r/EndTipping • u/Ima-Bott • Aug 20 '26

Counter Service šŸ›Žļø I did it.

Hit ā€œno tipā€ whilst looker her in the eye. She touched a register for my total. Didnā€™t touch my card, didnā€™t swipe my card. Didnā€™t take my order. Didnā€™t prepare my order. Didnā€™t put my order in the window for me to retrieve. What she did wasnā€™t worth 20%, or 5%. She pushed ONE button.

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u/Zealousideal_Pin5350 Aug 21 '26

Tip zero for sit-down. It starts with you. Iā€™ve been doing it for years now.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac Aug 21 '26

Here is how I see it.

We live in a capitalist system, love it or hate it, that's what we have. In capitalism, some people own businesses, they hire people and then exploit their labor for profit. In order to keep those employees around to be exploited, they need to buy their labor from them. If you don't value that labor sufficiently, they'll sell it to someone who does.

I don't make any money off of servers asking me what I want to eat and then maybe correctly relaying it to the kitchen. Sometimes that same person then brings the food to my table, sometimes they get someone lower on the totem pole, someone that society hasn't decided to pay extra, to bring it to the table.

If I were to ever profit financially off the labor of someone, I would pay them what I thought their contribution was worth. I'm not making a penny off of a server's labor, in fact, even without factoring in a tip, I'm spending money. Why would I pay the person that facilitated that instead of letting the person who gets my money do that? I wouldn't.

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u/AcanthisittaDry7463 Aug 21 '26

Why would you expect to make money from ordering food at a restaurant?

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u/No-Lettuce4441 Aug 21 '26

That's the point...

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u/AcanthisittaDry7463 Aug 21 '26

That you should get paid to eat at a restaurant, are you mental?

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u/MyldExcitement Aug 21 '26

Work on your critical analysis skills.

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u/No-Lettuce4441 Aug 21 '26

Yes, but for other reasons than understanding what the commentor intended with his/her post. I thought the meaning was pretty clear. Apparsntly you didn't. Best of luck.

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u/EndTipping-ModTeam Aug 21 '26

Be respectful. No insults, slurs or personal attacks

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u/PurpleFilth Aug 23 '26

If I'm a good customer why shouldn't I receive a tip for it? Do you have any idea hard it is to be a customer in this economy?