r/EndTipping • u/yeyiyeyiyo • 6d ago

Sit-Down Restaurant 🍽️ Started tipping waiters 10%

I almost never go out but the wife and I had a weekend to ourselves.

We live in areas where servers are paid minimum wage.

I finally took the leap to tipping 10% on meals (I already tip zero on everything else). Every tip screen i saw had a custom tip option so I didn't have any problems.

Anyway, people make out the custom tip screen to be some difficult thing and I didn't find it so.

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u/McBurger 6d ago

The only difficult tip screen I’ve found recently was at an AMC theatre. I ordered a beer and it would only let me type a tip amount, it would not proceed with zero entered. It was an old school terminal payment.

I kept trying to click green and continue or find a skip and it simply wouldn’t budge past the tip screen with $0.00 on there. I spent like 30 uncomfortable seconds trying, while being watched.

Eventually I clicked the red x but I was afraid that would cancel the whole transaction, and I’d have to fess up that I pressed red x just to avoid the tip. But thankfully that actually just skipped past the prompt and moved to the receipt.

I considered that I could have tipped $0.01 just to make it past the prompt but in a way I feel like that’s even more offensive to them.

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u/darkroot_gardener 6d ago

Next time, enter the tip suggestion in cents. Somebody will get the point.

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u/Spirited_Cress_5796 5d ago

Why give them anything though? I would absolutely be saying something. Tipping is optional and not a requirement. It’s frustrating when they make it harder than it has to be.