There's a difference between being frugal and being an asshole.
If you have enough money that tips are a rounding error for you -- not tipping just makes you an asshole.
If you have enough money that tips are a rounding error for you -- not tipping just makes you an asshole.
It is the workplace's responsibility to pay their staff adequately. NOT YOURS.
0% tip all the way everywhere. No matter if I have $10 or $10k on the bill.
I don't get this argument, because at the end of the day you're paying both ways.
Either you're paying higher menu prices (because labor costs have increased) or you're paying tips (because labor costs are artificially low and you're supplementing them).
There is no magical "the business pays its employees more, but everything you buy stays the same price."
Especially not with food service margins.
You don’t feel the need to tip the people stacking shelves at Walmart or the Amazon driver.
In almost any other job we reasonably expect that someone’s compensation is between them and their employer and that the state should be making sure they’re protected from exploitatively low income.
Why are waiting staff a special case? People have worse jobs that come without tips and it doesn’t seem to bother anybody.
Those tips are expected now and irrelevant to service so it’s also just helping employers get away with paying those staff members less, so it’s really just subsidizing restaurants and cafes at this point.
I'm not aware of this, but then the U.S. has a different tipping culture to elsewhere. Have you got any examples?
Also, if it's your responsibility to pay the staff, do you also get the right to dictate how they do their job (within reason)?
For example?
Name one (let alone "lots").
> It is the workplace's responsibility to pay their staff adequately. NOT YOURS.
This has no bearing in reality. Most of these places can't staff their stores because no one will work for prevailing wages.
>Thus, you, someone with enough means to eat out
Oh yeah, the people grabbing coffee at Starbucks are all rich.
Raise your prices and pay your staff.
Relatively speaking? Yes.
Someone spending $4+ on one coffee mean they can easily tip.
And if your argument is that they can't afford that?
Then those same customers won't be able to afford the price increase if Starbucks simply raised labor costs and passed it on.
And by tipping you are keeping it so they can just afford to keep making ends meet, thus enabling the status quo.
It could be argued you are continuing the problem.
That's exactly the point? Buying iced tea everyday for some time means that he liked it. Not showing appreciation to something he clearly appreciates
I personally only tip if service was extraordinary and I appreciated it. Which is once a full moon at best
He shows appreciation by showing up and buying tea every day.
How much do you tip Apple or Microsoft as appreciation for their software every time you show up to use it?
I don't use their products which for me are all garbage and I tip often free and open source software.
Now the important thing, comparing "tipping" Apple and Microsoft to giving a tip to a minimum wage worker is quite evil.