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Valley Legend [12422]
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Ugh, tipping is running amok...
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:29 AM
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So here's my (not a) boomer rant...
My local BurgerFi now has koisks at the front to enter your order. Two yuuuuge screens. At the end, it asks for a tip. Tip for what? For you to yell my name out so I can walk up and get my food? What service was I provided where you earned a tip?
Then last night we went out to a nice steakhouse for my son's birthday. We go there 2-3x a year. I noticed they switched their math at the bottom where they give you the tip percentages and value to 'help' you figure out the tip from pre-tax value to post-tax value. Now the 18%, 20%, and 25% were higher since they were using the post tax number. I've noticed more and more places switching to post tax values.
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Re: Ugh, tipping is running amok...
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Re: Ugh, tipping is running amok...
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Jan 23, 2025, 2:31 PM
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It will only get worse with the peasantry no longer getting taxed on tips.
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Ever go cow tipping?***
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Tried once...
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:44 AM
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It was dark AF outside, had been drinking, and we stepped in so many cow patties just trying to find the cows we gave up.
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Re: Tried once...
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Jan 23, 2025, 9:26 AM
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Re: Tried once...
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Jan 23, 2025, 9:28 AM
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The squeaky wheel gets the "grease"***
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Tiger Titan [51222]
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No but we sent some pledges snipe hunting once.
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Jan 23, 2025, 10:50 AM
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Was that "hazing"?
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All-In [10979]
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No. But I once said that I did, when I really did not. Whew! It feels really
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Jan 23, 2025, 5:20 PM
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good to get that off my chest.
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Situation 1, you aren't wrong.
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:40 AM
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Situation two, how much can the sales tax really add to the tip amount. If it is enough to hurt, you had no #### business going to the steak house in the first place.
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Valley Legend [12422]
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It's not the couple extra bucks...
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:42 AM
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it's the principle of it. For years it was pre-tax, now it's post-tax. Just more tipflation I guess.
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Heisman Winner [79603]
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It is more of a tax on people not willing to do their own math.
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:55 AM
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So as a matter of principle I don't mind.
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For a sec I thought TOTE1 had resurrected a 5 yr old thread***
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We all know he'd never do that***
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Just the tip***
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I think I read it in here and I have been using this guidance
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:52 AM
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If I'm standing up while I place the order, there is no tipping.
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Heisman Winner [79603]
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Don't go using this strategy at a bar.
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:57 AM
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But I agree for the most part. I still leave a tip when I go pick up pizza because those type tips made ends meet for me for a while.
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I was gonna say.
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:58 AM
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We know who gets only one beer at a bar, whether he wants more or not.
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Usually I have to come back the next day, sit down with the owner
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Jan 23, 2025, 9:06 AM
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and negotiate a settlement.
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i'll gladly pay you tuesday for a hefeweizen today***
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I tip based on non-tax subtotal
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:56 AM
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Do not tip at fast food spots unless someone there has gone to great lengths to enhance things
Usually tip 20% at normal restaurants with wait staff.
At high end, steak houses, ie, ill tip well on food, 10-15% on wine cost.
If i take my own wine, ill add tip if wait staff tends properly to serving the wine.
Yesterday, picked up a take n bake pizza from Joe’s, half price day. Tipped $3 on $22 pizza that was $11 cause half price day.
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Tiger Titan [47389]
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I went to a place in Lake Wylie that already had 30 percent on there.
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:58 AM
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Can't wait for it to finally hit 50 percent. Yeah, I gotta give you half my meal cost as well?
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TigerNet Immortal [171612]
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My old stomping grounds.
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Jan 23, 2025, 8:59 AM
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Where was it?
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Orange Immortal [60427]
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LAKE WYLIE***
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IIRC, that was a fun place BEFORE it became Papa Doc's. I cannot remember
Jan 23, 2025, 9:46 AM
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the name of it though, for the life of me.
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T-Bones***
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I wish I could recall what all that place has been since my childhood.***
Jan 23, 2025, 9:52 AM
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Ahh yes, T-Bones on the Lake
Jan 23, 2025, 9:55 AM
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Just down from Uncle Liu's which my parents took me to once as a super fancy restaurant and because the River Rat was booked for some event.
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Tiger Titan [47389]
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That same time we were there last...
Jan 23, 2025, 9:58 AM
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This was back in May, we're going to our car and we have a conversation with a very friendly but extremely intoxicated man wearing a Papa Doc's shirt was making his way up to the establishment. He was downing a Coors Light. It was about 7 p.m. He had a huge pistol on his hip, I think maybe a 1911 but couldn't get a good look.
I hope his night went well for him.
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It did. Got home all right. And didn't shoot my ###### off. Jimmy - 1, Coors - 0***
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I audibly chuckled***
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [99532]
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If my tips were occasionally hitting 3 figures, I too would keep a copy of
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Jan 23, 2025, 9:23 AM
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The Tipper's Bible in my glovebox.
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Bengal after the meal like can I itemize the bread service?
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Jan 23, 2025, 9:27 AM
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Who you call'n a creachter?!?***
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TigerNet Eternal Icon [181733]
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Tipping at a fast food place
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no, thanks.
I tip at restaurants, locals, where I go pick up the food - usually 20%, but it really is not that much $$ as our orders are usually less than $50.
There is a local place we go and sit and talk a long time with friends, so I always add more to the regular tip as we are occupying a table where the server could have another seating for a tip - this is rare but always happens when three couples get together.
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If picking up where there is any actual cooking or prep (Mexican/Chinese/Sub)
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I'll tip 10%. At fast food joints (McDonalds/Chick-fil-A), no tipping. All tipping should be based off of pretax sub total.
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I overtip to help offset all you tightwads.***
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We just aren't that old yet***
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Fixed income = closed wallets amirite?***
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It's the times. Even Subway asks for a tip now.
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Ticks me off. It's like ATM fees. When you spend years getting something for no extra cost, like money from an ATM or a Subway sammich, and then they add a fee for the ATM and TIP to the subway sammich, ugggg.
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Orange Immortal [62894]
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Both Subways in Clemson have now closed
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Jan 23, 2025, 9:28 AM
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the one downtown next to TDs closed a year or so back, and now the one out on 123 across from the Hampton Inn has shuttered.
There was a long period when Subways never closed, new ones popped up everywhere.
I think America is finally realizing the complete suckage of this franchise.
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Did it always suck, or was it better many years back?
Jan 23, 2025, 9:32 AM
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I think its always weird that their bread smells strange when its cooking. What kinda bread stinks when it is cooking?
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Orange Immortal [62894]
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the entire sub sandwich sector has priced me out
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I love subs, but no sub sandwich is worth $12.
I hate it because I used to have 2 or 3 per week (not Subway usually, but SubStation II or Firehouse or Quiznos) when you could get a good sub meal for $6 or so. Now it's $15 for a sub and a bag of chips.
Sorry, that's not a good enough return on investment to me.
For $15 I can make a week's worth of them at home.
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Do you make the same salary as when subs were $6?***
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Not double or triple
Jan 23, 2025, 10:41 AM
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which is about the percentage of price increase in the last 5-10 years
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I usually tip 25% based on total bill, up to 35% in bars with cheap drinks
Jan 23, 2025, 9:31 AM
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My rationale is that food and beverage service workers are mostly young people getting started in life and their base pay and benefits are poor to non-existent. The great majority of these service workers in Clemson are good individuals who work hard. I appreciate their work ethic.
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i love that they turn the screen around and say
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Jan 23, 2025, 9:34 AM
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screen is going to ask you a question.
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Re: i love that they turn the screen around and say
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Awkward "love". I smile as I hit other and put 0.
Local Latin place is owned by my bud/neighbor. Few yrs back go in, girl turns sceewnand says add a tip. I said no thanks, hit 0. She mumbled "####### or ####"...whatever. few min later the owner walks out hugs Mrs Pabsts, gives me a bro hug and we talk about family. Girl looks over and just loads our order with extra food.
It's take out...no tip!
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Latin place?
Jan 23, 2025, 10:07 AM
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Burritos aliquid obtinuit te?
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I tip $10 so I don't have to math
Jan 23, 2025, 10:08 AM
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but I don't tip if I didn't get "serviced" either
I also am not "donating" to whatever ######## that store is doing. You're a multi million dollar business. Donate yourself.
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during covid, I tipped well for pick-up orders. Now maybe 10% or 0. Another
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guideline I like is no tip when person handing you food is behind a counter. That doesn't work for bars though.
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Somebody explain why I should tip on tax?***
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I adjusted my food pick up routine to only paying in cash just to avoid the tipping questions. I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep my mouth shut so I just decided to pay in cold hard cash.
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Here is my thought process on this
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Jan 23, 2025, 4:51 PM
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I am extremely fortunate to have a great job.
The Panera employee isn’t as fortunate. I can give them $3.
The steakhouse waiter or waitress isn’t as fortunate either. I can find $20+ for them.
Bartender at dive bar, probably 40%+ tip. Bartender at chain, 20-25%. Bartenders in chains typically make some good coin and many times get split from the waitresses too. So I am probably the least generous to them.
I am a big tipper. I think most of us on here can afford to be generous. If you can’t, cook at home, don’t go out.
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Re: Here is my thought process on this
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Re: Did I write this? This conveys my thoughts precisely, but I don't recall writing
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You are smart so you would have said “Here are”
I am dumb and refuse to edit it.
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