Eating out is already so expensive, every menu item is like at least $17 dollars nowadays (live in the city).

I’d rather give money to a homeless guy. The psychological warfare and the bullshit socioeconomic arguments for tipping are unconvincing for me. Leave me alone. Thank you.

It used to be simple. You set the price, we pay it for services and food. Now there’s a social expectation to give more? Fuck off. Fuck right off, don’t give me bullshit like “oh they don’t make a profit” well that’s their fucking problem. I paid, I paid no less than what was necessary, I shouldn’t feel bad about myself.

Sorry about the rant. I love eating out. But I hate feeling like a tightwad asshole for not tipping. Don’t get me wrong, I mostly tip like 99% of the time. I just didn’t tip today. The food took a long time to come out, they didn’t give us hot sauce, I had to go to the front to pay instead of the server handing me the bill.

I hate this, I hate what the tipping economy has become. It should’ve been simple.

  • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    7 months ago

    On the flipside, you’re also punishing working people who typically are paid crummily

    The national minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13/hour but, by law, restaurants must pay servers an hourly wage of at least $7.25/hour. That means if you don’t earn enough tips to average $7.25/hour during a pay period, the restaurant must increase your hourly wage accordingly. - Source

    We shouldn’t have to subsidize their crummy wages, but that’s a political change we have to push for - not giving someone a tip now hurts them now.

    On the other other flipside, businesses have been trying to be scummy with tips.

    DoorFash stealing tips

    Tipping for self checkout

    My mantra is push for living wages where people don’t need tips, and tip people in person, not a machine.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      7 months ago

      OP has said they live in California, where there is no exemption to the minimum wage for tipped workers