I envision wait-persons getting stiffed for tips much more frequently with a system like this. Less face-to-face to remind you that a real person waited on you.
which is good.
Why should i pay 20% simply for someone bringing me my food? Tipping in resturants are getting out of hand.
Its basically a guilt trip. Get crappy service and you still have to pay 20% or else your receipt ends up on twitter.
I'm sorry but a basic touch screen can do everything a waitress can do in MOST RESTURANTS. Unless you have special needs or have no idea what to buy, no tip is needed.
When I eat its simple. Order food. Done. Bring me my food. Bring me my check. Literally takes the waiter 1 minute of labor. Why the hell am I paying friken 20% for that level of non-service?
Tipping should be discretionary and not hard wired into specific situations.
In the case of bars and restaurants the personnel are doing their jobs. Being helpful, polite, efficient is all part of that.
I normally pay for breakfasts in cash and leave part of the change.
I get given gifts at the end of the year (mostly champagne and other seasonal foodstuffs) but it all depends on the person and the situation. It is not a requirement.
I never tip by card and can't remember the last time a meal payment was not processed in front of me on a wireless EMV unit. No tipping is the included in the bill.
There is one situation that I hate: change plates.
If I'm sitting out on a terrace far from where the charge is handled it's normal for the waiter to bring the change on a change plate with the bill showing you what was charged.
But when I go to the counter and the person takes the money from me, prepares the change and instead of giving it directly to me, looks for a change plate to plunk the change down right in front of me, any tip gets lost. I take all the change right down to the last penny. The same happens if someone wants to charge me 1.60€ for a white coffee. Where I live, that is just abusive.
I envision wait-persons getting stiffed for tips much more frequently with a system like this. Less face-to-face to remind you that a real person waited on you.
which is good.
Why should i pay 20% simply for someone bringing me my food? Tipping in resturants are getting out of hand.
Its basically a guilt trip. Get crappy service and you still have to pay 20% or else your receipt ends up on twitter.
I'm sorry but a basic touch screen can do everything a waitress can do in MOST RESTURANTS. Unless you have special needs or have no idea what to buy, no tip is needed.
When I eat its simple. Order food. Done. Bring me my food. Bring me my check. Literally takes the waiter 1 minute of labor. Why the hell am I paying friken 20% for that level of non-service?
I've done all I can, and simply don't go out to eat anymore. If we're not cooking it, we take out. And these days almost every place is forced to offer a Take Out option, or lose business.
I'm with you 100%. Tipping is beyond ridiculous. Restaurants are getting away with murder. Charging obscene prices for food, and then not even paying their staff, and making that a separate responsibility of the customer. Insane.
You must not enjoy the fine food amazing chef's can create. Going out to a nice dinner with friends is a favorite time of mine.
Agreed. And the notion that restaurants are getting away w/ murder is quite inaccurate -- most restaurants fail. The margins are too low and the business is not an easy one; speaking from experience. I live in a major food destination city and it's still a very risky business, great restaurants close all the time.
Those who are "outraged" by tipping are simply applying cognitive dissonance to feel better about being cheap asses. Tipping is not new in the US, and the rules have been the same for our lifetimes. You don't tip 20% unless you feel you had excellent service, nobody's got a gun to your head. Good service is 18%, average is 15%. 10% is poor. 0% if they did something outrageous like call your wife fat. But just being a cheap ass does not give you a reason not to tip in the US. This is our custom here and the wages are coded around it.
(That being said, sure I'd prefer tips were built into the price and restaurants paid a living wage instead of $2.15/hr, but that's not the country we live in).
Here's the question on everyone's tongue, but no one has brought it up yet:
What's up with the two women in the photo drinking cocktails and the two, mostly off-frame men sipping pints of water? Seems kinda creepy. Get the ladies drunk, quietly pay the terminal, sneak them out the back way and who knows what after that?
weird propping choice, at the least.
Could be that it's the chaps' turn to drive, so they're drinking water. Clever way to advertise your product and slot in a quick "drink responsibly" message at the same time.
Glad someone saw something different in that photo 😀
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In the case of bars and restaurants the personnel are doing their jobs. Being helpful, polite, efficient is all part of that.
I normally pay for breakfasts in cash and leave part of the change.
I get given gifts at the end of the year (mostly champagne and other seasonal foodstuffs) but it all depends on the person and the situation. It is not a requirement.
I never tip by card and can't remember the last time a meal payment was not processed in front of me on a wireless EMV unit. No tipping is the included in the bill.
There is one situation that I hate: change plates.
If I'm sitting out on a terrace far from where the charge is handled it's normal for the waiter to bring the change on a change plate with the bill showing you what was charged.
But when I go to the counter and the person takes the money from me, prepares the change and instead of giving it directly to me, looks for a change plate to plunk the change down right in front of me, any tip gets lost. I take all the change right down to the last penny. The same happens if someone wants to charge me 1.60€ for a white coffee. Where I live, that is just abusive.
Those who are "outraged" by tipping are simply applying cognitive dissonance to feel better about being cheap asses. Tipping is not new in the US, and the rules have been the same for our lifetimes. You don't tip 20% unless you feel you had excellent service, nobody's got a gun to your head. Good service is 18%, average is 15%. 10% is poor. 0% if they did something outrageous like call your wife fat. But just being a cheap ass does not give you a reason not to tip in the US. This is our custom here and the wages are coded around it.
(That being said, sure I'd prefer tips were built into the price and restaurants paid a living wage instead of $2.15/hr, but that's not the country we live in).