Tipflation?!?!

[m2711c]

[Vt-Freeheel]

Go back and get that tip for nothing and never go back

[Woodsy]

you stingy fucks should all learn to cook

[Danno]

Ordered a pizza on line. Paid with card and added 25% tip. Excepted wait time was 45 minutes. Go in to get the pizza and the guy says sorry were slammed. It will be at least another hour for your pizza. So not wanting to wait I ask for a refund. Guy says give me last 4 of the card and I will take care of it. Checked my account today. The pizza was refunded but they kept the tip. So did I just tip the guy for refunding my money?

check your cc online, if the transaction was never settled, the tip may not have ever gone through. You said you checked your acct, does it show two transactions, one for the higher tipped amount and a refund for the lower non-tipped amount? If so, yes, you tipped for the privilege of not getting a pizza. But I would go in to the store with that info, just on principle, because that's even more fucked than a lot of the other stuff in here.

[Bunion 2020]

you stingy fucks should all learn to cook

I do, mainly why I don't eat in restaurants. By the same token, you should get a real job. See how pointless that is?

[Woodsy]

I do, mainly why I don't eat in restaurants. By the same token, you should get a real job. See how pointless that is?

not sure how you qualify "real job" but I make a bit more than $8.00 and hour, and I am not collecting unemployment every spring and fall....

I also dont spew for 30 pages about my job and the things that customarily go with it like you & buzz have here about tipping people in the food industry. So who's pointless?!?

[k2skier112]

Having just returned from yurp I’m once again rejoicing at the pleasure of the dining experience over there - great food, great service, good prices, and no phucking extra tax and tip bullshit .

From my limited experience, in Austria, you had to badger them them 2 to 3 times to get the bill.

[Buzzworthy]

not sure how you qualify "real job" but I make a bit more than $8.00 and hour, and I am not collecting unemployment every spring and fall....

I also dont spew for 30 pages about my job and the things that customarily go with it like you & buzz have here about tipping people in the food industry. So who's pointless?!?

Man love you man but reading comprehension. This was not about tipping the food industry people. They always get their 20%. Regardless of how stupid the system is.

[Bunion 2020]

not sure how you qualify "real job" but I make a bit more than $8.00 and hour, and I am not collecting unemployment every spring and fall....

I also dont spew for 30 pages about my job and the things that customarily go with it like you & buzz have here about tipping people in the food industry. So who's pointless?!?

Right over your head................ Not that you are pointless but the argument is pointless. ETA: 7 posts is hardly 30 pages of spewing.

[Core Shot]

Back on point I’m so tired of tipflation.

Tips are for service. Taking an order and handing me a paper bag or cup is not really service in the traditional sense.

If I do get quality meals to go, that’s 10%. The cashier and cooks can split it. The other 10% would have been server that brought me food and drink and made me feel special.

But a coffee? To go? Fuck off.

PS. Most states have lower minimum wages for servers. That’s for a reason. Stupid though it may be. You can’t pay a line cook or even a backwaiter that same shitty wage.

[summit]

Silverthorne Friday concert, employees (town?) at the canned alcohol tent handing you cans of beer or cider or seltzer at $10/can. How much would like to tip? 15%? 20%? or 25%? I'm going to give you $2.50 for handing a me a fucking can? How about ZERO

[AK47bp]

Silverthorne Friday concert, employees (town?) at the canned alcohol tent handing you cans of beer or cider or seltzer at $10/can. How much would like to tip? 15%? 20%? or 25%? I'm going to give you $2.50 for handing a me a fucking can? How about ZERO

It’s fucked. If they took 3 seconds and poured you a draft would you tip? Or if they poured the can in a glass? At a bar you would probably tip and not think twice but at a tent it’s different?

I’m not arguing either way, everything is so nuanced and double standards galore.

[yeahman]

A dollar a beer.

[Woodsy]

A dollar a beer.

Sanity prevails

[Ted Striker]

Yeah, $1 per beer is min.

[yeahman]

Yeah, $1 per beer is min.

Min and max. Doesn't matter if the beer is $4 or $14. Dollar a beer is a fair tip.

[Ted Striker]

Agree. But what I was getting at is if it's a cash situation, I'm not pocketing the coins, so it's that plus a single.

[Buzzworthy]

Sanity prevails

Just so you know I too do the dollar a beer. I feel I have to explain things now in here. At a bar, they get their 20%.

[anotherVTskibum]

Silverthorne Friday concert, employees (town?) at the canned alcohol tent handing you cans of beer or cider or seltzer at $10/can. How much would like to tip? 15%? 20%? or 25%? I'm going to give you $2.50 for handing a me a fucking can? How about ZERO

$1 if they're on it enough to give me a five and five ones back from my $20. Maybe $2 if it's the third or fourth beer and the person handing over the can is cute.

$0 if they hand back a ten, because I'm definitely not tipping $10 on a can from a tent.

[BCMtnHound]

$1 if they're on it enough to give me a five and five ones back from my $20. Maybe $2 if it's the third or fourth beer and the person handing over the can is cute.

$0 if they hand back a ten, because I'm definitely not tipping $10 on a can from a tent.

Hence the reliance on an iPad and digital currency to pay the bill these days

Dunno, seemed a fairly intuitive strategy whenever I slung drinks or whatever back when a wrist calculator on your watch was peak math geek. If I wanted a tip and the customer was on their first round, I always split the change as much as possible, make it easy on the mark,er, I mean client. Had to manage the float a bit carefully early in the night, but the tip glass filled much more reliably.

Betcha most servers these days don’t have a clue what a float even is.

[Bunion 2020]

A dollar a beer.

Just so you know I too do the dollar a beer. I feel I have to explain things now in here. At a bar, they get their 20%.

What if the beers cost a buck?

[yeahman]

What if the beers cost a buck?

Ha, those days are gone as far as I know. But I remember $1 pitchers on Friday afternoons at the Library in Missoula back in the 80s. I'd tip a buck on a dollar pitcher.

[AK47bp]

A dollar a beer.

Unless you open a tab.

You and a buddy have a total of 8, $8 beers = $64 tab.

I’d tip $13

But if i sat there and paid for each single beer in cash I’d tip $1 per beer.

Hmmm, I just found a way to save $5….

[Ted Striker]

We've been suffering from serious beerflation post pandemic. Typical pint in this town is $7 plus.

[yeahman]

Unless you open a tab.

You and a buddy have a total of 8, $8 beers = $64 tab.

I’d tip $13

But if i sat there and paid for each single beer in cash I’d tip $1 per beer.

Hmmm, I just found a way to save $5….

Yeah...I've pretty much thrown percentages out the window when it comes to tipping these days. It's too skewed and has nothing to do with the actual service provided.