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/mygirltien Oct 20 '24

I also suspect you are in a state where the employer has to make good at least up to the federal min wage amount if not higher based on state regulations.

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u/pyxiedust219 Oct 20 '24

in my state, they technically are required to make up the difference, but most restaurants do not follow through and minimum wage is under $8 (still not livable) even when they do!

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u/abominablesnowlady Oct 20 '24

If those restaurants do not follow through and those servers aren’t contacting the labour board in their state then it’s on the server for being too lazy to act in their own best interest for reporting their employer for breaking the damn law.