This restaurant covered up the "No Tip" option with a sticker to force tipping
I’m a good tipper but
I’m a server in a full-service restaurant that makes my living off of tips and this pisses me off. How embarrassing
What pisses you off? Me or the forced tip at the counter?
The forced tip lol sorry. I meant to agree with you.
One never knows on Reddit lol (or social media in general!)
Yeah I worked in a restaurant for years and you know this was 100% the manager. No actual employee would do this and subject themselves to a bunch of Karens yelling at them about it
This would nearly be enough for me to call the manager and complain. And I'm not a Karen.
Now, I have had a few times here when people tried upselling me on stupid things like a car wash when I almost told them I wanted yo see the manager about their policy. I haven't done it, but I was sorely tempted to.
About had enough of the "well, you just don't understand how good our better, more costly products are!"
"Yeah, actually, I looked them up before I came here and I literally know what the differences are. Now, either tap the cheapo option, or shut up and let me leave. And no, I'm jot tipping you for your speech." LOL
The Karen thing wouldn’t be complaining about it to say a manager, but to yell at an employee about it like they’re responsible.
Oh, I wouldn't do that. Maybe tell them I don't need the "nicer" option again or just tell them I'm leaving because they keep pushing, but no way I'm yelling at them. One guy even told me he's required to do the spiel. I don't believe him but I could definitely see some idiot manager making that a requirement.
It probably was required, a lot of the times managers will get onto employees for not doing the spiel, even if everyone knows people don’t want it.
Yeah, I know. We were required to at one place, so I would ask, "you don't want the warranty, right?" as I was hovering expectantly over the decline coverage button LOL
yeah the customer experience has been getting shittier all around. I got an oil change at one of those quick lube places the other day and the amount of upselling they do has gotten out of pocket. like they spin a computer monitor around so that it's facing you and it has a bunch of scary looking red lines and shit all over it and they're like "for $20 extra do you want us to flush your x y z fluids and replace your a b c filters ?!" and I never had a problem just saying no but you seriously gotta tell them no like 5 times now. not to mention the fact that the oil change itself has nearly tripled in price over the last 10 years.
and it's like, i wish there was some secret code i could say to these cashiers that signals to them "i used to have to upsell warranties and other bullshit to people too, let's just both agree that you definitely asked me for everything so your boss doesn't yell at you and i just said no"
What if this was takeout? BTW, do all/most/some fix-priced menu restaurants already factor tips/COL into the price, allow tipping, and/or refuse tipping/additional tipping?
We do takeout and I never expect a tip for those orders. But no, tips are not included in prices at all if I’m understanding the second part of your question correctly. I feel like tips should be reserved for (good) full-service, sit down meals only. It’s an art to give people a good experience. I would never do this job if it weren’t for tips and I resent all the businesses that are taking advantage of tipping culture.
I was referring to high-end restaurants (not necessarily Michelin starred but like those) where the set menu price is 300 to 400 dollars and you get the exact things that the store is offering to feed you, nothing more, nothing less.
Also, I always ask if the tip goes to the server, the owner, and/or split evenly among front and back of house. Also, I ask if it matters whether it is in cash or tacked on to the card.
You should be more pissed off at your employer and, arguably even moreso, at your fellow employees who by and large refuse to organize to help end this bullshit once and for all.