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Where I live, there are plenty of restaurants with tipflation.

And then there are the worker-owned pizza joint and coffee shop, which do not even have a tip jar on the counter. They don't ask for — or make room for — tips. They pay their worker-owners well enough that they don't have to beg.

That's what tipping culture is. It's putting the worker in the position of begging from the customer instead of being assured a fair wage by the employer. And now, the management even wants to tax the receipts of this mandatory panhandling.

Now, I understand that authoritarians love this. When I was a kid, I was explicitly told that tips were necessary; otherwise the waiter might spit in your food. That is, as a child of the professional class, I was instructed that service workers must be appeased with donations to keep them from committing crimes against us.

Yeah. That's pretty messed up.

But the worker-owned venues make it clear: the restaurant doesn't need tips to attract capable & honest workers; they just need to give a fair deal.

I’m American but lived in Japan for a couple of years. I was so shocked by the amazing customer service the Japanese workers gave me but never asked or expected a tip.

I was so confused coming back here and seeing all of stores implementing an option to tip and I’m trying to figure out… for what? Most of the workers hardly acknowledge me when I’m there and it feels as if I’m bothering them coming to order something, and then they turn the iPad around asking for a tip.

This honestly needs to stop.

If this backlash kills off tipping in America forever, good.

Employers should be paying their employee a living wage anyways, instead of shifting the responsibility to the customers.

I just don't like tipping as an expectation. If you genuinely want to tip, you'll know and you won't need to be asked. There's nothing wrong with the idea of giving someone a tenner if they go out of their way for you, but being guilted into making a voluntary donation because someone did their job is an example of completely losing the plot. Of course tipped minimum wage shouldn't be lower either.

I also don't like the recent trend of being asked to tip before even receiving the service. Uhh... I dunno how much to tip you, you haven't done anything yet. In the context of delivery apps, it also incentivizes blackmail.

Last thing I'll point out - tipping is associated with racial and sex-based discrimination, and managers often pocket tips even though it's technically illegal in most places. So even if you don't mind it for any other reason, that alone should be enough to discourage it.

My general guide for tipping

1. traditional service industry where their employer pays them $2/hr. YES, but I wish your employer would just pay you. I'm still tipping not going to punish their employer for that but seriously try not to even go to these places anymore.
2. Other traditional services industries, barbor, nail salon,etc. Yes as appreciation. They personally took care of me so yeah.
3. Baristas, it any other ipad station. NO. They are paid a standard wage. I might drop my change in a tip jar every now and then when paying cash but that's it.
4. Food trucks and other independently owned stores. Generally No. Food trucks are independently owned and not service industry. If they need more money charge more for the food.

May be? I was at a sandwich place here that had the minimum tip option at 18%.

It's getting fucking stupid

Yet another thing that has been eye opening about living in Europe is how fucked and terrible tipping is in the states. Twenty percent AS A MINIMUM? When I’m picking up food at the counter??? AYFKM?

Tip culture is ridiculous. Places like self-serve froyo shops shouldn't even have tips as an option. Unless the cashier is helping me make the froyo and holding it for me while I lick it, there's no way to justify tipping.

It always amazes me that that tipping is still a thing. If your business can't survive paying a proper wage to your employees without the need for supplemental income from the customer your business isn't meant to survive. Isn't that the capitalism they're always on about?

I'm fine with tipping in the places where it's already expected. Wait staff and delivery and such. There those people live on the tips being given. Yeah the system is shit and we should pay them appropriately from the start, but refusing to tip doesn't fight the system; it just stiffs a worker.

I don't like it when a bakery or ice cream stand sale terminal prompts me to leave a tip. It makes me feel awkward for hitting no, even though not tipping for ice cream has been and still is standard.

I'm curious how many of these POS (Point-of-Sale, not Piece of Shit) systems have the default settings to ask for tips. If so, I wonder how many of these places are committing wage theft by not actually paying tips out to the employees.

I don't support tipping culture.

I just wish jobs payed livable wages.

if a business cannot pay their workers a living wage without having customers subsidize their wage with tips, then that business shouldn't exist.

My girlfriend and I went to a retail store one time and at checkout the cashier turned the iPad around and showed us a tip screen……

The other day I went to a pub, and the machine at checkout suggested a 10%. You mean you expect me to tip 10% to this person whose contribution to my life was literally just putting my glass to a tap, pulling on the lever, then putting the price into the machine??

How about instead you just pay the person a proper wage to do that alongside all the other non-customer facing stuff they already have to do instead of making us top-up their wages.

Tipping culture was meant to be a bonus for exceptional service, not an expectation for all bloody services!

If you don't want to pay a tip, don't do business at a place that underpays their staff.

If you go out to a restaurant and deprive the servers of tips, you aren't hurting the restaurant. If you want to make a principled stance against tipping, then you have to stop giving those businesses your money.

I don't really think it's caused backlash in me - just the ending of feeling bad for not tipping. Do I want to tip for you handing me something? Do I want to tip for self checkout? Do I want to tip for you checking me out?

You make a normal wage and haven't done anything outside of the norm. Why on earth do you deserve a tip?

Pretty soon there's going to be tip options on the self checkouts.

I'll tip for sit down service or delivery.... Anything else you can fuck right off.

Does anyone have a concern about what happens when NOT leaving a tip at these places? I don't enjoy tipping before I have received service (fast food) but am unsure of the ramifications of not doing so 😬

Fucking Starbucks is asking for tips.

Yeah, whenever I see a fast food restaurant ask for tips before I receive my food, I give them nothing. Is this a threat? Will my food have boogers in it if I don't tip?

I went for a beer at a local brewery the other day and their point of sale tips started at 25%. Just to pour beer!

"We just shifted how the money came in," Neitzel said.

We know you greedy trashbags. Tipping isn't necessary and a detriment to the experience.

If I know owners of a particular restaurant don't take care of their employees or treat them badly, then I probably won't want to eat there anyways.

With these payment processors making it a simple option, more and more businesses are thinking "why not?" and sticking tipping in places it used to never be expected. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if this backlash will actually cause any change because for businesses it's a win as long as even one person decides to tip and it costs them nothing to have the option on.

It's similar to paid DLC in video games. People laughed at paying for horse armor but as long as at least one person bought it, it was money that the company wasn't getting before. Now games not being sold in pieces is the exception rather than the norm.

I'm not going to engage in any class warfare... restaurant staff actually get LESS than minimum wage, because tips are supposed to offset the loss. Of course they're going to want more money; they probably NEED it. Having said that, I rarely have two dimes to scrape together, and my tip limit is 15%, give or take. I mean, I'm not going to count it out to the penny, I'm not that much of a tightwad, but I've got my own expenses. If I can't realistically afford to eat out, I'll just make a sandwich at home.