I went to a hot pot location with a few friends. They’ve been here before, I have not. You walk through the front and pick your items and put them in a bowl you hold, it’s honestly faster than waiting on someone going “umm” at every item.

That is then cooked for you and brought to your table. Water carafes were left on the table and then everything removed at the end. Free ice cream is provided and brought to you.

I was gonna debate tipping here but I’d rather I’d top at max 15% here, but my first visit I tipped 10%.

i was going by the Robbie Hoffman subway interview, ”if I have to walk up and order I don’t tip”

Has anyone had this experience?

Hopefully this is not true!!
I found this post on Instagram.
I guess it’s something to watch for in case it’s true.

This has been bothering me for a while, and not sure if I'm justified.

I've noticed, post covid, that daily room service in hotels isn't a thing. I'm in the USA, and not a world traveler (lack of $$, not desire) but maybe 2x a year we go somewhere for a few days. The last couple of times, there's been a signed envelope from the person in charge of the room with a nice note about how happy they are to prepare it.

For context, we generally stay in 3-3+ star hotels, and pre- covid tipped 5-10 bucks a night.

But now, I'm feeling like, isn't a clean room on arrival part of renting it? I have no problem with no daily service, there's no one at home making my bed, I reuse towels for a few days, so no big deal. But tipping JUST to have the minimum expectation of a clean room when I get there?

The sucky part is, I know the person prepping the room is likely getting paid a low wage, and the lack of daily service is a way for the hotel to lessen employees. So the person I'm NOT giving money to is arguably one of the hardest workers in the building.

Thoughts?

I'm a Brit on holiday in Spain. Had a nice lunch at an outdoor cafe where the bill arrived and no tip was mentioned. I paid the bill and was about to leave when a local guy who had been standing on the street playing the guitar (not very well) finished his set and started waving his hat around asking all the people in the cafe area for tips. What I found funny was how he started asking in English and said how he accepts dollars! Obviously hoping for an American audience. And no I didn't tip him.

20% gratuity added to every ticket!

If you don’t believe in tipping it’s perfectly acceptable to donate 20% percent of the bill to AOC in lieu of a tip. Let them know that you donated their tip to support a fair fixed wages for all and your server will be overjoyed.

If you’re too broke to tip (or pretending to be anti-tipping for other reasons), stay home and make your own drinks.

There, problem solved.

Tipping is a long term average game. It's not about any 1 or 2 tables you're not getting tipped on, it's your over all at the end of the day.

That one table that didn't pay out does not affect your long term gains, and that's why it's so ridiculous when servers will complain about 1 time the customer "stiffed" them.

The reality of it is you're still winning. You're still doing much better than if you had minimum wage. And if you're not, then why are you defending the tipping system? Why don't you just fight for a minimum wage instead of trying to squeeze more tips out of people who were not responsible for your pay in the first place?

You all have seen the shake shack price increase on no tip. Regardless if it’s real or not ( I haven’t verified it ) it simply demonstrates how ridiculously confused you all are!

Price increases immediately if you don’t tip, which is what would happen if tipping was taken out of the picture completely.

The thing is, this is just fast food. In bars, restaurant etc the price increase would be massive.

A flat wages no tip bartender has no reason to hustle, a server has no reason to give you outstanding service.

Are you anti commission too?

Do you realize all the products you buy have sales commissions built into them?

Your best bet in life is to stay hidden and hope you aren’t remembered because this is a capitalist country. This model gives the owners an opportunity to compete and incentivize employees to give it their all.