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Re:'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture... by egypturnash on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:20AM (#17797869)
So I'm making an assumption here but... how many orders of magnitude separate your pay and that of the people making your food?

Also: how much spit do you estimate you've consumed when eating at places where you're a regular who is known to never tip?

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Re:'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture... by duxup on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:33AM (#17797908)
Raise the prices, fine by me.

I just don't like the tipping system. If you're worried about fairness I belive studies have shown that white women in their 30s get the best tips. Minority? Not so much.

I tip at restaurants, just not fast casual places where there is effectively no service beyond someone at the front.

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Re:'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture... by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:09PM (#17801109)
So you see the tip as a sort of bribe to stop those filthy poors contaminating your food?
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Re:'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture... by eivindga on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:36PM (#17801373)
Tipping and bribes goes hand in hand...

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/h...

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