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Old 06-10-2025, 08:27 AM
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What happened to 15% for a tip? They have a built-in system of getting more money - when restaurants raise their prices the tip is raised too. But really I don’t like tipping. For example, we just had a mini-split put in our garage. The guy worked until 8 p.m. Should we have given him a tip? How much?

The idea that some people get tipped and others don’t is bizarre.
Yes, I do tip workmen who come in my home. IF they do a good job.
It’s easy enough to give them $20 and tell them to buy themselves dinner.
 
Old 06-10-2025, 02:39 PM
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Yes, I do tip workmen who come in my home. IF they do a good job.
It’s easy enough to give them $20 and tell them to buy themselves dinner.
Just my opinion, but I think you might be part of the problem. The workers are, very likely, getting full hourly pay plus overtime. Even at straight hourly rate trades people generally make good money. A big smile and "Thank You" should be enough.
 
Old 06-10-2025, 03:13 PM
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Yes, I do tip workmen who come in my home. IF they do a good job.
It’s easy enough to give them $20 and tell them to buy themselves dinner.
If the man is self employed, do you tip him?
 
Old 06-10-2025, 03:50 PM
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If the man is self employed, do you tip him?
I was taught that you don't tip owners or management (salaried employees).
 
Old 06-30-2025, 01:32 PM
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The menu prices are higher because the products from the venders are more expensive, not to pay the employees.
 
Old 06-30-2025, 01:44 PM
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The menu prices are higher because the products from the venders are more expensive, not to pay the employees.
So, tipping is unnecessary as all workers receive full pay and are fully compensated for the work they do.
My next tip will be, "have a nice day!"
 
Old 06-30-2025, 03:09 PM
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Tips aren't supposed to be part of a server's paycheck from their employer. They're supposed to be in ADDITION to it. As a "thank you" from the customer directly, for doing a good (or better) job. There are people with extreme views in either direction:

People who think it's good to give at least 20%, and up to 40% of their tab, usually because they want to show off how generous they are. Those are the people who think they can buy their way into heaven.

People who think that they shouldn't tip at all, because the boss is paying the employee, and the employee is owed nothing by the customer. Those are the people who don't think they have to earn their place in heaven.

And then the people in the middle like me: old-fashioned. Traditional. If service is adequate, no complaints but nothing spectacular, I tip 15%. If service is good, but not great, they get 18%. If service is outstanding, they get 20%, plus one penny, plus a compliment to the manager to let them know their employee was responsible for maintaining high standards for their restaurant. If service was BAD, they get no tip, and a complaint to the manager.

I tip curb-side folks if they have to come out in the rain. I toss the change into the tip jar when I buy something at a take-out joint that has one - sometimes. Those are people who are already earning minimum wage or better, they are not "tipped employees."
Wow.
 
Old 06-30-2025, 03:17 PM
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The menu prices are higher because the products from the venders are more expensive, not to pay the employees.
Fact check: Partially True.

Products from vendOrs are certainly higher, but so are labor costs.
 
Old 06-30-2025, 05:20 PM
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Tipping is ridiculous. Pay an hourly rate that is commensurate to the work involved and knock off the tipping cr*p. We seldom go out to a restaurant anymore, food at home is so much better and healthy. We know how it's been handled and since food is for sustenance and nothing more, it works for us. We highly recommend this method for others and maybe restaurants will realign their employment compensation to a reasonable resolution. When a physical therapist works part-time in a restaurant vs fulltime at their degreed education for even better money, something is askew.

After having enough subpar meals being served through the years, we never send food back for the spitters, we just leave it on the plate. Don't bother adjusting our bill for the poor food, we won't be back.

One of the tipping points for our decisions was calling in an order for a 14" pizza for over $20/ from a restaurant. We waited on hold for a couple of minutes to place the order, drove to pick up the pizza, waited in a hallway for the pizza, drove back home with the pizza where we had set up our own utensils, beverages, napkins and plates and cleaning up afterward, disposing of the cardboard box. The real kicker was the tip container on the counter where we paid for the pizza. Really? We're done with them. We can make a much better pizza for half that cost and we don't have to leave the house. Easy peasy.
 
Old 06-30-2025, 06:23 PM
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Tipping is ridiculous. Pay an hourly rate that is commensurate to the work involved and knock off the tipping cr*p. We seldom go out to a restaurant anymore, food at home is so much better and healthy. We know how it's been handled and since food is for sustenance and nothing more, it works for us. We highly recommend this method for others and maybe restaurants will realign their employment compensation to a reasonable resolution. When a physical therapist works part-time in a restaurant vs fulltime at their degreed education for even better money, something is askew.

After having enough subpar meals being served through the years, we never send food back for the spitters, we just leave it on the plate. Don't bother adjusting our bill for the poor food, we won't be back.

One of the tipping points for our decisions was calling in an order for a 14" pizza for over $20/ from a restaurant. We waited on hold for a couple of minutes to place the order, drove to pick up the pizza, waited in a hallway for the pizza, drove back home with the pizza where we had set up our own utensils, beverages, napkins and plates and cleaning up afterward, disposing of the cardboard box. The real kicker was the tip container on the counter where we paid for the pizza. Really? We're done with them. We can make a much better pizza for half that cost and we don't have to leave the house. Easy peasy.
If we are served at a table we tip, if the food is handed to us in a box or bag we do not.
 
Old 07-06-2025, 06:40 PM
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Imagine what people that bag your groceries get paid, for for me that means you don't have enough skills to make more than $13 an hour and you should be going to college or learning a trade.

Of course if you don't want to earn more you don't have to and by that I mean I see a lot of people semi-retired just getting by and very happy to get $13 an hour.
When I started work back in the '70s I was paid a dollar and five cents an hour
 
Old 07-06-2025, 07:09 PM
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Making things illegal doesn't stop it. Tipping is a habit that needs to be broken, an expectation that needs to be changed, a scam that needs to be exposed, and a business model that need to be replaced.

I see nothing wrong in a simple showing of appreciation. But when a pleasant little gift/surprise turns into an expectation that forms a significant part of a business strategy that demands customers pay a significant part of employee wages, that, in my book is a scam. Devoid of conscience, ethics, honesty.
My thoughts exactly. You can't check out of almost any business, without the payment system "expecting" a Tip. Yesterday, it was at Subway.

It's getting worse and more and more people are complaining.

I recently (last week) bought the Domain Name, "NoMoreTipping.com".

Issue organizing isn't my thing, so if anyone has any ideas, I'm open!
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Old 07-06-2025, 07:50 PM
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Now that tips are no longer taxed, should the “suggested” amount be 10-15%?
 
Old 07-06-2025, 07:58 PM
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Interesting article on tipping.


Tipping Culture in America - Public Sees a Changed Landscape | Pew Research Center
 
Old 07-07-2025, 07:28 AM
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Now that tips are no longer taxed, should the “suggested” amount be 10-15%?
Have been averaging 20% but now not sure what we will do in the future.
 

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