This won the internet for me today!
Dis she look extra grumpy getting your coffee? Do you think she “forgot” the vanilla because you didn’t leave the tip?
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Think she may have been newer as she didn’t ask for my name either and helped a bunch of people before making my coffee and another employee “helped” her.
Either way I didn’t get what I paid very good money for.
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I know this has nothing to do with OP’s intent of the thread, but what in the world is a masculine man doing buying a foo-foo coffee. Now, if the foo-foo coffee was for his wife he has every reason to be displeased, because he would be making a second trip.
I know this wasn’t intended for me but I typically make my own coffee. I occasionally grab Starbucks if I am unable to make it. I just get a coffee with almond milk and sugar free vanilla syrup just like I make it at home.
I know this is a total first world issue but it’s a sign of where our countries mindset is.
Vanilla is good. Hazelnut too.
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I can understand what you are saying here, but as a former waiter this type of customer mentality really drove me nuts! If you have enough money to take all those people out to dinner and be a responsible person by paying your entire bill, you also should have known beforehand that that big dinner would also require a pretty large tip and planned accordingly. That server, who waited on all of you hand and foot for however long you tied up probably several of their tables, has bills to pay, possibly kids to feed, just like you. So because the bill “got real big” (which shouldn’t be a shock in the first place….a lot of people eating/drinking is gonna make for a large bill), that should not affect in the least the tip you would always give the server. And people should really tip 20% as well, no matter the size of the bill. Like my father always told me , if you’re rich enough to go out to eat and have another person wait on you hand and foot like a prince, you damn well better have enough money to also tip your server. Gratuity is luckily added onto bills where the party is larger than 6/8 people for people similar to you, who seem to think that because the bill is already big, they can skimp on the tip. And while there is a space where a person can add money ON TOP of the gratuity tip amount, most cheapskates are such assholes that because they HAD to pay a 15% gratuity, heaven forbid, that they get offended that a server would possibly wish to receive an additional 5%, to make the 20% tip they should normally receive from people who are kind and decent and not cheap asses.
Now, I wholeheartedly agree about the forced tips to get coffee or pick up a food order, where they shove that tip screen in your hands WHILE they are looking right at you! And the first prompt on the screen is “HOW MUCH TIP [do you value the person in front of you] would you like to leave? I hate that shit and while I’m also fine with a tip jar, I’m sorry but your job is to pour me coffee in a cup and hand it to me. You didn’t do anything special to do that AND you (unlike servers) make more money per hour, so tips are really just extra. Whereas servers (and I admit, it’s a shitty, horrible system) are paid slave hourly wages (I think right now in TX it’s $2.45 or something) and area expected to make up the difference in their hourly wage with tips. Meaning, if they went their whole shift and received $0 in tips, they would only make $2.45 x however many hours they worked.
Sugar free of course!!!
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And this mentality drives me nuts.
They are taking my order and bringing me my food. We may ask for a refill or some extra sides in time. They are not performing for me.
I do not get why tips are a thing where tip credit is not. They are servers that is their job. California does not have tip credit. Tips are on top of wages. If you do not want to serve, get a different job.
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I feel like service was better in the past, before everyone was so in your face about asking for tips.
Servers used to be more pleasant and try harder.
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We shouldn’t have to ask for a refill!
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What is tip credit? Never heard the term.
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It’s funny how fast food places like Starbucks/Panera ask you for a tip when a service really hasn’t even been rendered yet. So you give them a tip and jump in you car with your order and realize it’s wrong. What then?
No offense i worked as busboy for a year in my youth…
The rest of the time Ive worked blue collar my entire life. Farmed the until my late 20s . And have worked the past 26 years doing different jobs at a foundry starting from handling heavy ass parts all night to doing maintenance work… in a hot and dirty and dangerous environment.
So understand im not some snobby upper class guy that doesnt understand having to do physical labor.
Im all about paying for good service.
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Did you at least get a gold star on your time card daily?
In all seriousness when i was younger I worked construction jobs and with tips waitpersons are making more per hour than I did. Especially now. Waiting tables is not a skilled profession like a construction worker. It is a dangerous hard profession which requires training and skill. Ive never once received a tip or barely a “nice job”.
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And this is the problem with the “tip button". In the past most servers git to keep what you left them on the table. Somewhere down the line some lazy ass decided that they should divide the tips. The person that worked their ass off carried the rest of the lazy ass staff and still ended up with the same amount of tips. It’s complete and total bullshit.
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That was my orginal point i was trying to make.
Im just middle working class like the servers.
Nope mostly was told to spread wider…
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An employer can pay tipped workers less than minimum wage as long as tips make up the difference. If minimum wage is $10/hr, they might be paid $2.50/hr, and tips must cover the rest. If tips don’t the employer has to make up the difference.
I though that that was the case that employer had to at least cover the difference.
For stuff like Starbucks, If they have a problem with their pay, they should take it up with their employer, not the customers.
At actual restaurants, sure, as is customary.
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