Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I’m ordering.

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    6 months ago

    I think clear signage and message on the bill indicating “tipping is optional, service charges is included in the menu price” should suffice.

    Making tipping illegal goes too far, but I am okay with implementing it for couple decades, in order to correct a bad habit.

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      OP said “asking for a tip”. If I want to tip a particularly good server experience, everyone should be free to do so. But asking for it, and it comes to mind those places that explicitly stipulate that 10% is minimum mandatory tipping, should be illegal. That’s a hidden fee, not a tip.

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      6 months ago

      Agreed. Though I was at the UPS store and they had a tip jar.

      I was like: who the heck tips at the UPS store?

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      Then we are back to where we started where tipping is a guild riddled demand

      Pay waiting staff a livable wage and include that in the price, no tipping

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      People can’t let go of tipping. A few restaurants near me tried it and ended up closing.

      Tipping isn’t just a part of culture but it also breaks up the spend for the consumer. You commit to a $15 burger now, then the $3 of tip later. Integrating the tips with the cost makes it seem like everything is more expensive and also makes it not optional for how much you give.

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        …That’s why people don’t like the service fees, etc. It’s difficult to know, as a consumer, how much you’re actually being asked to spend. If you’re rich, haha who cares? Everybody else has to do this thing called “budgeting.”