Tipping Culture in USA?

[THIICUMS]

Things like Barbers, Waitresses and such.

What’s your opinion about tipping culture?

I usually don’t go to fancy barbers, it was my first time and I paid $35 for a cut and it was awkward because I didn’t Tip or forgot I was suppose too?

[Γαῖα]

TWPanda77님이 먼저 게시:

Γαῖα님이 먼저 게시:

Tipping has always been voluntary so for an individual to expect it is just a very poor understanding of the thing itself.

While people say they pay above min wage, there is a big difference between an extra 50p an hour and £2.00 extra per hour which currently is how far the min wage is behind the living wage.
Oddly enough and im only speaking for my country but the min wage should be just somewhere below £15 an hour but as we know the first threat is that this will make prices rise despite national figures suggesting only 1.6% of all uk workers are on or below the current set min wage.

To make matters worse my country taxes tips no matter their weekly value.

The value of min wage to low wage workers is highly underestimated which could be proven simply by them all taking a month off at the same time. Min to low wage rates are a first port of call vice for businesses to protect their desired profit margin.

My understanding is that tipping is generally expected in the USA, whilst in the UK it is more like a voluntary arrangement. It is similar in my home country too.

I live in the UK now, and we own a number of restaurants, mostly in the Midlands area. The lowest paid staff in the business earn £12.50 an hour. These are typically part-time contracted staff. We have no zero hours. It is difficult to find and retain staff in the hospitality industry, especially when large retailers are offering more than the £10.42 minimum wage too.

I take it you have researched why its hard to retain staff ?

Is it because most of the staff are young and studying so passing through. Is it because there isnt much room for progression in restaurants. Is it because to retain staff over years involves having to increase hourly pay rate irrespective of min wage and increase holiday leave and perhaps sick pay for time served.

Its also worth considering since after 2011, the government revamped the welfare system in such a way that claimants that use to work part time are actually financially punished if they fail to pursue full time posts. So what with a single place of work being more cost effective rather than balancing two or three jobs, that the welfare system has effectively crippled the part time industry.

Lastly the covid lock down inadvertently made people rethink their position which has had a drastic effect on employment overall.

[Azza ☠]

I personally hate Tipping Culture and will never support it.

My only tip: Get a new job which the employer pays you a fair living salary, which doesn't require you to beg upon others like a homeless person or slutty hooker, due to a history of racism.

[2.0]

Tipping people for doing their job is weird, I mean what is exceptional tip worthy service supposed to look like from a waiter?

[Ganger]

xAlphaStarOmegax님이 먼저 게시:

I won't go anywhere where they try to force a gratuity charge into the final price. As for tipping, I used to tip big all the time, but I stopped. I just don't want to support the tipping culture; I think that these mega corporations make more than enough to pay their servers.

To answer your question about tipping the pizza place, I wouldn't have tipped even a penny. No offense to the servers or anything like that, but by tipping, we are only telling these restaurant owners that cheating their employees out of a fair wage is okay, and it keeps us, the customers, in the visious cycle of feeling obligated to tip.

Im all for fair wages for employees period. In britain at least, we have a minimum wage set so companies can't short change their workers. Clearly some do according to the many news articles.

[RRW359]

Azza ☠님이 먼저 게시:

I personally hate Tipping Culture and will never support it.

My only tip: Get a new job which the employer pays you a fair living salary, which doesn't require you to beg upon others like a homeless person or slutty hooker, due to a history of racism.

It's even worse when you make exactally as much as servers do without tips and everyone still thinks you are terrible for buying a product without personally making sure you take home less money then your server.

[Devsman]

Wait staff, always.
Barbers and drivers, maybe, if they're really good.
Particularly ritzy stuff, Iunno I'm a normie lol.
Everyone else, lolno.

[Ganger]

In the UK, I have seen self-servicing checkout ask for tips to give to charity. I just think cheeky mothers, I have to do all the work myself and A.I also wants me to tip. Even tho it goes to charity, it's not happening. As I don't believe in giving to charities as I believe these charities are a scam in themselves.

It's like supermarket leaving boxes at end of the tills so you can donate food you just purchased to charity. Im like, hold on... a multi billion pound outfit is asking me to give food to food banks while we have a supermarket full of food... wait.

[ShadowShifterMarlith]

Puh Pay Guh님이 먼저 게시:

Things like Barbers, Waitresses and such.

What’s your opinion about tipping culture?

I usually don’t go to fancy barbers, it was my first time and I paid $35 for a cut and it was awkward because I didn’t Tip or forgot I was suppose too?

Hey, i've been paying $30 to $60 for Pizza, & only providing $3 Tips for Drivers,
The prices are too high, & the Quality of Pizza is too low, & the Quality of Service
is too poor, so I don't provide very big Tips...

I'm not the problem, the problem is the Service & the Quality of Food, & the pricing...
They want bigger Tips, then they have to change the Service they provide...

[Enterprofilenamehere]

I only pay tips in sit-down restaurants with waiters/waitresses as it is customary and expected. Anywhere else is just silly so I don't.

[ShadowShifterMarlith]

Enterprofilenamehere님이 먼저 게시:

I only pay tips in sit-down restaurants with waiters/waitresses as it is customary and expected. Anywhere else is just silly so I don't.

If Companies want to continue charging such high prices on Food,
& provide such low Quality Service, poor quality Food?

Maybe it's just best we stop Tipping them all together...

The prices are already too high as it is, let the cost of Food pay the Tips...

[Ganger]

Alice님이 먼저 게시:

Generally speaking, companies that ask customers for charity donations do so because they benefit from it -not because they care about charities. It's in self interest.

Companies either get some kind of tax break, or the charities they donate to are forced to use that money to purchase goods from that company's stores.

I know, it's scandalous and it should be called out. As for non profit charities, these charities are just pure scams. To many cases of the executives pocketing vast sums of people's money that was meant for vulnerable.

[Yew Nough]

ShadowShifterMarlith님이 먼저 게시:

Enterprofilenamehere님이 먼저 게시:

I only pay tips in sit-down restaurants with waiters/waitresses as it is customary and expected. Anywhere else is just silly so I don't.

If Companies want to continue charging such high prices on Food,
& provide such low Quality Service, poor quality Food?

Maybe it's just best we stop Tipping them all together...

The prices are already too high as it is, let the cost of Food pay the Tips...

Agreed, I visit the supermarket more often thanks to every spot asking for a 15%+ tip for mediocre service: Especially at spots that don't have servers/waitresses.

It's gotten to the point where you can't get normal service unless you look like you're going to tip...and if you don't tip, the employee across the counter starts looking at you like you've taken money out of their paycheck.

I hope every one of these companies go bankrupt for allowing such a backward practice.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

A self-checkout register at a local supermarket just asked me if I wanted to leave a tip.

The SELF-CHECKOUT asked for a TIP.

I'm starting to think corporations are actively trying to make people hate tipping for some reason.

[GunsForBucks]

Sir Dookface McFerretballs님이 먼저 게시:

A self-checkout register at a local supermarket just asked me if I wanted to leave a tip.

The SELF-CHECKOUT asked for a TIP.

I'm starting to think corporations are actively trying to make people hate tipping for some reason.

A tip or donation to something?

Those are very different.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

GunsForBucks님이 먼저 게시:

Sir Dookface McFerretballs님이 먼저 게시:

A self-checkout register at a local supermarket just asked me if I wanted to leave a tip.

The SELF-CHECKOUT asked for a TIP.

I'm starting to think corporations are actively trying to make people hate tipping for some reason.

A tip or donation to something?

Those are very different.

No donation... It wanted a tip.

A machine I use to check out at the supermarket by scanning MY OWN ITEMS wanted me to give it "the store" a 10%+ tip.

I did my own work and it wanted me to give the store an extra 10%+ "Tip".