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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Then I hope the barista is patient, because they're gonna be waiting a long time ...

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I once went to a fancy rooftop bar where I was asked to pay in full (with tip) up front for a cocktail. No idea how that place is still in business.

[–] python@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly, I kinda prefer that in bars? Means you can just walk off and not worry about paying once you're done.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Plus, I’ll tip $1-2 for a fancy cocktail even if the service is crappy, because those take time to make, so I don’t really need to know what the service is like ahead of time unless it’s incredible. This sounds like it wasn’t though.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but what if the cocktail sucks

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They still put the effort in. If it’s sloppy or poorly made and the bars not busy, I don’t get another one.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then I probably wouldn’t go, but I don’t go and not tip because the menu is expensive.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I haven't gone since. And I'm not going to not tip because it's expensive. It's just that when you're paying $18 for a cocktail, you don't exactly expect the bar to turn into a vending machine.

This was also after being told I was "in the wrong line" for the cocktail I wanted to order. And other people were walking in wearing basketball shorts. It was really quite a scene.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 month ago

In my experience, if you're a regular tipping that amount you will usually end up getting stronger drinks after the first few visits.

At one bar we had to ask them to stop because it was basically like drinking a glass of liquor.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Places that pull that bullshit get a one star enraged review from me and are never visited again

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

People: "I am NOT paying my barista a tip for this, what do you MEAN they DEMAND a tip."

Meanwhile the Barista is being paid less than US$3 an hour because in America, you can be paid that and be expected to reach minimum wage through tips if you work food service. Want to end that? Demand that food service workers be paid minimum wage at the very least. Don't want to do even that? Then stop getting fast food.

  • No, this will not raise the price of food in any meaningful way.
  • No, these are not all teens, the average age of a minimum wage worker is 40.
  • No, this will not raise the price of goods generally. Wages have remained stagnant and the price of goods have risen regardless.
[–] parzival@lemmy.org 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In my city they get paid 21/hr min wage iirc, and while lower elsewhere, barely anywhere uses federal min wage right? 

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Some places still use the federal minimum wage. Thats how you get Mississippi.

Edit: looked it up. Says that in 2024, “843,000 earned federal minimum wage or below… Today, only around 1 percent of hourly workers earn the federal minimum, while almost a quarter of the U.S. workforce makes less that $17 an hour.”

Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/9251/workers-earning-minimum-wage-or-below-united-states/

Additional info: the min wage has not been increased since 2009. It should be $11.17 by now just with inflation - and that's not a living wage, just an arbitrary poverty wage:

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 5 points 1 month ago

Damn well there's the problem, ig i just live in an expensive city so there's higher min

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't want to do even that? Then stop getting fast food.

Not to take away from your point, but fast food workers get minimum wage, they're not subject to the slave wages food service workers have to deal with. They get the moderately better minimum, rather than hoping tips makes it to minimum.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I was like wait, now we have to tip at Taco Bell? Fuck this country.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Give it a few years, I wouldn't be surprised

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To be fair, I don't think baristas get the ~$3 minimum wage. Not Starbucks workers at least. Still a valid point though.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, by if they work at Starbucks, they're not baristas

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

OK cool. They're still not making $3/hour.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not aware of anywhere that pays (or is even allowed to pay) baristas what waiters and bartenders get. There may be exceptions. This post seems to be about literally anyplace with a new POS having basically options for 20-30% tips, despite the person behind it making like $15 an hour (at least where I live). Fortunately, lately, I'll have the person reach around and press the "no tip" button often enough, since it's usually the least obvious option available.

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

$15/hr still isn’t a living wage in most places, just for the record. It’s better than server wages for sure, but it’s not stable-life-level income.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fast food isn’t a place that typically solicits tips or pays tip wages. Sit down restaurants with waiters and bar tenders are where this occurs.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You'd be surprised. I've seen tons of fast food/counter service places that have tips enabled on the POS. And I sure as shit am not tipping at any place that I have to get my food from the counter.

I begrudgingly tip at 'real' food/drink establishments, since I'm societally handcuffed to supporting worker slavery wages in restaurants when I go there, but fuck literally every other establishment that asks for tips.

And I really need to get it through one of my partners' heads that we should not be tipping minimum wage places, the org most likely pockets most of not all of that and the workers don't see shit.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I am the same mantra as you. If you are being paid tip wages, then I’ll tip…if not hell no.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We don't allow this in WA for instance.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

The US are completely dystopian

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I will tip for good service at a restaurant. I really try to do cash because it is common for management to steal all or a portion of the tips.

I just had this discussion with my wife yesterday when I got a Subway sub for her. When I went to pay it asked for a percentage based tip. Keep in mind this sub was $16 where I live.

I hate that corporations are underpaying their workers and trying to guilt you into giving them a tip which they then promptly steal.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Fast food workers like subsay aren't generally aren't tipped or paid under minimum

[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've never paid a single tip in my life.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Don't visit the USA

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Right before she compliments you on your stupid shirt to distract you.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ahh yes. The barista that personally selected and programmed their store's POS system.

Dog they just work there.

[–] Tundra_Lifeform@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Responded to a guy that deleted his comment so it's not visible anymore. Making fun of the system itself, barrista has nothing to be blamed about

That might've been the intention, but the text of the meme targets the barista, not their boss or the system itself.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

If they ask for tips it's zero.

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