Tipping needs to end. It's the employer's responsibility to make sure their employees are paid reasonably. Instead they pass that responsibility to the customer, ensuring tension between customers and staff.

I went to a brewery recently where they swipe your card at the entrance and hand you a little black credit card type thing. You find your own seats, you go grab a glass, and you insert the card into a slot at a beer tap and pour your own beer, priced by the ounce. If you want food, you go to a kiosk, put your card in, and order food. When it's ready, you go to the kitchen and pick it up to bring back to your seat. When you leave, you bring the card back up to the register and they charge you for all the food and drink. But then it asks you how much you wanna tip. Who the fuck am I tipping? I was my own host, my own bartender, my own waiter, my own bus boy. I haven't seen an actual employee here except for some woman who swiped my credit card during a 5 second interaction.

Tipping was always stupid from day 1. I've spent most of my life being told I'm a moron for being against tipping culture and instead wanting fair wages and clear prices. Suddenly in recent years people realize how stupid tipping is simply cause it went to its logical extreme. People are morons.

I wanted to know if it’s ever appropriate to walk away and not leave a tip?

“No,” Sokolosky said.

She said people are trying to make a living.

“I always feel grateful, frankly, that I can tip,” she said.

I never tip anywhere I'm just picking up food and paying at the register. It annoys me as a customer and I wish they would quit asking.

Tipping should never be expected

I’ve stopped using tipped services entirely now. The only tipping I do is for a waiter at a sit down restaurant.

The mini mart under my building asks me to tip when all I’ve done is bring what I want to a counter. It’s infuriating because there’s no reason for it, it’s literally just there to guilt people into an extra few bucks.

Wow, this "etiquette expert" grift is more interesting than the article itself. https://www.valerieandcompany.com/

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The Etiquette Expert... I'm an expert in these rules to this game I just made up!

I never tip these days. It's a band-aid solution that needs to end.

When tipping, either the customer is getting fucked or the employee; never the owner. I choose to fuckover the employee because they'd rather fuck me and lots of them support tipping culture saying "they make more in tips."

Well, good. You can "make more in tips" without me. I guess that way everyone literally wins.

Like with every single thing that humans try to do to help each other, corporations have figured out how to exploit it for themselves.

We feel like tipping helps people because literally handing money to someone SHOULD help them. Except what actually happens is that corporations, with the full support of the government that they own, simply use that social convention to offset the wages that they have to pay their staff.

Pizza Hut box: The delivery fee is not a tip to the driver.

Me: Then why TF am I paying it?

Tipping everything was starting long before covid. It was introduced with new interact devices. I first saw it at subways in like 2015

How can the US actually end tipping culture? I cannot fathom a way forward that doesn't fuck over a lot of people in the short-term. Ideas?

Well yeah. Every one with a card reader realized they could enable the prompt. Whether or not tips actually go to the workers.

I wonder how much Tax revenue is lost because tipping? When I worked for tips the only tips that got reported to the government was credit cards and I mainly got cash so I could see it being 12-13 thousand a year unreported and I wasn't making even close to other cute waitresses who were easily getting 3-4 times more than me a night and they didn't report cash tips either

Only delivery and restaurants that bring your food to you and bartenders get tips. That's it. Fuck you subway I'm not tipping a sandwich artist. Fuck you Chinese buffet restaurant no tip I went and got up and got my own food.

Start being aggressive about it and I'll go 100% Mr. pink and nobody gets tips ever.

It was understood if you take a bottle of water from the cooler and place it on the counter, the only extra was a thank you to the cashier.

I've run into this and it's bullshit. No.

I wanted to know if it’s ever appropriate to walk away and not leave a tip?

“No,” Sokolosky said.

Also bullshit.

ETA: And this was a stupid article that was poorly written. The interview subject also had little insight. This wouldn't have been upvoted if the topic wasn't viscerally felt by USA citizens because there was nothing said.

I don't tip to pay their wages. I tip for good service. If you provide good service you get a tip. If your attitude sucks or your service sucks you don't get a tip. You want more? Then go above and beyond.

If the problem was outside of your control or impossible for you to correct or know even existed it won't affect the tip. I try to tip in cash.

There's only one thing I still do that requires tipping, and that's because I want to get tattoos. After I started seeing tipping screens at restaurants where I pick up my food at the counter, I stopped eating out entirely. I don't even do fast food. I'm tired of trying to remember or decipher what is socially expected and am just done participating in that system. Just pay people a living wage, charge what you need to charge for that, and if you're offering a worthwhile service, you'll be fine.

This shit started to pop up in Europe. I only tip when the service was above average. And a tip is 5 bucks on top of a 100 CHF meal.

Now they ask for tips at food trucks. Yes 0 is the appropriate tip for that.