Im having beers at bar ordered wings and tipped $2 everything the bartender brings me.

Beer = $6

tip for beer $2

wings = $20ish

Tip for wings from bartender = $2

Total tips = $4

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Same order from waitress/er = $26

Tip = $5.20

Now I know this is micro example but extrapolate this over several drinks with food and the difference swings the other way. The question remains tho, am I tipping correctly?

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    82·
    13 hours 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
      63·
      10 hours 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.

    • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
      32·
      11 hours 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
        3·
        9 hours 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.

        • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
          11·
          9 hours ago

          You disagree with what? That it’s how you would get rid of tipping culture? Or that it’s possible?

          • WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 hours ago

            I’m an American and I hate tipping culture. I don’t believe your solution to getting rid of tipping culture is viable. I think we collectively as a culture would need to agree not to tip, which isn’t going to happen. A much easier way would be through legislation and forcing employers to pay fair wages. I don’t think customers would be inclined to tip someone making a fair wage. If this thread and hundreds like them on Lemmy and Reddit are any indication, people are generally guilted into tipping because wait staff makes $2/hour or whatever in the states.

            • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
              11·
              3 hours ago

              I think we collectively as a culture would need to agree not to tip

              That’s what I’m saying.

              which isn’t going to happen.

              Not with that attitude it won’t!

              A much easier way would be through legislation and forcing employers to pay fair wages.

              Then you get into the other massive issues - define “fair”. Who defines what is a fair wage? Is it just minimum wage enforcement? If you raise the minimum wage for servers then you have to raise it almost everywhere else, which will fuel massive inflation and job losses.

              I don’t think customers would be inclined to tip someone making a fair wage.

              But when you tip you have no idea what the servers wage is.

              Also as someone else pointed out in here, some states tried to get rid of tipping by raising the minimum wage of these servers and they complained so much the government abandoned it.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      24·
      12 hours 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
        23·
        12 hours 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.

          • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
            21·
            9 hours ago

            At least that’s something, I doubt you do that cause I’ve already seen your justification. Honestly the person handing you drink after drink at the bar, wondering if they need to finally cut you off doesn’t care. I’m guessing they’re just happy to be rid of you. Eat alone isn’t advice I need to give you… is it?