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Terminals are asking but that doesn't mean people are tipping, as the article points out:

> People are tipping less at restaurants than they have in at least six years, driven by fatigue over rising prices and growing prompts for tips at places where gratuities haven’t historically been expected.

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It’s extra effort and embarrassing to select lower or no tip when the cashier and other customers are looking.

That's the intended dynamic.

You are being pressured into submitting to being overcharged.

According to the WSJ, not so embarrassing that people are tapping the top button that much. After a while people are just done with it.

(And while this probably isn't a major factor, it backfires for people like me. By default I tip higher than most of the canned buttons.)

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