Amethyst
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I think it would be interesting to see a generational break-out of attitudes toward tipping.
What happens if one pays cash? Does one bypass the tablet and tip prompts?
I tip the woman who cuts my hair well. She does a good job and I reward her for it.
Actually, I'm a little surprised that Airbnb hosts haven't caught on yet and added a tipping option...
I tip when I pick up food to go.
Just habit because they said during the pandemic that the front line workers really needed it.
Same here. She had a significant reduction in customers in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID. Mostly her older women customers who stayed at home and went without haircuts or any processing. I really wasn't sure if she was going to survive in her shop. I also didn't know if closing the shop and "renting a chair" elsewhere was an option for her.I tip the woman who cuts my hair well. She does a good job and I reward her for it.
It's on schedule for that in Illinois. Every time they jack up the minimum wage, the prices go up as well. Eating out was becoming less affordable even before the massive inflation hit over the last two years. Wish minimum wage was still around $7. It has gone up a lot for tipped workers as well.As far as I know, only four states nationwide have a $15/hr minimum wage.
I stopped tipping for my haircut when I changed stylists during COVID. Because I started cutting my own hair. [emoji1787]
I changed barbers too, now DW cuts my hair. She hasn't thought of asking for a tip and I'm certainly not going to plant that idea in her head....
Although consumers are accustomed to tipping waiters, bartenders and other service workers, tipping a barista or cashier may be a new phenomenon for many shoppers.
It’s being driven in large part by changes in technology that have enabled business owners to more easily shift the costs of compensating workers directly to customers.
The shift to digital payments also accelerated during the pandemic, leading stores to replace old-fashioned cash tip jars with tablet touch screens. But these screens and the procedures for digital tipping have proven more intrusive than a low-pressure cash tip jar with a few bucks in it.
Clark Howard has weighed in on what he calls gratuitous gratuities.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/25/business/tipping-trends
Clark does what I do. I carry extra cash to use when I buy a cup of coffee or a muffin from a local coffee house. I grab some change and toss it in the tip jar. This avoid the awful Tip Screen with its money grubbing suggestions when I use a CC.
Tip screens have an override so you can leave a flat amount as opposed to a percentage usually labeled as “custom amount”
Yep, and you can put a zero there - which I always do on any screen which defaults to 20% and forces me to jump through the hoops to reduce this amount. So the amount is reduced to zero.
I have a part time gig where tipping is allowed. I will tell you 98% of the people tip. The average is about 15%. Some tip way over that, some tip only a few bucks, but all are appreciated.