r/mildlyinfuriating • • 12d 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/Best-Republic 11d ago

No tip when they have these options. I don’t have time to calculate. Easy button is no tip. Start with 18%. Best options are 18%, 20% and 22%

Still think that tip culture needs to change. We are heading towards begging now. And employers are really really taking advantage of these staff by underpaying.

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u/geoFRTdeem 11d ago

Nah it should be 10%, 15% and 20%. I will never tip more than a quarter of my food’s value

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u/0b0011 11d ago

And max values. A coworker paid 100k for their wedding which is already nuts but they got a thing asking if they wanted to leave a 20, 30, or 40k tip for the wedding planner.

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u/probiotic_bbq 11d ago

lol, they'd have to be in the room, assisting with the consumation for a 20k tip

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u/CatLord8 11d ago

Wedding ain’t over until it’s over

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u/the-anarch 10d ago

Assisting with? They'd have to be on the honeymoon giving about 40 happy endings.

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u/more_magic_mike 10d ago

For 20K they better be giving the bride the night of her life in the hotel room after

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u/ironicallydepressed 11d ago

Better be the best wedding planner ever if the tip is in 10k increments. I'm thinking more like $10 increments after I see that shit.

Fuck it, wedding's canceled. We're doing it the Ozzy way.

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u/twilightpolenta 11d ago

"Best I can do is a pic of my tip"

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u/VitruvianVan 11d ago

Unless the wedding planner is an employee working at a hotel that’s hosting it, why would you tip? The wedding planner is otherwise an independent contractor who set their rate and prices.

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u/Dry_Razzmatazz69 11d ago

Is... is the wedding planner not getting paid? I'm a fucking tax consultant, do you think the fucker i audit for tip me for an optimization well done?!

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u/0b0011 11d ago

It's expanding like crazy. waiters, delivery drivers, tattoo artists, baristas, bartenders, barbers. I shit you not I had a grocery store grocery bagger pull me aside and threaten me once because I did not tip (I did not know you were supposed to tip them).

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u/Gwynito 10d ago

Did you tell him to go fuck himself?

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u/MalfuriousPete 11d ago

What? That’s genuinely insane

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u/Oath8 11d ago

The fuck is this world coming to?

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u/RockyRoady2 11d ago

22% is less than a quarter…

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u/PipChaos 11d ago

It used to be that 20% was for excellent service.

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u/Lopsided-Emu7391 11d ago

You dont eat at restaurants often either do you? I mean good ones, not chilis and applebees 💀 service industry is about service and sometimes youll want to compensate the server for great service unless youre miserable, stingy, or broke. Theres plenty of people who try to tip 0% too. They arent real humans. Just skidmarks

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u/geoFRTdeem 11d ago

That’s why fancy restaurants and real dining have expensive prices, a $100 steak alone is a $20 if they did a good job

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u/WanderingAlsoLost 11d ago

To-go tip options should be lower than traditional dining tipping, and 10, 15, and 20 is what used to be standard just ten years ago (it really should just not be an option on the POS). I’m so sick of being greeted with a smile at the counter, or window, and when I skip the tip their friendliness completely disappears.

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u/Great_Comparison462 11d ago

Don't you mean a fifth?

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u/the-anarch 10d ago

22% is less than a quarter.

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u/Bluej777x 10d ago

Agree. These more reasonable

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u/showerbump 11d ago

15, 18, 20 are the best options

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u/spartan117warrior 11d ago

If I buy something at a counter and then my name is shouted to pick it up, what exactly would I fucking tip for? In a Starbucks, or fast food, or food truck scenario, 0% isn't the best option, it's the only logical option.

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u/MingePies 11d ago

I visited somewhere in California where I used a self-service checkout and it had a tip prompt. Why?!

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u/imaginary_num6er 11d ago

They should ask for a tip in a Waymo car

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u/Best-Republic 11d ago

yeah, but people have messed it up. Stop tipping everyone for picking up your order. This NEEDS to stop and expectations will line up accordingly.

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u/MummifiedForeskins 11d ago

I don't know why people care so much about what strangers think of you. 

It's fastfood, I'm here to pick it up, what the fuck do you mean tip lol, I ain't tipping shit. Give me those weird looks I don't give a flying fuck bruh

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u/big_boy_potato 11d ago

You’re tipping the people making the food, it’s not that hard to understand. We live in a society that normalizes business owners paying their workers a shit wage. Have some courtesy or change the laws.

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u/beren12 11d ago

Well if they don’t get tips they’ll get another job that doesn’t rely on tips.

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u/big_boy_potato 11d ago

So then who is going to make your food when you’re too lazy to cook? Circular reasoning

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u/durkiobrazy 11d ago

It usually is for low income individuals

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u/Sea-Willingness-9654 11d ago

low to no education (includes college graduates with non-income producing degrees)..

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u/ResolveConfident3522 11d ago

This guy fucks!

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u/IudexJudy 11d ago

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u/IudexJudy 11d ago

Yeah I'm about to front the revolution in the US if these prices keep going up

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u/bonobro69 11d ago

I remember when it was 10%, 15%, and 20%. 15% was the standard and 20% was for exceptional service.

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u/Maximum-End7387 11d ago

15 is still the standard for a lot of the population.

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u/Real_Avocado6969 11d ago

I thought so too but a lot want 20% as the bare minimum

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u/Matter_Infinite 11d ago

Remind them 0% is the minimum. Does take any extra interaction or words

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u/dawgsheet 11d ago

Want and what's standard is different, and people are falling for it.

Standard historically all up until a few years ago was double tax for good services, which comes out to 15% most places.

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u/beren12 11d ago

Not the machines though

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u/thuragath 11d ago

20 became the default when Covid shut everything down, at least where I've been.

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u/Krimreaper1 11d ago

It still is, but they don’t want you to know that.

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u/Playful-Isopod-6227 11d ago

Thing that drives me nuts, is it's still the places that have actual service that takes time that have this kind of tipping range. The ones that are basically fast food are the ones that are like "do you want to tip 25/50/a whole ass new car."

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u/Marmoolak21 11d ago

And I remember when 10 was the standard.. before all.tbe machines allowed that standard percentage to creep up bit by bit every year. Le sigh

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u/bonobro69 11d ago

Interesting, I didn’t know that. Thank you!

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u/facechat 11d ago

Yup. Double sales tax. Back when that was 7%

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u/moongrump 11d ago

10, 15, 20

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u/Particular_Maize6849 11d ago

I will never tip more than 20

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 11d ago

I'll never tip more than 15 again, nothing is worth a 2p% surcharge anymore.

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u/1nspectorMamba 11d ago

yes. never higher than 20%, that's already quite a markup on my order.

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u/OGBEES 11d ago

Or how about i choose if I want to tip and theres no pre approved options put there to socially engineer you into tipping based on emotion.

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 11d ago

What’s even the point of 18. Just go for 20

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u/showerbump 11d ago

Whats the point of 20? Just go for 22. Whats the point of 22? Just go for 25. Whats the point of 25? Just go for 30. Whats the point of 30? Just go for 40.

See whats happening here with your dumbass logic?

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 11d ago

Because 20 is a nice round even number? You might be overthinking this bud

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u/Significant_Income31 11d ago

zero chance I'm tipping 15% for someone putting a couple donuts in a bag. every situation is different, but for most "if i don't sit I don't tip" applies very well

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u/The_Kielbasa_Kid 11d ago

0% is the only true best option.

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u/NemoHere 11d ago

How about a reasonable 10 percent tip for starters?  How many drinks are being made an hour in the morning by these baristas? Dozens? Hundreds?  Ten percent on each drink order and then an hourly wage is going to get a decent paycheck. Your tip percentage is way too high for just a single coffee order.

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u/Best-Republic 11d ago

But as an employee, what about the rest of the day. I think normalizing salaries based on tips is not the right economy. Yes, it is great for employers but not great for economy in general.

Pay fair minimum wage, not the adjusted minimum wage. This is the way.

People will adjust to the 10% - 15% extra cost in eating or drinking outside if they don’t have to pay tips. Everyone in the establishment, front and back, is rewarded for their jobs. Extra income means extra tax income.

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u/Delicious-Spirit9899 11d ago

I totally get this, but at the end of the day there are still people working these jobs. I know it would be nice if things were different, but people are hurting now. They’re taken advantage of now. If someone is rude or service is awful I can no tip with the best of them, but in general I feel like protesting tips is still only hurting people just like us. Corporate isn’t seeing us not tip and consequently paying more. They’re stealing as much as then can as fast as they can. They don’t care about workers at all.

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u/plantsyyyy 11d ago

I, too get angry when I see this and decide I'm not going to tip. But then I remember that the workers most likely did not choose that. It was probably management.

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u/Soup-Wizard 11d ago

Just hit custom and give them a few bucks. $1 per drink is usually how I go.

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u/justified_egg 11d ago

18% is nuts. Tipping is for good table service, not someone handing you a coffee. And even then good service is 10%, max

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u/Diligent_Vehicle2467 11d ago

10% should absolutely be a default option. 20% for average service, 10% for sub par.

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u/bennnjamints 11d ago

10%-12% used to be considered the baseline. 15% was a good tip, and 20% was like "wow, you really went out of your way for me and made my night".

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u/keithstonee 11d ago

If your not sitting down and/or food isn't being brought to you. You do not tip.

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u/durkiobrazy 11d ago

It’s ok that you don’t have a lot of money. Maybe try making coffee at home next time. You act like the baristas choose the tip percentage.

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u/OneOfAKind2 11d ago

18% is absurd for expensive fast food. I tip 0 for fast food when I'm picking it up, doing all the 'service' work. 10% is plenty for people feeling like they have a ton of disposable income to waste.

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u/Butlerian_Jihadi 11d ago

I mean... Ten percent isn't a calculation, you're just moving the decimal. Half that is the other five percent of 15%, or double it for 20%.

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u/GuyManDude2146 11d ago

No tip for takeout ever. Tip when you receive a service from a human. Tip your server, tip your barber. Don’t tip the fucking drive through or the ice cream stand. People have lost their minds with tipping!

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u/CetiAlpha4 11d ago

They do that by claiming that the pay is higher with tips. But then people don't tip so they feel the advertised income is a lie so they take it out on the customers.

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u/nope-its 11d ago

That’s for sit down service. Don’t tip that when no one is taking your order, getting your food, and cleaning up after you.

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u/tekchip 11d ago

And there's nothing to say the "tip" even actually reaches the employees. Probably doesn't.

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u/ElPared 11d ago

Idk, for a a quick serve place like OP was at, I’d say 10% is fine. Normally I’m a 20% Marty but that’s for if you have like an actual server and stuff. If all you’re doing is taking my order and handing it to me when my buzzer goes off, that’s not worth the full 20, or even 18, to me.

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u/DimChuc 11d ago

So just leave a dollar per drink