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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by tptacek on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:52PM (#18243080)
You might be older than I am (I'm in my early 40s) but there has never been a time when I went to coffee shops where tipping was unusual. Is it possible you just didn't notice? The cue was "a glass jar full of cash" by the checkout". There might be tip creep (I doubt it), but coffee shops aren't, I don't think, part of it.
Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by hrktb on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:41PM (#18244075)
I’m not a US resident but that’s been an interesting read.

About the expectations, the good thing is they change fast. France had the same path, where tipping was strongly expected in cafes. In particular, as it was smallish amounts, people usually paid cash (or the cafe would just refuse credit cards below some fair amount) and it was easier to leave something on the table.

In a few years contactless became widely available, laws on obligation to take payments also became pervasive, and people paying a 2E coffee by card is not unusual anymore.

Numbers of tips have crashed [0] and the cafe owners are coming to terms with it. Anecdotaly amost places I saw baked the tip into final ticket as a “service fee”.

I think the same kind of mechanics will come at play most places. Why ask the customer for some random amount on a screen when everyone will be less awkward to just have it as a fixed line item in the receipt ?

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/m-actu/article/2017/08/30/et-le-pourb...

Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by skh on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:26PM (#18243966)
Your response is condescending. Especially the “the cue was a....” part.
Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by tptacek on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:36PM (#18244042)
I sincerely didn't intend for it to be, and really thought you might have been someone who missed the tip jar.
Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by forgottenpass on Thursday October 18, 2018 @09:46AM (#18248234)
Your posts are often condescending, and I take it on faith that you do it unintentionally because friends tell me you're very nice in person.