r/mildlyinfuriating • u/bathingsoap • 11d ago

I just wanted a hot dog These tips options

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Mildly cause at least I can custom

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u/Hyper6024 11d ago

Damn, you really have gone overboard with tipping culture in the US, havent you...

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u/Jager720 11d ago

Maybe this is what is needed for them to finally break the cycle.

When we went in 2007 it was 15% was a "normal" tip, 20% for exceptional service. When we were there a few years ago that had gone up to 18/20% "normal" 25/30% exceptional.

Give it a few more years and people are going to start balking at 50% tips on their bills. I think the fact that all these POS systems now have tip options in places that never had expected tips before (like fast food/street food trucks etc) is making people realise how dumb the whole thing is.

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u/ForensicPathology 11d ago

It doesn't even make sense.  Prices go up, so percentages will go up too.  How is 15% not good enough?

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u/Prometheus2061 11d ago

10% of $10.00 is $1.00. 10% of $15.00 is $1.50. Prices go up. Percentages don’t.

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u/UnsureAssurance 11d ago

Corpos and business owners are greedy so the wages of employees have lowered in percentage in comparison to inflation

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u/CautiousDonut2681 11d ago

The wages have been entirely tips all along, with $2 or something wage per hour for people making $20-30+ per hour.

There's no reason to go up from 10% to 20% baseline for inflation, because 10% already went up directly in line with inflation.