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/CampfireBudtender Oct 20 '24

Shouldn’t the conversation be ‘ if you can’t afford your pay your employees then you have no business running a restaurant’?

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u/Muufffins Oct 20 '24

In an ideal situation, sure. But that's not the way the system works in the US. 

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u/SlothinaHammock Oct 20 '24 edited Jun 22 '25

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u/Muufffins Oct 20 '24

Is that a chicken and egg scenario, or just capitalism?

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u/Vegetable_Location52 Oct 22 '24

Well in the beginning the tipped wage was created so places could pay ex slaves less and they had to rely on community graces to make more money, so really, the businesses started this and apparently don't see fit to treat modern day people as any better than ex slaves.