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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.

#poll#polls#fedi

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.

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.

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: theconversation.com/tip-pressu #shopping #restaurants

The ConversationTip pressure might work in the moment, but customers are less likely to returnResearch confirms what many coffee shop patrons intuitively know.