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
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.
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.
BS. I'm in that group. Servers who recognize me light up when I'm seated. I see what my friends do. 20% is the basic minimum.
How 'bout some statistics by race?
ML/NJ
I’m betting the reason millennials aren’t tippers is because they do not have to do service and restaurant/bar work for college and living money like most of us have-so they are clueless about things like tipping and customer service. Rural kids out here still do service, ranch and restaurant jobs-but I doubt you’d find one city millennial in 10 who had ever mixed and/or served a bar drink or waited a table at a restaurant... `
If my guy takes me out to eat, we only go to one of the 2 farm-to-table natural/organic restaurants here in the boonies-they are owned by locals who grow and cook the food and the waitstaff consists of their own and other neighbors’ millennial offspring-we tip generously because the service is fantastic...
I tip based on service. If I receive good service I typically tip 20% and then adjust down from there. I always leave something even if it’s only .02 but will also leave a note on the receipt about the quality of service so the wait staff, and hopefully management, will see why I left what I did.
I also work with quite a lot of them - our lunch crew is made up of a few boomers, couple of gen X'ers and a handful of millennials. They are very professional and like learning from us "older" generations. They also teach us things too. I am sure that most of them are as hard working as the rest of us, but only the slugs get any news time - that guy who got sued by his parents to get out of the house comes to mind. He is an idiot, yet he got his 15 minutes of fame...
Well, millennials nowadays never see any of the tips that they supposedly get; they’re paid under minimum wage and the tips ‘make up’ for it.
I’m an Xlinnial myself, kinda caught between generations. I make sure that I tip, 10-15% whenever I sit down somewhere. 10% for minor service like an ice cream cone somewhere, 15% for an actual meal.
I started working in restaurants when I was not yet nine years old.
With the exception of pensioners and the elderly, the worst tippers are ALWAYS the left-winger types. (And Europeans, but I repeat myself.)
As Freeper Kenny Bunk said:
“What’s the difference between a Canadian and a Canoe?”
My son worked at Sonic briefly. The staff are paid the sub-minimum restaurant wage. No one knows this, so the kids gets stiffed. I mean, who expects to leave a tip for this type of service?
When did 15% become a “bad” tip? That used to be standard, and 20% was extra for outstanding service.
Of course they didn’t separate by race to see who the real worst tippers are. But anyone in a service industry knows.
Let me guess—It’s the Boomers’ fault?