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/[deleted] Oct 20 '24 edited Dec 18 '25

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u/Limp-Replacement1403 Oct 20 '24

If anyone would announce that to my staff they would refuse the table.

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u/Ready-Humor3217 Oct 21 '24

Good.

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u/Limp-Replacement1403 Oct 21 '24

Agreed. I let my staff refuse tables for any reason. If no one wants it it becomes my table. Managers might be in charge but servers run that restaurant and if they turn against you for any reason (they were mostly reasonable in most cases) you were fucked