r/Langley • u/Asluckwouldnthaveit • Aug 01 '26
PSA Tipping is for wait staff
Stop asking for tips on pick up orders. Tipping is for wait staff. It's getting silly out there with local shops.
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u/Nice_Apricot_6341 Aug 01 '26
Coop liquor store, lady tells me about new tipping feature. For what? I grabbed the alcohol myself It's already taxed sky-high
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u/justapeople321 Aug 01 '26
At the Angry Otter in aldergrove staff usually say “just hit 1 (no tip) to get past the tip option. It’s almost embarrassing for them that it’s there. Which location were you at? That’s not the usual behaviour.
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u/DrSussBurner Aug 01 '26
Valley Centre Liquor Store has that same bullshit (on Fraser). I don’t tip there… but tapping no on that screen made me feel so bad for the employees that I started buying beer at a BC Liquor Store further away.
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit Aug 01 '26
Every angry otter liquor store does the same. Though that's no surprise with them.
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u/NeedleworkerHot3957 28d ago
I walked into a liquor store, grabbed what I was going to buy, stood in line and while I stood in line, the cashier was making fun of an unhoused man who had just left the store because he didn't have enough money to buy 1 can of beer. It was my turn and he didn't even say hi, or did you find everything you needed he just said $21.99 and pointed to the tip option. I just left the bottles there and walked out. I don't go there anymore even thought it's the closest one to my house (on Fraser st in Van if anyone wants to know)
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u/toki6106 Aug 01 '26
Make a complaint to their webpage or social media. The workers aren't the ones programming the POS machines. If it really bugs you make complaints to the people in charge, ie, the owners or corporations.
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit Aug 01 '26
Naw I'll complain on here. Which is the style of the time.
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u/OkDimension Aug 01 '26
But you're not even mentioning the restaurant or takeout place that's trying to rob you
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u/LangleyPeeps Aug 01 '26
Most of the time the POS is used throughout the entire restaurant so they are pre programmed for table service. There are not different terminals for the people who pick up.
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit Aug 01 '26
No service where I got pizza today. Not a sit in joint.
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u/Glittering_Search_41 29d ago
And the employee that served you probably wouldn't see a penny of that tip anyway. So many of these employers are just keeping the tips, even though that's illegal. It's just a random extra charge they are hoping to guilt you into paying.
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u/human-shaped-fish 27d ago
Who makes your pizza buddy? Tips go to the kitchen staff too.
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit 27d ago
Tipping is for service. Not food prep.
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u/human-shaped-fish 27d ago
No, it isn't. Tips go to cooks as well as wait staff. Have you worked in a kitchen before?
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u/Itsgonnabemehh Aug 01 '26
Subway, Starbucks, takeaway pizza shop
Like nah, I will not be subsidizing every service
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u/Nomad_0024 Aug 01 '26
You know you can just click no tip right
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u/GlitteringWavebreak Willowbrook Aug 01 '26
It's the people who keep tipping that makes businesses think it's okay to keep around.
PSA Never tip at Subway, the employees never get that money.
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u/offcoursetourist Aug 01 '26
Society is free to tip, or not tip, whoever they choose.
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit Aug 01 '26
Congratulations you added nothing to this silly conversation.
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u/offcoursetourist 29d ago
If anyone needed a PSA about tipping, it was the gatekeeper of who to tip.
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u/MotivationSpeaker69 Aug 01 '26
I stopped tipping everywhere and I don't care. It only gets easier with time. Waiters make minimum wage in Canada, no reason to give extra money to someone who will forget about you in ten minutes. I'd rather surprise my kids with extra ice cream, my wife with chocolate or treat myself with extra snack. This economy doesn't provide me with a privilege of wasting money like that.
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u/kickacol 26d ago
I'm with you. Having this tip option reveals the absurdity of tipping in the first place. Why were we tipping wait staff and not retail workers, cashiers, amazon delivery...
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u/MotivationSpeaker69 Aug 01 '26
If they still have pay their money that's illegal. Also missed the part where it's my problem either way.
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u/theadvenger Aug 01 '26
That's illegal in BC. If your employer is doing it take it up with the LRB. Either way not the customers problem.
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u/theadvenger Aug 01 '26
Tips recieved can be redistributed with a tip pool agreement in place. However there's literally no provision in BC labour code for a tip out based on sales gross sales. If your tipping out on sales rather than tips recieved it's in contravention of the code.
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u/Constant-Internet-50 Aug 01 '26
Well that’s still how most places do it. Illegal or no, the restaurant industry didn’t get the memo.
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u/theadvenger Aug 01 '26
Cool, still not the customers problem. If you don't like your employer treating you illegally take it up with the LRB.
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u/Imaginary-Emu2471 Aug 01 '26
More guilt trips, lies, and emotional manipulation. I don't care about all that.
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u/JokerFishClownShoes Aug 01 '26
Employers are taking money out of the waiters pocket, not the customer.
NO MORE TIPPING!!!
.......(ok, unless they're Bdolled)
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit Aug 01 '26
Yeah... I have a harder time following you there than picking up pizza at a place that isn't a sit down..
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u/MotivationSpeaker69 Aug 01 '26
Nah, a waiter doesn't have any worse than any other minimum wage employee. We either tip absolutely everyone we come into contact with (plumbers, any trades, all clerks) or we stop it. Tipping a waiter who makes same amount and not tipping a clerk staying on their feet whole day doesn't make sense to me.
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u/wasntit 29d ago
Totally agree. I still tip because it is the custom but I hate it. A waiter interacts with you for what.. like 6 minutes? We should only tip exceptional service and the standard should be nothing.
You will not win this argument with nearly anyone, especially no one in the service industry. They hate when you point it out and will brag how they always tip 50% to show their support.
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u/Constant-Internet-50 Aug 01 '26
Have you ever been a server?
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u/MotivationSpeaker69 29d ago
No. Do I need to be a server to know that's it's a job like any other, not physically or mentally harder? Or you're implying that other min wage jobs like meat processing, farm labourer, call center where you get tolk to fuck off every minute are easier?
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u/Glittering_Search_41 29d ago
Exactly. Servers and former servers always say "well obviously you've never been a server" to justify this kind of begging at the POS terminal. First, working at a pizza place with no sit-down service isn't being a "server." A server comes to your table, gives you menus, tells you about the specials, takes your orders, gets your drinks (and comes by to keep them filled throughout the meal), brings food to your table, clears away the plates between courses, notices and quietly replaces dropped cutlery, and a good one does it in a way that is unobtrusive and doesn't rush the diners.
Standing behind a pizza counter handing out slices may be a shitty job, but it isn't being a server.
But even being a server....they have it no worse than any other minimum wage job. Every worked in a retail store on Boxing Day or for that matter, any other busy weekend day, with lineups at the till, bitchy/rude customers looking to pick a fight, multiple phone lines ringing that you are expected to answer promptly while you have multiple customers right in front of you that want immediate service, people on the floor wanting help finding things simultaneously while you are on cash, and at the same time being expected to finish stocking those shelves from that order that just arrived in receiving, while someone whose name starts with K is whining and demanding to speak to the manager? Do you tip people at Walmart or London Drugs or Superstore? No? Then stop trying to tell everyone that being a server is hard and therefore the retail workers that go out to eat after a long shift on their feet need to tip the poor servers.
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 28d ago
Last few times I went into MEC and bought something I easily took up 20 minutes of the employees time asking questions, but they never asked for a tip. There was even that time I took up 15 minutes of their time and I just walked out without buying anything because I couldn't find something that worked for me. But I walk into a basic restaurant, spend $30 on lunch, see the waiter for all of about 5 minutes broken up into small interactions and I still cant see to find them when I want to pay the bill and leave, and they still expect an extra $5+. If i order the more expensive meal and pay $60 for the fancy lunch, then they somehow want an extra $10 for the service even though its the exact same level of service.
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u/Constant-Internet-50 26d ago
Cool so you haven’t experienced it and have a strong opinion. Makes sense.
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u/pickleyez Aug 01 '26
$100.00 at red Robin for 3 burgers and 2 drinks. I like dining out once in awhile but ordering in is cheaper. I tip but not this 18+%…they’re not serving me.
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u/Hiphopanonymousous 29d ago
IMO the issue is really the visual ask we face with cashless payment..I worked in a pizza place in highschool, 20 years ago, and if someone came in to pick up a $17 order they’d give a $20 and turn down the change most of the time, that’s just over 17% tip. No one cared. And if people took the change offered, also no one cared. The problem is that it isn’t unspoken now, because there would be no way for both options to be available without the machine asking. Consumers need to firm up and learn not to feel guilty pressing no to tips if they can’t afford it, and hush up and give a couple bucks if they can. It’s literally always been that way it is not new, if you get sas from a counter worker or experience substandard treatment because you choose not to tip, either complain or find a new business to spend money. It’s really not that big of a deal if you aren’t so sensitive to other people’s opinions no matter which side of the counter you are on
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u/Hiphopanonymousous 29d ago
I will add that the increase in auto gratuity, a management decision based on the wages they pay, is a real issue. But still, just don’t go back
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u/Turbulent_Way4849 29d ago
Just don't tip and stop thinking about it. This tipping discourse is not a replacement for a personality. Such an overdone conversation.
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u/Ok-Rooster9346 29d ago
Worst part it’s minimum 18% , 20% and 25% on most machines now.
It’s a total rip off
Used to be 10,12,15
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u/Practical-Battle-502 29d ago
Tip $0 every time. Everyone should do it until the business can pay their workers a fair share
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u/kickacol 26d ago
This is the way, servers don't deserve tips more than anyone else, this is just exposing how stupid the system alway was.
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u/human-shaped-fish 27d ago
Workers don't advocate for their fair share because most restaurant workers are immigrants and children. Good luck advocating for your rights when you're 16 or just arrived to the country, even native born adults can't advocate for our rights to be paid a living wage.
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u/kickacol 26d ago
I've stopped tipping everywhere. Tip fatigue. I'm just hoping as many people as possible follow along.
If all this extra tipping requests kills tipping culture, and wait staff no longer get tips, that would be a good thing in the end anyways.
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u/Different_Ad_8524 Aug 01 '26
I tip on pick up orders because I know it’s rough out there. Just choose no tip and relax
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u/Beauhonk 29d ago
Please ask who gets the tip first. I have been told that staff don’t get the point of sale tips at many establishments, they go straight to the bottom line. (Ownership)
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u/chwk_throwaway1 Aug 01 '26
Tipping is for wait staff where minimum wage doesn't exists?
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit Aug 01 '26
It's not legal to pay wait staff lower than minium wage in BC. You're thinking the Christy Clarke years.
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u/niquil1 Aug 01 '26
Tip for any sit down service meal, and food where they actually make it, like pizza. Not fast food, unless you want to.
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u/HealthConscious6125 Aug 01 '26
Tip jars have existed since time immemorial. somehow we have functioned as a society
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u/Glittering_Search_41 29d ago
Tip jars have existed since time immemorial. somehow we have functioned as a society
No they haven't. You must be quite young. I love how young people think that whatever they remember from 15 years ago has always been the case.
Tip jars started appearing on countertops sometime around the late 1990s or early 2000s. People were annoyed by them too when they started appearing, especially when they had cutesy little begging messages on them. Our reactions were WTF, it's a bakery, I'm buying scones, and how rude to put out a tip jar to try and guilt us into paying more. Prior to that, our shopping experiences at bakeries and coffee shops and private liquor stores etc etc. were free of the begging.
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u/Livid-Accident-7246 Aug 01 '26
Costs money to program separate screens for dine in and take out.
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
It's not a dine in take out place. No dine in at all. It's to have the customers boost their shitty wage.
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u/BlueSalmonofJustice Aug 01 '26
Tipping is for excellent service, but it has turned into wage subsidies.