Biggest example is at a fast casual restaurant when they ask for a tip on the iPad when nobody’s waiting on you. Normally I never leave anything unless I’m being waited on but I chipped a couple bucks today because why not.
How often vs not would you say people tip on these machines in this scenario?
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Ha, when I worked the night shift at Burger King the night manger would let us keep any unofficial tips people would give up and all of the change that people would drive off without taking
Daytime manager/general manger would have killed us if they found out.
I always feel a little bit guilty, but I never give a tip at a fast food/fast causal restaurant when they shove the ipad in my face. Still haven’t gone back to the local fast food place after they made me wait 30 minutes for my food while my friend (who did tip on the ipad) got their food in under 10 minutes.
I’m not tipping for counter service. You don’t tip for drive thru and counter service is no different.
I usually tip more than 20% to waitstaff.
I shopped peoples online grocery orders as an actual employee at a store (not instacart) and people would occasionally drop me a few bucks when they picked up their orders. Wasn’t anything significant but I’d always treat myself to a candy bar at lunch 🙂
On those machines, I’ll tip the minimum amount if it’s less than 20% otherwise no because I’m already paying for the food/coffee and y’all should pay your employees properly if they don’t get tips lmao
I usually always give a tip because I feel guilty, but lately I’ve started not too. The whole “tipping culture” is getting a little out of control.
About 15 years ago, I worked at an ice cream shop where customers weren’t expected to tip…but some customers did. It didn’t happen often, maybe a few times a week; sometimes a customer would give the person who made their $3.00 milkshake or whatever an extra buck or two, or they’d make a large/complicated order and give an extra $5 or $10.
I usually turned it down, because even when I was *broke* broke, the risk of being on camera putting cash from a customer in my pocket was not worth the benefit of an extra few dollars.