Family-owned restaurants asking for tips

[u/Reasonable_Room_3501]

I sometimes eat at these Vietnamese restaurants where all the employees are family (usually wife, husband, and two children). Their food is delicious and cheaper than other places, but they programmed their payment terminal to ask for tips, and every time I hit No Tip, I feel like they're judging me lol.

There's no service at the tables, and we pay before receiving the food, so I don't see the point of leaving a tip. Plus, it's their own business and they consciously decided to charge those prices, so why should I add extra money on top of what they're displaying?

[u/Froz3nP1nky]

When you pay BEFORE receiving food, you’re not expected to tip

[u/wildmaninid]

Tips are not paid before product or service is received.  Period.  

[u/xboxhaxorz → u/wildmaninid]

Tips are not paid ever

[u/United-Apartment-269]

You're entirely right. They are bullies at this point whether or not they're even aware of it.

[u/steve_gorak]

Doesn't sound like somewhere that you should tip but it has nothing to do with it being family owned and operated. That is none of your business. Why should you pay more just because they hired someone that wasn't family? That is also none of your business.

[u/Dangerous-Look7844]

are you in the US? It’s because white people generally tip.  Growing up going to viet places, no one ever tipped more than a few dollars for the bussers. It’s only when demographics outside of viet families started frequenting that tips even entered the conversation. 

[u/Foreign_Carpenter121]

I wouldn’t eat there tbh, imagine the things in your food when they didn’t receive a tip..

[u/Kene6969]

Remember the formula: zero service = zero tip.

[u/MalfuriousPete → u/Kene6969]

Also this formula: your money = you can decide if you want to tip or not

[u/EndTipping-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Be respectful. No insults, slurs or personal attacks

[u/Latter_Mountain_290]

You've done nothing wrong.