I hate tipping culture.

Disclaimer: I tip 10% to 20% depending on service at restaurants and for food delivery.

Here in Canada, tips are expected and it's stupid.

I was on a double decker tour bus and at the end of the tour, the guide said they accept tips.

I left without giving one.

You have to tip for everything now.

Even getting takeout, they expect tips.

It's ridiculous.

It's legal to pay less than the standard minimum wage for tipped positions.

Employees should not be underpaid in the first place.

Originally posted by Robtard
If you don't want to tip, then don't eat out or ask for services where a tip is expected. Cheap bastards, the lot of you.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=513931&pagenumber=1

I never tip. I don't even give a penny to those stupid charity boxes at mcdonalds.

Originally posted by Blakemore
I never tip. I don't even give a penny to those stupid charity boxes at mcdonalds.

Robtard thinks you're a cheap bastard then.

Originally posted by Klaw
Robtard thinks you're a cheap bastard then.

Originally posted by Blakemore
I never tip. I don't even give a penny to those stupid charity boxes at mcdonalds.

Depending on the situation sometimes all i give is the tip.

I tip with every drink at a bar, it ensures you get good service TBH. I agree though, an employer shouldn't be allowed to pay under the minimum wage just because the staff might get tips, I find that a disgusting practice.

I respect both Robtard and Blakemore. Why then do I find them engaging with these feverishly puerile posters? Is it simply due to a lack of alternative opportunities for conversation?

The real cheap bastards are the business owners who don't pay their customers a living wage.

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
I respect both Robtard and Blakemore. Why then do I find them engaging with these feverishly puerile posters? Is it simply due to a lack of alternative opportunities for conversation?

^ This is a fair critique

Originally posted by samhain
I tip with every drink at a bar, it ensures you get good service TBH. I agree though, an employer shouldn't be allowed to pay under the minimum wage just because the staff might get tips, I find that a disgusting practice.

Originally posted by Blakemore
The real cheap bastards are the business owners who don't pay their customers a living wage.

Agreed there, waiting tables and other tip-reliance jobs shouldn't exist, they should be paid to where at least the person can live working 40hrs and the tips are a bonus if someone wants to award especially good service.

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
I respect both Robtard and Blakemore.

Its up to u to fix it from here. 🙂

In restaurants I pretty much always tip, the quality of the service decides how much.

However, one thing I've noticed lately, that I don't like, is how places that aren't sit down restaurants, like a pizza place where I'm getting a pizza to go, try to basically trap you into tipping there too. When you pay with a card, after you slide it into the machine, they have a tipping screen asking how much you want to tip. It doesn't ask you if you want to tip at all, just how much. And the choices are 15%, 25% and 30%, or "Custom". And to not tip at all you have to go to "Custom" and type in 0. It's all an annoying hassle obviously attempting to get people to tip who are too lazy or can't figure out how not to tip, all this while the worker is sitting there at the cash register watching.

So whenever I find one of these places that has something like that, I make a mental note and just from then on I pay with cash.

Originally posted by BackFire
In restaurants I pretty much always tip, the quality of the service decides how much.

However, one thing I've noticed lately, that I don't like, is how places that aren't sit down restaurants, like a pizza place where I'm getting a pizza to go, try to basically trap you into tipping there too. When you pay with a card, after you slide it into the machine, they have a tipping screen asking how much you want to tip. It doesn't ask you if you want to tip at all, just how much. And the choices are 15%, 25% and 30%, or "Custom". And to not tip at all you have to go to "Custom" and type in 0. It's all an annoying hassle obviously attempting to get people to tip who are too lazy or can't figure out how not to tip, all this while the worker is sitting there at the cash register watching.

So whenever I find one of these places that has something like that, I make a mental note and just from then on I pay with cash.

It also sounds like a way to pressure customers into tipping when they wouldn't have usually.

I accidentally gave a charitable donation while using the self checkout yesterday, due to the way it pops up on the screen at you, it was only 10 pence though and it rounded up my shopping to exactly £35 so I'll call it a draw.

Yeah it's exactly that. It's annoying as hell. Now I only pay cash at that pizza place.

I never automatically tip, especially at to-go restaurants.

Tipping/gratuity is a social bullying mechanism designed to pressure people into giving away free money for nothing.

“If you can afford to eat out, you can afford to tip” is a bullshit sentiment.

Yeah at to go restaurants I almost never tip either. Unless I ordered something weird that required a lot of extra work, or a very large order (because I'm fat and hungry) then I'll tip a bit.

When I went for shawarma the other day, the machine had.a tip option.

There was no table service and I dined in.

No need for tipping in that scenario.

I'm more inclined to tip now that things are opening up again. The catering industry staff got hit hardest during lockdown. They were some of the lowest paid prior to lockdown so the least likely to have savings to fall back on. They were one of the most likely to be part of the gig economy on zero hours contracts and they were the most likely to get laid off as their employers cut costs.

I'm lucky enough to have doubled my salary over the last 2 years so it's good to pay a little to those who need help getting back on their feet.