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Subject: Re: As If Being Expected to Tip for Everything Wasn't Bad Enough...
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 16:00:48 -0400
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:33:48 +0000, 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.
>

You are tipping the employees that are restocking the shelves and
those in security watching you on the camera.