniferhall4352]

MY FAVE videos of the week ❤ where is your outfit from at the beginning of the vid (blue dress and shirt)?!

[@lexipasm]

60th Anniversary 🎉❤Wow that’s amazing!

[@DidiLeahLaurenKenston1111]

I love tipping but I go to Starbz every day so I feel like I have to tip every single time. I have the app and sometimes forget to use it, if you use the app, they don’t ask to tip. Your skin looks awesome. Xoxo

[@mildapra]

Have you tried heatless curls? Might be a nice option to try😊

[@laurenrands]

At Starbucks I tip every so often! Not every single time

[@nab8326]

I only when tip the service was amazing and the waiters paid me enough attention whether when I’m placing my orders or when they are bringing my food. Some don’t even put the on my table properly. Otherwise I’ll never tip.

[@crystalbennett249]

How do they even divide up the tips? 20cents each? Or wait for a certain amount?

[@desireed8386]

I love when Tika is in the videos! She is so cute! I really like your hair natural, I like it better than the extensions too. I am also a no to the Starbucks tip. Sorry, not sorry...;)

[@keyos27]

What do you think of the current tip situations in Vancouver?

[@lindsayvlogslife]

I pay with my Starbucks card so the app doesn’t prompt me to tip until after I’ve left the drive thru lol I don’t tip at Starbucks, Tim Hortons, or any fast food/drive thru place. It’s not like a restaurant where they make a server’s wage and their tips are meant to make up the difference between that and minimum wage or higher.

[@lindsayvlogslife]

Also for what it’s worth, I’ve seen Starbucks employees complaining about the tip option on the Starbucks subreddit lol lots of them say they just hit “no tip” before even handing it to the customer to avoid the awkwardness!

[@trueblonde89]

I heard sometimes the tips don’t go to the staff. I just don’t. I feel uncomfortable, but then I just remember that 😅

[@easnider]

I’ve noticed more and more places are adding tipping, i haven’t seen it at a liquor store yet but I’m not about to tip the guy putting my liquor in a bag for me lol

[@oliviaryan5438]

Just curious when you moved away from downtown and what prompted the move? It sounds like such a pain living so far out!

[@MelissaMerk]

Bought this condo years ago and its in the town I grew up in

[@haleyja]

I leave my reusable bags in the back of my trunk!

[@julirudas]

Where’s Tika’s watermelon toy? 😂🍉❤

[@Elizabeth-M2024]

Tipping has gotten so aggressive these days. So many places start at 18 or 20% now. What happened to 15%?

[@crisramcas4726]

Tika cutest ❤

[@manfredbismark6688]

Beautiful Melissa! Rudi.

[@Juliaev]

Stevens angles 😂

[@ericavigil9567]

What is the recipe at 5:29 ???!

[@tayebehshalmani6157]

I die for your dog 🥹🧡

[@user-rz5nu9mg7c]

Where is cousin steven? I know I keep asking. I miss him.

[@crista3543]

Yes, I’d tip in the Starbucks drive through. What’s the difference between the level of effort and service compared to when you’re at the register? I’d say it’s the same, if not more.

[@brigettegarcia4623]

Kool

[@YolandaChenYT]

The North American tip culture is getting absurd

[@ambergryziec5881]

Places of employment should pay a lieabke wage instead of guilting customers into paying more for little to no service.. it's a money grab and everyone needs to see it as that. Unless they actually provide some type of service directly to you such as waiting a table or your hairdresser, nail tech. Etc there is no reason to be tipping.

[@crystalbennett249]

I just wanted you to know that you look a little like Jenna dewan

[@grezb7828]

First one! 😊❤

[@meowk5812]

The tipping has been getting really ridiculous!

[@PsycheSowl]

It seems you don't want a man in your life, how long do you still want to be single