Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:57:32 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: As If Being Expected to Tip for Everything Wasn't Bad Enough... Content-Language: en-US Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <53SdnYdXF_iBlnP4nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> <1723685982.731797705.283887.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> From: moviePig In-Reply-To: <1723685982.731797705.283887.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 78 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:57:33 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 4054 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17bb86085195e06a$56$3602787$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 4431 On 3/10/2024 5:26 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: >> On Jul 12, 2023 at 9:53:27 PM PDT, "BTR1701" wrote: >> >>> \- rant >>> >>> Lately I've been noticing the proliferation of tip jars and tip prompts just >>> about everywhere. You're now expected to tip the McDonald's guy who slides >>> your burger bag across the counter to you, for gawd's sake. >>> >>> I was at a place called Souplantation, which is basically one huge >>> 40-yard-long salad bar. You take a tray and a plate when you walk in the >> front >>> door, you walk down the salad bar and add ingredients to your salad along the >>> way, if you want one of the soups, you grab a bowl and fill it, you take a >> cup >>> and fill it from the machine for your drink, and at the end there's a scale >>> that weighs your items and a cashier to ring it up based on weight. And sure >>> enough, there was a tip jar there and when I paid by card, I got a prompt >>> asking me to leave a tip with choices 20%, 25%, and 30%. >>> >>> For what? >>> >>> I literally did *everything* myself. I made my own salad, I poured my own >>> drink, I ladled my own soup, I got my own condiments, yet I'm supposed to add >>> anywhere from 20% to 30% extra onto my bill to tip the guy who did nothing >> but >>> push *one* button on his register to total up my order's weight? >>> >>> And as if this wasn't bad enough, now I'm starting to see signs like this in >>> restaurants around town: >>> >>> >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6egz5eom3pc2n503ldusl/Tips.png?rlkey=h8sjxno4581t1hmqmvtvuc08q&dl=0 >>> >>> Restaurants are charging a percentage to use your credit card. Maybe they >> were >>> already secretly doing this, but I've never seen one boldly state that you >>> will be charged an extra 3% for not paying cash. >>> >>> Customers are not supposed to be paying the credit card processing fee. In >>> many cases, it's against the merchant agreement. >>> >>> Know how people will fix this problem? They’ll take the 3% from the server's >>> tip. Which means the servers are going to ultimately be the ones who get >>> screwed. >>> >>> -/ rant >> >> Now the robot at the automated convenience store wants a tip, too. >> >> You go in the store, there are literally no employees anywhere, you pick your > item off the shelf, take it to an available self-checkout register, scan > it, > swipe your card, and you're presented with a screen that asks if you > want to > leave a tip with various amount choices, starting at 20%. >> >> Leave a tip for who? There are no employees here. Am I tipping the corporation > that owns the store? Because hell no. >> >> Leave a tip for what? No service was provided to me. I did literally > everything myself. >> >> The store is literally just a giant vending machine. I wonder when those are > going to start asking for tips, too. >> > > Uber rides just upped the suggested tip from two dollars to three dollars > starting on the theory that you won’t go into the override menu and spend > the time knocking it back down to two dollars I guess. > > But on the other hand, the grocery delivery services just cut their > suggested tips in half! I don’t get that at all. Maybe as Covid officially retreats, we're less apt to pay for delivery.