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I know tipping culture is extreme, but I've never seen 100%. I don't think this is real.

I can't find the original image, it's just been reshared dozens of times on Xitter, Threads, Facebook and Reddit, but nobody is adding context or naming and shaming.
So yeah, probably just ragebait.
- Would you like a legit source? I found it in 10 seconds of googling, btw.
I've never seen 25% until 10 years ago
I have seen similar suggestion levels including 100% in Vegas, Seattle, and other large metro areas.
If I saw a 30% option described by the establishment as "soso", I would strongly consider stepping away "to the bathroom" forever.
Especially labelling 30% "soso" and 40% "ok". Unless they are bussing my tables, they get 0%. Otherwise it's 15-20.
Would you like a legit source? Why would you assume that just because you've never encountered something yourself it couldn't possibly be real?

If any place said a 30% tip is so so, I'm not tipping.

If you can't afford living wages for your staff so they're not dependant on tips, your store shouldn't be open.

Everyone working a job should be making a living wage. "Oh, but then the price of my McDonald's cheeseburger will skyrocket!!" Fucking good. If it's not economical to produce a product without abusing people, that product shouldn't exist. Period. I will die on this hill.
- "Oh, but then the price of my McDonald's cheeseburger will skyrocket!!" Fucking good
  I don't know why people keep repeating this propaganda. Plenty of countries pay actual wages to their employees, don't have tipping, and the prices are still fucking cheaper than America.
- They did away with most of their staff and their prices went up over 100% over the last 5 years or so anyway. It's corporate greed all the way down.
- Hamburgling used to be a decent profession. Now with such cheap burgers all those skilled workers are left out.
- There's no hill to assault, I don't think anybody except the abusers (and the profiteers) disagree with you.
- Paying people a living wage would only increase the price by pennies. This is just another "conservative" talking point without any basis in reality.
- I wonder how many damn products we use on a daily basis that have been produced with some level of abuse along the production chain. Probably easier to count the ones without abuse, eh.

Custom: 0% HAHAFUCKYOU

Custom: -100%
Be sure to make eye contact as you type in 0.00

Maybe it's your job to avoid patronizing places that don't pay their employees enough though?
- I absolutely will pick the no-tips place given a choice, but I take issue with that wording. Basically every business pays as little as possible, by design.

10-15% IF you went above and beyond or performed particularly well. It's a tip, I am not your employer. I used to be a huge tipper until I realized just how fucked that whole system is. Also, NEVER PRE-TIP. That is insane!

Pre-tip? I think that's called a bribe
- That's what tips are. A bribe for your next visit
What's pre-tipping? A tip before you've even had service?
- Yup. Delivery services (like DoorDash or Domino's) and the like tend to do it. They also show your tip to the person. You end up getting service based on your tip instead of the other way around.
- Pre-tipping is how rub and tug's work. For real.
- In Vegas start with a large pre tip for your waitress. That gets you drunk pretty quickly
Complain all you want, but not tipping is straight up taking money from someone who is getting paid $5 an hour. Complain to ownership, write your congressman and state legislators, but not tipping only punishes someone who is barely scrapping by.
- So, dear reader, notice how whenever defenders of tipping come along, it’s always the same story.
  Oh boohoo my poor minimum wage (which is pegged to the same minimum wage as non-tipped workers in states where most people live).
  Ever wonder why it’s always about the minimum wage and never about how much money they make?
  Any server with 2 brain cells clears $40 an hour in untaxed cash wages every shift.
  They never report it on their taxes, and yet they will cry about their poor wittle wage at every opportunity expecting people that make half their salary to tip them 100% for rudely dropping off a plate once and never coming back, making you wait 20 minutes to close a check.
  Notice the pattern. Remember how I was right next time.
  Ask them if they’d rather abolish tipping next time. Notice how none of them say “yes”.
- Also tipping is for actual table service. If you just hand me some food I'm not tipping you for handing me food.
- I’m tired of this excuse. These people took the job knowing what the pay rate was, and are demanding the customer pay their salary directly rather than the employer like virtually any other conventional job does. Customers have had it, they’re being told to give employees raises along with rising food costs, even at businesses that don’t do a damn thing for the customer except maybe hand them a to-go box. 20% for that? F no. Grow a spine and demand real pay, people have had it. IDK how I can travel almost any modern place else in the world, pay for a good meal, and only have to leave the approximation of $1 or so for appreciation of the service, but in America I pay for the food and a separate charge for the employee’s “pay”.
- Those same people only getting paid 5 an hour have literally fought and complained against any attempts to change the law and bring a proper wage. Why? Because they make more in tips than they would hourly. Whole system is messed up.
- In WA everyone is paid at least 16 an hour, over 20 in Seattle and in many high COL areas.
- yeah I basically stopped going to restaurants because is screwed either way. It actually used to be something we would do but the norm became wierd and like so many things nowadays it became just drop out of participation.
- Its unfortunately a catch 22 though because continuing to tip kinda enables it to keep happening if everyone stopped tipping then places would likely have to pay a decent wage in order to get people to work as even if you’re extremely desperate for money its still not really worth it to work for tipped minimum wage with no tips also im not sure if it applies to all places but if your compensation + tips falls below the federal minimim wage the company must pay you the difference if I am not mistaken
- I'm paying
  straight up taking money
  lol, where can I find this magical money?
- Yes. If you can't afford to leave a decent tip, then don't get the service.

Back when 15% was considered standard I liked tipping closer to 30%, but as a direct result of the push to try to make 15% seem low I no longer tip more than 15%.

My tipping follows the inverse of how much I am paying for the product. If the product is well priced and the service was good I have been known to tip 100% for excellent service. Now that everything is nearly double the cost of what it used to be I am more inclined to tip 50 cents to a dollar max.
They should be paying exceptionally well for what they are charging, but we know that isn't the case. I don't have unlimited wealth to spend either, fuck me for being poor and wanting some comfort "restaurant" food occasionally.
- The food prices went up 20% so my logic is if I continue to tip the same % the waiters should still make more money. Increasing the food prices and also doubling the tip is just double dipping. My work isn’t paying me 20% more every year so I can’t be paying for everyone’s inflation.
All you are doing is punishing some poor server who has no control of the price. The owner who is actually fucking both you and the staff over is unaffected.
- I'm punishing them by giving them what was until 10 years ago considered an excellent and standard tip?
  Not to mention that servers are, as a general group, extremely opposed to dismantling the tip system as a whole. My complaint wasn't about raised food prices, which the owner would be in control of - it was about raised tipping percentage expectations. I refuse to contribute to the steadily rising expectation of how much a tip should be, and regret my past contributions to that trend.
- Don't pretend they have no control. They could band together and refuse to play by the restaurant's rules. Things would change pretty quickly.

Select "Custom" and type 0.00 without breaking eye contact. Be careful, though, that 0.00 can quickly turn into 8.88 if you're not looking.

You really think it's the owner and not some poor, underpaid schmuck manning the register?
- Yeah, it's definitely the owner's fault. That doesn't change the fact that the underpaid schmuck always tries to blame the customer for not leaving a tip.

This was at a self-service kiosk, too, right?

That means the tip goes to the customer, right?
/s

30% is soso? Go fuck yourselves.

The fact you have to say "likely" rather than "outright bullshit" says everything. As an european If america didn't exist I'd know this image is a joke.
I also can't believe it is real, but I wouldn't discount it as being fake. Similar case below:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/business/alaskan-restaurants-100-tip-option-appalls-vacationer/
- Your link shows an entirely different tip screen.
- That is one example of it occurring, yes, but similarities with the image presented here and your source end at the 100% tip. Everything else has been modded to bait that rage.

30%: underpaid

40%: immorally underpaid

50%; criminally underpaid

100%: Les Miserables

Custom: 0%

Every time.

If they give me the No Tip option, I usually tip a little bit. But fuck off with this idea that you should be tipped. It helps no one.

This would get an immediate Custom -> 0% from me the moment I see it.

Fucking "soso" for a 20% tip the hell

As a dev I would try negative value in the custom field.
There's no 20 it's 30%!! Insane.
They know there's soft, weak people like me that find it painful because the guy in front of you can see it. I mean, I'm a good principled person and I've still done it, but I felt like trash in the process.
I guess it was just a matter of time before other classes than the bottom one figured out aggressive panhandling.
If this is in a restaurant after I've eaten, it would get 0% and I'd never go there again.
If this is presented to me somewhere you pay before consuming your food/purchase, I'm leaving without paying.
Man I'd leave a 1% tip just in case someone sees it and realizes that it was on purpose because I'm annoyed with the UX
Also, holy hell, am I glad to live in a country that doesn't do tipping. It was a bit weird going to the US and not knowing when to tip and when not to, but I doubt I'll be revisiting y'all in the next 4 years anyway :(
At restaurants with table service, it's considered polite, but not necessary, to tip, if you enjoyed the experience.

It doesn't have to be like this, America. Not only is tipping not expected in Australia, but when the "Choose tip" screen comes up on US made software, all the servers I've ever had skip straight through it and choose zero.

Servers deserve to be paid fairly.

I'm not even paying the bill at that point.

The moment they ask for a tip they are not getting anything nor a repeat customer.

Presenting the possibility to tip on the screen is ok, I think. The tone (and from my European perspective the percentages) is, what I find weird.

We need to bring back the public stockades.

Nothing like a good pillory to brighten your day!
- And they're perfect for this kind of thing! What better way to punish rude tip demands? Despite how rude it is, you don't want to throw someone in jail over this. A fine? You risk the fine being so low it's just a cost of business or so high you just ruined some service worker's life. This is exactly where the pillory shines!
  Demand a tip like this? To the stockades with you! Spend an afternoon chained up by the sidewalk, while people throw tomatoes at you. No real harm done. Just public embarrassment.

I frequent a bagel place that automatically adds a fairly hefty (not THAT hefty) tip when you pre-order online for in-store pickup.

If not for the fact that they are by far the best place to go for bagels in my area (we have few choices), that alone would stop me from ordering.

Their bagels are good, and I'm not above tipping at a bagel place. But their prices are already very high for a bagel place (they know what they got), they do brisk business, and they should damn well be paying their employees more rather than trying to sneak a 25% tip into every online order. It doesn't even present it as in OP - it's just there in the itemization in the end and you need to manually edit it out before ordering.

Edt - oh and if real, I ain't never going back to the place in OP after seeing that one time.

If real...

30% is "soso" but a 100% is only "Thank You"? In this case the 100% should be "Walk over to the other side of the register so the boss can blow You".

Relevant post from earlier this month

Honestly if it starts at 30% then im 0% tipping and they can fuck right off.

Isn't 10% the usual tip amount?

It was 30 years ago, but the tipping percentage has been subject to inflation for some reason right alongside the cost of the service.
Feels like an intentional double dip as a fuck you to me.
- The reason is that minimum wage has been stagnant for the last 20 years. Servers are still getting paid $5 an hour plus their tips.
- Yeah, I figured so. My knowledge on American tipping culture is based on 90s movies.
America seems to be a bit crazy.
Pretty sure 0%-10% is standard in the UK. Though a lot of those cheeky service charges are around 12.5
- I don't remember actually doing tips as a percentage back when I lived in Latvia, it was usually that you took the bills and left any coins, maybe added some on top if there weren't many.
  So probably 10% at most but still basically what I made per hour as a warehouse worker
15% has been the standard for many decades, and even that is supposed to be optional.
Uh...15% is. Or maybe 20% at a sit down restaurant.

I've actually seen 2 recent practices that I hate more than this. While this is frustrating, at least you can input a custom tip. I've also seen them where they show 3 different dollar amounts that don't indicate percentage but doing the math, it's definitely way over the usual 20%. Then there's the one I hate the most which I keep seeing at places where you don't usually tip. You go to pay with your card and the little transaction/card machine shows different tip amounts, the default of which is already set. If you don't want to leave a tip, you have to figure out which button to push to do so. They're all different and it can be very confusing. I even saw one where each option was labeled in correlation with a button on the screen, except that they didn't match up. And what do you do then? Ask the person at the register how not to tip them?

I leave a Google review for places that have shitty tipping practices.
[to cashier] "excuse me, ma'am, i can't seem to find the button to not leave a tip. can you show me where it is?"
- I enjoy quietly asking, "do these tips actually go to you?"
  I've gotten a discreet "no" headshake more than a few times. Then you can feel justified taking however long you want to select zero.
I would.

The issue with tipping is an issue with capitalism.

It is capitalism that has ruined nice things. Imagine the first person who tipped someone because their service was good and it was a nice thing to do. Next other people started doing it as well, which makes the profession with tipping more favorable.

This leads to a higher supply of workers and lower demand and the market adjusts which means lower pay because "they will receive tips".

Also it is easy to vilify the shop owners for doing something that the system encourages and even demands them. We don't know how or in what ways the shop owners are suffering because of the system.

Also to acknowledge their suffering is not to say that their suffering is equal to the suffering of their workers but rather we need to identify that everybody suffers in capitalism (except the very rich/elites).

The way to fix this is to stop tipping altogether. This will hurt the workers for sure but their suffering is necessary in order for things to change, at least under the current system.

Or alternatively, we can try and abolish the system altogether.

"There's no way to prevent this" - Says the only country where this happens regularly.
It's not a "Capitalism" problem. It's a USA problem.
- I'd say both. You guys just did a speed run.

I award you no tips, and may God have mercy on your soul!

At this point I'd go full Karen asking to speak to the supervisor, then taking my business elsewhere.

Vote with your wallet.

This is why I have stopped dining out, if the business demands excess to then pay staff and without tips staff go unpaid then what is it I am supporting.

This is clearly fake, right?

Dunno. I’ve seen this in the UK.
- I thought y'all didn't have a tipping culture?
Even if it is, at current rate, one day we'll look back and go "remember when tipping was optional, and less than 100%, we were truly spoiled back then"
Nope
- So, in the article, the tip amounts were 20%, 30%, 50%, and 100%. They also used capital letters correctly.
  I'm not trying to say that a 100% tip isn't crazy, but this photo seems suspicious without any branding, incorrect capitalization and a total of exactly $95.00. Hell, I can't even be sure that this is an actual point of sale machine, it looks like it could just be a monitor.

I don't mind paying for the convenience. I tip well. I do wish we lived in a country where living wages were a thing. But we don't. We're a giant slave colony owned by like 5 megacorps.

My question here is, how much was the bill? 5 or $600?

95, lol, the percentages are there on the screen
- Yep. Sure is. Hopefully that makes my blonde moment quota for a few days.
If you look at the screenshot you can see the bill is $95

100% you only receive a thank you?

Bastards

It’s fake rage bait you have fallen for
- It may be but coming from the USA I don't doubt, my European mind is not able to understand that
- It's not

“soso” 😂 I’m laughing but it’s not funny

It is normal to leave a 10-20% tip for certain jobs. However, this is just insane. I would probably lose my shit if I was prompted to leave a 100% tip. That's completely nuts.

Where was this taken? I want to avoid it as much as possible.

Nice precedent for corruption

So hard to get a thank you. Manners these days...

ok

ITT.

I love the scene where a group of sociopathic murders are all shocked at how scummy someone has to be to deprive a waitress of her wages, as if it's justified because the owner doesn't pay her either.