You should honestly stop going out at all, the person who is broken post covid is you. You’re taking it out on random wait staff you are choosing to patronize. Make your food yourself, drink your drinks at home, then the only person you’re making miserable is the person in the mirror.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 weeks ago
The quality of service post covid is an abomination
People over tipped and the service staff got a strong feeling of entitlement
Now this needs to be rolled back. Boycot as much as possible when you do go out tip 15% on base price for food.
They try to use the PoS machines, take the type to fix the tip. Make it uncomfortable for the waiter.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You left out the part that is actually being tipped for, bringing the food to you. The chefs are salary.
People should be able to go out and buy thenfood at the prices listed.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Agreed, the entire system of tipping the American way should be fucking illegal. Wait staff should earn a living wage. I think it’s way more complicated than that, and you see pushback from the owners and the servers, and any movements to change it haven’t had enough backing socially to change anything.
But that’s kinda how it works, you choose to engage with it by going to an establishment with enployees that rely on tips. I mean hell, most of the time if you have a bad experience it’s due to something the waiter can’t control. Kitchen issues, staffing levels, poorly handled rushes. Being gleeful about how little you tip because of how things have changed… just don’t go out. Avoid having a shitty experience and being a shitty experience for someone else.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 weeks ago
Note that a lot of places tips don't go directtly tto wait stuff, it is being shared to subsidize salaries of everyone
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pretty sure the boss cant take tips legally speaking. Tax the income, let the business survive based on its ability to cover its costs.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Saying that the service staff have a feeling of entitlement gives off the biggest dickhead energy I’ve seen in my life.
“Oh those uppity servers with their cushy food service jobs think they deserve a tip, they only made it through a plague because they were deemed essential they didn’t do much”
It’s not the service people that’s the problem, it’s a combination of the people not paying a living wage for these jobs and a bunch of other industries getting in on tipping culture to pad their wallets.
Unless the person owns the business that server or cashier doesn’t even have a day in whether the POS has a tipping screen or not.
Woht24@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You’re a fucking idiot working a shit job and protecting the people who fuck you over.
Tipping is wrong on every level and needs to be abolished. The OP is wild in itself, you give an extra $2 to someone for the mere service of pouring you a drink in a bar. People outside the US just scoff, it’s madness.
And don’t give me the ‘oh but people need it to live, you’re an asshole’, go read my comment again.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ok dipshit, maybe you didn’t pick up on the context because you were already frothing at the mouth and typing with your rage induced boner, because you clearly missed the part where I said that tipping is bullshit and that I think we should get rid of it. Maybe because your reading comprehension is worse than a second grader, or maybe because you’re so hyped up to start shit online you needed it spelled out for you. Maybe it’s your sexual frustration coming forward, I can only guess if you were worth guessing about. You don’t give a shit about other people so I don’t think you deserve the same.
Because if you gave a shit about people maybe the last three neurons you have left that haven’t been destroyed by your apparent chronically online induced rabies would’ve had a get together, and realized that while we should get rid of tipping, since that legislation doesn’t FUCKING EXIST right now, maybe you should kinda tip the people who rely on it, since NOT tipping them doesn’t do shit for passing that legislation and they literally rely on that tip to, you know, live.
Oh and since you’ve got baby brain levels of understanding, I’m not talking about tipping random businesses that’s don’t need it like your landlord, I’m talking about wait staff. Food servers. Delivery drivers. The ones getting fucked over.
The ones you’re pretending to champion.
I hope someone spits in your latte.
Woht24@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Go suck a tip jar you cunt
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
The only way you’ll ever get rid of tipping culture and not paying living wages because of tipping is to stop tipping. By tipping you’re reinforcing that it’s acceptable practice for businesses to rely on their customers donating to their staff in order for the staff to make a decent wage.
If everyone stopped tipping, businesses would have to pay higher wages.
WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I disagree. You’d have to organize a national movement with a majority of the relevant population onboard. Can’t even get people to vote. Good luck.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
You disagree with what? That it’s how you would get rid of tipping culture? Or that it’s possible?
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh man I wish I lived in that world where politicians would give a shit and this would work fast enough it didn’t screw people over. We don’t, but it would be nice.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 weeks ago
That's my experience over last 1-2 years.
If you have had positive experiences, you are free to tip whatever is demanded.
If I am not getting decent services, I am done rewarding bad behavior.
Game 101. Social pressure does not work on me.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Game 101? Wow, every comment worse “social pressure doesn’t work on me” you aren’t tipping Batman, you aren’t tipping Joker, you’re just a jerk who should be eating at home.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 weeks ago
10% now 🐸