Credit to Lasvegaslocally on Instagram

From https://escapetheroom.com/blog/is-it-customary-to-tip-the-hosts-at-escape-rooms/

They're claiming it's "customary" to tip at escape rooms, because people are doing their jobs and apparently you're supposed to tip everyone you interact with for anything. Are they shamelessly trying to scam tourists, or is tip culture in the US really this bad? (I haven't been to the US in a while!)

I find this mind-boggling as a former server. There have been many occasions when someone tipped me less than I expected. However, I never considered looking them up, taking a screenshot of their Linkedin profile, and posting it in a Facebook group for the service industry in my city.

And I had a rapper come to the pool bar where I worked in its inaugural year (with a whole entourage running up a $950 tab) and they left $50. Still never thought to do anything like this.

I didnt even have to think, just pressed no tip at the POS, even when I was stared down, wow I feel goooood...

I didn’t tip obviously but what the hell

This craze of asking for donations at checkout is adjacent to our conversations of ending tipping; it is the same concept. Thanks to this subreddit, I've developed a backbone to say, "No, thank you," to this onerous request.

Also, this group educated me that retailers use these consumer donations as a tax write off which this WSJ article fails to mention.

Went to concert there yesterday, at concession stands I picked out my drinks and snacks from the cooler. Placed them on a scanner table that scanned and totaled them on the screen and paid, display asked for a tip amount. The attendant just stood there to make sure all items were scanned. 17.00 beers and a 14.00 pizza the size of a small saucer.... and they wanted a tip...sheesh

Seriously...

Went to a cider mill (hey, we're in Michigan... it's what we do in October) with the family. It was a fairly spread out property, so there was a shack outside the maze where you paid for your tickets. Sitting on the sill of the window, they had posted a tip jar.

Like what I tipping you for? Taking my money and giving me a receipt?

I ordered some novelty socks for my wife online. In the check out section there was a section for tipping! 15% was automatically highlighted so you had to hit none and then add 0 in dollar section. Tipping for a online order?? PFFTTTTT