With these new self check out screens, I think they’re just generic. Some people want to tip, lots don’t carry cash. Many places now have similar screens, if I’m picking up my food I don’t feel obligated to tip, at all. When I order online on different apps and I’m picking up, I usually don’t add a tip (although I tend to be generous for deliveries). If I didn’t tip before these new screens or apps, I’m not now (during Covid I did). But I’m not insulted by them.
I’d tip for someone to bring my food out to my car, I think I tipped at Panera after ordering at the register and having my food brought to me (not big, and I’ve only been to Panera once).
Same with me! I’m not insulted by them either. If I do pay with cash at a place, where you just order and pick up your food at the counter, I do put some of my loose change in the tip jar
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I do the same with my change, mostly because I don’t want change.
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Yes!
I always give the car hop a buck or 2.
I’m fine with tipping if I want to but don’t think you should be FORCED to, like it sounds like sone if the posters are complaining of. There should be a no tip option as well as a custom tip option.
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Depends on where you are and level of service.
If you are at a full serve restaurant and if the service is god awful to the point of ridiculousness then i get it. If it’s just bad food they write off you still tip if the server did their best…,u tip on what it would have cost…same if using a coupon.
But these folks earn their living on tips, many making a sub minimum base salary.
Do you need to throw a dollar in the jar at Chipotle ? Up to you. Hotel room ? I do but up to you. You’ll never be serviced by the maid. Uber ? I do but they tell me many 25-50% don’t depending on the driver. Remember when it started there was no tipping option. They had to add it. Drivers and customers wanted it. Haircut person ? I say yes. Many are low wage.
I think one can debate many situations. But I don’t see how someone could have the audacity to walk in to a full service with a plan upfront to not tip. That person should not eat in a full serve place IMHO and I’m guessing in every server’s opinion (except where tips are built in the menu price) as well since it’s how they pay their rent.
Waitstaff in CA makes minimum wage or more (depending on county). Just because something has ‘always been this way and is expected’ doesn’t mean it can’t or shouldn’t change. Just because some services assume they are still owed a tip once minimum wage takes effect only means a social reprogramming is in order - and apparently underway.
Now, today, fancy pants EV car with top of the line everything got a flat in one of the fancy pants 22" rim performance tires. (CA pothole +1, car/driver -$400 -now maybe I should start tipping those CalTrans workers). And despite begin called ‘Falcon Wing’ - ya can’t use those things to just fly home 
Anyway, I digress. After figuring out whom to contact, how to contact and what the options were we finally got tow truck to the scene of the criminal pot hole. The driver was amazing. He contacted us with updates as to his timing.
First off, he suggested we call several local tire places to see if fancy pants tire was in stock and if he could tow us more locally and thus not have us incur a fee. Nope, nothing in stock.
Then he asked us if we needed to get something to drink or use a restroom since we’d been sitting at the side of the road for about 2 hours.
Then we had 90 minutes of the most engaging chat. He came from Pakistan when he was 6. His family started this towing business. He told us of his life in the US, his time at college, his travels abroad. We discussed - oh the horrors - POLITICS - in a warm and civilized manner. We learned of his family, he learned of ours.
It was like one of the best tours I’ve taken on many of our trips.
He got one heck-a-tip.
Now, when I pick up my dinner - called in my me - picked up by my hubby - handed thru a widow at the side of the restaurant that used to serve sit down meals - and driven back home by H. Nope, no tip.
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I would still tip in the case but i am a softy on tipping
I do tip and expect to tip when I’m at a full service place but resent having only preset %ages and not being able to set what I believe is appropriate.
I guess folks can carry around large sums of cash but some places are cashless.
It’s just part of payment software to have the tipping option. I was given a bill for an extra hotel night by my tour guide. The bill had an option for tips, but it didn’t mean the tour guide expected a tip from me. I certainly did not resent my tour guide for it.
If tipping is built into the payment software (some even default to a fixed percentage unless the customer overrides it), then a customer is much more likely to tip (and significant portion of them probably would do so). That puts those who don’t (or override the default option) in an awkward position.
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It’s a pain but you have to press the custom button.
The tipping option might be the default setting for the software. But I bet it can be reset.
My cosmetic provider (botox kind) has an iPad based payment system. It never shows a tipping option. In fact, I thanked them for this the last time. I mean, shouldn’t one tip the botox person - why are they different than the hair person- or the manicurist?
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Coffee barista needed to swipe our card, then proceeded to ask what we wanted to tip (15, 25, 30 % etc.). THAT was awkward when they ask outright!
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OK What are your thoughts to this. Took my senior prom dress shopping. I will say the lady working with us was very helpful. When it came time to pay I used my card and was told to swipe…then the thing came up with about the tip to choose a percentage. I was floored as it was a store in the mall! Then more so as tipping 20% on a $400 dress is $80. and I did because the “service” was good but after I was pretty mad at myself.
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Wow!
I’d probably have done the exact same thing: be caught off guard but then hit 20% tip….and then later be irritated for having done so.
I am getting pretty tired of these unexpected ambushes with tipping everywhere.
Restaurants I get, and hotels, and that type of thing.
But prom dresses at the mall?!
Obviously retail market has decided they are going to try and make this part of the new norm.
My goodness. 
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That’s borderline obnoxious and 20% no less?! Note to self: decline offers of help from retail employees. I’m perfectly capable of bringing dresses to my daughter in the dressing room. 
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Or we just say NO!!!
I have to say that since I started this thread, I am tipping less. I am not feeling guilty. I tip the people who should get a tip.
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