‘End Tipping’: 45 Pics That Show Tipping Culture In The US Needs To Change, And Fast

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Noooooo. Not cuz tipping is a good system but proclaiming something doesn't make it true. $21/hour in Seattle is FAR from a livable wage...minimum wage is $20/hour and those people are hardly scraping by.

It's not an exception in Washington state. Washington state requires employees to pay a minimum wage ($19.97/hr) even if someone gets tipped. So, in a restaurant, a tipped employee will make minimum wage PLUS tips. Molly moons is offering $8 an 8 hour shift over what other employers are REQUIRED to pay and those other employees are likely making more than $1 worth of tips each hour.

I'm guessing this was full service where you drop off your laundry, they wash it & fold it for you, then you come back & pick it up. I'm also guessing that you are folding your own laundry for that 2€ at home. If you were selling that service to strangers wouldn't you be charging a bit more?

You're not required to tip, but may do so if the service was really good. Just like it is done in more civilised countries

Yeah, which is how it should work. There's ZERO obligation or expectation to tip. There's no policy against tipping, just that their business isn't built on it. This is how it should be.

In other words: we aren’t jerks who will fire our employees for accepting a tip, but there won’t be an option on credit card. Learn to read, you donkey.

Eh, overall I still give them an A, assuming they actually mean that it’s optional.

Tipping is not mandatory, but also not prohibited. C'mon dude, this is really simple

That's the way it works all the time here in Germany. You can tip if you feel like, not only in restaurants but in every business where you get some kind of service by the employees, but you don't have to. But if you tip regularly at the places you frequently visit, chances are high that the employees will remember and put a little bit more effort in their service.

I first read 'topless policy' 😴

Honestly don’t have a problem. Asking is not demanding. I work in a field that doesn’t usually get tips. A couple of times, I’ve been given one. I probably wasn’t supposed to accept but both times, I was in a financial situation, both times due to medical issues. I want workers to be paid, so that a tip is an appreciation for service. Not a desperate survival need. Tipping originated as a way to tell a server and their boss that superior service was had. It’s appalling for that to be needed to survive. I don’t want to get rid of tipping entirely, but it should go back to what it was. Recognition of fine service. OTH, certain jobs, long noted in social history, have traditionally received tips. For fine service.

This is how it work in denmark. Nobody expect tip... but you can if you want... you will get same treatment no matter what you do...

EXTRA appreciation is welcome but they pay a living wage and THAT matters.

Give one cent is a tip too....

Subtle way to say, we Still want tips

But that's how tips should be. Tipping for excellent service out of a desire to show appreciation; it should not be a payment

Yea why not. They make it clear that they aren't including tips in your bill and their employees are not expecting to be tipped. But I can see not turning away money from someone who wants to go tip either.

Some businesses want employees to repeatedly decline the tip or gift and will reprimand you for accepting.

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They’re seriously stupid. Agree. The first part sounded nice.

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I'm with you until the last sentence on the sign. This is a weird middle ground where it seems like they're hoping customers will still tip.

As much as people complain about the tips they receive, I believe most waiters prefer it this way because they think they can earn more money from tips and can hide their income from the government.

Yep! Cause it's that easy to "just" unionize. Seriously....

I wish people would stop posting this like it's that simple. It definitely is not in the U.S.

Like it’s that simple.

Who, the customers? It's the customers who are the brunt of this ridiculous tipping fad...

Not sure if it's the same in the US as UK, but despite being good for "all debts" it doesn't mean you have to accept it. If the store refuses to sell you a muffin because they don't take cash, you have no muffin therefore there is no debt. What "all debts" means is that if I *already* owe you $50 and offer to pay in cash, if you refuse to accept it you cannot then later claim in court that I didn't make a good faith attempt to repay you. (The UK also has limits on the amount of cash that you can offer for it to count as "good faith" - if you try to pay £100 debt in pennies it doesn't count.)

Money is legal tender for all debts, BUT There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20federal%20statute,payment%20for%20goods%20or%20services.

Business owner here. I am absolutely not legally required to take cash, nor do I. No cash in the offices or being carried by employees to/from a bank means no threat of robbery or harm to my employees. Funny enough, enough people think the same as you that I've had more than one call the police only to have the police explain this to them and then explain not paying would be theft of service which is illegal.

So I have to say no to a person instead of a screen?

Cashiers look SO disappointed when I pull out cash. No, I am NOT tipping in a drivethru, counter service, takeout etc.

Did you not see the post above where the woman expected a tip BECAUSE the customer paid in cash?

Good luck getting all your change back.

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Unfortunately there are some stores I hear opening in NYC that are cashless. I don't know how that's legal.

In my country we have a more advanced card system than the US AND no tip screens, for the record.

To have a tip screen is a option you select when you're setting up the POS system. It's not there because they have no choice. It's there because they chose for it to be. So they can try squeezing extra money out of you. A lot of times the cashier actually doesn't get the tip. The business does.

The appliance store SHOULD have a way to turn off the tip prompt. I f there is a tip option, employees will exploit it and make the employer think people WANT to tip.