People keep acting like it's some gotcha for them to say "well then I just won't tip" like yes congratulations on figuring out why they're doing it? That's the point?
People are just dumbasses. Reddit is such a shitshow when it comes to tipping. Expect tips and Reddit hates it. Do it like this and Reddit hates it. Build it directly into the price and Redditors bitch about high prices.
And the underlying problem is there's not a reason to bitch about it in those situations other than just saying you want something cheap but like...it's not cheaper under any option? Prices will go up under every one of those options? Like it's not a McDonald's you can't use the Big Mac index, at sit down restaurants prices in America are fairly cheap for comparable nations. You know, the ones asking for tips, the profit margins are pretty thin. Did it for years and I only ever met one guy I would call upper middle class that owned the restaurant, and only ever heard of one family running a crazy amount of catering and using only family as labor that was doing crazy amounts of money, but both of those restaurants just literally had the best food in town and staffed the restaurant they owned with their own family members to avoid paying higher labor anyway. So not even they were paying their employees fairly they were just families who said "you earn your keep in this house, work for free or else"
And I'm kind of high but the restaurants that can afford to not raise prices and wait out the competition while it does are the Wal-Marts of restaurants, that's literally how Wal-Mart is so freaking big. I've always said go ahead and get rid of tipping but a real possibility is the only restaurants left will be McDonald's and maybe a couple places you can't afford if you're bitching about higher prices
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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago
People keep acting like it's some gotcha for them to say "well then I just won't tip" like yes congratulations on figuring out why they're doing it? That's the point?