"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die."
44 percent of DC-area restaurants surveyed say they’re ‘likely to close’ by the end of this year
https://wamu.org/story/25/04/04/44-percent-of-dc-area-restaurants-surveyed-say-theyre-likely-to-close-by-the-end-of-this-year/
#news #WashingtonDC #DC #regime #politics #restaurants #tariffs #tipping #MinimumWage
Venn Diagram Of Bad Tippers And Bad People Is A Perfect Circle
Fedi, do you tip on self-service/ready-to-go meals?
Ex. Prepared wraps, sandwiches, salad bowls or similar; drinks, chips or snacks, cookies, etc. Where you simply grab what you want and go to pay at the staffed cash.
“Tipping” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, S12E3, 2 March 2025.
"John Oliver discusses #tipping, why it’s more complicated and fraught than you might realize, and how we can address some of the issues surrounding it."
Tipping taking off in Australia despite cost-of-living crisis
That's the headline.
I'm not going to link to the article because it's garbage planted there by "research" from a company that makes money from taking a percentage from EFTPOS transactions. The "journalist" who wrote the article did no research to verify the claims. Heck, it could be a paid ad, but there's no acknowledgement of this conflict of interest.
As the meme says, "Stop trying to make fetch happen". Stop trying to make Australian customers do more tipping.
Australia does not have a tipping culture, and America only does it due to entrenched racism and power disparities between workers, bosses, and customers.
Jeez I get tired of these vested-interest articles trying to convince us that Australians tip. I laughed when I got halfway down the article and read this line - I think they buried the lede there:
"Overall, fewer than 1 per cent of transactions included a tip in 2024..."
An unrecognizable in the United States is #tipping. I have always tipped well because I worked in restaurants - honestly the hardest job I have ever done. But that tip screen, even for like, cashiers. I was also a cashier for a good bit, one of my favorite jobs. Was good at! I never got a tip for making change, but I FEEL the rent, the minimum wage, so I have just been doing it. But recently I have seen like 60% and 100% tip screens, breaking the social contract IMHO. So, I'm done.
Are We Only 33 Years Away from the #Atlantic #Ocean’s #Tipping Point? : Medium
#Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘#Bunkbed #Conjecture’ : WIRED
Seven quiet #Breakthroughs for #Climate and #Nature in #2024 you might have missed : BBC
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
Get rid of tipping and provide a living wage: Tipping Isn’t about Service - It’s a Psychological Con Job #livingwage #tipping #workersrights https://thewalrus.ca/tipping-isnt-about-service-its-a-psychological-con-job/
When customers felt monitored while #tipping, they were less likely to return or recommend the business – according to an analysis of 36,000 transactions looking at the effects of "tip surveillance" on customer behavior. Two #marketing professors share their insights from this research: https://theconversation.com/tip-pressure-might-work-in-the-moment-but-customers-are-less-likely-to-return-242089 #shopping #restaurants
New at my Patreon... Tipping in the USA has increased its scope, with tip prompts on payment terminals even at places where you line up. I say hell no to that: