If they ask for tips it's zero.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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I will tip for good service at a restaurant. I really try to do cash because it is common for management to steal all or a portion of the tips.
I just had this discussion with my wife yesterday when I got a Subway sub for her. When I went to pay it asked for a percentage based tip. Keep in mind this sub was $16 where I live.
I hate that corporations are underpaying their workers and trying to guilt you into giving them a tip which they then promptly steal.
Fast food workers like subsay aren't generally aren't tipped or paid under minimum
The US are completely dystopian
People: "I am NOT paying my barista a tip for this, what do you MEAN they DEMAND a tip."
Meanwhile the Barista is being paid less than US$3 an hour because in America, you can be paid that and be expected to reach minimum wage through tips if you work food service. Want to end that? Demand that food service workers be paid minimum wage at the very least. Don't want to do even that? Then stop getting fast food.
- No, this will not raise the price of food in any meaningful way.
- No, these are not all teens, the average age of a minimum wage worker is 40.
- No, this will not raise the price of goods generally. Wages have remained stagnant and the price of goods have risen regardless.
We don't allow this in WA for instance.
Big up Western Australia
In my city they get paid 21/hr min wage iirc, and while lower elsewhere, barely anywhere uses federal min wage right?
Some places still use the federal minimum wage. Thats how you get Mississippi.
Edit: looked it up. Says that in 2024, “843,000 earned federal minimum wage or below… Today, only around 1 percent of hourly workers earn the federal minimum, while almost a quarter of the U.S. workforce makes less that $17 an hour.”
Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/9251/workers-earning-minimum-wage-or-below-united-states/
Additional info: the min wage has not been increased since 2009. It should be $11.17 by now just with inflation - and that's not a living wage, just an arbitrary poverty wage:
Damn well there's the problem, ig i just live in an expensive city so there's higher min
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To be fair, I don't think baristas get the ~$3 minimum wage. Not Starbucks workers at least. Still a valid point though.
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Don't want to do even that? Then stop getting fast food.
Not to take away from your point, but fast food workers get minimum wage, they're not subject to the slave wages food service workers have to deal with. They get the moderately better minimum, rather than hoping tips makes it to minimum.
Yeah I was like wait, now we have to tip at Taco Bell? Fuck this country.
Give it a few years, I wouldn't be surprised
Don’t want to do even that? Then stop getting fast food.
That's exactly right. Being against tipping as a concept is fine, but the idea that we can end tipping culture by refusing to tip is fundamentally accelerationist. "Surely if we torture the workers enough they'll be forced to demand higher wages!"
Either we refuse to even be customers for places that underpay their workers, or we tip generously to try to make up for it.
This is what I've done. I haven't been out to eat since before the pandemic. I got used to making my meals at home.
The logic of punishing our fellow victims of the system has always struck me as both misguided and cruel.
Thank you for pointing it out!
I'm not aware of anywhere that pays (or is even allowed to pay) baristas what waiters and bartenders get. There may be exceptions. This post seems to be about literally anyplace with a new POS having basically options for 20-30% tips, despite the person behind it making like $15 an hour (at least where I live). Fortunately, lately, I'll have the person reach around and press the "no tip" button often enough, since it's usually the least obvious option available.
$15/hr still isn’t a living wage in most places, just for the record. It’s better than server wages for sure, but it’s not stable-life-level income.
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Then I hope the barista is patient, because they're gonna be waiting a long time ...
Right before she compliments you on your stupid shirt to distract you.
I've never paid a single tip in my life.
Don't visit the USA
I once went to a fancy rooftop bar where I was asked to pay in full (with tip) up front for a cocktail. No idea how that place is still in business.
Honestly, I kinda prefer that in bars? Means you can just walk off and not worry about paying once you're done.
Plus, I’ll tip $1-2 for a fancy cocktail even if the service is crappy, because those take time to make, so I don’t really need to know what the service is like ahead of time unless it’s incredible. This sounds like it wasn’t though.
In my experience, if you're a regular tipping that amount you will usually end up getting stronger drinks after the first few visits.
At one bar we had to ask them to stop because it was basically like drinking a glass of liquor.
Yeah but what if the cocktail sucks
They still put the effort in. If it’s sloppy or poorly made and the bars not busy, I don’t get another one.
It was $18.
Then I probably wouldn’t go, but I don’t go and not tip because the menu is expensive.
Yeah, I haven't gone since. And I'm not going to not tip because it's expensive. It's just that when you're paying $18 for a cocktail, you don't exactly expect the bar to turn into a vending machine.
This was also after being told I was "in the wrong line" for the cocktail I wanted to order. And other people were walking in wearing basketball shorts. It was really quite a scene.
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Places that pull that bullshit get a one star reading review from me and are never visited again
Ahh yes. The barista that personally selected and programmed their store's POS system.
Dog they just work there.
Responded to a guy that deleted his comment so it's not visible anymore. Making fun of the system itself, barrista has nothing to be blamed about
That might've been the intention, but the text of the meme targets the barista, not their boss or the system itself.
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