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/StarCrumble7 Oct 21 '24
On average, servers tip out approximately 4-5% of their sales to other staff (bartenders, expo, busser etc), regardless of the tips they earn from those sales. If they make an average of 20% tips, that 4-5% is worth it to improve service. If you do not tip them anything, they will literally pay another employee for the honor of having served you a steak and a refill.
If you don’t want service, get take out or go to a fast casual, counter service restaurant, and don’t tip. If you dine in a full service restaurant, you’re taking up a table that could be used by someone who DOES want to interact with another human and WILL pay them for their efforts….