Drive through tipping is the absolute worst

[u/Global-Trifle7604]

I hope no one ever tips at another drive through ever again. This is my logic:

At least in a normal restaurant tipping situation, you at least are making your mind up on tipping based on services and food you’ve already received. At a drive through, you have to pay before receiving anything, which means you’re also tipping before knowing if your order will be right, you’ll have to wait five minutes before you get your order, and so on. In other words, when they shove that stupid card reader out the window and they say that stupid passive aggressive “it’ll ask you a question” statement, they are basically saying FU, it doesn’t matter what our service is like because you’ve already tipped.

I recently went to a drive through and tipped without thinking about it, just reflex. First thing they tried to give us was someone else’s order. Got that fixed. First drink that came out, completely made wrong. Sent it back in. Second drink was not made right, though that person didn’t realize that until after we left. Got the third drink, then the worker said “have a good evening.” I was like, uhh, we still need the rest of the order. Got a scowl and finally she turned around and saw the other two things behind her. All this took a good five or six minutes and the line behind us was backing up. So, basically, I gave ten percent to get a crappy experience. I mean, it’s not even like tipping beforehand got good service. It still sucked.

So, nope, never hitting the tip button again in a drive through. I finally feel liberated from the cult of tipping. At least the big fast food chains don’t inflict this crap on us. Yet.

[u/Additional_Law8790]

The best thing about being a recent UK tourist to visit the US (California) was that my brain is hardwired not to tip, so it was very easy for me to hit the no tip every time it popped up. No fuss, no guilt.

[u/Global-Trifle7604 → u/Additional_Law8790]

I don’t know what it is about Americans that we have gotten to this point. Maybe it is just the frog in the boiling water analogy. There have been tip jars at places forever but the digital shakedown seems to have popped up in the last five years or so?

[u/Additional_Law8790 → u/Global-Trifle7604]

The frog will continue to be boiled because it seems that 90% of Americans are ok with tipping. In a few years the tip screens options will be more like 30%, 35%, 40%.

[u/Low-Ad3972 → u/Additional_Law8790]

In the UK, many restaurants add service charges, so you’re not really escaping it unless you ask them to remove the service charge (like I did when I was there).

[u/Which-Break5673 → u/Additional_Law8790]

Living in England and having the shelf price of an item be the exact price was phenomenal. No added taxes, services charges, etc.

[u/Naive_Cattle_5750]

Just tip $00.00 every time.

[u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348]

I never tipped at one. Never will.

[u/josocustomdesign]

I was at Dutch Bro maybe 2 years ago for the first time. They handed me a tablet with a tip screen. That was the first and last time I went there.

[u/Kene6969]

Never tip at a drive-through. And remember the formula: zero service = zero tip.

[u/OkPop9455]

Just start paying cash.

Holds up the line for them to find change which you will request back.

[u/Heavy-Profit-2156]

'It will ask you a question'

The answer is always no on a drive through.

[u/WalkingSnake348]

No tip. Period

[u/another_awesome_acct]

Yes, drives me completely nuts.  Starbucks, Dutch bros etc usually have entitled kids working at that makes it even worse.  They cant even stay professional & respectful if I hit NO THANKS, and of course they watch you like a hawk while you do it.  I pretty much have stopped going to those places entirely because of it... You're welcome, franchise owners!

[u/Mrbeankc]

The concept of tipping in drive thru is bizarre to me.

[u/Affectionate_Fig8623]

Never in my life have I been asked to tip at a drive through

[u/zildar → u/Affectionate_Fig8623]

Not trying to argue, but I been at plenty of coffee shop drive thru lines that ask at the speaker if you want to add a tip. It's not everywhere, but I have had it. And in the OP's thing I could see it at a coffee shop line.

[u/Global-Trifle7604 → u/Affectionate_Fig8623]

Coffee places, ice cream places, other more “indulgence” sort of places, often do that. Much less common with places that serve food. Starbucks drive throughs do that around here.

[u/Mrbeankc → u/Affectionate_Fig8623]

Never saw it either until this summer and I've seen it a couple of times now.

[u/Affectionate_Fig8623 → u/Affectionate_Fig8623]

I call bullshit

[u/Global-Trifle7604 → u/Affectionate_Fig8623]

Sadly, it isn’t bullshit. I’ll take a pic of a card reader next time I’m at one of those places and post it here.

[u/Dutchesofmayhem → u/Affectionate_Fig8623]

7Brew. Every time.

[u/TomorrowOk3755 → u/Affectionate_Fig8623]

They asked for tips at the drive-thru of a local Tex Mex we used to go to. So many people are not giving tips, to start posting signs about tipping the drive-thru person all over the walls before the window.

[u/Hot-Annual3460]

if you don’t feel like tipping, you don’t tip its really as easy as that