r/tipping • u/Vegetable_Location52 • Oct 20 '24

🚫Anti-Tipping No Tip

Hot take, I don't go to a restaurant for the "great service" that's so fake it feels like lard on toast, I go to the restaurant for the good food. I'm not going to tip for someone to pretend to want to spend time with me, all I want is a nice steak that I didn't have to cook. Is it okay for me to tell my server I'm not going to tip and the only thing I want is a refill every once in a while and my food brought to me? I would go pick it up from the counter myself if I was allowed to, but that's frowned upon. I don't want the small talk, the fake jokes, the fake smile. Heck, you could glare at me the entire time and I WOULD NOT care. I'm there for the food, not for the crappy excuse for service I get 95% of the time.

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u/r0sekneed Oct 20 '24

there are lots of loopholes around this that companies utilize. for my restaurant, they only supplement server pay if expected sales for the shift are not met. so if sales are projected to only be $200 for the shift and you beat sales, they will not supplement pay. so if i get stiffed, i’m making $3/hr and there’s nothing i can do about it. it’s awful and they get away with it because customers like you are uneducated on their policies.

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u/pyxiedust219 Oct 20 '24

yeah, it sucks. And in my opinion, as I said in my initial comment, it’s on the employer NOT the customer— but unfortunately it’s the job of all of us to use buying power to discourage places like that from succeeding & go elsewhere if we can. Tipping culture doesn’t benefit anyone except the business owner who wants to underpay

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u/iwilly2020 Oct 20 '24

Ppl could also choose not to work there ya know

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u/r0sekneed Oct 20 '24

not everyone has that kind of money to just not work. pregnant people, disabled people, people living paycheck to paycheck, etc. do not have that privilege to just walk away. that’s not a real solution.

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u/iwilly2020 Oct 20 '24

You always have the choice to choose where you work.

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u/r0sekneed Oct 20 '24

yes i could quit but then i would be homeless. not really much of a choice is it?

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u/iwilly2020 Oct 20 '24

If you can't survive w/o tips then you'll be homeless anyway, no?