Then the government needs to make it more easier for them to budget and provide a livable wage. Make it so there is no excuse for them not to. Because like it or not, it does cost quite a bit in places in order to run a business. If they raise their prices a bit higher in order to give people what they wanted, which is to give their employees a livable wage due to the cost of doing so, they’d get less customers and they’ll have people like YOU coming back to complain anyways. So why not just, like I said, make it so its financially a bit more easier for restaurant owners to run their business, so they’d have a bigger budget that they could use to pay their employees at least $16~$20 an hour?
Agree. Why is the burden of paying the worker on the customers? Every other country the employer pays the worker. If we want to tip, that should be a bonus.
I like good service. Tipping is our way as customers to express our gratitude for level of service. That said, tips occur after NOT before the service!
You're not subsidising the employer, you're subsidising those who don't tip or don't tip enough. It'd just be better for it to be included in the price you pay rather than having a voluntary system
@@sie4431 your comment doesn’t seem logical. The server is working for a business that does not adequately pay their workers. The business makes a profit; therefore, the business could adequately pay the worker but chooses not to pay. The restaurant industry uses the worker low pay, which they could change, to justify shifting the responsibility of the business to the customer. What other industry does this? In other countries, restaurants pay an adequate wage. They don’t scam their workers or customers to try and pocket more profits. If you cannot pay your worker a living wage, you should not be in business.
@@m.stewart7208 More than what they got up to the minimum federal wage, $7.25. That girl is lying or the employer is doing something illegal, the minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13, not $1.17. States can set a higher wage, but not lower it below that.
No one in the US legally makes below the minimum wage. For tipped workers, the employer has to pay the full minimum wage if they don’t earn enough tips.
@@boscopereira6815if a tip is suppose to be an incentive for better service, and I can't order or even get the base item without tipping, it should be included in the price.
The only time I ever tip if I'm picking a to go order is if the girl is over the top super friendly but even thenn it's the lowest tip option, usually $2
Her base pay is $1.17 cents in Nashville?? Well that’s the problem right there!!! Her employer should be PAYING HER a proper wage! Not hoping tips make up the difference!!!
Absolutely. In many places, the minimum wage for certain sectors, like hospitality or food service, is way, way lower than the minimum wage for other types of work. It’s nuts. Greedy employers have learned they can count on customer tips to fill the gaps in what they aren’t paying employees. It needs to stop
Tipping wage in Tennessee is actually 2.13 (yes it's still low), however her employer has to make up the difference if her overall pay doesn't make up for minimum wage. Yes, places of employment should pay a living wage regardless and hopefully tips should be a thing of the past someday.
I was in Japan and they do not accept tips there. On top of this their service is top notch and better than what we experience in the United States. People here feel entitled to tips.
Here's the problem, kid: food prices at a restaurant in japan may be the same as in America but the starting wage for an accountant or a programmer 23k usd versus 65k usd in the US. Think slowly about it.
@@TVHouseHistorian Says the hubris commenter named TVHouseHistorian. Not tipping when the total salary of a restaurant worker is low is very pompous. It's traditional and ingrained into society for centuries. If you hate restaurant workers, then don't go out and eat.
@@lynnhubbard844I don’t! American here and agree with Australia and other cultures. We should pay a living wage to minimize the tipping culture. It’s insane over here!
If she is making 1.17 per hour, she should be looking for a job, not doing interviews. The business owners need to be held accountable for putting the pressure on customers.
Yes. My wife and I have adopted a policy that we don’t tip for counter service. Meaning, if we walk into Chipotle, order our items and the folks there due their minimum job requirement of putting it in a bowl and handing it to us, that does not warrant a tip
I don't even do that. I'm not their employer. I'm PAYING for a product AND service. Figure out what you need to charge me to stay afloat and charge me accordingly.
In many states we all now bag our own groceries at grocery stores. We all know there’s a lot more items to bag, it’s not that hard, and it’s definitely not worth even 10% of the value of the groceries.
I've stopped eating out almost entirely after getting fed up with rising prices and poor service, and I won't go back because of the tipping situation.
Exactly. They show you a device with a 25% default tip after they ignored you the entire meal. $50 for a dinner for one person, no alcoholic beverages, and they want a 25% tip for walking your plate a few feet across a room.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was at the mall. A gyro place that you pick the food up yourself at the end of the counter. I paid with debit card, and the card reader started at 20% and I saw no way to bypass it. Like no button that says "no tip". I was mad there was no lower option. Plus line behind me made me feel pressured in the moment to hurry up and choose something. After that I was done with tipping. Cash only at places like that from now on.
Same friend it's been at least three years.since.i have gone to a sit-down restaurant. I eat at home and I do t tip at any of these fast food places or anything else it's just insane. You used to tip for excellent service now it's just to supplement lack of pay and that's not my job
Thank you for saying this 🙏 People who don't agree with tipping should abstain from restaurants. Makes much more sense than the people who take it out on the server by eating out and stiffing them (for those that got decent service). The latter doesn't affect the establishment at all, only the person who served you.
What exactly is a living wage to you? Does it mean having money for the next iPhone or flat-screen TV every other year? Everybody wants money but nobody is willing to better themselves to achieve making that kind of money. Define what you mean by living wage? Mcdonalds pays you more than enough for basic housing, food, and clothes on your back. I don't understand why it's their problem you didn't go to college or find skilled trade.
@@TheHandsomeAudiophile not everyone can afford to go to college. Heck, even the ppl who went to college can’t afford it. Look at them now, asking for loan forgiveness yet you sit there and say ppl who make low wages should have went to college. Well darn then, those ppl who are asking for freakin loan forgiveness should pay for their own freakin college loans, and not use my freakin tax dollars.
@ddrew4107 the easier you are to replace, the less money you will make as a general rule. They don't owe anything to you. If you don't like your hourly wage then go find another job that's willing to pay you what you want. There is nothing special about putting french fries into a deep fryer, whoopdidoo.
This story might be better framed as: "Why American companies are paying less and how it impacts workers" Companies are reporting record profits, they could at least share that to the people that actually make most of the work happen.
But it’s not just big companies, it’s affecting people who shop at small businesses who are tired of tipping. I only go to independent coffee shops: why am I tipping 20-30% for someone with green hair and a poor attitude who feel entitled?
I'm fed up. I was just asked to tip at my dermatologist's office when I swiped my card for my copay after having a treatment for my hyperpigmentation. ENOUGH.
Crazy to see how these employers have brainwashed people into blaming the customer for not tipping enough instead of holding the employer accountable for not paying a living wage. A tip is a gesture not an expectation.
@@JustSkram there are 8M job openings in the US, most of which are service jobs. Unemployment is 4.1%. They are all over the place. I don't see your point.
Today you revealed your true stance. Instead of guilting broke consumers into tipping more, the title should be: "Why restaurants demand tips for bare minimum service and how it affects everyday Americans."
It’s legal. That’s the real problem. In many states, for jobs where tips historically make up a large amount of compensation, the minimum wage can be much lower than the normal minimum wage for other jobs in that state. It definitely needs to change
Where I live, waitstaff is paid something like $2 an hour; the rest of their income comes from tips. But that's at full-service, sit-down restaurants. When I go into McDonald's or Chipotle or Smoothie King and they have Help Wanted signs promising $15, there's NO WAY I'm gonna tip them.
@@pensivepenguin3000 No, $1.17 per hour is not a legal wage in the US. The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 per hour, and her wages + tips didn't add up to at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, the employer would be required to make up the difference. (Since Tennessee doesn't have it's own minimum wage laws, the federal rates apply)
I work at a drive-in burger place in Seattle. We dont accept tips at all, even though customers insist that we accept their tips. The reason? Because our company pays us very well and gives us great benefits. Our starting pay is $21 and we can quickly earn up to $25 an hour when fully trained. We also get a scholarship, free public transportation, great health insurance and 100% dental insurance. If a local burger chain is able to do all of this, then larger chains are certainly able to as well.
@@marvintravel not as broke as the people demanding for a tip. If people keep demanding for a tip I would tell them to get a 2nd job. At least in America it's legal and optional to work more than 1 job. They can't complain about that
It's optional but I have witnessed a waiter run after a couple after dining because they didn't leave a tip! A friend of mine also said it happened to her. The servers get angry when you don't tip.
I don't mind traditional tipping, it's these new tip screens where we didn't tip before that rubs me the wrong way. I refuse to tip and I don't care if I'm vocal about it.
While that is true. What’s going to start happening is those who work for tips are no longer going to be willing to work those jobs. Especially when the base pay is low in the first place. We all have a common issue and that is the lack of money🥴
Tips 100 % should not be optional if you go to a sit down restaurant relying on somebody else to bring you your food and drinks. You always tip your server, no ands if's or buts.
As a former delivery driver, (although I’m nice), 9 dollars an hour is not gonna pay no significant bills. So I understood why those around me weren’t in the best moods. And weren’t in the mood to be nice to customers that didn’t tip. But I think we all should be turning our guns to a common issue. Everything is expensive so we all ain’t got money to tip like that. And another issue is that tip workers don’t get paid enough to sustain a basic livelihood.
@tjhouston1280 if you can't afford to tip your driver for bringing you your groceries you should've just went and got them yourself. That's a very lame excuse to not tip in that situation " because people can't afford to tip anymore ". Ridiculous......
@@TheHandsomeAudiophile well actually I agree with you. In fact if our economic situation is better and people are still not tipping, that would be an issue. But as of right now because of the price of everything in this country, I can understand when someone doesn’t have enough money to tip. However I still agree because if I personally don’t have the money, I just go get the food or whatever is tip worthy myself and not wasted someone’s time and gas coming to me for no compensation.
Yeah and holy cow hello to one of the replies saying service employees are grumpy around people who don't tip. You're supposed to tip AFTER & picking and choosing who to be nice to based on how likely a person is to tip is a reason I don't tip! Im young brown a woman lol all the stereotypes of who wouldn't tip so when someone predetermined my abilities its like a self fulfilling prophesy like if I had to get my own menu water wait etc bad service. No tip. And f u. Like daym
EVERYONE who thinks you NEED to tip…. Ask yourself this question. When you go into a clothing store, the worker goes and grabs a size, brings to the registers, and folds it up for you in a bag and if you don’t want it folds up after you and cleans up YOUR mess… Do you think you NEED to tip no… But why is it when you go to a coffee shop walk up and order a coffee and they make you your coffee you need to tip? Are they not doing their job they interviewed for/ applied?
@@miemie7683 right I have worked retail, food and lot of customer service jobs. I got tipped for pizza delivery, valet driving, never at a yogurt shop, and never working retail we legally COULD not take cash from guest.
@@lovetoplaywithyou3530 if you ever eat outside and they ask for tip (if they demand one) just tell them if they want money then they should get a 2nd job. It is optional for people to work 2 jobs or more
Welllll it’s right on brand for the US bc tipping started bc racism during reconstruction after the civil war for black service workers… literally everything in the US infrastructure was borne of racism/slavery
"Real people put work in". Yeah, thats why ppl pay $10 for a burrito that has $2.50 worth of ingredients. There's already a large markup for labor and overhead
Too bad that extra cost doesn’t go to the worker but to one of the three or four big corporations that own nearly all of the fast food and restaurants…….
The lowest suggested tip at my local donut shop this morning was 15%. That was for me using the drive-thru and being handed a bag of fried, sugary bread. I think Americans are fed up with the fact that suggested tipping has not only increased but it’s also gotten more prevalent. But this video is typical of the media. The story should be about why Americans are being asked to tip *more* money, and at *more* places. Instead the media acts like we’re skimping by paying less. No, we are just tired of being asked to over-tip. So maybe us “tipping less” is really just us reverting back the way tipping used to be.
10% is below average service. 15% is average service, 20% is exceptional service. I feel chefs/back-end deserve more tips than servers in most situations. Worked in restaurant for awhile.
Both sides are right. We as consumers are being expected to tip for things that do not warrant it, yet the way pay is structured in the food service and hospitality sectors, these employees can’t survive without tips. The answer is to push for legislation that requires employers to pay their people a fair base wage, so tips can go back to being what they were always for - a gesture of appreciation for exemplary service, not an expectation
@smathew8810 sure i dont but i choose to. My hairdresser is like a wizard. She gets it perfect everytime and will squueze me in last minute if i need it. And i choose to tip my waitress because in a small town, everyone knows everyone so if i tip well, they remember and treat me very well the next time i dine there. I feel like hard work deserves to be rewarded.
The problem with tipping is servers think they're entitled to a tip these days and they are absolutely not entitled as a customer has no obligation to tip nor could be made to tip.
@@MayMay-qr1yc It sounds like you’ve been blessed with the perfect hairdresser. From my personal experience, I’ve noticed that a lot of barbers have become so lazy nowadays that many feel entitled to a tip regardless of how they cut your hair. I’ve had to deal with plenty of barbers like that, and I simply do not leave them a tip. Ultimately, I will not tip barbers unless of course they give me what I ask for and not what they think is convenient for them.
I was asked for a tip at Del Taco and at an airport convinence store that had no visable employees (I rang up my own items). I have new rules I follow and have stopped feeling bad; I will NOT tip if asked before I have recived services and I will not tip if I order standing up. Also the reason those companies add that feature because then they pay the employees less with the promise of tips and because the companies take up to 50% of those tips. So I now carry cash and tip at the table (only when and after a service is provided) in cash to cut out paying the company extra for the same product.
In California most servers make high teens base pay (or more) and a 20%+ tip is still expected. They also ask for tips for fast food, Jamba Juice, Starbucks, etc… for jobs that didn’t require tipping years ago. What next? Will the TSA ask for tips after they pat you down or throw away your shampoo? I’m all for raising menu prices and doing away with tipping. If you’re going to be eventually paying $50 for your stake dinner (with tip and service charges included), why not just list it like that on the menu?
It's one thing to tip a waiter/waitress who is juggling multiple tables and will bring you anything you ask for. Another thing being asked (by the screen) to tip the cashier for ringing you out. Not everything deserves a tip.
The issue is not tipping itself, it is the fact that now you go through a drive thru and you’re still asked for a tip. The backend labor is why they have a salary, that is not and should not be the concern of the costumer. If you have a waiter, then yes, tip. Anything else shouldn’t even present a tipping option. That’s why people are fed up.
We're tipping less because we've tipped at every store since covid. Even to just pick up an item smh. Tipping culture is over. If I dine in of course im tipping other than that, these companies need to start paying these workers more and stop using that easy button to pay what they should be paying the workers.
Listen, consumers shouldn’t be asked to subsidize business models that aren’t feasible! Company should pay employees a reasonable wage for the work performed. We can tip if we feel an employee has gone the extra mile. Pay for it by reducing CEOs unreasonably large salaries!
Sure, restaurants can just start adding a 20% service fee to a customer's bill instead. Also, with regard to your comment about CEO salaries...what about mom and pop restaurants making razor thin profit margins? The answer is server compensation is coming from the customer one way or the other. Higher prices, an additional service fee, tipping, etc.
@@ab9040The profits/customer expenditures wouldn’t work out the same. Otherwise why would restaurants support the current tipped wage system? The lower restaurants can make menu prices (hiding taxes and fees until the final bill) the more patrons they entice. If they had to advertise the true cost, demand would go down and they’d have to lower prices to compensate or shrink profit margins (which is why they lobby against it). If they can’t, then they go bankrupt and the customer base spreads among competition until there’s an equilibrium. This is how the economy is supposed to work. Restaurants and bars shouldn’t get special treatment.
I used to be a consistent 20% tipper when dining, 15% when getting a coffee from a speciality shop that required more than pouring from a pot and 18% for food delivery - even when service sucked! Now hahahahah after 2021 service across the board has been so bad. And I’m not talking oh these places are understaffed or busy so the service isn’t great. I’m talking these services are being provided by people who don’t give af about how they serve you and think it is their right to be left a tip. Servers need to take up better wages with your management instead of taking out your frustrations of being overworked and underpaid with us the customers. Until then, 15% from my pocket only when appropriate.
Why have we normalized business owners passing on the cost of labor to the consumer? If you can't afford to run a business, you shouldn't be running a business.
This literally goes back a hundred years or more, congress didn't require employers to pay servers anything until 1966...then it was way less than regular minimum wage...and still is today
No force tipping in Asia. Regardless if the customer is poor or not, mom & pop stall or bigger restaurant. You chose where to eat and you chose where to work.
Why should I pay for someone else to work?? Its not my job!!!! Its the employers job to pay their employees to work not the customers job!!!!!! Get it together people!!!!!
@@perthfanny3017 I’m sure it does in some small print, but they know that nobody is going to say hey let me read the iPad real quick. It’s all about putting the customer on the stop and that’s the problem
I don't eat out. It's simple, cheaper, and I don't have to put up with loud mouthed people next to me. I am not paying a higher price for food that I can make on my own.
"Realize it's because real people put work behind it, to make it that easy for you and that's why you should tip" I expect it from the already inflated cost of the food Im paying for.
@@DawnNa_22 100%. I understand why she says that. After all, she's practically a slave with that sub $2/hour wage, so she expects the tip. Customers have no idea if a worker is paid in tips or not. They just want a good product and service.
That part was so annoying to hear. Every job with a human are real people putting work into it. And at varying levels, all jobs are service jobs from retail workers to bank tellers and none of them get tips.
Right, ridiculous logic. ANY product is made convenient for consumers. Anything you grab from shelf in walmart was produced, neatly packaged, shipped and placed on the shelf by someone to make it convenient. Companies which make products or services inconvenient for consumers quickly go out of business. So why tipping if there was no personal service?
@@michaelmolina5742 I'm going to sound like a jerk here but that's how jobs work. It has its pros and cons and employees are still being paid to work but employees shouldn't even demand a tip in the first place since it's optional to the customers. The next time a waitress/waiter demands me a tip I'll just tell them to get a 2nd job. In America it is legal for people to work more than 1 job so they can't complain about that
I work at the airport (in Europe though). Reading more and more about this tipping madness is starting to make me feel like I should also get a tip every time I check a passenger in 😅
Unless you're a waitress/bartender, why on EARTH do they deserve a tip for just standing behind a screen or cooking the food in a kitchen??! Please explain that
Tbf I'd rather tip the cooks at real restaurants instead of waitresses. I can go get my own plate n beverage, but want to commend the cooks for cooking my food well
Tipping is dumb in the first place. They just need to pay a liveable wage. I bet you that the owners are probably living in really nice homes and drive nice cars. I used to live in a small town. There was always one shift where the wait staff was sitting down because it had been dead for a long time. How is that fair? That person always got less tips. The owner was always making bank. My hubby worked there for a few months.
It’s an outrageous claims that all owners have really nice homes and cars. Most businesses owners are small mom and pop businesses. An employees still get paid if the restaurant is packed with customers or no customers at all. Owners have the most risk when it comes to their razor thin margins. Owning and operating a business is no joke and it’s one of most stressful job. Those margins either keep their business open and employ people or closed their business for good and lay people off. Don’t lump owners who own mega corporations who barely pay their employees a living wage and yet still draw a six figure salary yearly.
I always pay with cash at takeout places. If you pay with card, the screen puts up automatic tipping which is much higher than I care to pay for takeout. I put two dollars in the tip jar. When eating in a sit down restaurant, I tip 15-20% based on the attentiveness of the waitstaff. Giving 18% for someone to hand a bag to you is way too much.
The 1.17 girl doesn’t need to get tips, she needs to talk to her employer about making a livable wage. Tipping is not required and never has been. People complaining about not getting tipped are glorified beggars.
I only tip when dining in where the waiter brings me a menu brings in my drink brings me my food takes away the plate talks to me about the food opens my wine brings me out dessert with my spoon. Not where i go and order my food pick it up they give me plastic utensils then i have to get up and throw my garbage away thats where it should even be ilegal to even ask for a tip thats just plain disrespectful asking for a tip when am doing it myself smh. I went to shake shack odered my food threw the self order. When reached to the payment part there is a tip option too
Most servers don't want a wage and would rather survive on tips. I saw a video where servers said if they were paid hourly instead of receiving tips, that they would quite because most make more money from tips, than receiving a regular wage.
Exactly, and this isn’t something either presidential candidate is talking about. It’s almost like the country is just rolling over and accepting this crap
I’m NOT going to tip a cashier who simply checks out my items. Where they take my card and then flips the screen and they say, just a few questions… which is the tip screen. I used to feel pressure accidentally leave a couple bucks.. but not anymore I select “No tip” Unless I’m at a sit down restaurant or get a service provided. I’m not pay what your employer should be paying you. And of course, when I don’t tip for a cashier checking out the items that I shopped at their store for I get the dirty look ..😂
Of course I still tip for delivery drivers, waiters, ubers, but the other day when ordering a pizza it asked me if I wanted to tip when I had selected carryout. This is getting too crazy. I definitely feel pressured to tip but this has got to stop.
So, what is your solution then? Nobody should work these types of food service and hospitality jobs? Good luck with that next time you walk into a bar or restaurant
@@landonward3754 this seems like an unserious idea. We need people working jobs across the spectrum, from entry-level food service all the way up to senior management. It’s silly to just tell people to go work somewhere else if they don’t like it. Not everybody working at Taco Bell or Denny’s is going to be able to go get a job as a lawyer or computer programmer
Tipping is a culture going from bad to worse. servers were force to rely on tips in order to get a decent wage just made me feel like they’re in the realm of strippers. Servers should be paid a livable wage and getting a tip was for doing a good job beyond the normal standard set by the restaurant. If you travel to another part of the world, some places you will see servers do not accept tip or if you present a tip to a server it’s a sign of disrespect.
People need jobs and there’s honor in all jobs. The question should why the company is paying their employees so little and charging consumers so much.
Sad thing is, I made more that way than any jobs I could get with my biology degree. On busy days I could easily pass $200 dollars for a shift, compared to other jobs paying like 12 dollars an hour
@@eeeeggnog._. That's another reason why people are tired of tipping. All middle class jobs pay too low now. So why should a teacher whose job required them to pay for a college degreee who makes $60k tip a waiter w/no degree required whose tips also have them earning $60k. If I were the teacher in that scenario (I'm not, this is just an example) I would stop tipping too.
@jennifermarie3158 I mean yeah, I agree with you there. It sucks that other jobs are paying so low. But my server job made no where near 60k, it was just much better than other basic entry jobs
I’m not tipping .. your employer should be paying you to do your job. I use to be a tipper but this year I stopped.. I’m not tipping for servers your employer should be paying you.. I’m not paying higher food cost like that .. this is wrong employer can pay their employers less if they offer tipping that’s not right pay your employee minimum wage or higher, as well as your cooks as well as your bartenders and any other employee that you hire for your establishment. I Your consumer should not have to pay your employees bills so you can pocket off the money that you do not pay them..
@@brittbrattsmilesalot Agreed 💯. If employees like that keep asking for tips I'll just ask them if they can get a 2nd job. Shouldn't be a problem for them since it is optional
@@terryowen6759 or encourage more people to start making food at home. Home cooked foods are better than foods made from restaurants because at least the person making the food knows how much they need to make. Nothing wrong with making food at home because at least I don't have to pay for food that can easily be made at home with the same ingredients but at a steady price.
Honestly, I feel like restaurants can lose a potential customer because of the expectation to tip. Also, lately the payment screen keeps putting higher tip percentages…so, if you want to give 15% tip, you have to calculate right on the spot with the waiter right in front of you. I wish all workers were simply paid a fair wage.
I love my service industry folks (restaurants and bars) but I’ve stopped going to establishments that swing the iPad 180 degrees because I can’t afford the service. I’m broke.
Tips should go away. The employer needs to pay a livable wage, no if and or buts about it.
It's how they do it in Europe.
We need a $20 national minimum wage
Why not both?
There is no need to pay a “living wage” because it is not a definable number nor something anyone should care about
Then the government needs to make it more easier for them to budget and provide a livable wage. Make it so there is no excuse for them not to.
Because like it or not, it does cost quite a bit in places in order to run a business. If they raise their prices a bit higher in order to give people what they wanted, which is to give their employees a livable wage due to the cost of doing so, they’d get less customers and they’ll have people like YOU coming back to complain anyways.
So why not just, like I said, make it so its financially a bit more easier for restaurant owners to run their business, so they’d have a bigger budget that they could use to pay their employees at least $16~$20 an hour?
No more tips! Pay a decent wage. I'm not here to subsidize employers.
Don't be silly about how much you can get for being a waiter/waitress. We have ALL been there and done that back in my day.
Agree. Why is the burden of paying the worker on the customers? Every other country the employer pays the worker. If we want to tip, that should be a bonus.
I like good service. Tipping is our way as customers to express our gratitude for level of service. That said, tips occur after NOT before the service!
You're not subsidising the employer, you're subsidising those who don't tip or don't tip enough. It'd just be better for it to be included in the price you pay rather than having a voluntary system
@@sie4431 your comment doesn’t seem logical. The server is working for a business that does not adequately pay their workers. The business makes a profit; therefore, the business could adequately pay the worker but chooses not to pay. The restaurant industry uses the worker low pay, which they could change, to justify shifting the responsibility of the business to the customer. What other industry does this? In other countries, restaurants pay an adequate wage. They don’t scam their workers or customers to try and pocket more profits. If you cannot pay your worker a living wage, you should not be in business.
The story should be "How companies in America are allowed to get away paying $1.17/hour in 2024, and why is this still legal"
It's not legal. The workplace is required to pay more if the worker doesn't receive enough in tips
@@nitroneonicman Required to pay more than what?
@@m.stewart7208 they are required to pay the difference to get the employee up to the untipped minimum wage
@@m.stewart7208 More than what they got up to the minimum federal wage, $7.25. That girl is lying or the employer is doing something illegal, the minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13, not $1.17. States can set a higher wage, but not lower it below that.
No one in the US legally makes below the minimum wage. For tipped workers, the employer has to pay the full minimum wage if they don’t earn enough tips.
Stop gaslighting customers! Instead, shame companies for paying so little!
What frustrates me the most is when I am asked to tip when I order pickup/to go
Yeah I ignore it and sometimes the cashier will scoff or whatever.
No need to get frustrated. Just don’t tip 😅
Well, you're tipping the human who put together your order, so you could just pick it up and leave.
@@boscopereira6815if a tip is suppose to be an incentive for better service, and I can't order or even get the base item without tipping, it should be included in the price.
The only time I ever tip if I'm picking a to go order is if the girl is over the top super friendly but even thenn it's the lowest tip option, usually $2
No more tipping. Employers need to pay liveable wages.
Livable wage doesn't affect tipping.
How about you blame employer and blame government? And also blame yourself
Have fun with increased food costs and lower service quality, I guess.
Prices of everything have increase nonetheless@@JustSkram
@@JustSkramthat won’t do anything but hurt the workers and businesses. People will not go out to eat.
Her base pay is $1.17 cents in Nashville?? Well that’s the problem right there!!! Her employer should be PAYING HER a proper wage! Not hoping tips make up the difference!!!
No - the state and leadership should be embarassed
Absolutely. In many places, the minimum wage for certain sectors, like hospitality or food service, is way, way lower than the minimum wage for other types of work. It’s nuts. Greedy employers have learned they can count on customer tips to fill the gaps in what they aren’t paying employees. It needs to stop
Tipping wage in Tennessee is actually 2.13 (yes it's still low), however her employer has to make up the difference if her overall pay doesn't make up for minimum wage. Yes, places of employment should pay a living wage regardless and hopefully tips should be a thing of the past someday.
The employer doesn’t hope tips make up the difference, they don’t care, otherwise they would be paying a decent wage.
@@pensivepenguin3000 tips don’t really bridge the gap. People who are dependent on tips are poor.
I was in Japan and they do not accept tips there. On top of this their service is top notch and better than what we experience in the United States. People here feel entitled to tips.
Here's the problem, kid: food prices at a restaurant in japan may be the same as in America but the starting wage for an accountant or a programmer 23k usd versus 65k usd in the US. Think slowly about it.
Also no tips in Norway.
Tipping is also seen as rude there too
Tipping is pompous.
@@TVHouseHistorian Says the hubris commenter named TVHouseHistorian.
Not tipping when the total salary of a restaurant worker is low is very pompous. It's traditional and ingrained into society for centuries. If you hate restaurant workers, then don't go out and eat.
As an Aussie, I find tipping absolutely ridiculous. Pay your staff appropriately. I'm glad it's not a thing in Australia.
and they ridicule Aussies in the US for this
@@lynnhubbard844I don’t! American here and agree with Australia and other cultures. We should pay a living wage to minimize the tipping culture. It’s insane over here!
I LOVED it when I dinned in Australia and was delighted to find out about NO tax and NO tips on my bill.
If she is making 1.17 per hour, she should be looking for a job, not doing interviews. The business owners need to be held accountable for putting the pressure on customers.
I’ve gotten real good at pressing “no tip”
Yes. My wife and I have adopted a policy that we don’t tip for counter service. Meaning, if we walk into Chipotle, order our items and the folks there due their minimum job requirement of putting it in a bowl and handing it to us, that does not warrant a tip
Facts and I don’t feel bad about it. Everyone has a choice on where they want to work and they sign the contract knowing what’s involved.
😊 good for you. If there's anything I am excellent at, it's that.
Me too. I automatically click the no tip button. Heck I ordered and paid for my food and drink at the counter. What I am tipping for?
Me too. Stuff is high enough as it is, much less adding a tip. Smh.
Tipping for self-service is BS. I tip well, but for SERVICE.
I don't even do that. I'm not their employer. I'm PAYING for a product AND service. Figure out what you need to charge me to stay afloat and charge me accordingly.
I tip for service as well. Especially at a restaurant (sit down) and delivery service. Sometimes I will tip if I am doing take out.
@@m.stewart7208So you'd be happy if restaurants just started adding a 20% service fee to your bill?
I tip for service as it has always been before Covid I'm not playing this Covid tipping game
I didn't start Covid why am I being punished for it.
I ain't tipping for carryout. How about you pay your workers a living wage?
In many states we all now bag our own groceries at grocery stores. We all know there’s a lot more items to bag, it’s not that hard, and it’s definitely not worth even 10% of the value of the groceries.
@@devonb9195 not only do people have to bag their own groceries now, but you have to pay for the bags 😂 backwards world
I do because the server still has package everything
@@kauigirl808That's called doing their job.
@cryptokey8917 yes like waiters but we still tip.
At this point, tipping is basically a we-won't-spit-in-your-food charge.
Right lol shameful
I've stopped eating out almost entirely after getting fed up with rising prices and poor service, and I won't go back because of the tipping situation.
Exactly. They show you a device with a 25% default tip after they ignored you the entire meal. $50 for a dinner for one person, no alcoholic beverages, and they want a 25% tip for walking your plate a few feet across a room.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was at the mall. A gyro place that you pick the food up yourself at the end of the counter. I paid with debit card, and the card reader started at 20% and I saw no way to bypass it. Like no button that says "no tip". I was mad there was no lower option. Plus line behind me made me feel pressured in the moment to hurry up and choose something. After that I was done with tipping. Cash only at places like that from now on.
Same friend it's been at least three years.since.i have gone to a sit-down restaurant. I eat at home and I do t tip at any of these fast food places or anything else it's just insane. You used to tip for excellent service now it's just to supplement lack of pay and that's not my job
Thank you for saying this 🙏 People who don't agree with tipping should abstain from restaurants. Makes much more sense than the people who take it out on the server by eating out and stiffing them (for those that got decent service). The latter doesn't affect the establishment at all, only the person who served you.
If they do away with tips, the prices will just go up more
I feel zero guilt not tipping. Pay your employees a living wage.
especially when the employers are keeping more and more of the profits
What exactly is a living wage to you? Does it mean having money for the next iPhone or flat-screen TV every other year? Everybody wants money but nobody is willing to better themselves to achieve making that kind of money. Define what you mean by living wage? Mcdonalds pays you more than enough for basic housing, food, and clothes on your back. I don't understand why it's their problem you didn't go to college or find skilled trade.
@@TheHandsomeAudiophile not everyone can afford to go to college. Heck, even the ppl who went to college can’t afford it. Look at them now, asking for loan forgiveness yet you sit there and say ppl who make low wages should have went to college. Well darn then, those ppl who are asking for freakin loan forgiveness should pay for their own freakin college loans, and not use my freakin tax dollars.
@@ddrew4107 typical excuses smh. You can apply for grants and student loans. Or just go find some sort of skilled trade.
@ddrew4107 the easier you are to replace, the less money you will make as a general rule. They don't owe anything to you. If you don't like your hourly wage then go find another job that's willing to pay you what you want. There is nothing special about putting french fries into a deep fryer, whoopdidoo.
This story might be better framed as: "Why American companies are paying less and how it impacts workers"
Companies are reporting record profits, they could at least share that to the people that actually make most of the work happen.
Exactly! This news org NEEDS to be "restructured." From the top to the bottom.
proper titles are EVERYTHING. biased media
But it’s not just big companies, it’s affecting people who shop at small businesses who are tired of tipping. I only go to independent coffee shops: why am I tipping 20-30% for someone with green hair and a poor attitude who feel entitled?
Here in Canada they get paid normal wages just not proper hours prob in Canada often 6 hour shifts.
“And how this impacts customers”
I'm fed up. I was just asked to tip at my dermatologist's office when I swiped my card for my copay after having a treatment for my hyperpigmentation. ENOUGH.
Wait what!?!?!? That is insane. I would have never expected that.
@@_YohnlegendI only tip a waiter or waitress.
Same at my Botox place!
You're lying!!!!! Nice try!
That’s the wildest tipping request I’ve heard
Tipping isn’t an obligation. Pay your workers more instead of making them rely on us.
Crazy to see how these employers have brainwashed people into blaming the customer for not tipping enough instead of holding the employer accountable for not paying a living wage. A tip is a gesture not an expectation.
She's making $1.17/hr! She needs the tips! Uhm, NO. She needs a better employer.
Okay, are you going to hire her?
@@JustSkram there are 8M job openings in the US, most of which are service jobs. Unemployment is 4.1%. They are all over the place. I don't see your point.
She needs to quit
Better employer OR better paying job. Those are the 2 options.
It should be illegal to pay that little and tipping culture should disappear like everywhere else
Today you revealed your true stance. Instead of guilting broke consumers into tipping more, the title should be: "Why restaurants demand tips for bare minimum service and how it affects everyday Americans."
You should have known main stream media is with corporations. I mean they are one
💯🎯
1.17 sounds like a company needs to be investigated. thats on the company not the consumer.
It’s legal. That’s the real problem. In many states, for jobs where tips historically make up a large amount of compensation, the minimum wage can be much lower than the normal minimum wage for other jobs in that state. It definitely needs to change
if a business can't survive without paying their employees $1.17 an hour, then it doesn't deserve to survive.
Where I live, waitstaff is paid something like $2 an hour; the rest of their income comes from tips. But that's at full-service, sit-down restaurants. When I go into McDonald's or Chipotle or Smoothie King and they have Help Wanted signs promising $15, there's NO WAY I'm gonna tip them.
@@pensivepenguin3000 No, $1.17 per hour is not a legal wage in the US. The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 per hour, and her wages + tips didn't add up to at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, the employer would be required to make up the difference. (Since Tennessee doesn't have it's own minimum wage laws, the federal rates apply)
@@extendedsilence Exactly. Ya'll need to stop letting these people lie to you.
If im ordering standing up, i aint tipping
Oh most definitely, if I'm tapping on an IPad then you're getting that no tip button boo boo
I work at a drive-in burger place in Seattle. We dont accept tips at all, even though customers insist that we accept their tips. The reason? Because our company pays us very well and gives us great benefits. Our starting pay is $21 and we can quickly earn up to $25 an hour when fully trained. We also get a scholarship, free public transportation, great health insurance and 100% dental insurance. If a local burger chain is able to do all of this, then larger chains are certainly able to as well.
People are tipping less because it’s completely gotten out of control. All these places are just scamming consumers.
Last time I checked a customer would tip their server if they did an excellent job. Tipping used to OPTIONAL. When did it become mandatory?!?!?!?
Tipping is optional as no law in America can make a person tip.
It is optional! I do not Tip! Im broke sorry!😂😂😂😂
@@marvintravel not as broke as the people demanding for a tip. If people keep demanding for a tip I would tell them to get a 2nd job. At least in America it's legal and optional to work more than 1 job. They can't complain about that
It's optional but I have witnessed a waiter run after a couple after dining because they didn't leave a tip! A friend of mine also said it happened to her. The servers get angry when you don't tip.
@@Ilovechickpeas I would give them directions to a homeless shelter it'll help them more better
STOP TIPPING!! This is unheard of anywhere else around the world. Force companies to pay their workers a real salary!!
Thank you!
I don't mind traditional tipping, it's these new tip screens where we didn't tip before that rubs me the wrong way. I refuse to tip and I don't care if I'm vocal about it.
Why aren’t these employers required to pay minimum wages? Every other business has high expenses. They can’t just use that as an excuse.
Tips should be optional. People need to get over it. Prices are high . You’re lucky we’re even shopping at your restaurants.
While that is true. What’s going to start happening is those who work for tips are no longer going to be willing to work those jobs. Especially when the base pay is low in the first place. We all have a common issue and that is the lack of money🥴
Tips 100 % should not be optional if you go to a sit down restaurant relying on somebody else to bring you your food and drinks. You always tip your server, no ands if's or buts.
The fact you are still going to restaurants instead of buying your food from a grocery store tells me the prices at restaurants aren't high enough!
Exactly.
exactly the food prices have increase a lot u should be grateful im supporting ur business not somewhere else
I think the problem is that the service nowadays doesn’t warrant a tip, making the pressure to do so more uncomfortable.
As a former delivery driver, (although I’m nice), 9 dollars an hour is not gonna pay no significant bills. So I understood why those around me weren’t in the best moods. And weren’t in the mood to be nice to customers that didn’t tip. But I think we all should be turning our guns to a common issue. Everything is expensive so we all ain’t got money to tip like that. And another issue is that tip workers don’t get paid enough to sustain a basic livelihood.
@tjhouston1280 if you can't afford to tip your driver for bringing you your groceries you should've just went and got them yourself. That's a very lame excuse to not tip in that situation " because people can't afford to tip anymore ". Ridiculous......
@@TheHandsomeAudiophile well actually I agree with you. In fact if our economic situation is better and people are still not tipping, that would be an issue. But as of right now because of the price of everything in this country, I can understand when someone doesn’t have enough money to tip. However I still agree because if I personally don’t have the money, I just go get the food or whatever is tip worthy myself and not wasted someone’s time and gas coming to me for no compensation.
@@tjhouston1280 thank you for understanding.
Yeah and holy cow hello to one of the replies saying service employees are grumpy around people who don't tip. You're supposed to tip AFTER & picking and choosing who to be nice to based on how likely a person is to tip is a reason I don't tip! Im young brown a woman lol all the stereotypes of who wouldn't tip so when someone predetermined my abilities its like a self fulfilling prophesy like if I had to get my own menu water wait etc bad service. No tip. And f u. Like daym
EVERYONE who thinks you NEED to tip…. Ask yourself this question. When you go into a clothing store, the worker goes and grabs a size, brings to the registers, and folds it up for you in a bag and if you don’t want it folds up after you and cleans up YOUR mess… Do you think you NEED to tip no… But why is it when you go to a coffee shop walk up and order a coffee and they make you your coffee you need to tip? Are they not doing their job they interviewed for/ applied?
Amen bless your heart
And their hourly wage is about $20 at the boba and coffee shops in CA.
@@manuelmacalinao500 if you’re from the south… SMH.. I know what that means. If you’re not than thanks lol I’ll tip if I sit
@@miemie7683 right I have worked retail, food and lot of customer service jobs. I got tipped for pizza delivery, valet driving, never at a yogurt shop, and never working retail we legally COULD not take cash from guest.
You make a valid point! I do clean up after myself at a clothing store, however. I know not everyone else does.
I left a $4 tip and the waiter was extremely rude afterwards. Tips are a bonus is not a freaking requirement
Yep
Reason.....15% used to be enough....then I started hearing 20%....now I'm hearing 20% is the MINIMUM. It's getting ridiculous.
I will eat at home so I don’t have to worry about tipping
@@lovetoplaywithyou3530 if you ever eat outside and they ask for tip (if they demand one) just tell them if they want money then they should get a 2nd job. It is optional for people to work 2 jobs or more
"As little as 10%" ?!? 10% used to be on the higher end...
Since when 😂
@@malikjredd Within the last couple decades
Exactly. Saw someone demanding for 20. 20? 😂 😂 😂 No way!
the rest of the world doesn't tip at all 😂😂😂
Their food is also cheaper and has better ingredients from what I've seen. 🥲
True 😅 I was shocked of all these US documentaries and news about tipping
Welllll it’s right on brand for the US bc tipping started bc racism during reconstruction after the civil war for black service workers… literally everything in the US infrastructure was borne of racism/slavery
North America = tips
The Rest of the World = no tips
😅
Yet NO criticism on the restaurant paying that girl $1.17 an hour!
"Real people put work in". Yeah, thats why ppl pay $10 for a burrito that has $2.50 worth of ingredients. There's already a large markup for labor and overhead
Thank you
Too bad that extra cost doesn’t go to the worker but to one of the three or four big corporations that own nearly all of the fast food and restaurants…….
Employers need to pay more. We don't need to tip in Europe or Asia. The waiters get paid enough.
Restaurants are already at breaking point in the US, especially CA
I don’t tip unless I Sit.
I don’t tip, ever. Let the boss pay their “tip.”
Sit and Served (properly)
@@tintintravelers true
@@Puggy42069 the worst! you should stay at home then
@@ryanle6932 I don’t think so. I’ll go out as much as I want and NOT tip.
The lowest suggested tip at my local donut shop this morning was 15%. That was for me using the drive-thru and being handed a bag of fried, sugary bread. I think Americans are fed up with the fact that suggested tipping has not only increased but it’s also gotten more prevalent. But this video is typical of the media. The story should be about why Americans are being asked to tip *more* money, and at *more* places. Instead the media acts like we’re skimping by paying less. No, we are just tired of being asked to over-tip. So maybe us “tipping less” is really just us reverting back the way tipping used to be.
The only way for this madness to end is to get tips banned
No just pay people more like in Europe
ban tipping
I don't tip for counter service, only table service
Tipping is becoming stupid.
People are pushing back at these automated tipping machines.
10% is below average service. 15% is average service, 20% is exceptional service.
I feel chefs/back-end deserve more tips than servers in most situations.
Worked in restaurant for awhile.
0% is below average service
@@superspirit2851 Found the cheapskate.
I’m a dishwasher. If I was tipped based on my quality of service, I’d be making more money than anyone else in the entire restaurant
That’s like the bottom of a restaurant
@benj4840
😂The bottom is essential though.
@benj4840 buddy most men can't dishwasher lol I've seen grown men break down 😂😂
@@benj4840just being real most men cant
@@benj4840most men can't even work hard labor jobs like construction anymore they're different nowdays
Both sides are right. We as consumers are being expected to tip for things that do not warrant it, yet the way pay is structured in the food service and hospitality sectors, these employees can’t survive without tips. The answer is to push for legislation that requires employers to pay their people a fair base wage, so tips can go back to being what they were always for - a gesture of appreciation for exemplary service, not an expectation
I only tip my hairdresser and my waitress. Thats it. If im getting take away or I have to serve myself then there's no reason to tip
You don't need to tip them.
@smathew8810 sure i dont but i choose to. My hairdresser is like a wizard. She gets it perfect everytime and will squueze me in last minute if i need it. And i choose to tip my waitress because in a small town, everyone knows everyone so if i tip well, they remember and treat me very well the next time i dine there. I feel like hard work deserves to be rewarded.
The problem with tipping is servers think they're entitled to a tip these days and they are absolutely not entitled as a customer has no obligation to tip nor could be made to tip.
@@MayMay-qr1yc It sounds like you’ve been blessed with the perfect hairdresser. From my personal experience, I’ve noticed that a lot of barbers have become so lazy nowadays that many feel entitled to a tip regardless of how they cut your hair. I’ve had to deal with plenty of barbers like that, and I simply do not leave them a tip. Ultimately, I will not tip barbers unless of course they give me what I ask for and not what they think is convenient for them.
I tip my barber, servers at sit down restaurants, my masseuse, and my bartender. That's it.
I was asked for a tip at Del Taco and at an airport convinence store that had no visable employees (I rang up my own items). I have new rules I follow and have stopped feeling bad; I will NOT tip if asked before I have recived services and I will not tip if I order standing up. Also the reason those companies add that feature because then they pay the employees less with the promise of tips and because the companies take up to 50% of those tips. So I now carry cash and tip at the table (only when and after a service is provided) in cash to cut out paying the company extra for the same product.
I feel forced to tip. I don’t enjoy tis feeling as a consumer who pay for product & service.
In California most servers make high teens base pay (or more) and a 20%+ tip is still expected. They also ask for tips for fast food, Jamba Juice, Starbucks, etc… for jobs that didn’t require tipping years ago. What next? Will the TSA ask for tips after they pat you down or throw away your shampoo? I’m all for raising menu prices and doing away with tipping. If you’re going to be eventually paying $50 for your stake dinner (with tip and service charges included), why not just list it like that on the menu?
It's one thing to tip a waiter/waitress who is juggling multiple tables and will bring you anything you ask for. Another thing being asked (by the screen) to tip the cashier for ringing you out. Not everything deserves a tip.
That's literally their job. Amazon warehouse workers are juggling 10x more and no one considers tipping them.
The issue is not tipping itself, it is the fact that now you go through a drive thru and you’re still asked for a tip. The backend labor is why they have a salary, that is not and should not be the concern of the costumer. If you have a waiter, then yes, tip. Anything else shouldn’t even present a tipping option. That’s why people are fed up.
Btw mcdonalds pay $20 don't know why they cant follow suit.
The issue is tipping itself…
Let all the restaurants go under don’t tip
The only way to fix this is to eliminate the service industry sub minimum wage and force employers to pay at least the real minimum wage.
I stopped going to restaurants altogether because of this entitlement.
Don't be a coward. Still eat out and press no tip.
That’s good though. If you can’t afford restaurants and service make food yourself!
Home cooked meals also taste better and are generally healthier.
@@jakewhoskateAgreed. I go further. If you can’t afford to tip the grocery store service workers, go forage for yourself.
@@jakewhoskate I just don't tip. It's optional.
We're tipping less because we've tipped at every store since covid. Even to just pick up an item smh. Tipping culture is over. If I dine in of course im tipping other than that, these companies need to start paying these workers more and stop using that easy button to pay what they should be paying the workers.
Soon they will want a TIP at the dmv and at Walgreens
Tips aren't mandatory. Be grateful when people do tip.
I do pickup often and I hate being asked to tip 18% when I pick up my food. In that case I should be sitting down and getting the service as well.
Listen, consumers shouldn’t be asked to subsidize business models that aren’t feasible! Company should pay employees a reasonable wage for the work performed. We can tip if we feel an employee has gone the extra mile. Pay for it by reducing CEOs unreasonably large salaries!
Sure, restaurants can just start adding a 20% service fee to a customer's bill instead.
Also, with regard to your comment about CEO salaries...what about mom and pop restaurants making razor thin profit margins? The answer is server compensation is coming from the customer one way or the other. Higher prices, an additional service fee, tipping, etc.
Okay under your Rubic many businesses wouldn't even be open.
@@ab9040ok maybe mom and pop restaurants are fine. So how about the CEOs?
@@ab9040The profits/customer expenditures wouldn’t work out the same. Otherwise why would restaurants support the current tipped wage system? The lower restaurants can make menu prices (hiding taxes and fees until the final bill) the more patrons they entice. If they had to advertise the true cost, demand would go down and they’d have to lower prices to compensate or shrink profit margins (which is why they lobby against it). If they can’t, then they go bankrupt and the customer base spreads among competition until there’s an equilibrium. This is how the economy is supposed to work. Restaurants and bars shouldn’t get special treatment.
You know employers will just raise the price of the food if they do away with tips...its an either or situation
I used to be a consistent 20% tipper when dining, 15% when getting a coffee from a speciality shop that required more than pouring from a pot and 18% for food delivery - even when service sucked! Now hahahahah after 2021 service across the board has been so bad. And I’m not talking oh these places are understaffed or busy so the service isn’t great. I’m talking these services are being provided by people who don’t give af about how they serve you and think it is their right to be left a tip. Servers need to take up better wages with your management instead of taking out your frustrations of being overworked and underpaid with us the customers. Until then, 15% from my pocket only when appropriate.
Why have we normalized business owners passing on the cost of labor to the consumer? If you can't afford to run a business, you shouldn't be running a business.
This literally goes back a hundred years or more, congress didn't require employers to pay servers anything until 1966...then it was way less than regular minimum wage...and still is today
@@terryowen6759 yep
Customers shouldn't be paying their wage.
Not to mention the fact that our patronage literally pays their wages. If no customers came through the door, they'd have no business.
@@YAWSSSSSS Exactly.
No force tipping in Asia. Regardless if the customer is poor or not, mom & pop stall or bigger restaurant. You chose where to eat and you chose where to work.
Actually in some parts of Asia tipping can be considered disrespectful. It's kinda like saying "here some money since you look like you need it"
Why should I pay for someone else to work?? Its not my job!!!! Its the employers job to pay their employees to work not the customers job!!!!!! Get it together people!!!!!
Your going to pay one way or another...if they do away with tipping, they will just raise menu prices
I’m sick of tipping, get a different job, or get a different employer who pays you what you are worth.
dont eat out then
@@johnrotten3268 Tip is not a requirement, if you’re not happy about your pay get another job!
Stay home
Sometimes it’s not that easy. Better to get rid of it and force employers to pay the same minimum wage as everyone else
@@RiveraFamily-ts7jn you stay home
"No tip" problem solved. Boy that was complicated
Not to mention numerous restaurants “steal” from guest by not letting them know the tip is already included. They make it as confusing as possible smh
How are you able to tell if you haven't gotten a printed receipt? Does it show on the iPad?
@@perthfanny3017 I’m sure it does in some small print, but they know that nobody is going to say hey let me read the iPad real quick. It’s all about putting the customer on the stop and that’s the problem
@@andressosa1504 definitely true 🙁
I don't eat out. It's simple, cheaper, and I don't have to put up with loud mouthed people next to me. I am not paying a higher price for food that I can make on my own.
Eliminate tipping and pay workers a living wage
"Realize it's because real people put work behind it, to make it that easy for you and that's why you should tip"
I expect it from the already inflated cost of the food Im paying for.
That part annoyed me too. Isn’t that your job to make it pleasant for your customers? Without a tip, should we expect you to make it difficult?
@@DawnNa_22 100%. I understand why she says that. After all, she's practically a slave with that sub $2/hour wage, so she expects the tip.
Customers have no idea if a worker is paid in tips or not. They just want a good product and service.
That part was so annoying to hear. Every job with a human are real people putting work into it. And at varying levels, all jobs are service jobs from retail workers to bank tellers and none of them get tips.
Right, ridiculous logic. ANY product is made convenient for consumers. Anything you grab from shelf in walmart was produced, neatly packaged, shipped and placed on the shelf by someone to make it convenient. Companies which make products or services inconvenient for consumers quickly go out of business. So why tipping if there was no personal service?
@@michaelmolina5742 I'm going to sound like a jerk here but that's how jobs work. It has its pros and cons and employees are still being paid to work but employees shouldn't even demand a tip in the first place since it's optional to the customers.
The next time a waitress/waiter demands me a tip I'll just tell them to get a 2nd job. In America it is legal for people to work more than 1 job so they can't complain about that
Real people work behind every single service we get. Are we supposed to tip everyone everywhere for every service they do??
I work at the airport (in Europe though). Reading more and more about this tipping madness is starting to make me feel like I should also get a tip every time I check a passenger in 😅
Unless you're a waitress/bartender, why on EARTH do they deserve a tip for just standing behind a screen or cooking the food in a kitchen??! Please explain that
Tbf I'd rather tip the cooks at real restaurants instead of waitresses. I can go get my own plate n beverage, but want to commend the cooks for cooking my food well
I'm not tipping. Serve me and serve me well and THEN I'll consider tipping. But tipping overall should be dissolved.
Tipping is dumb in the first place. They just need to pay a liveable wage. I bet you that the owners are probably living in really nice homes and drive nice cars. I used to live in a small town. There was always one shift where the wait staff was sitting down because it had been dead for a long time. How is that fair? That person always got less tips. The owner was always making bank. My hubby worked there for a few months.
It’s an outrageous claims that all owners have really nice homes and cars. Most businesses owners are small mom and pop businesses. An employees still get paid if the restaurant is packed with customers or no customers at all. Owners have the most risk when it comes to their razor thin margins. Owning and operating a business is no joke and it’s one of most stressful job. Those margins either keep their business open and employ people or closed their business for good and lay people off. Don’t lump owners who own mega corporations who barely pay their employees a living wage and yet still draw a six figure salary yearly.
Tipping is outdated as this generation ruined tipping thinking they are entitled to a tip when it's 100% voluntary system.
I always pay with cash at takeout places. If you pay with card, the screen puts up automatic tipping which is much higher than I care to pay for takeout. I put two dollars in the tip jar.
When eating in a sit down restaurant, I tip 15-20% based on the attentiveness of the waitstaff.
Giving 18% for someone to hand a bag to you is way too much.
Good idea!
The 1.17 girl doesn’t need to get tips, she needs to talk to her employer about making a livable wage. Tipping is not required and never has been. People complaining about not getting tipped are glorified beggars.
No, the $1.17 girl needs to know that she is not entitled to a tip as it is strictly a 100% voluntary system at the customer's discretion.
She gets it matched to the actual minimum wage. Plus all her tips on top of it. Don’t fall for the sob story.
The only thing in my mind was like just get another job. Why stick around with this one
@@jamesm568 blame the company not the worker.
@@camillemitchell301 I blame both as servers should know they're not entitled to a tip when it's 100% voluntary system.
I only tip when dining in where the waiter brings me a menu brings in my drink brings me my food takes away the plate talks to me about the food opens my wine brings me out dessert with my spoon. Not where i go and order my food pick it up they give me plastic utensils then i have to get up and throw my garbage away thats where it should even be ilegal to even ask for a tip thats just plain disrespectful asking for a tip when am doing it myself smh. I went to shake shack odered my food threw the self order. When reached to the payment part there is a tip option too
Most servers don't want a wage and would rather survive on tips. I saw a video where servers said if they were paid hourly instead of receiving tips, that they would quite because most make more money from tips, than receiving a regular wage.
TIPPING FATIGUE AND WE HAVE LESS MONEY THAN EVER. SAVED YOU FOUR MINUTES AND I DIDNT WATCH THE VIDEO.
just came back from Europe, it's so nice there, you see a price, that's what you pay, no taxes, no tips..
Actually I would appreciate the simplicity of that no tip system
Companies need to pay a livable hourly wage and stop relying on the customers to flip the bill for product inflation and for employees
Exactly, and this isn’t something either presidential candidate is talking about. It’s almost like the country is just rolling over and accepting this crap
The employer will just raise the price of the food to pay the employees...its either tip or pay more
I’m NOT going to tip a cashier who simply checks out my items.
Where they take my card and then flips the screen and they say, just a few questions… which is the tip screen.
I used to feel pressure accidentally leave a couple bucks.. but not anymore I select
“No tip”
Unless I’m at a sit down restaurant or get a service provided.
I’m not pay what your employer should be paying you.
And of course, when I don’t tip for a cashier checking out the items that I shopped at their store for I get the dirty look ..😂
Where I'm from, we don't tip. Unless I want to. It's illegal to force tipping.
Nobody forces you to tip in the U.S.
Of course I still tip for delivery drivers, waiters, ubers, but the other day when ordering a pizza it asked me if I wanted to tip when I had selected carryout. This is getting too crazy. I definitely feel pressured to tip but this has got to stop.
She is choosing to work for $1.17 an hour.
So, what is your solution then? Nobody should work these types of food service and hospitality jobs? Good luck with that next time you walk into a bar or restaurant
@@pensivepenguin3000 yep, no one should work these jobs till the employers pay a living wage
@@landonward3754 this seems like an unserious idea. We need people working jobs across the spectrum, from entry-level food service all the way up to senior management. It’s silly to just tell people to go work somewhere else if they don’t like it. Not everybody working at Taco Bell or Denny’s is going to be able to go get a job as a lawyer or computer programmer
@@pensivepenguin3000 These restaurants and bars won’t be opening anyway. If the owners want them to they just have to increase the wage
She isn’t that stupid. She took the job because she knew her pay would be much higher than that.
Tipping is a culture going from bad to worse. servers were force to rely on tips in order to get a decent wage just made me feel like they’re in the realm of strippers. Servers should be paid a livable wage and getting a tip was for doing a good job beyond the normal standard set by the restaurant. If you travel to another part of the world, some places you will see servers do not accept tip or if you present a tip to a server it’s a sign of disrespect.
Never tipped.
Menu items could just increase by 20-40% to cover wages
Employers needs to pay a living wage.
It’s 2024 and folks still taking jobs that pay a couple dollars relying on customers to make up the difference. Makes no sense.
not everyone had mommy and daddy pay for their college degree.
People need jobs and there’s honor in all jobs. The question should why the company is paying their employees so little and charging consumers so much.
Sad thing is, I made more that way than any jobs I could get with my biology degree. On busy days I could easily pass $200 dollars for a shift, compared to other jobs paying like 12 dollars an hour
@@eeeeggnog._. That's another reason why people are tired of tipping. All middle class jobs pay too low now. So why should a teacher whose job required them to pay for a college degreee who makes $60k tip a waiter w/no degree required whose tips also have them earning $60k. If I were the teacher in that scenario (I'm not, this is just an example) I would stop tipping too.
@jennifermarie3158 I mean yeah, I agree with you there. It sucks that other jobs are paying so low. But my server job made no where near 60k, it was just much better than other basic entry jobs
I’m not tipping .. your employer should be paying you to do your job. I use to be a tipper but this year I stopped.. I’m not tipping for servers your employer should be paying you.. I’m not paying higher food cost like that .. this is wrong employer can pay their employers less if they offer tipping that’s not right pay your employee minimum wage or higher, as well as your cooks as well as your bartenders and any other employee that you hire for your establishment. I Your consumer should not have to pay your employees bills so you can pocket off the money that you do not pay them..
@@brittbrattsmilesalot Agreed 💯. If employees like that keep asking for tips I'll just ask them if they can get a 2nd job. Shouldn't be a problem for them since it is optional
Restaurants will just raise the price of the food and drinks...its either tip or pay more for the food
@@terryowen6759 or encourage more people to start making food at home. Home cooked foods are better than foods made from restaurants because at least the person making the food knows how much they need to make.
Nothing wrong with making food at home because at least I don't have to pay for food that can easily be made at home with the same ingredients but at a steady price.
Honestly, I feel like restaurants can lose a potential customer because of the expectation to tip. Also, lately the payment screen keeps putting higher tip percentages…so, if you want to give 15% tip, you have to calculate right on the spot with the waiter right in front of you. I wish all workers were simply paid a fair wage.
I love my service industry folks (restaurants and bars) but I’ve stopped going to establishments that swing the iPad 180 degrees because I can’t afford the service. I’m broke.
Everybody is broke! people that say their not are lying they just hide it well.
Never going to tip 👎