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Tip Jars

JC Callender said:
What do you think of tip jars at businesses, are you for or against them? Around here in Metro Detroit, there's a tip jar at Subway, Starbucks, Menchies, and a lot of other places including most coffee shops. I think it's bull****. For instance, I tip on the obvious occasions when there isn't a tip jar, like haircuts, restaurants, etc...and I tip pretty well. But a Subway employee isn't making what a restaurant worker makes. It's a fast food position, like McDonalds. And I'm paying $2.85 for a coffee and you're asking for more, even though you're not doing as much as a server and making more money per hour? Call me a scrooge, but if I owned one of these establishments, I would get rid of the tip jars because it's not just rich people who are giving tips, it's people who don't make a lot but feel like they'll look bad if they don't.

Anyway, what are your thoughts? :popcorn2:
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My thought is don't tip if you don't want to...
 
I usually put my tip in whatever jar I come across but I can tell you from experience it’s not usually appreciated.
 
Goshin said:
I give tips when I feel so inclined. If I don't, I don't, and the presence of the jar isn't going to intimidate me into changing my mind.
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I would think with that big hog leg, getting to the loose change would be difficult.....


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Funny story... about two years ago, I think.

Every single dang convenience store and lunch counter had some kind of donation jar for Unicef or the Red Cross or something, and worse they were ASKING every customer if they wanted to donate their change.

I don't give to Unicef or the Red Cross or whoever it was because they keep more than they pass on, and after a couple weeks of this I was getting irritated. I worked out of a company truck going all over the place, and probably stopped at a convenience store or diner 1-3 times a day, and it was pissing me off.

I started interrupting them just as they were drawing breath to give me the donation spiel, and asking if they wanted to donate to the Goshin Has Bills Relief Fund.

The best way I can describe the typical reaction is a 3 car pileup in their brains.... they'd get this deer-inna-headlights look and go "uh uh uh" as they tried to figure it out.

Works on bums too. :D
 
Rexedgar said:
I would think with that big hog leg, getting to the loose change would be difficult.....


:mrgreen:
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Nah, I keep that in a different pocket. :)


Don't wanna blow my pecker off fumbling around for loose change....
 
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Things that were once special have gone by the wayside.....when dining, if we get average service, we tip well.......if the service is above average, I want to adopt the wait staff. The older that I have gotten the less scoogy I have become as far as rewarding better than expected service. I also am vocal when an employee exceeds expectations,(the bar is low these days). I tell the boss/supervisor that I will speak up when things are not to my liking, and I feel it only fair to comment favorable when I am pleasantly surprised.
 
Rexedgar said:
Things that were once special have gone by the wayside.....when dining, if we get average service, we tip well.......if the service is above average, I want to adopt the wait staff. The older that I have gotten the less scoogy I have become as far as rewarding better than expected service. I also am vocal when an employee exceeds expectations,(the bar is low these days). I tell the boss/supervisor that I will speak up when things are not to my liking, and I feel it only fair to comment favorable when I am pleasantly surprised.
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Yeah, I try to give good tips at restaurants too, even lunch places, and to be extra-nice and say good things if the service is good. I like people who bring me food and drink. :)
 
Goshin said:
Yeah, I try to give good tips at restaurants too, even lunch places, and to be extra-nice and say good things if the service is good. I like people who bring me food and drink. :)
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Especially if you go back more than once, don't want them to disrespect your food, know what I mean??
 
Rexedgar said:
Especially if you go back more than once, don't want them to disrespect your food, know what I mean??
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Egg-zactly. As I told Son#1, "Be wary of annoying those who prepare your food."
 
They don’t bother me. However Sweet Frog has been using them and I don’t get it. Sweet Frog is a self-serve yogurt place I take my kids. You get your own bowl, put the yogurt in it yourself, put the toppings on yourself, carry it over to the register and put it on their scale yourself. Pay for it then if dining in take it to your table yourself and afterwards police your tray yourself.

WHY do they get a tip? For taking my money?
 
Skeptic Bob said:
They don’t bother me. However Sweet Frog has been using them and I don’t get it. Sweet Frog is a self-serve yogurt place I take my kids. You get your own bowl, put the yogurt in it yourself, put the toppings on yourself, carry it over to the register and put it on their scale yourself. Pay for it then if dining in take it to your table yourself and afterwards police your tray yourself.

WHY do they get a tip? For taking my money?
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Menchies is the same concept here and they do it as well.
 
Superfly said:
I tip servers, car hops, the lady who does my hair, the Uber driver, etc, but I don't tip in tip jars. Those people generally make much more than, say, a waitress at the Waffle House, and my tips generally go to try to make up the difference in what they are paid, and what they should be paid.
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Same here. I also when I go to a the local diners , I have a rule that I give a miniumn of a 5 dollar tip, no matter what I get. .. particularly for breakfast.
 
JC Callender said:
What do you think of tip jars at businesses, are you for or against them? Around here in Metro Detroit, there's a tip jar at Subway, Starbucks, Menchies, and a lot of other places including most coffee shops. I think it's bull****. For instance, I tip on the obvious occasions when there isn't a tip jar, like haircuts, restaurants, etc...and I tip pretty well. But a Subway employee isn't making what a restaurant worker makes. It's a fast food position, like McDonalds. And I'm paying $2.85 for a coffee and you're asking for more, even though you're not doing as much as a server and making more money per hour? Call me a scrooge, but if I owned one of these establishments, I would get rid of the tip jars because it's not just rich people who are giving tips, it's people who don't make a lot but feel like they'll look bad if they don't.

Anyway, what are your thoughts? :popcorn2:
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The person behind the counter at McDonalds does not set the prices ; so NOT TIPPING them is pretty cool. I don't tip them where I am - nor is there a tip jar. The people that work there...WORK THERE ; and are not the policy makers nor the people whom set the prices.

Outside the metropolis where I am .... McDonalds , Wendys and the quick restrauants of the like .....most commonly have the college students. The eat in diners have college students - but not as many.

Someone working hard - putting in a days work. I don't mind giving a tip.







Major Lambda
 
Goshin said:
Funny story... about two years ago, I think.

Every single dang convenience store and lunch counter had some kind of donation jar for Unicef or the Red Cross or something, and worse they were ASKING every customer if they wanted to donate their change.

I don't give to Unicef or the Red Cross or whoever it was because they keep more than they pass on, and after a couple weeks of this I was getting irritated. I worked out of a company truck going all over the place, and probably stopped at a convenience store or diner 1-3 times a day, and it was pissing me off.

I started interrupting them just as they were drawing breath to give me the donation spiel, and asking if they wanted to donate to the Goshin Has Bills Relief Fund.

The best way I can describe the typical reaction is a 3 car pileup in their brains.... they'd get this deer-inna-headlights look and go "uh uh uh" as they tried to figure it out.

Works on bums too. :D
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Of course they are being told to ask the question and are just doing their jobs, nor do they know where you have been or how your day is going. I generally don't unload my ill will on people who are not responsible.
 
I hate it and never give to it. There are certain professions that tips are expected, cab drivers, bartenders, waiters, etc. Not someone making me a bagel or getting a coffee
 
At Panerra now and they don't have a tip jar, but their credit/debit screen asks you if you'd like to tip with options of $.50, $1, etc...with the cashier looking at you as you're choosing your option. She was pleasant, but simply took my money and handed me a cup to fix my own coffee. And the tables and seats aren't even clean.
 
Lovebug said:
Of course they are being told to ask the question and are just doing their jobs, nor do they know where you have been or how your day is going. I generally don't unload my ill will on people who are not responsible.
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Why aren't they responsible, they're asking the question? Do you think a person has the right to act however they want just because their employer told them to?
 
RAMOSS said:
Same here. I also when I go to a the local diners , I have a rule that I give a miniumn of a 5 dollar tip, no matter what I get. .. particularly for breakfast.
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Exactly. We live in a pretty small town, and we eat out a lot, so everybody knows us. We tip well if the service is good, and it usually is. We have learned to avoid where the bad service is. I am teaching my girls the same. I always tip a minimum of 20% (or more if the service is outstanding) and never less than $5.00, even if it's just a cup of coffee in a diner. Funny story. My skinflint son, who doesn't hold the same standards of tipping that we do, went to dinner with us one evening at a local seafood place here in town. We paid for dinner (about $110) and he puffed up his chest and said, "I got the tip." :lol: OK we didn't think anything about it, so we left. Our favorite server (who has turned into a friend) comes running out, fanning out 3 $1 bills and asked my son, "What's this?" He was like -- "Um, it's a tip?" Well my husband and I were mortified. $3 on a $110 check?? He pulled out a $10 bill (which still wasn't enough, but better than $3) and I got irritated and pulled out another $10 for her. We have been to dinner with him several times after that, and he learned his lesson. He tips better now.
 
JC Callender said:
Why aren't they responsible, they're asking the question? Do you think a person has the right to act however they want just because their employer told them to?
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Whatever.
 
Lovebug said:
Of course they are being told to ask the question and are just doing their jobs, nor do they know where you have been or how your day is going. I generally don't unload my ill will on people who are not responsible.
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I know they're just doing what they're told, and the look of weary distaste on their faces as they prepared to recite their spiel was quite evident.

But somewhere around the 100th repetition I stopped caring about that as much as the discomfort and annoyance they were causing ME. Make it uncomfortable enough for them too and they'll stop. The places where I was a "regular" quickly stopped giving me the spiel...
 
JC Callender said:
What do you think of tip jars at businesses, are you for or against them? Around here in Metro Detroit, there's a tip jar at Subway, Starbucks, Menchies, and a lot of other places including most coffee shops. I think it's bull****. For instance, I tip on the obvious occasions when there isn't a tip jar, like haircuts, restaurants, etc...and I tip pretty well. But a Subway employee isn't making what a restaurant worker makes. It's a fast food position, like McDonalds. And I'm paying $2.85 for a coffee and you're asking for more, even though you're not doing as much as a server and making more money per hour? Call me a scrooge, but if I owned one of these establishments, I would get rid of the tip jars because it's not just rich people who are giving tips, it's people who don't make a lot but feel like they'll look bad if they don't.

Anyway, what are your thoughts? :popcorn2:
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I will put my change and ones in a tip jar, a donation jar, a charity jar, whatever, to keep from having to carry them around. I don't feel obligated to do so, however.
 
Lovebug said:
Of course they are being told to ask the question and are just doing their jobs, nor do they know where you have been or how your day is going. I generally don't unload my ill will on people who are not responsible.
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I just say no thank you and have a nice day and walk past... no reason to make a scene.
 
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