Posted on 06/19/2018 2:54:30 PM PDT by bgill
It's hard to draw any hard conclusions from a new survey from CreditCards.com that paints millennials – America's largest demographic, often dismissed by older folks as the Entitled Generation – as the "worst tippers in the U.S." According to the survey, a weighted study of 1,000 interviews, 10 percent of millennials routinely stiff their servers at restaurants. Compare that figure with the percentage of Gen Xers and baby boomers who admitted stiffing the wait staff: 1.8 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively. The highest percentage of baby boomers (6.1 percent) who stiffed servers was found in the 64-72 age group, some of whom presumably live on fixed incomes and have to watch every cent.
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The local Sonic wants to be tipped for handing customers a bag through their car windows. I quit Sonic when the person handed me my lunch with their fingernails caked with black dirt. I quit Whataburger when the burger flipper took the spatula and put it deep down his pants to scratch his backside. I quit the local Mexican restaurant when the waitress decided she would play at not understanding English. I quit the local steak place when they wouldn't replace my salad with a new one that wasn't old and brown. I quit another "nice" place because the waiter kept the tableware in his back pants pocket. I quit the famous Salado Stagecoach Inn when the waitress was so bored with her job that she rattled off the sides selection so fast no one could understand her so everyone ended up getting fruit salad for both their sides. Etc. I'd rather cook and eat at home where any germs are my own and I'm not expected shell out tips for poor food and poorer service.
For reals? I think I'd be on the phone to the health dept while still in the "restaurant".
Seems like you run into more and more people in the service sector that hate their job and are p*ssed that you are bothering them by being a customer.
I was in a Shoney’s once, when the waitress leaned over the tray she was holding while serving and rubbed her boobs all over a young couple’s deserts. She served the deserts anyway.
Maybe they’re just smart enough to tip in cash, so the reward isn’t collectivized among the other employees and half of it sent to the goobermint.
Millennials are also the sort of foodie hipsters leading the $15 hamburger from a food truck trend.
$20 lobster roll sandwich.
$10 ban mi
$12 mac and cheese
But music and movies and technology and education and medical are supposed to be free.
#BallinLikeAHipster
What kind of desserts can you rub your boobs in?
I think they had a lot of whip cream on them.
Not sure if they were sundaes or cakes.
Not sure if the young couple left a tip or not.
I think they had a lot of whip cream on them.
Not sure if they were sundaes or cakes.
Not sure if the young couple left a tip or not.
Little known fact. If a restaurant is outside a large metropolitan area, the health dept. will likely never set foot in it. At least that’s the way it works in Texas.
This is a family friendly site.
Like someone that strapped for cash will be eating out anyway.
I don’t mind tipping waitstaff but hate all the tip cups around town. I know I do not have to put anything in the cup, but its begging and that’s tacky.
Their kids send them gift cards.
But was it a family friendly restaurant??
They may say that, but unless a real-life experiment (or 20) runs and gives these results, they're just blowing smoke.
"Older respondents tended to like tipping more, and its alternatives less, than did younger respondents," wrote Michael Lynn, a professor at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration who researches tipping.
Maybe older respondents have been waiters and realize (as current servers do) that they'll make more with tips.
One take-away is that a lot more people dislike tipping in that generation.
In general, I don’t tip for fast food, even for car hop service like Sonic. I have to be seated and have a waiter for giving a tip. I’m not sure what the etiquette is now, but that was the way it was when I was younger.
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