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Re:Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request by stavros on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:58PM (#49324633)
And they put the highest tip button right over the "No tip" button. My hand once slipped and I gave a 40% tip to a barista who handed me a sandwich when I meant to give 0.

I hate tipping so much, I want to start a "no tipping" movement. Then hopefully the industry will figure out how to pay their people a living wage without making paying a game of social pressure for me.

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Re:Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request by donkey_brains on Sunday August 16, 2026 @08:36PM (#49325315)
I’ll join your movement but we won’t be popular among our peers or our servers
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Re:Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request by AnonEM00se on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:09AM (#49326752)
A few years ago I was talking to my aunt, a restaurant owner. I found out she wasn’t paying the tipped minimum wage for her area, but the non-tipped wage even though they did tips. I was complementing her on doing this, as it’s a good precedent to set and whatnot. Quickly realized the reason she was doing that was that she didn’t know there was a lower potential wage for tipped employees, so I quickly shut up and changed the subject, and didn’t accidentally screw over her employees.

Tips should become less of a thing and tipped wage should go away.

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