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  1. If the service was good, I’d leave a cash tip with the server. I would pay nothing on this ticket if the policy of tipping wasn’t displayed before I walked in. I will not be forced to pay any tip this way.

    If it was displayed prior to walking in to the restaurant, I’d turn around and never return.

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  2. During COVID times I couldn’t buy food with cash, app only.

    Me starving didn’t matter or even given any consideration.
    APP only after 6PM in that crime ridden hood.

    CASH! Not allowed.

    THINK ABOUT THAT.

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  3. If something like that was placed in front of me I would get up, go to he bathroom and crap a load on it, then cover it with a napkin, return to the table, leave it and depart. I think they would get the message they lost my patronage when they found it. It really boils down that it is SHIT to do something like this.

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  4. Last week we had a late night at work so we ordered a pizza for take out. We got there early figuring I’d have a beer and the wife would have a glass of wine while we waited. Well the pizza was done when we got there so the wife whips out the credit card, hit other on the automated tip bull shit, types in zero and slides the card. The little twenty something year old behind the registrar says really, no tip. Wife tells her we manufacture critical defense parts for the military. Any idea how many times we see a tip? Yea, never. You make pizzas. Deal with it. My wife’s starting to scare me.

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  5. My brother and I used to eat out at nice restaurants a couple/three nights a week before we got married. We had plenty of money and didn’t get married until we were ~45. Since I have had kids I don’t eat out by myself much at all, but take the kids out fairly often. The cost of a meal in a nice restaurant is staggering these days. I tip the same as I always have, 20% if the service is great. If it’s not great, you might get something, but it will reflect that you didn’t care enough to do your best.

    My sister was a waitress in the 1990s at one of the better restaurants in town and told me she got about 20% and after tipping the buss boys and cooks was making as much or more than I was as an engineer.

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  6. I remember back in the day a 10% tip was standard in restaurants and 15% was considered generous for excellent service. Today, I generally tip 20% unless the service is sub-standard because I choose to. This crap of 25, 35 and 50% tips expected by the establishment is offensive. I will not be bullied by a generation that has become more and more entitled as each year passes.

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  7. Not taking cash? Paper money is “legal tender for all debts public and private.” It’s printed right there on the bills. Does a card swipe have the same legal ststus?

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  8. I also object to being asked to tip before I even get my food, like at Panera, Firehouse, etc.
    Tipping rewards great service and great food. I can’t judge either before I’ve even taken a seat.

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  9. Because paper money is “legal tender” doesn’t mean the seller can be forced to accept it. Parties to a transaction always have the freedom to define the form of legal payment. A seller has the responsibility to inform the buyer in advance if customary method(s) are not acceptable. If cash is not accepted and all the buyer has on them is cash, he needs to be informed before the sale is agreed to.

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  10. Tips are primarily for servers for sit-down meals. For “counter service,” including take-out, I tip very little if any. For a buffet, I tip less than 15%. For full service, my tip depends on the quality of service, but no more than 20%.

    For take-out breakfast or lunch, I usually pay with cash in order to avoid those stupid screens. I might leave the change in the tip jar.

    One of my favorite restaurants in my area is Pressed Cafe, which is counter service with tables and booths. There is no tip jar on the counter, and no option for tipping when paying by credit card. I hope this notion spreads.

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  11. There seems to be several people here under the mistaken impresion that if you pay with cash instead of a card you avoid the tip screen.
    Sorry, they have these things set up now so a tip screen appears whether you pay cash or card. None I have seen have been as pushy as the one featured on this post.

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  12. I picked my dogs up from the kennel yesterday; they stayed for a week, bath and nails. When paying, same sort of screen as above, but included a “no tip” button. I paid for room and board with exit grooming; since I brought their food pre-packaged in single meal portions and received no price reduction for doing so, there’s the tip. Also, “don’t bet on the horses” (bet on dogs if you must bet).

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  13. We go out to eat on our birthdays and anniversaries. Never go to coffee shops. When the grocery stores start demanding tips, then we have a problem.

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  14. I visited a microbrewery to purchase some four packs to make some gift bags for my nephews last Christmas. The kid behind the counter went to the fridge and got the beers I requested and rang up the sale – I tapped my card and of course, the iPad spun towards me 20, 22 or 25 percent. I said can I give you minus 10 for the aggravation of having to bypass this stupid tip screen and btw I didn’t tip the kid at the hardware store who helped me locate the screws I needed either. Where does it end?

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  15. Years ago we had terrible service at a restaurant – it was shockingly bad – my tip was written on a napkin – you should consider a new line of work because you stink at this one.

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  16. This policy stems from socialism. You must comply for the sake of “fairness” or be ostracized or shamed if you don’t. Personal choice must aline with the policy/custom.
    Millennials are the main culprits of spreading this unlawful, cultural custom in they’re restaurants and other businesses.

    People have free will. Personally, I would not tip by being coerced. Any business that operates in intimidating their customers should be avoided at all costs. They deserve to go broke in their wokeness.

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  17. Tipping is a relic of primitive societies efforts at economic systems. It is an incentive system which is good but it is also a ‘part of the employee’s pay’ which relieves the employer of properly compensating the employee for the work he/she does.

    If we rationalize tipping based on quality of service how much do you tip your surgeon when he sticks the right parts together after lopping those parts in two earlier? Right, you don’t. He/she gets paid enough to persuade him/her to remain on the job.

    In a properly functioning well ordered economic system employers would compensate positions such that people would ‘do the work for the pay’. Formalizing tipping as part of compensation is immoral and primitive, treating the employee as subject to the whims of whomever happens to be the moment’s customer… much like a prostitute is treated.

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  18. Ordered Chinese take-out. Pimply faced kid, who does not know what a toothbrush is for, asked my name. Turned around, walked 8 feet to kitchen counter, picked out my order, walked 8 feet back to the cash register, then lit up a display with 30-50% tip options. “Try that again. Bring up the display that only shows the cost of my food.” Never going back.

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  19. Never – ever – leave nothing. If you enjoyed the meal and the service was good, a decent tip lets the waiter know he did a good job. If the meal was bad, or the waiter did a shitty job, then be sure to leave two cents. I really don’t care if he gets the message or not.

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  20. The tactic of shaming for bigger tips is moot with me. I’m a grown man and will be the arbiter of what the tip is when it’s my money being the tip.

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