So how do you feel about modern tipping practices?
People sometimes enjoy leaving tips. Sometimes they feel obligated and feel bad about either tipping or not tipping. Some services automatically charge a tip.
But fundamentally it is a type of price increase. Will people have buyer's remorse and just stop going to your restaurant or taking a rideshare or whatever?
If there is going to be a price increase is tipping a feel good way to do it?
How do you feel about it?
#grownostr
Tipping is voluntary.
Zaps are tips.
Do what you want. If someone provided more value to your experience than take out or making your own food, return value.
I'm opposed to most forms of obligatory social standards.
Put a price on something and charge me that. Price the taxes into the item as well.
Plus this curmudgeon doesn't want to be obligated to give you a present on your birthday.
They don't tip in Japan, and I think I'd like their system better. The employees are (hopefully) getting a decent wage, and the customers know what stuff is going to cost beforehand.
I would just prefer we pay people a wage that didn't require a 'voluntary' subsidyn in the firm of tips. Receiving tips actually allows employers to pay lower wages. Service industry folks work hard. Please consider tipping them
I worked as a bartender long ago and made far more in tips than I ever could have if I was on a standard hourly wage without tips. I like tips because it is a way to reward good service.
On the other hand, I get a bit annoyed when a counter serve joint has a tip screen pop up when I'm paying. I have a hard time tipping when I have to collect my meal and then bus my own table.
I donβt tip. If I was inclined to tip anyone it would be the cook. It is not my responsibility to make up for the what their employer is skimping on when I comes to compensation. There will be people who say waiters and waitresses work hard but so do fast food workers and they get paid less on average.
Hi Luke! I really enjoy your notes! Keep up the good workπͺ
Tipping is the ideal way of paying for waitressing services. It would be awesome to have a way of directly tipping the cook as well. Unfortunately a lot of ideal systems get screwed up by people trying to βfix it.β So how well it works varies by location, but if you have a way of establishing the tipping culture for your specific restaurant itβs the way to go.
PS my mom was a waitress when I was in high school and despite bad customers and working a buffet it worked much better for her. Keeping the government out of the middle man position between the customer and the waitresses income is definitely better. They arenβt βbeing a cheap company not paying their employees enough.β
I think the responsibility of paying employees is on the employer, not on the customer.
Restaurants/bars should raise their prices to pay an acceptable living wage to its employees rather then relying on customers for tipping.
And I was tipped 86 sats on this post. Thanks everyone!
