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On 3/10/2024 5:26 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 12, 2023 at 9:53:27 PM PDT, "BTR1701" <atropos@mac.com> 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.