I went out for a few drinks the other day. When the check came, I paid with my credit card. When they returned my card to me, this note was attached.




Have you all seen anything like this yet? My first thought was that the wait staff was getting screwed. As a general rule of thumb, if a restaurant assumes a tip less than my usual 20%, I just go with their assumption and nothing more.
Like, why would the restaurant do this instead of increasing the cost of their food and drinks?

7/13/2021 12:15:37 PM

What's the point of paying your employees if you don't get to brag about what a good person you are for paying your employees?

Looks like they're taking pricing lessons from the airline industry.

7/13/2021 1:03:56 PM

I hate the whole tipping culture. Just add 20% to the bill and don't make me do math.

7/13/2021 1:05:06 PM

I do wonder how rising wages (or at least the perception of rising wages) will affect tipping.

7/13/2021 1:12:29 PM

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"I hate the whole tipping culture. Just add 20% to the bill and don't make me do math."

Move the decimal to the left and DOUBLE IT!

7/13/2021 1:20:52 PM

^^Hopefully it eventually eliminates the practice, because it's stupid. Basically, it's a combination of legalized bribery and indentured servitude.

^That's what I already do. It's not that I'm bad at it, it's that I resent having to do it in the first place and all the associated mind games about what's "fair". What would be fair is the restaurant charging what it costs plus their desired profit and compensating the wait staff with a living wage.

This seems particularly germane:

https://youtu.be/W4f7KiiB6dM

7/13/2021 1:51:49 PM

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"I hate the whole tipping culture. Just add 20% to the bill and don't make me do math."

Do you even NC State education, bro?

7/13/2021 1:54:46 PM

My point is it should be automatic, not a customer decision-point.

7/13/2021 2:07:41 PM

If my bill is $50, I like to leave a negative $60 tip. That way you get $50 worth of food and they pay YOU $10! #lifehack

[Edited on July 13, 2021 at 2:11 PM. Reason : Restaurants don't want you to know this simple trick!]

7/13/2021 2:09:30 PM

You don't want this food going bad in your kitchen. You should pay me to take care of it.

7/13/2021 2:44:54 PM

I feel like you don't know what indentured servitude means

7/13/2021 3:14:47 PM

If the waiter if friendly and I can tell they're half-way trying, I give 'em 20%. If they're especially good, I'll give them even more. But if they're rude, apathetic, drunk etc., I'll give them less (this isn't based on wait-time and other things I know they can't control). Although I did have one a couple years ago that was obviously drunk, they were slightly slurring and I could smell it on their breath, but they still did a good job and got 20%.

Speaking of waiters, i was at a restraunt the other evening, had a cocktail, one of the best I'd ever had (I usually have beer) i had moved it to the side of my table to make room for the food, and the waiter grabbed it and took it back to the kitchen before I realized what was happening. It was still half full!

7/13/2021 3:30:36 PM

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"I feel like you don't know what indentured servitude means"

Actually, I looked it up on Wikipedia before posting, skimmed the summary, and was like, "Close enough for TWW. No one's going to call me out over this." So, GG!

7/13/2021 5:52:06 PM

I remember it was 15% for good service. Then you were an asshole for not leaving 15% even if it was shitty service. Now they act like 20% is some kind of minimum?

I don't eat out a lot, but when I do, I will tip generously for good service. But I don't have any problem leaving nothing for bad service. It doesn't happen often, but it has happened. Yeah maybe I'm shafting the kitchen and other staff, but they chose to make my main point of contact not very good.

If I go into a place and see an automatic tip on the menu, I will leave. If they want it to be automatic, raise the actual price, and pay your employees, don't make me do it.

7/20/2021 6:55:03 PM

NCSUStinger usually tips a reasonable amount, but he always saves the best tips for he and his friends. And the whole time he's at the restaurant, he tells you how he actually prefers eating at a different restaurant that he's never actually eaten at.

7/20/2021 6:58:39 PM

7/20/2021 8:45:05 PM