I've always had an expectation that I tip at a restaurant with table service but it would take something exceptional for me to tip at a restaurant with counter service.
I'll usually do a dollar a drink for good coffee shops (similar to how I would tip a bartender at a typical, not-high-end bar). 10% maybe if there is counter service that involves some food prep
One of the most unnerving aspects of this situation is how the POSs can be tweaked to nudge people's behavior with inappropriate shame. As I mentioned in the first comment, one more reason to lean back to cash.
Yeah, I am in the habit of tipping bartenders but never got in the habit of tipping baristas. I can't say I have a rational reason for that, it's just I've followed what I see other people do.
1) Start, obviously, with legislation outlawing the use of tips to make up for below minimum wage pay (2.13/hr plus tips but guaranteed minimum wage if you don't make enough tips at the end of the pay period).
2) Follow up with legislation and/or campaigns to address the current incentive to not report cash tips - that is, simply put, do not tax the recipient of tips below some reasonable threshold. This is actually already built in for most income brackets, so you need the third step:
3) Simple, free, and widespread education of how taxes ACTUALLY work when you're below the level of most HN readers.
Once those are in place as a basis, you tackle the culture:
4) Use the same targeted propaganda methods currently used at the demographic of service workers (if you ain't sure, ask them yourself what they are into and work backwards to where they got that idea) to make accepting tips a negative. Make them feel like getting tips is anti-[thing they like at the time]. Make tipping associated with incels or climate change or something, idk.
5) Since cash is getting phased out anyway, tax tips more than the service that's being tipped.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 24.3 ms ] threadOne of the most unnerving aspects of this situation is how the POSs can be tweaked to nudge people's behavior with inappropriate shame. As I mentioned in the first comment, one more reason to lean back to cash.
1) Start, obviously, with legislation outlawing the use of tips to make up for below minimum wage pay (2.13/hr plus tips but guaranteed minimum wage if you don't make enough tips at the end of the pay period).
2) Follow up with legislation and/or campaigns to address the current incentive to not report cash tips - that is, simply put, do not tax the recipient of tips below some reasonable threshold. This is actually already built in for most income brackets, so you need the third step:
3) Simple, free, and widespread education of how taxes ACTUALLY work when you're below the level of most HN readers.
Once those are in place as a basis, you tackle the culture:
4) Use the same targeted propaganda methods currently used at the demographic of service workers (if you ain't sure, ask them yourself what they are into and work backwards to where they got that idea) to make accepting tips a negative. Make them feel like getting tips is anti-[thing they like at the time]. Make tipping associated with incels or climate change or something, idk.
5) Since cash is getting phased out anyway, tax tips more than the service that's being tipped.