Why Tipping Is So Out Of Control In The U.S.

Tipping in the United States is on the rise and experts are calling it tipflation. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the number of tips provided at full-service restaurants grew by 17% from the fourth quarter of 2021. Meanwhile the tip frequency at quick-service restaurants rose 16% during the same time period. Experts say that's because of the newer and sleeker-looking Point-of-Sale, or POS, systems by tech companies like Square, Toast and Clover, who also have increased their sales as a result. The pressure to tip well in front of the tip receiver, before a service is completed, or in front of other customers makes a difference for many. After customers swipe their credit card, they're typically prompted with three large tipping options on a screen. While businesses can opt out of the tipping feature, most aren't. In fact, even Starbucks started prompting customers for tips in stores in September 2022. With Americans being pressured to tip higher percentages and for more services, the question is, where is the tipping point?
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:25 - Why we tip
04:09 - Tipping in 2023
05:45 - Big Tech
09:14 - Tipping point
Produced by: Emily Lorsch
Edited by: Jacob Harrell
Senior Managing Producer: Tala Hadavi
Graphics by: Midnight Snacks
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Why Tipping Is So Out Of Control In The U.S.

[@spunch1205]

What bothers me is that employees would rather get upset at the consumer for not tipping enough rather than being upset at their respective industry for not paying a liveable wage

[@tribzman3977]

You truly hit the nail on the head - in spades!!!

[@happygreenclean]

We are upset it's too entrenched the restaurant lobby groups crush us at each turn.

[@mdbbox5660]

This is exactly why companies have shifted to this model. They have shifted the blame of poor wages to the consumer, however it is the company's responsibility to pay their employees, not the consumer.

[@josealexi5141]

_IF_ the server did a good job, they would get better tips. I spent *YEARS* in the food-service industry. I've seen the most lazy, nasty servers make huuuuge bucks because customers were shamed into tipping. That needs to change! We need to bring back stiffing for servers who are not prompt, servers who are not courteous and servers who deliver bad food.

[@simpleanswer8954]

You're bothered that people raised in a particular culture expect that culture? Those servers were born and raised in a society that considers those jobs that receive tips. Of course they expect that, they've been seeing it their entire lives. Even before they ever had a job at a restaurant they saw servers getting tips. It's what they were taught to expect. What bothers ME is all the selfish jerks who want to blame the servers for adapting to the culture they were raised in. Somehow at least 156 other people are self centered enough that they can't empathize with another person. It's always a shame to see people get self righteous while also being completely self centered and oblivious to the problem.

[@BMWROYAL]

I think we should be like other countries, get rid of tips, pay employees how much they should be paid, and price the food accordingly

[@pc_814]

Agree

[@advikdeshmukh805]

You can think that all you want but it’s not gonna stop businesses from doing it

[@Andrew-zv4fm]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@tannerpaisley-ve6dq]

Just don't tip, who cares what people think

[@SmackinBabies]

I bet servers and bartenders would disagree

[@vladteyvan7564]

People say we should tip them because they aren’t paid enough by their employers. Then, how come we don’t tip teachers, cashiers, front desk employees and others, who don’t get paid enough? Tipping should be an expression of gratitude for an exceptional beyond and above service and absolutely voluntary and never obligatory.

[@popquizzz]

This Tipping and asking to add a donation at the POS terminal has annoyed me for years. I was unaware that Washington State required all employees to be paid the State Minimum Wage now which is $20 in the Seattle area. So now that I have learned this, I will not be tipping. If I want pizza or takeout I will go pick it up and pay with cash, so my purchase is not tracked and a customer profile is not so easily built. I encourage others to do this too as this culture has gotten out of hand. If you want to make the money of a highly skilled or professional person, then take the time to get that degree or professional accreditation. I am not required to subsidize your income because you chose a less skilled job. I am all about fairness of opportunity, not fairness of financial outcome. I do not get tipped for being an engineer, I get to keep my job, and I earn the respect of my colleagues and employer. Enough is Enough!

[@Fanya_valentine]

This. And not gonna lie, if tipping won't incentivize the management to take more advantage of these people, I would totally prefer to tip teachers and nurses than the cashier that rang up my take out dinner.....

[@greycats99]

This is so ridiculous! In Europe (most countries), where I live, tipping is not expected at all. I find it so annoying that you feel obliged to leave a tip in the US, which should be completely optional.

[@iluvutube4886]

It IS optional.

[@Hirotoro4692]

​@@iluvutube4886but is it really? I think by "completely" optional, they mean you feel zero guilt not to. In the US you often feel peer pressured to leave a tip, because if you don't, you're looked down on. When we were last in the US we had pretty bad service at a particular restaurant and didn't tip. The staff made it quite clear to us that we were not welcome and not to return, that's how hurried to get rid of us (and generally impolite) they became

[@user-wr9ej6xe4j]

@@Hirotoro4692 Unless your service was astonishingly terrible and the waiter was extremely rude, you should always tip at a sit down restaurant because waiters only make about $2.50 per hour. This is WAY below minimum wage required at any other job, they literally rely on tips to live. If the food takes awhile it's the cooks fault, not the waiter's. Yes it's a messed up way of paying employees but you cant change it. You explain your problem to a manager and they will likely take money off your bill, or give you the whole meal for free. But you have to tip a waiter. If you let their boss know thats how to deal with it. Anyway everywhere else tipping is not required, it's optional. Just dine in restaurants. It's ok to not understand a different culture. I just thought I'd explain and help

[@markus8484]

@@user-wr9ej6xe4jin a lot of states (especially where tourist are) the waiters make a lot more than 2,50$. That’s a thing of the Past. Minimum Wage for tipped Jobs for example in California 16$, Florida 9$, New York 10-15$.

[@Elopierek]

In the states, for people to be nice to you, you have to pay them for it XD

[@704musicent]

People love to tell everyone if you can't afford to tip you should stay home. They say you shouldn't be going out and having a good time if you can't afford to tip. I think the same should hold true for the businesses, if they can't afford to pay employee's the bare minimum wage and still be profitable then they SHOULD close up shop.

[@TheJalesa1207]

Absolutely!!!

[@AKYLE315]

And everybody wouldn't work there anyway if they got paid 8.25 an hour

[@vitojosie]

I stay home.

[@ykthatman9763]

I will only tip if they deserve the tip

[@user-hq5ge5qj4k]

If they cannot pay their workers properly should not have started the business.They want to guilt trip all the customers into thinking they are doing injustice to the workers if they pay anything less than 20%. Tip is supposed to be paid only if you like the service,a small amount of 5-10% as gratitude.

[@brainown3149]

Its literally a way for employers to get out of paying there employees. Passing the responsibility to pay onto the customer.

[@Bat_Boy]

💯. If I’m going to pay their salary, I want to do their performance review as well. And if I do that…I want a salary too. Don’t ever tip. I haven’t in 25 years.

[@StreetCycleSoldier]

Totally agree! I'm not getting paid to do some restaurant manager's payroll!

[@thakiusmuckfeather1103]

@@Bat_Boy True. Also, I doubt that all people getting tips are declaring them to the IRS.

[@thakiusmuckfeather1103]

@@Bat_Boy how do you not tip in restaurants without getting arrested? It is a MUST isn't it?

[@joejensen5962]

This is what walmart SPARK is doing! most customers dont know walmart doesnt pay the delivery drivers hourly. Sometimes they make workers wait HOURS in the parkinglot unpaid, to only deliver 1 order, for $8-11. They also are 1099- NOT W2 employees! TIP YOUR DRIVER PLEASE!!!

[@Kathysart]

The owner of a nail salon told me I had to give her my tip in CASH… pointed to a machine to get it from. The machine charged me for getting said cash. The owner said she no longer accepted tips on my credit card. I never went back. I also berated her on Yelp. A tip should be something I’m not obligated to give. It’s a thank you and appreciation of a good job. It’s a kind gesture. I won’t meet a demand of one.

[@catseye1009]

Now that is a story for a discussion on tipping. If I did not have the cash on me, I wouldn’t have gone to an ATM, pay an ATM fee to tip someone. Tipping is not mandatory. If the owners accept payment for services by credit card, then my tip should be accepted if I decide to leave one. I dare someone to point to a machine to tell me I must tip with cash. Another idea, dig in your purse for a nickel and give them that. It is the principle; I actually prefer to tip in cash and give to the server in person. Some businesses make employee split tips-an unfair practice.

[@LaydeeLyrix]

Why did you tip period? Don’t reward that behaviour

[@jkgf4671]

Tipping with cash and not card? Sounds like someone is not reporting tips to the IRS, go and make a call to the IRS to check them out.

[@Kathysart]

@@jkgf4671 it was because of credit card charges, she said. I hadn’t thought of the tax thing. You’re probably right.

[@simonbone]

She owns the ATM and keeps the ATM fee. Since you now have a lot of cash, you may e inclined to give a bigger tip. Then, pockets the tip in cash and dosn't report it on taxes.

[@gordonbills5720]

People simply need to stand up for themselves. I routinely hit the no tip option when presented with a tip screen in a setting where a tip is inappropriate. I don’t care who knows it or what they think.

[@ludmilaandr8793]

I started doing that too, especially if I am asked to tip before the service. And I frequently choose to customize the amount. I have no problem tipping for a good service, but it's not so common these days.

[@chasekelloggbyron1412]

No actually. It is the responsibility of the people who are not forced into that position in our economy to fight for those who don't have that privilege. If they fight to have more fair wages, they could be fired. If WE fight to help them have more fair wages, the restaurant owners can't do anything to us. If you don't like tipping, ask to contact their manager and get in contact with the business own and complain that their workers aren't being paid enough and that you shouldn't have to pay for their workers for the business owners.

[@maryvasquez7246]

That’s what I do .

[@Kashif314]

Stand up for what? Paying tips gonna make you poor? I wish people understand compassion and selfless help.

[@carlosperezsala3353]

Stand up for stopping the nonsense. You do your job the best you should and you get paid for that by the employer, not by the customer

[@KungShu69]

I always feel like I'm paying a "Don't spit in my food" fee when I'm asked about a tip before actually getting anything.

[@OddlyIncredible]

I've stopped going to places for this, and have told managers and owners why. If you're demanding a tip for services that have not yet been rendered I don't feel safe about what those services will be.

[@jasonbourne9222]

@@nickrulzyou Thats how tipping works in the rest of the world .We tip for exceptional service and not because the person feels entitled to my money even though they dont work for me.

[@cardknocklife4035]

If you are that neurotic, then you probably shouldn't be eating out.

[@kevina.2269]

​@Nick Wrightsel I assume you tip generously? A least 25% on takeout ?

[@mathewvanostin7118]

The worst they make money. If you can get 5$ tip on 40 people. Thats makes 200$/hour salary rate. As it the dude was a doctor or dentist

[@Dampy.69]

Tipping the car mechanic so he wouldn't sabotage your car is like tipping your landlord to not set your house on fire while you're sleeping.

[@ronaldmelendrez1909]

Actually, that happens, at least in Central America. They sabotage your car to get you back soon for them to make more money servicing your car. It is a cycle if you don't find a mechanic to trust. They remove original parts from your vehicle, put some generic parts and sell your parts to other customers.

[@AdonanS]

Do people tip their mechanic? Mechanics are paid pretty damn well, they don't need tips.

[@WOLF--rg1ym]

@@AdonanSthey aren’t actually

[@grandpulse7970]

​@@WOLF--rg1ymmechanics are some of the highest salaries in the country. Who told you that lie

[@debby8428]

@@grandpulse7970 Not true. If they own their own business yes. If they work for a dealership or a big company -no. They get payed by "book time". If the "book" says you can do a job in two hours but you take longer because there are unforeseen problems you only get paid two hours. And where my husband works he doesn't get paid until the car is picked up. You'd be surprised how many people leave their cars for months.

[@DEEDEE-gw7hl]

I thought I was only one who has been thinking for years that this “tipping” thing is RIDICULOUS! Yes, restaurants, hotels etc should pay their employees accordingly. It should not be the customers responsibility or made to feel guilty.

[@claudiuflorea2090]

Im going to share an experience of mine, pretty jncredible actually. While in my holiday in Turkey, I stopped by my self at a central restaurant to grab something to eat. I was just there the other day and I liked what I ate so I really wanted to repeat it. It would so happen that I only had a limited amount of money on me because I just had to exchange some more currency later on so I carefully ordered within the exact budget. At the end, I find out I have to pay 10% so I couldn’t understand why. Then the guy who served me shows me a well hidden paragraph situated on the first page of the menu where you can’t actually find food options so you naturally skip it?! 😅 In other words, the 10% was MANDATORY. then I told about this to my family and they confirmed that this is a new thing in the restaurant business. All being said, you can imagine I had an awkwrd time trying to explain those guys that I actually have no more money on me. Honestly the fact that they were quite a sleazy type of restaurant and the fact that I knew I was in the right made it a little easier to me, but all in all, bad experience and something that definitely shouldn’t happen. This also happens to the delivery businesses in my country where the guy that deliver the things prefer to park in a central place and call in the customers to come and pick their items just because it is a small town rather than doing their job and deliver it to the door as it should be. They actually even expect tips for that and they will be mad at you if you don’t do it and also they were mad when I asked them to deliver the item at the adress added in the order… So yeah, I guess businesses will take advantage of you if you allow them. At the end of the day, nobody is forced to work as a waitress or delivery guy if they don’t like the pay and the owners should respect their personnel. I would never start a business if I wasn’t 1000% sure that I can take care of my people. It is clear that these situations are caused by dubious type of peoples and we shouldn’t care about them at all.

[@LoneWolfZakuro14]

I live in Japan, and I’m so glad we don’t have tipping! Am always shocked by tipping when going back to the states.

[@ScooterinAB]

I appreciated this as well. The tip is my continued business over other businesses, and the service is to get me to want to do so. I tipped a very few times as a point because I wanted to give back, but it was a rarity and often wouldn't get easily accepted.

[@zzzzoot]

Tipping is designed to take the frustration worker have for their employer, who does not pay them fairly, and redirect it to the customer. The employer is spared of blame, and the problem now becomes how generous the customer is.

[@PDXdjn]

100% accurate.

[@futuza]

@Tsim Which also makes me (as a customer want to tip) because I'm afraid if I don't they'll spit in my food or something. They do a great job of turning us against each other.

[@reddingmalik]

This is so true

[@ericd1632]

Maybe that used to be true, but most of these employees are making a minimum of $15/hr now. It's ridiculous

[@JaneAtwellRobinson1825NY]

THIS should be the pinned comment!! So true.

[@maestreiluminati87]

Business owners paying their workers less than minimum wage and then convincing them the responsability lies on the customer is one history's greatest finesses.

[@answerman9933]

So what? You are not required to tip. Are you a sheep and tip out of fear?

[@dianeismyname250]

@@answerman9933 Only tools and bootlickers defend bad business practices.

[@answerman9933]

@@dianeismyname250 So, if someone tips are they effectively supporting the business or the employees?

[@Theferd42]

They want to make you think that tipping is for the employee but I feel this is for the employer to excuse themselves from higher wage. It has gotten crazy lately.

[@nas8326]

I tip everywhere I go, because I want the person keep showing up to work. Don't tip and just get everything from Amazon and don't tip your driver, I guess. Tippers makes the universe turn. Everyone should thank tippers because non tippers are receiving some of the benefits of those tips. Your more likely to get good service or at least a quality worker that just might be doing the job of 2 people due to tips. If you constantly get horrible service, maybe it's easy to see you're a non tipper or you just miserable or maybe just funny looking and they don't want your money anyways, but they provide services in hopes of getting you out of there quickly, so they can get a tipper next. Non tippers lack compassion and generally are bare minimum kind of people, with empty lives and no REAL friends. Who doesn't tip? Wow, no friend of mine, that's for sure.

[@shellderp]

tipping for mechanic is unheard of

[@Voorhees-Jason]

The only time I tip a mechanic is if its a friend or someone that came to my home to do a job and they did me a solid on a tight spot or a mechanic that goes out of their way for me kind of thing.

[@gravHS]

because you're already paying the labor fee... are you dense?

[@Thedesertguy75]

One thing i learned from a tipping industry is never expect anything, and you will be pleasantly surprised. People tend to be more generous when you dont ask or hint at it.

[@berrymint6384]

Yeh almost as if tipping is a GIFT not a homework

[@MookMineola]

I worked in a tip dependant job for over ten years . Some people tipped ,some did not ; some were generous , some mean. I found it best to never expect anything, and that way sometimes I was happily surprised . I also found that it is best to look at what you made overall at the end of the month ( including tips ) . It is no good thinking everyone should tip or that some are mean. Also recently I had a sprinkler repair done at my home , and later was sent the bill to pay online . The bill was $500.00 and suggested tips were 15%, 20% and 25% . I added 20% . ordinarily maybe I would have left zilch , however , the employee was out working in 117 degrees ( Phoenix ) and he did a great job . I hope he appreciated the 100 bux tip , and the company themselves didn't stitch him up . Ultimately though I ant help feeling tipping is getting out of hand

[@castertr0y357]

"You're being guilted into tipping on something that's not a service. It's someone simply doing their job." This is absolutely true. I hate that companies are prompting customers for a tip when you went to the physical location and got what you ordered. It's not a tip when you are doing what you are hired to do. And as long as companies are able to guilt customers to foot the bill to cover their employees living, nothing will change.

[@gogosqueez3367]

this is what I have been saying. Like making a coffee is the job you get paid to do, you aren't waiting on me for an 1-2 hours like at a restaurant.

[@robertsmith4150]

Many stand-alone full service businesses pay less than minimum wage, and the employees count on tips to make the difference in pay. Why not ask the employees the next time you go to any restaurant before you blanket your response on tipping.

[@jimmyhoac7]

@@robertsmith4150 if they pay less then minimum wage,you can sue them when you leave the job and ask them repay it to you,that is law

[@Josh-nd3qy]

get mad at the company/owner, not the employees who need the tips or else they'd need a 3rd job to pay rent.

[@maargenbx1454]

But waiting on costumers is also what waitstaff is hired to do. They should be paid for it.

[@kataisa3]

I ordered a pizza and went to the restaurant to pick it up. I unabashedly clicked on “No tip”. I already paid for my pizza, you have no right to expect a tip simply for ringing my pizza up. I refuse to feel pressured or guilty about not tipping.

[@mistermatsuda]

I now pay online to avoid the whole situation - just give them your order number and be off.

[@gigiflaner3568]

Good for you! Hold the line. I live in California, where they DO require a state minimum wage even for tipped employees, unlike the federal law. Yet they ask for tips for everything here now, including buying a pen at a stationary store! I don't feel any shame, only anger. I will go out of my way to take more time on the tablet to hit no tip, even if they make it hard to find that option, I don't care if I'm holding the line or the cashier is staring at me. You don't reward bad behavior, you stand your ground.

[@oooh19]

If someone’s delivering or serving you then yea tip but not if you’re grabbing takeout

[@BBGOnYT]

@@gigiflaner3568 It is large companies taking advantage of the kindness of people.

[@BestoftheBest-oz4ei]

@@oooh19 Yup if I get to eat my meal first THEN pay I'll leave a tip. If I have to pay for my food first before eating it, then I don't tip. Only exception for me are buffets. Don't even get me started on take out ... expecting a tip for that is just

[@andrewbutterface3361]

I've reached a point where I actively avoid places that do tipping, or ask for tips when ordering online.

[@animehuntress9018]

I'll never forget the time when me and my friends went to a sit down pizza place and because we were a bunch of kids the waitress treated us like crap. We could completely see the difference from when we went with our families to an after school celebration with friends. We refused to tip because of that. We had each planned to pitch in between 2-5 dollars for the tip and split the difference of the bill with only one paying it up front and the rest of us paying them to make the bill easy. We also went when we knew it would be a bit slower and from planning to celebration kept the pizza place and making things easy for them in mind as we all loved the place. There were only 2 other families at the restaurant and it takes you 20 minutes to get our drink order let alone you want to swing back to take our actual order? That waitress had the gall to try and follow us out of the restaurant. Her arrogance in thinking she had pinned us as low tippers and therefore easy to treat poorly bit her hard. She could have easily made $20-30 in tips since there was 10 of us and that would have been about a 50% tip. When we told her that and the manager who came to see the commotion... no one walked out of there feeling good which sucked and it was the last time anyone of us ate there too. I don't mind tipping reasonably but I do hate how tipping is treated. It should never be considered a wage and frankly shouldn't be taken out of your wages just because someone feel's you gave exceptional service.

[@rjweiss1]

If a company asks for a tip before service and it starts at 20% I immediately hit NO TIP. 100% guilt free

[@Stevesguitarchannel840]

Yeah it’s stupid. I am a bartender and delivery driver and I think that tipping thing is stupid. When I am making cocktails or deliver food, I don’t ask you to tip until I’m done with the service and even then I don’t guilt trip you into anything I just make the drink, deliver your food and walk away it’s my job. Guilt, tripping and nearly forcing customers to tip even before the service is unconstitutional and almost like a bribery and a Third World country.

[@NoirAngel921]

Yeah because you could be tipping for crappy service. I only tip places I've been to numerous times and give great service.

[@Stevesguitarchannel840]

@@NoirAngel921 same here. I only tip if I get good service if it’s terrible service, I don’t tip at all. When I was bartending in Miami Beach, owl were tips were included in everyone’s paycheck and in some areas like Ocean Drive or the big tourist destinations they have 20% already added on to your bill.

[@xMorningShadowx]

@@Stevesguitarchannel840 Most third world countries don't ask for tips, they get paid by their employers.

[@Stevesguitarchannel840]

@@xMorningShadowx lol even Third World countries know tipping is stupid

[@camjohn5153]

I remember one time I went to a bar at a music venue and ordered two beers for myself and my uncle. The bartender reached into the fridge, opened two tall cans and handed them to me. Then when he passed me the card reader, it gave tip options of 18%, 20%, and 25%. I skipped the tip option and payed the already ridiculous price for two beers. When I handed the card reader back, the bartender gave me a disgusted look when he saw I didn’t tip. I just couldn’t believe that he genuinely thought I would tip him 18% for just reaching into a fridge and opening two beers. Modern-day tipping culture is terrible and it’s crazy how society is expected to tip large amounts for the most basic services.

[@Nate-zm6bd]

bartending and waiting tables is a little different. in most cases they get paid less wages due to the expectation they get tips. not sure where it lies now but up until recently most establisments in GA pay their servers and bartenders something like 2 dollars and change an hour.

[@MultiSUPERLATIVO]

@camjohn5153 Hello and sorry for bothering you. I have heard that in some cases there aren't any "decline tip" options available!

[@gamingbtc]

@@Nate-zm6bd oh so we all have to go to a course to study which professions get paid less and be experts in that knowledge now, just to buy things? Awesome. Keep defending bartenders...great job and way to encourage tipping culture.

[@Nate-zm6bd]

@@gamingbtc wow. if you have to take a course to figure out service industry makes less due to it being a traditionally tipped service. pay based upon the quality of service rendered. you got alot of courses to take. not sure but seems like you intended your comment to be insulting. but really says a whole lot more about you. and your intelligence. or lack there of. Heres my last lesson young padawan. tip the pizza delivery guy. But you have every right to be upset about them pressuring you to tip at a drivethru......

[@EasyMoneySG]

@@gamingbtc Tipping bartenders has existed well before this insane tipping culture stuff.

[@abeelvago]

I earned tips. How? Frequent visits to the table, 'is verything ok?', 'would you like something else?', memorizing the daily menu, knowing what was in most things on the menu, suggesting and openly discouraging some thing item on the menu I knew where sub-par or overpriced, etc. I always saw tips as a reward for going above and beyond. Not something I felt entitled to. I even once got a request to come work on an off date, because a fancy businessman requested I wait the table he reserved to host some investors, I of course showed up and did my ususal thing, got the biggest tip in my life.

[@popquizzz]

This Tipping and asking to add a donation at the POS terminal has annoyed me for years. I was unaware that Washington State required all employees to be paid the State Minimum Wage now which is $20 in the Seattle area. So now that I have learned this, I will not be tipping. If I want pizza or takeout I will go pick it up and pay with cash, so my purchase is not tracked and a customer profile is not so easily built. I encourage others to do this too as this culture has gotten out of hand. If you want to make the money of a highly skilled or professional person, then take the time to get that degree or professional accreditation. I am not required to subsidize your income because you chose a less skilled job. I am all about fairness of opportunity, not fairness of financial outcome. I do not get tipped for being an engineer, I get to keep my job, and I earn the respect of my colleagues and employer. Enough is Enough!

[@joshh7545]

I went to a cookie shop with my mom a few months ago, we walk in, both politely said “hello”, the cashier didn’t even respond just straight up stared at us, even while we were looking at different cookies. My mom said “are you going to speak or just stare at us?”, he eventually spoke but he didn’t really want to. When we bought our cookies he did the tip flip and we put no tip. The receipt printed, instead of handing it to us he took it and looked at it for 5 seconds and THEN handed it to us while shaking his head. These places want tips but can’t even give bare minimum customer service. It’s annoying af.

[@Catalyna]

they should be trained to greet customers, either the management didnt train them correct or they did and the employee is refusing to greet, so either way no tip should be awarded until both issues are resolved.

[@bharris4517]

Your mom’s an OG!!!

[@FT029]

Seems like the worker was very tired and forced to come to work. Even though the service was quite bad I don't think they are fully to blame-- consider how management is not paying them enough or not giving people sick days

[@StarChild.no1]

So, a song and dance for $2.75/hr + tips?? Employee needs to be more up beat, selling cookies at a counter for a living? How about their employee pay them a decent wage and tip is something a customer just feel like doing but not obligated?

[@cheezedoodlenygguh6229]

@@bharris4517 American women are "OGs" and that's why nobody wants to live with them.

[@CountessGemini]

A student of mine has spent six months in Canada on a student exchange program. When she came back she told us how she was expected to tip everyone who worked in services and how it was a problem for her with her limited pocket money she received. Here in Poland you only tip waiters in restaurants or cafes, 10% is the maximum amount you would give and only if you were very happy with the service. So, dear American employers, it is not the customers’ business to pay your emoloyees’ wages. It’s time you sorted it out and started paying the people you employ a salary they can live on.

[@svegetax]

It's the same here. Those being fooled into this have only themselves to blame. As for the employers. They got greedy during covid when Americans felt bad for closures and business struggles. We gave a little extra. They now think we should be able to part with that money the same as we did then. Part of the video even seems to plead acceptance. I don't think so. Finally the one asking for pre tips before a service is even given should be sued for intimidation tactics. Because that's all it will lead towards.

[@tomodomo1000]

I was in Canada recently. Prices without tax, with almost mandatory tip, for giving me bread in the bakery, from a shelf to my hand. It looks like you were scammed in America.

[@Gofr5]

I'm living in Canada and I just honestly ignore all this tipping garbage. Only tips I give are at a restaurant or my hair dresser, as those were always traditionally tipped. Why is my local sandwich joint or pizza joint asking for tips? No way that's happening. My coffee joint (Tims) thankfully doesn't ask for tips, but you can bet I wouldn't give them any either if they did. It's out of control and way worse across the border in the US.

[@mammutMK2]

The best tip you can give to a location is coming back and recommend then to others

[@nathanlackey1106]

Corporate: the best we can do is 7.25

[@LanHikari90]

I visited the US for the first time in my life in 2021 and a second time in 2023. The first time, a local friend of mine, his fiance and I visited a restaurant in Salem, MA. We had clam chowder and some other things, which were actually pretty good. I was invited, but I noticed that my friend left "only" $5 as a tip. I say "only", because after leaving, our waiter went out of his way to follow us out of the restaurant and shout over the street: "We usually expect tips of 20-25% here!" All while waving the $5 bill in his hand. That was pretty crazy. I'm danish-japanese and I live in Germany. Denmark and Germany have tips, too. And it also feels kinda expected at times, but the tips are nowhere near as high. In Japan, tipping is rude, as good service is part of the product or service you're purchasing. I pretty much settled with only tipping if the service was exceptional. I'm not willing to pay your wage that your boss should be paying you. Especially if you didn't do anything else besides filling a cup or handing me some food. Sorry, not sorry! These days, prices for food and services have skyrocketed, up to the point that I rarely eat out instead of cooking and hell no, I won't pay 20-25% of the bill on top of that. lmao.

[@popquizzz]

This Tipping and asking to add a donation at the POS terminal has annoyed me for years. I was unaware that Washington State required all employees to be paid the State Minimum Wage now which is $20 in the Seattle area. So now that I have learned this, I will not be tipping. If I want pizza or takeout I will go pick it up and pay with cash, so my purchase is not tracked and a customer profile is not so easily built. I encourage others to do this too as this culture has gotten out of hand. If you want to make the money of a highly skilled or professional person, then take the time to get that degree or professional accreditation. I am not required to subsidize your income because you chose a less skilled job. I am all about fairness of opportunity, not fairness of financial outcome. I do not get tipped for being an engineer, I get to keep my job, and I earn the respect of my colleagues and employer. Enough is Enough!

[@ForTheFLOL]

I recently made a $150 donation to a political candidate. After paying, I was taken to a page that asked me to leave a tip for the party. I’m like WTF. This tipping thing is a menace to society. I no longer eat out. I don’t mind tipping, but the service charge is stupid because it’s not my responsibility to subsidize the waiter’s living wage. And I will not support the owner who do not paid their employees a living wage.

[@StarchieHalo]

Being asked to tip on uber before the order is even picked by a driver is absolutely insane

[@KingBenn]

That's a double edged sword. We order via Ubereats maybe once a week. Mainly a dessert on a Saturday evening. I usually set the original tip amount low. The driver has the option to accept it or not. If I feel the service was above my "mental bar", I have the option to tip more within an hour of delivery. I'm honest.... After working all week, I'm way too lazy to go get something. So this person is driving to get my stuff, probably waiting for it, then delivering it to my door step. All because I don't feel like going to get it. If it arrives in a timely manner and I see they took precautions like using an insulated bag..... Yeah, I'll boost that tip and they will get a nice surprise in an hour. But again, I don't feel "pressured" into it like these stores are now doing.

[@sherryhillman9197]

I don’t do a tip. I give the person cash when they arrive because l will be at home. I think the restaurants should also seal the bag some way so it can’t be opened.

[@cauliflaa9910]

Uber and doordash drivers have the choice to take the order or Decline the order when it pops up. Which is why they ask to tip first. Each order only pays 2 dollars by the company so Most people skip orders with no tip or less tip. With gas being so expensive 2 dollars to picking up, drive and deliver while spending gas is not worth it. Especially sometimes it takes forever for the restaurant to have your order ready. The non tip orders then go to combined orders or drivers who need to boost their acceptance score. Pretty much if you want your food fast tip.

[@panikk2]

​@@cauliflaa9910^this. I've done door dash for years and less than 10 percent of deliveries will increase their tip after you are done. If you accepted every delivery as it was and you aren't in a major metropolitan, you will find out quickly you will lose money and be paying for the convenience of working and beating on your car. That's why door dash just introduced being able to be paid by the hour (from the moment you hit accept). It was to solve this problem because drivers were actively sharing how hilariously low their acceptance rates were

[@saturn_illus]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't services like Postmates and Uber Eats already charge an insanely high delivery fee before even asking for tips anyways? (I remember it being like 50% of my order cost...) And to my knowledge this delivery fee is partially for paying its drivers. So why the tip? That's like adding on a tip and then asking for a second tip.

[@JadenBoss]

Whoever said it was legal to pay employees less because they make tips is the cause of this problem.

[@RebuttalRecords]

Absolutely, I can't agree with you more.

[@robertagren9360]

They realize they could make people pay more than they needed because a tip can not be given before the service. It's bribes.

[@nsant]

In most cases, the employer has to pay the employee the difference if they don't get tipped at least up to minimum wage, correct?

[@breadfan9]

Pay cash. Problem solved

[@iamweave]

In California min wage is $15.50 including tipped employees -- and they still having tipping.

[@sstargazer8353]

It's absolutely ridiculous how people gets angry at customers for not tipping instead of their employer not paying them well.

[@Why_ask_]

My wife and I pretty much started doing our own “date night” cooking at the start of the pandemic. We discovered working together in the kitchen helped build the experience of intimacy. It also improved our cooking. Although we occasionally eat at a restaurant, having to choose between 18, 22 and 25% tip for service no better than when it was 15%, for food which is also no better than it was - and more expensive - has led us to eat out less. So even though I sometimes pay the 18%, I spend much less money in tips than before as I no longer go into the restaurant in the first place.

[@itsthequeenfatima]

I am an American in Paris and I was appalled at the amount of times I was asked to tip in the US and the amount expected in restaurants. Employers should PAY their workers a liveable wage. We should not be living in a tip dependant society!

[@EdLavender]

They main opponent to any legislation that appears to do away with tipping is not actually tipped employees. If you hear ads on tv or radio, usually with the slogan "Save Our Tips," they are always funded by restaurant owner associations. The current system allows them to pocket the revenue from the sale, while the customer pays the employee's wages. Changing that would eat into their profits (oh, sorry for the pun).

[@JacksonS44]

In my state, there is a clause in employee compensation law that states employees can be paid below minimum wage if they have average tips that give them the minimum wage.

[@cachi-7878]

I agree, it’s ridiculous and out of control. The worst thing is that Americans travel to other countries where tipping is not expected yet they tip anyway and are now habituating the locals to expect tips from foreigners. I was in a country which I won’t name; their restaurant workers are paid a full wage with benefits. I was with a friend of mine and he suggested I tip the server. I asked the cashier about it and was told it was not necessary and not expected. He confirmed the servers were paid a full wage with benefits and did not expect tips. My friend guilted me into tipping anyway. Tipping used to be a sign the customer appreciated a service that went above and beyond what is expected. Nowadays it is there, as a matter of fact, systematically, to supplement the worker’s meager salary that the employer can’t afford or doesn’t want to pay his or her employees. We are all subsidizing business owners for their lack of ethics and accountability towards their employees. In some cases, business owners cannot afford to pay their employees more, I get it, and at some point we need to take a hard look at our priorities as a capitalistic society and treat employees with more dignity. I understand this is not as simple as it sounds but other countries manage, so we should too.

[@americangirl8970]

@@EdLavender What I hate are restaurants that charge $7 for a draft 12 oz Yuengling.

[@nataliefontane]

Didn't I see you featured on a CNBC video yesterday?

[@michaelreid274]

European visiting America recently. I went to an Amtrak train station with my disabled child in a wheelchair - immediately a very helpful red coat person ran up to us and took the wheelchair and wheeled us the whole way to our train. Just as we lifted the wheelchair up the steps he basically stuck his hand out. That was the worst example of many others over a few weeks, where having a wheelchair was an absolute burden as you had service workers run to help you without asking, and then having the social awkwardness of feeling obliged to pay them. What an awful way to run society, making everyone cynical of each other's motives. Helping other people should mostly not have an immediate and expected pay off.

[@janeceeastwood8035]

You’re right, of course. It used to be like that but, unfortunately, our society is rapidly moving away from that standard on both Coasts. I got disgusted with the politicians ruining California, so after a lifetime in Orange County, I left California and resettled in the Midwest. I found a whole different world. People are so helpful and polite, and eager to help. Sadly, my fellow Americans can keep the Coasts.

[@BBGOnYT]

Completely wrong. Your example is just kindness and dealing with kind workers. They should not expect a tip and I doubt they are expecting a tip also. The idea of tipping is rewarding good service. That is why you tip your servers, bellman, valet, and bartenders. I have personally worked as a bellman before. I was able to use my average tip amount to see if the service I was providing was good enough. It was an incentive to provide good service. And no, don't think it was the hotel not paying enough. We got a free, high quality food, good breaks, and got paid over minimum wage.

[@hinata5736]

That’s such a twisted view… This example portrays what it’s like to see other humans just as customers/money bags that should pay for literally everything. It reduces human interaction to a financial model. Should I ask for a tip when I hold the door open for someone? (Why stop at your job, when you basically „work“ for people in your everyday life?)

[@melissawalker3874]

I ordered some supplies from a local pet supply store and I didn't get them for 2 days. The excuse I was given was I didn't offer a big enough tip. When I was growing up a tip was a way of thanking somebody for a very good service. The joke eventually was on the driver because even though I put down $4 as a tip for bringing my order 2 miles, and it was just a cardboard cat scratcher and cat claw trimmers. How do I order cat litter and cat food I would have offered a much bigger tip, but I put in the order instructions to knock on my door. I had planned on giving the driver a few more bucks in cash but the driver ignored the delivery instructions so they didn't get their extra money

[@SuadeScars555]

Bro we dont care europe is a complete shithole, you know better than we do but believe us we know damn well how grotesque and snobby it is out there

[@tjtyjtj65tj651tj]

This whole topic is such a trip for me! In my country, that is by no measure a paradise, tipped employees are restricted to the restaurant industry and even they are paid at least the national minimum wage. Moreover, the 10% service charge usually asked by restaurants is absolutely optional.

[@Cuurtizz]

Adding a tip to inflated costs will continue to affect unskilled labor and the economy. I personally have very little desire to eat out anymore because of low quality and high costs.

[@rickdeckard9810]

I've actually had an employee at a Subway restaurant who told me NOT to tip from the machine when prompted because the owner was keeping all of it and not giving it to the employees.

[@DefiningDave]

You should go back and mention to them that to do so is considered wage theft and that the employees should talk to a lawyer.

[@richsuga]

​@@DefiningDaveQuite true, but I would guess most Subway employees would need to be put in contact with a pro bono lawyer.

[@damienwarlock]

Subway is an awful company

[@mr.frandy7692]

That boss should be in prison for a couple years. I'm not exaggerating.

[@SunlessComa4614]

I had something somewhat similar happen at Sally Beauty last month. I bought $14 worth of product, and when the option to tip $1, $2 or $3 popped up on the screen, the employee apologized and cleared it out. I'm used to that at live music merch stands, and between that and my LMT sister I've learned that unless there's a cash tip jar, employees only see a small fraction of the amount. Same principle applies to most sit down restaurants, and I ALWAYS leave a cash tip

[@musicmaker11]

After living in Japan for 5 years, where tipping is not a thing and even considered an insult, I am all for getting rid of tipping and forcing companies to pay their employees an actual wage.

[@SlickRickTPB]

tipping is a thing in Japan it's already included in the bill your food is higher priced. 😉japan just forces you to do it automatically without objecting 🤣

[@miskatonic6210]

​@@SlickRickTPBThat's not a tip, dummy.

[@astatalol]

​@@SlickRickTPBSure buddy, suure.

[@user-um9xn1wz3q]

​@@SlickRickTPBAs a Japanese who's been to america, I can say America's tip culture is totally different from japan's service fee system. You have to pay the service fee in japan only when you stay at a hotel or eat at some fancy restaurant. Moreover, that extra fee is not the main source of income for employees in japan.

[@mshmsh9313]

@@SlickRickTPB Yes, of course, when you pay, you pay for the service, food, coffee, or anything the restaurant or café offers. This is known in countries that do not make their employees beg for their rights in exchange for the work they do. In addition, customers feel more comfortable when they do not have to pay different amounts for the service. Personally, I do not think that tipping is bad, but if it is necessary, it should be one option, either 10 percent of the bill, or 15 percent more than that. I think that restaurant and store owners are trying to give their employees their salaries from their customers in a dirty scam. The store owner gets his profits and leaves his employees in front of... Customers to collect their salaries. Are we in the Middle Ages? For your information, I am not from America, and my country does not have a standard for tipping. I was confronted by an employee. I gave him change as a tip, but he asked for more. All I did was ignore him because he has no right. He gets a salary. If it is not enough, this is his problem. He should solve it with the employer, not with the customers.

[@jjpp1993]

I’m re-educating the services I use. Here in mexico an usual (restaurant) tip is 10%. Now people are starting to ask for tips everywhere. I just say “oh, 5%”, they respond “it has to be 10% or 15%” only options in the app/terminal), my response “oh, then no tip”.

[@tonyperkis420]

I picked up a case of beer at the liquor store. I set it on the counter the last scanned it and i swiped my own card and it wanted me to tip. I had to pick the custom button and put in 00.00 This is outrageous i man cmon what is happening here?

[@goddessvibes08]

I lived in US for 8 years and actually had a man shout at me for not "tipping enough". So much entitlement and aggression should NOT be encouraged! 😢😢

[@baka3262]

That's because the US is just a third world country in disguise. We don't get paid enough and rely way too much on tips, more than the state, government, or even the business you work for, would like to admit. From my experience, people who get angry about others who don't tip are usually the ones struggling because they're stressed from being on the verge of eviction

[@Ys00002]

dudeee I feel you.. i would like share a similar story on how some of my family members and I went to olive garden . The service was amazing and we were planning to tip in cash until the waiter came on angrily because there was not tip on the receipt. She started to be on her emotions and blah blah complaining tips are her only income.. with that attitude we decided to not even dare tip her for such entitlement. I was like this beach.. who she think she is ..to be entitled of our money.

[@Weneedaplague]

He cannot live without those tips, he gets paid $4.15 to be there and then has to pool tips with the rest of the staff, then it's taxed because they don't give tips in cash anymore. So your $4.15 potential of $9 is now $6 because of how many times the pie is sliced

[@JakkeJakobsen]

​@@Weneedaplaguenot the customers problem.

[@cmale123]

​@MangoMochis you shouldn't get mad on her. She is probably new and young. She did her job for you and you being cheap not paid her for her work. Waitress is getting paid by work they do not by hr. If you worked a week and not get paid. How would you feel. Have more empathy for your waiter and waitress

[@liquididentity101]

I am also disgusted by businesses that charge a service fee (like delivery) and then ask for tips for that same service a second time.

[@Musicgirl708]

Right?! So annoying. I just type zero lol

[@tshay7]

Like Amazon grocery delivery 🤬

[@zaclangdon3218]

You should be disgusted that their employees literally survive off of tips because they are being so inadequately paid

[@jackeroo_sundown]

@@zaclangdon3218 Nobody cares about that, they're just upset they're getting guilted by pixels and don't have a backbone to say no, so they're mad online.

[@RasakBlood]

@@zaclangdon3218 If you get rid of tipping culture they would actually get payed. And not have to really on the wims of strangers. Tipping is a scam benefiting the employers not the workers.

[@stephenbuckley1940]

This is happening in the UK now, and we have a national minimum wage. Some companies ask for tips and they don't even give it to the employees! But yes I agree that its ridiculous to ask for tips before even getting service, or every time I order a drink from the bar. It's something that needs to disappear and tips only left if people feel they want to, not shamed into.

[@tjaspire]

I'm an American and Americans traveling abroad and tipping in other countries is what's causing this global nightmare! You do not have to tip in every country! They complain about it, but they still tip and generously. Truth be told though, nobody enjoys obligatory tipping. Some waiters here make 6 figures a year! That should not be the case, as it is a relatively low skilled job. It is really ridiculous to give large amounts of money away to a stranger you're not going to see again.

[@vickyerickson9731]

I have simply opted out. I eat at home, I make my coffee at home and I don’t order food delivery due to all the fees. I invite friends over for dinner and I cook. It’s the one discretionary expense I have. The cost of living in the US has become prohibitive. Fortunately I am only in the country for part of the year.

[@joshuahiatt3674]

Tipping has always infuriated me. When I went to New York, I was asked to tip like 15% for the bartender to literally open a bottle of beer - it's honestly wild. You breathe and they expect a tip. It's so engrained in U.S. culture that staff get annoyed when a customer doesn't tip, but doesn't get annoyed about a multi-million dollar restaurant not paying you a fair wage. It's simply just a way for companies to make more profit whilst you (the backbone of the business), rely on customers gratuity. In a realistic world, if everyone decided to not tip, companies will literally be forced to pay their staff a wage to keep their employees.

[@isaacgogna9856]

Problem is we are in fact annoyed at the million/billion dollar corporations who refuse to pay decent wages but there's nothing we can do and if we don't end up getting tipped we don't make enough to live. And that's how the filthy rich like it

[@tjblackmore3247]

You know what’s crazy? You could have bought a case of beer and enjoyed that at home. Do you understand what I’m saying or should I go in further?

[@Yuh-iq9tl]

@@tjblackmore3247 viewpoints like this irritate me as they excuse the selfish actions of greedy corporations. Employers should be paying their employees a livable wage and if they can't do that, then they shouldn't be in business. Guilt-tripping people into tipping for unnecessary things even if the service wasn't good is NOT the direction America should keep going in. You should tip if you have the money and feel the service was exceptional, while at the same time the employee should be making a livable wage and should not rely on tips to pay the bills, that's insane.

[@toransilverman]

Its especially bad when the restaurant adds a automatic gratuity charge for less than a large group, then complain you didn't tip. One place I went to added 20% automatic gratuity then had the nerve to add in "Add Additional Tip" with suggestions in the 15%+ range. So if you weren't paying attention, you would literally put in a 40% tip because you are used to paying 20% at restaurants (assuming you usually tip that much that is). BTW, they added the automatic gratuity for 2 person table AND calculated the tip based on Total not Subtotal. Edit: Its probably even higher since the automatic gratuity is included in the total, therefore the suggested "additional tip" is actually even higher.

[@toximan2008]

@@Yuh-iq9tl He's right. If people realize that staying home and getting your own food/drinks is cheaper, then these horrifically over-bloated restaurants will die off. It's the perfect solution.

[@pelowj]

I recently took a holiday to the US and I found the whole tipping thing to be incredibly stressful, so much so that by the end of the holiday I was actively avoiding situations where I would be expected to tip.

[@armandolimon7465]

Just don't tip. It isn't a right. Many workers don't need tips, but just expect it now.

[@Ohallors208]

I avoid holidaying there for this reason. Just the thought of having to tip every time I eat or need a service is stressful.

[@thepixilator9593]

As someone from the U.S, you are not alone. I feel so pressured to tip even when I am picking my food up. I hate it but it’s the work culture here. I feel like we should only tip when the person goes above and beyond. Not for doing their job. And that’s speaking as a hairstylist.

[@ilyooo]

So the grocery store?

[@PorterPickUp]

Hell I live in the US and I actively look to avoid situations where I have to tip too.

[@shyygaming]

Dwight Schrute was on to something... “Why tip someone for a job I'm capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did, however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.”

[@paulbelisle7213]

Dont forget to add in a donation to the local charity as well. Always prompted at the grocery store….and sometimes at the barber.

[@RuliManurung]

As a non-US citizen, I find it absolutely mind-boggling that it's legal to exempt certain workers from receiving less than minimum wage. What part of "minimum" is unclear?

[@thakiusmuckfeather1103]

It is illegal to hire someone and not pay the minimum wage in the USA. Workers are being paid at least the minimum wage or the business owner will be closed down.

[@Deekh3d]

@@thakiusmuckfeather1103 Yea I was working as a jett's pizza delivery driver and they only paid me 5 (minimum wage was 8.25 at the time). Whats worse is that they were taking advantage of the loophole by hiring extra drivers to make us wash dishes for 5 bucks an hour!

[@TheHarshil]

@@thakiusmuckfeather1103 nope, a dominoes pizza delivery driver only gets paid $4 an hour. If the customers don’t tip, the driver literally looses money on gas. Employers are always good at exploiting their workers.

[@dynamichunter843]

@Darren Ellis it is federal law that if they don’t make the minimum with tips the employer has to make up the difference

[@llee8325]

The restaurant business has always been exempt from those requirements.

[@TimeBucks]

Thank you for making this video.

[@travelbagshort]

Very nice 👍👍👍👍 thanks

[@anusreeshil4265]

Hi

[@akritidwivedistudies2521]

Very good

[@aprilbaby51999]

Nice

[@IbrahimMohamed-lo5en]

Good

[@anaymakan6989]

From the UK, when dining, I always pay the bill then as I'm leaving, hand a cash tip to a server. I love how it's always super appreciated but never ever expected.

[@tiannaannenicole]

I am glad this was addressed.

[@YogeshHarland-rl5zm]

I went out drinking recently, and the bartender flat out told me a $5 tip was expected on each $15 drink, and that “everyone else tips that here” I left the bar.

[@kel7588]

Amen, Noone is gonna dictate what I tip and if it's an issue, I'm walking out as well.

[@Est93]

Strip clubs are the worse the old hag that’s pimping them demands a tip for their service

[@jrvegaboston]

Well done.

[@oceandriver7]

Let me guess, The bar is somewhere in the US.

[@badgerfishinski6857]

@Yogesh Good for you. I would have left the bar too.

[@TransplantHelper]

I agree 1000% I am sick of being asked to place a tip on a service that has not yet been completed

[@henryhenry271]

are you supposed to tip the self check out machine at home depot?

[@zwerko]

@@henryhenry271 You were not supposed to tip a cashier at a grocery store (where you picked up the items you want and brought them in just to pay at the cash register), but that changed and now you have those guilt-shame tip-begging tablets everywhere... It's only a matter of time when the same will happen on the self-checkout side as well.

[@MikeVeracity]

I would just walk out unless they put it off until the service had been rendered.

[@Surfer-727]

The tip goes to the the top 1% LoL !

[@shaniya3847]

I’m wondering why it asks people to tip the cashier

[@sahilsanghvi]

Instead of employers paying fair wages they expect employees to beg from customers in form of tips.

[@tjaspire]

I remember when they used to shame us Black people into tipping, but as you can see, nobody really enjoys forced tipping for standard service. Now tipping is expected everywhere. You all created this problem, now lay in it.

[@henriklovold]

Here in Norway, a taxi driver would look at you weirdly if you were to attempt to tip them. Tipping is basically just at restaurants, and anything above 10% would really raise some eyebrows. No tipping is also fine, the wages are good and well regulated by the state.

[@jackmccourt6180]

This is how it should be. Similar here in Scotland.

[@SofaKingShit]

If you have any significant amount of Norwegian cash in your wallet you should be prepared to be reported to the authorities as being a suspected drug dealer. Otherwise simply round up the amount on a bill, say from 142kr to 150kr and everyone's happy.

[@agungwiseno]

"controlled by state" will look like as commie when you say that in USA 😂😂

[@Lioin]

@@agungwiseno In Sweden we have no minimum wage but we have a system with unions that's not broken and not under constant attack from right wing media. Just like mentioned above, 10% is normal at restaurants..

[@tomodomo1000]

@@agungwiseno this communism rhetoric was the greatest scam ever. Actually, most of the world is not capitalistic. I see Americans and Chinese people have sth in common. The best thing is to go on holiday to Europe.

[@LJ_S1K]

The craziest part is at those quick-service restaurants and coffee shops where they ask for a tip on the tablet, you haven't even been given what you purchased yet. So I'm expected to tip when I do not even know if my coffee was made right or my meal??!

[@ConsiderTheCrows]

Press No Tip.

[@LJ_S1K]

@@ConsiderTheCrows yeah that’s what I do, I just hope the workers don’t spit in my food knowing I didn’t tip them 😂

[@ConsiderTheCrows]

@@LJ_S1K If I thought the place was surly and sour mannered I wouldn't go there.

[@Palingkero]

If you do not tip like Five Guys in Rio Rancho, NM your will get bad service like the bun will be served cold.

[@ConsiderTheCrows]

@@Palingkero Then I wouldn't step in there ever again. Sounds like a horrible shop.

[@utoobia6872]

Tipping in the US is like paying for an additional person that was never there. These days I am seeing tip suggestions up to 28% here in TX.

[@ramonmirabal101]

I don't allow force tips, if any business forces tips I walk away, I tip according to the service I receive.

[@WonderingAboutThat]

It honestly makes me want to just avoid eating out. Glad this video is highlighting this issue.

[@comicrandomness3289]

Just pay with cash. Pay the check, leave no tip (unless the waiter was extremely professional).

[@amyschmelzer6445]

It’s not just at restaurants where you’re being asked to tip. I have ordered things online directly from the small business owner and it has asked me how much I want to tip. 0% is always my answer. If you aren’t charging me enough for your product or service, then that’s not my problem.

[@frankvee]

Don’t avoid eating out, just don’t tip and don’t feel about it. That’s what I do.

[@DerekStormmusic]

Duchebags in other industries without tips don't want to tip when they are making over 100k a year

[@coffeelink943]

@@amyschmelzer6445 exactly bro, why should we pay them for doing their job?

[@cavepilot]

The tipping point is when some businesses say "No tipping, we pay a living wage". These businesses become more and more popular and succeed. There are several in the town where I live doing this.

[@PrincessAshley12]

This is the way.

[@kb-ww1uw]

the tipping point 😀

[@austins3215]

@CH yeah I work in a kitchen and the servers make 4 an hour while I make 12 an hour, last night I asked one of the servers how much she ended up making in tips and she made $400. She made 4x more than me for the same amount of time at work.

[@Angultra]

Every time a restaurant tries it I hear they switch back or close down, needs to be the norm rather than the rare exception for it to catch on. I'm worried we're going backwards, most fast food and takeout places ask for tips now.

[@mikejunior211]

@@austins3215 A cook actually needs talent...A server just needs to bring the food to the table...what an injustice.

[@sythex92]

I haven't tipped in 2 years and will continue to not do so, sucks that it hurts the servers, but it's for their own good.

[@ctrguy9502]

I got yelled at the other day when I made change for myself in the cash tip jar at a local spot where I’m a 4-year regular with my fam & they know me!! NOT GOING BACK!!

[@jaimielee7024]

I definitely have started falling into the “resentful” category. I started tipping for everything, anytime that screen swiveled around I paid 18-20%. Now I am resorting back to just tipping on the services that I tipped on a few years ago (servers, hair stylists, nail salons, etc), I don’t care if anyone judges me. I’m not paying a tip on something like a bolba drink lol…

[@user-sf9gs2pg1b]

Yeah, I had paid like $11 for a smoothie at Jamba, and a tip is expected on top of that. It’s already so overpriced, like what? I did tip though.

[@a11aaa11a]

Yep same, I'm back to the actual services, done tipping take out

[@michaelcooreman3509]

@@user-sf9gs2pg1b I'm from europe and they ask me for a tip lol, I simply said no and told them to ask for better wage to their boss... I dont understand it so overpriced in la and las vegas and still they can't pay their workers good? Wtf in europe our foodprice is more expensive but we manage to put good price for costumers and pay workers good standard wage...

[@Tha4thLetterr]

I found that I only started doing it so they don't spit in my food/drink lol.

[@Sk82478]

I don’t think any1 with a brain is judging you

[@PristinePerceptions]

The worst is when the server holds the device in their hand while you're entering the information. It feels more like an interrogation than payment for a service.

[@em0_tion]

That's begging for a No Tip button press.

[@dnw75]

That happened to me in Starbucks drive-thru. I pressed no tip, got my items that I drove there to get, and then left. It is ridiculous with these tips.

[@ascent8487]

That actually just happened to me. I’ve never experienced it before.

[@Freddy_Confetti]

Only people I tip are bringing me food n drinks to my table when I want them

[@danieldaniels7571]

Just press the button that says zero.

[@petebusch9069]

Years ago I stopped tipping due to bad service, now I just don't even go with the exception of a very few places that still get it.

[@hunterx8736]

I went over to picked up a pizza, once I was paying the young cashier turns the screen around and smiles and I chuckled. I told her I am too cheap to get it delivered and you expect me to tip for me picking up the pizza lol 😂

[@DrBeauHightower]

I got asked to tip at a drive through car wash 😂

[@Wow_wow1]

Rightfully so, I’d say. Minimum 30%

[@branonlamphere9624]

Wow cheap ass, REEEEAAAALY???

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

@@Wow_wow1 I would tip 0%

[@Niccole-oq8wo]

That's been going on in my area for at least 30 years. There is always a tip bucket at the end.

[@MorbidHunter]

Same, I pressed 0% looking at the worker straight to the eye

[@JD-lt7uv]

Imagine a world in which companies simply paid their workers.

[@jdb47games]

You don't need to imagine it. In the rest of the rich world, that's how it's done, and there is little or no tipping.

[@chrisrodsa210]

That's already happening, it's a USA thing.

[@waltersteenvoorden252]

Like France?

[@pauljordan7465]

It's called Australia and the rest of the world too

[@TechieBaby]

China

[@ceu7929]

I have not left a single tip in my entire life and it will stay like that. I don't care about other peoples wages. It's their decision to work there not mine.

[@CookieFridays]

Tipping is kind of ridiculous. I used to work at Subway (I’m in Canada), I did my job and got my paycheque. Whenever they shared the tips from the tip jar, it just felt like an unexpected and pleasant surprise. I never expected to be tipped, it just didn’t cross my mind to expect it. I guess that’s what happens when you get paid enough by your employer. It’s stupid that in America they get paid so low, but that’s on the employer.

[@m.m.2341]

I'm from Germany, we have a tipping culture, but it's basically only in actual restaurants with service, hair dressers, taxi drivers, stuff like that. And it's more like 5-10% and not really required. Anyway, when I was visiting the US and they showed a "tip tablet" in my face at an ice cream place, I was utterly shocked. It's absurd how they hide the "no tip" button as well. I'm sorry, but I won't tip for Ice Cream or a Smoothie, that was overpriced to begin with.

[@Aubie212]

I worked at an ice cream shop and half of my income was tips. However I always felt weird showing every customer the tip tablet and if it was me I wouldn’t want to tip. I just wished my boss would pay us more….

[@bigchunguscultmember1267]

if you can charge me $20 to get 2 ice creams after a date you can pay the guy scooping the same per hour

[@MustacheDLuffy]

Tipping really was supposed to be for services like restaurants hairdressing etc in America. It’s just that because there’s a culture of it that other services (Including ice cream) Will try to see if they can get more money out of you now. Appropriate tipping is 15% here. More or less the golden standard. Otherwise funny looks (I think)

[@crismcdonough2804]

Just say no. It's not hard.

[@t0dd000]

​@@crismcdonough2804it's not hard if you have sociopathic tendencies, but for the rest of us, it is, and that's what has driven the tip inflation.

[@EngineVSEngine]

I have absolutely no problem pressing "No Tip" in front of the employee. I am not tipping for any to go order, I tip when I sit down and a waitress waits on me and I tip if someone delivers to my house.

[@nahor88]

There is a level even worse than this... some businesses the cashier will verbally ASK you "would you like to add a tip?". That is straight up forced consumer guilt.

[@suew4609]

You should tip when you pick up an order from, let's say, an Applebee's or Outback, because you are taking up that servers time. They have to put your order together when they could be seating somebody that would pay them something. I think the minimum of 10% should be paid for picking up an order like that, not at a fast food place or a Starbucks.

[@casinosnoopy9900]

@@nahor88 Taos Cow ice cream shop in Taos NM, ordered a scoop of ice cream, gave her the cash, i had .85 cents coming back, she straight up threw it in the tip jar as if she was entitled to it.

[@lovebug_her]

@@suew4609 they’re being paid an hourly wage, and it’s called multi-tasking. I only tip if I eat in a restaurant, not when I place orders to-go and/or for pick-up.

[@suew4609]

@@lovebug_her Well you're welcome to do whatever you do. I just know from my kids' server experience that at some restaurants there is one person assigned to do the call ins and internet orders. Sure they get their minimum wage, but it's only $2.13 in many states. I don't like to cheat them on their tips!

[@bt5252]

Tipping suggestions based on after tax and after other fees adds another level of rage.

[@truneilson]

Ive stopped spending any money at these companies that request tips at non-tipping industries.

[@sgtBilko75]

During my traveling through the US, the thing I disliked the most was tipping. After weeks I got the feeling that people are only polite or helpful because they might get a tip. Why not pay people a normal salary and trust your employees to do a good job? The whole “money talks” and “you are what you own” mentality is the root of the many problems the US society is facing.

[@moviemonster2083]

Because it's more lucrative for the employers to underpay their employees and they got away with it because the wrong people have political power.

[@JoseGomez-rc5wv]

Respectfully, I’ll take the feigned politeness from service employees in this US over the lack of politeness from service employees in Europe

[@steven121290]

The "low pay" is a myth. Restaurants are required to ensure minimum wage. Many states also have ruled rules to require minimum wage regardless of tip. The median pay is like $45k before tips. Official data are probably also underreported as restaurant workers here are notorious for receiving under the table pay and not reporting their income. If you just quickly browse social media, you'll find many claiming to take home 100k+ in total pay per year. People are complaining that restaurant workers are paid less than college graduates on the premise that "everyone deserves a livable wage". Btw, livable wage to Americans = being able to save and buy a house, go on international vacations every year, while being able to feed a family of 5, and buy them brand name gifts for Xmas every year. We dont have a low pay issue; we have an entitlement issue. So go head and tip them half without feeling bad. Or none if they treat you like just a job. There's no reason why a waitress should ever be able to not want to get a college education and find more valuable work because, and I quote, "they'd be taking a pay cut".

[@Hirotoro4692]

​@@moviemonster2083obviously

[@bishbishandgarfield]

@@JoseGomez-rc5wvrespectfully Europeans are very kind and better at service with or without tips ❤ur comment shows u never have been here. Kindness and chivalry in the service sector should be naturally a rule without tips being a topic

[@thedilladude]

Companies need to step up and pay their employees more. Don't leave it up to the customers to provide decent wages!

[@muny_man]

Agreed. Doordash for example only pays drivers on average $2 per order. At 2 - 3 orders an hour it's impossible to pay for gas let alone every other living expense without relying on tips.

[@heymikey1981]

With the rising costs of rent, it seems everyone needs to get paid $100k or more. Some hairdressers are earning 6-figure salaries on tips alone.

[@DxModel219]

@@muny_manNO WAY!!! $2 per order!!?? I thought they paid minimum hourly wages.

[@markdailey8526]

They’ll turn it around and increase their services and products if left in the hands for people to tip

[@yugshah2808]

Why on earth do you think customers won't pay for employees if they increase the wage. Even if corporations are going to increase the wage, their costs are going to go up for which they are going to increase the price of the product. Basically the customer pays the same or maybe even more if they increase their profit margin from the existing one.

[@MoaArmy61304]

forced tips are like forcing you to pay for someone's salary, that's the employer's job, not customers' in Europe we just tip to reward good service and pleasant waiters

[@Guyver09]

Consumers are getting sick of it, especially for fast food.

[@ilyooo]

Worked in Japan for a year. My hourly rate was 15.00 and tipping is considered rude. Both restaurants I worked at was no tip. Truly mind blowing about American culture

[@elionmatoshi2978]

A waiter in usa make $25 per hour on average!

[@ilyooo]

@@elionmatoshi2978 but no tipping :) so customers don’t have to worry about waiters bothering them 😂😂

[@elionmatoshi2978]

@@ilyooo it’s balanced trust me! Bc if the restaurant has to pay waiter like $25 an hour they have to rise the food price!

[@mikiqex]

@@elionmatoshi2978 So what? The overall cost to the customer would the same, but clear upfront. I'd much rather pay $20 for a meal than $13 meal + $3 tax + $4 tip. Japanese restaurants are nerve balm for me, US tipping is cancer.

[@Dcoolguy7]

No wonder why all Uber driver complaining about Asians people being cheap. They never tip, never.

[@attilavidacs24]

Anyone not living in the US sees how absurd this really is. The employers shrug off the burden of having to pay a respectable wage while they profit off cheap labour.

[@JstBobby]

It's worse than that actually, they get some of the tips too in some cases

[@Thezuule1]

It's even worse than that. Giant corporations like Walmart pay their employees so little many of them qualify for public assistance so we all have to reach in our pockets to pay for some of their housing, heating, food, etc. Walmart gets to keep all the profits and they socialize their labor costs onto everyone else. It's the ultimate form of forced tipping...

[@holy15master]

i find it worse in canada, they get paid minimum wage or more, yet the default tipping on machine starts at 18% if not 20%, i just never go out or get food anymore. the prices are so expensive

[@codymitchell1376]

Servers would hate that lol. They make more than the head chef with their tips

[@ssebasgoo]

I don't get how it became like this. I mean, at some point in us labor History, people start to accept to work for tips. Why? It is a real mystery for me, why would anyone would accept this?

[@ricardoheurich7824]

I use to go to the USA as a tourist. One of the reasons I don’t anymore is this tipping culture. You go to a place and the amount you pay is always not as the price announced. They ad taxes and you never know how much they will pay ask for tip!

[@berry104]

As someone who works in hospitality, I understand tipping can help, but it’s not that big of a deal if you can’t or, even more importantly, isn’t deserving. Tipping should be provided to those who provide exceptional service, and done out of the kindness of one’s own generosity, if done out of pure guilt and fear of judgement of others then it should not be given. It truly incentivizes proper service

[@NiekNooijens]

Currently in Japan, where you literally can't even tip. If you try to tip, they'll chase after you with the change! 😂😂

[@the_kombinator]

Korea too, most places.

[@joey3291]

Same thing here in China, sometimes I want to show my gratitude to someone who really did a good job, but giving them extra money almost seems like an insult to him/her.

[@hblock8361]

Same as most civilised countries of the world

[@trecime]

Funny thing is, the services are way better in Korea/Japan than in the States. Then what's the point of tipping?🤑🤑

[@kerinnaklarissa2512]

Hah yeah they would refuse in many ways they could think of I think it applies to most Asian countries 🤔

[@lanehodnett8222]

Something I always tell people: courtesy will eventually turn into expectation

[@anacatarinam4167]

I know, what is wrong with us? I’m a nanny and I stopped doing favors that are outside of my duties because with my last family they started asking those things of me instead of just being grateful when I did it. Now I have to be “rude” in my eyes and say no or do less than I’d like to do sometimes so they don’t start expecting those things from me 🥲 humans are messed up, why are we like this?

[@lanehodnett8222]

@@anacatarinam4167 it’s the beginnings of late stage capitalism

[@dougclem7711]

Hold that door open for me, I ate a woman,!

[@devchaudhary78]

I need to learn from this comment 😢

[@DonGivani]

Yeah, that's sad

[@regalthelion]

I was at a Chicago Blackhawks home game a few months ago and since the United Center is fully cashless now, you pay for everything on a screen. They tried to automatically tack on a tip for my already ridiculously overpriced food. No, you don't deserve something special for putting a hot dog and fries in a box. You already get paid for that. The screen did have a no tip option, which of course I selected, but one of the tip options was selected by default and most people probably won't notice it. I tip waiters at sit-down restaurants and my hairdresser for exceptional service, that's it, because that's all a tip is supposed to be for, exceptional service.

[@joshiavila8679]

That reminds me of a situation my dad and I had at a Nuggets game. We didnt know the place was fully cashless, so when we went to buy drinks we tried to pay in cash, instead of the lady telling us that cash wasnt accepted, they immediately said, “Oh is this the tip?” Like what? 😂 It was so hard not to scold her right there infront of hundreds of people. Like your handing me drinks, not preparing it infront of me

[@JoelRyanQuinn]

I'm the mechanic that fixed this reporter's car. I had cut the brake lines but when she tipped me an additional $6, I decided to patch them back up. She is very lucky she didn't die like all my other customers who don't tip. Or should I say didn't tip because they're dead now.

[@jdax21]

I also think the host of this documentary made a good case against tipping when she said she'd be less likely to not tip her mechanic for fear for her safety, the implication being the mechanic might do a poor job out of spite if he/she wasn't satisfied with the tip they were given. That's horrifying.

[@erinh2775]

I thought that too! That’s extortion, not tipping for good service. What a society.

[@queenofpents3442]

Mechanics get paid enough. The fact you even have to tip a mechanic to do their job is outrageous

[@intorainbowzOG]

@@queenofpents3442 a 20% tip on my last repair would have been $360. The repair was already budget busting. An additional 20% would have made it unaffordably. I'm not tipping my mechanic.

[@r3lativ3lyd3lib3r8]

It's not that farfetched; we've already seen people do that. Countless videos online of delivery drivers throwing tantrums over their tips and launching food at customers. It's almost an entitlement now.

[@fumega]

You tip your mechanic? Wtf?

[@valcaron]

Don't normalize tipping for counter-only service. That has NEVER been a thing. Don't tolerate it, don't participate in it, and ignore ghouls who whisper unpleasantries into your ear trying to make you feel guilty about not tipping when you're not supposed to tip.

[@lamster0928]

I agree with that!

[@WhoCares2509]

I once had a girl literally chase me down in a mall after I ordered a coffee from their counter at a food court (and a black coffee at that, no additions required), paid exact change and walked away in a hurry -- she was demanding a tip. I laughed in her face, but I could see many in that situation would be shamed into producing a tip. Society needs to draw the line. I understand that service staff are having a hard time these days, but so are most of the rest of us.

[@hojo70]

Well said! If you are tipping for counter only service you're part of the problem!

[@aiGeis]

@@WhoCares2509 That story sounds extraordinarily unlikely, however I have had a woman from a ski resort restaurant follow my friends and I outside and cussed us out for not leaving a tip (terrible service, sorry not sorry). My friend reacted pretty humorously, giving her the most blank stare I've ever seen, lips slightly open, and very slowly lifting his cigarette to take a puff every now and then. Still cracks me up to this day.

[@WhoCares2509]

@@aiGeis Ask yourself why the F*(# I would lie about this. What do I have to gain from relaying that experience? KZbin "likes" or something? Pffft ok. Yeah, I made it up because I have nothing better to do. It was a stretch for me even to make the effort to tell the stupid story

[@K-Mac_Racing_55]

I presently live in a country that has NO TIPPING everywhere. Once back in the states, I’m going to continue not tipping unless the person truly deserves it.

[@user-ru5im2zx7t]

Too frequent I witnessed people got praised and appreciated for doing just what they were hired for and people who actually did more than their jobs required got ignored and looked down upon. And so rarely I saw the other way around.

[@hollyberryblack5]

I’m actually surprised we haven’t been guilted into tipping to bag our own groceries at the self checkouts yet 😂

[@danisonice.]

3 comments below, someone's explained that their grocery store started doing this

[@mowaiken2002101]

big corp: write that down write that down !

[@stefandinu6389]

I live in europe and you bag your own groceries here,I find it weird that in the US employers have to do that for you😂

[@pawel2669]

Please don't give them ideas......

[@waltergonzalez2033]

@@stefandinu6389 at least here in Texas almost all stores are now self service for checkout so you not only have to scan your own items but also bag them.

[@MsWillita8]

When I was in Spain, a restaurant owner invited my family and I to eat “on the house”. After dinner we tried to leave a tip and he declined for them because he said he paid them very well. He said only in America do restaurant owners not pay their staff well and expect them to survive on tips. That was 2018.

[@slsilver481]

​@@bksvdbthe workers are not the scoundrels though

[@junkhero9113]

As a Spanish and well travelled I can confirm this

[@txbulldogboxing1462]

America is in fact over rated

[@sparkywatts3072]

My son lives in Spain, and he says it's hard to explain to people what a tip is. They all say, well that doesn't make sense.

[@KarmicSalt]

The minimum wage for employees who receive tips is $2.13 per hour.

[@ryanbon2414]

I had no issue tipping my local restaurant for takeout during Covid to help keep their doors open. But all those places took our kindness for granted and got greedy

[@scaoopenscao8065]

Stopped eating out for few months, saved a lot win win

[@sarahaustin6985]

I'll never forget when I went to a craft fair and purchased a pair of locally made earrings from a vendor. She swiped my credit card and turned the screen for me to sign. Right on the screen was a suggested tip amount. I was so blindsided. This is a craft fair. She made the earrings. If she wanted to get paid more for the earrings, then charge more! There was no service involved. That was the moment I realized tipping has truly gotten out of control, when even non-service industries are asking for tips!

[@rsranarr3272]

Idk, I understand some DoorDash drivers are greedy but you gotta keep in mind people that tip 1$ or even 0$ makes people less than $5 an hour not including the cost of gas/ repairs, tips are how drivers get paid and without it lots of people can’t work. I only do it on the side but some people do it full time and depend on tips

[@healgoth]

Point of Sale systems for credit cards take a fee from every transaction, also the prompt for a tip is built in to go off automatically…

[@nobleone89]

I feel the same about independent stylists who rent a chair. They charge $40 and keep the entire $40. Then I tip $10 because it’s customary….why not just charge $50 and not expect a tip if that’s what your service is worth?

[@nobleone89]

DoorDash should pay the drivers more

[@b3auti3full]

@@nobleone89 do you really believe that independent stylists are keeping 100% of what they charge you???? no. over 50% goes towards rent/utilities, product costs, taxes, insurance, etc. tips are not required but a way to say "i appreciate and value you as a service provider"

[@soundwave3353]

“Out of control” is an understatement. That’s why I don’t go to Starbucks anymore and just make my own coffee now

[@aadixum]

Much quicker to make, much less expensive per cup, and you have full control over the ingredients.

[@zzzz-sf5lr]

I'm literally done also I did the math and it's close to $3000 a year which is insane....

[@soundwave3353]

@@aadixum I really didn’t mind paying for a Venti drip couple times a week. But now that they look at me funny since I don’t tip, I don’t really go back anymore

[@tbrwn2548]

Just because it's not alcohol you think you shouldn't tip coffee makers? Just asking

[@nafay142]

Why don’t you keep going but just not tip?

[@ktizoid]

Service is not near where it used to be. You order with the server and then the kitchen staff comes out, stands in the middle of four tables and asks, “Who ordered this?” What is “this?” And the server expects a tip?

[@coronabuster3611]

Glad to see so many other people ticked about this. I'd love it if the US stopped tipping altogether. It used to have a reason, now it's just greed. I'm tired of going to pick up food and being asked to tip, or tipping because someone poured a cup of coffee. I'm not sure why I'm required to tip people who make more money than I do. Am I supposed to tip the owner of a business, like a masseuse or hairdresser? Shouldn't they just charge what they expect you to pay? I never had a problem with tipping before it became so prolific. Now, I'd rather stay home and eat, which is generally faster and healthier. I got a nice massage chair, so,, now I get massages every day. Too bad I can't cut my own hair.