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Vindictive delivery drivers like this are yet another reason why I only make my own food.
Also, you know, I won't spend 300 quid on 1 meal.
Parties tho
Did I stutter?
I mean I guess not but like I think it is absolutely possible that at some point in your life, you might spend $300, or perhaps someone else's $300 (e.g. your employer) to get catering.
If it was my employer then would I even be allowed to give a tip? If they are paying I would probably spend what ever I can to max out the limit.
Which then leaves an interesting idea. Why 20% tip instead of 20% more food?
I mean it depends on your employer. But anecdotally, yes, business and corporate purchasers usually did tip us, although nowhere near the usual 10-20% of the price expected of smaller purchases. Actually, they would often tip in advance as part of a credit card payment, so it would be the person with decision-making authority (i.e. "the boss") setting the tip. (Cash tips were quietly preferred but I was always thankful for any tips.)
Reputation. Makes your company look bad if you don't tip at all.
I mean if you're trying to "max out" some limit, then simply max out (limit)/(100% + (tip)%) with (tip) > 0 and give the driver (limit), and your employer should understand what you're doing. I would fix (tip) with my employer before I set up the order. Or, tip out of your own pocket.
UK for perspective but I have heard enough business owners asking how to avoid paying tax while making tips appear mandatory (illegal) to have no respect for them.
Nah I don't have any respect for business owners either lol, petty capitalists are still capitalists and therefore need to be smashed like capitalists. I'm
and I worked in food service for seven years. Tipping culture is ingrained enough here, and legally enshrined, that even petty capitalists tip as a social expectation.
I mean maybe if you tipped us we wouldn't have to be so vindictive 🤷
Yeah and then it becomes omg that was only 10%. Fuck that, I would rather not participate at all.
Like this is literally what I wanted when I worked in pizza delivery for seven years, literally just do pickup if you can't afford to tip. And tbh I don't order delivery anymore for that exact reason.
Then you get more crying about how much the hospitality sector is struggling - this is where we are currently where I live.
Funny thing is, wetherspoons are doing fine. Only once ever seen someone give a tip there and it was borderline sexual harassment.
I mean okay, but don't point your frustration at the proletarians who rely on your tips to survive. Like yeah tipping culture is bullshit, but it's not imposed by your servers and delivery drivers; it's imposed by capitalists and their demonic governments. We'd rather just get a living wage right out the gate, but that's literally not an option.
Not our fault. Not your fault either. It's the fault of the capitalists who are ruining our world and pitting us against each other.
I stopped eating outside years ago cause it's all shit.
Having said that -
So why are you doing exactly that? Tip is meant as extra on a job done well behind expectations. Are you not aware of it?
The fact that is composes most of your wages is not the fault of the Patreons coming to the establishment who are also required to pay ridiculously high prices on low quality food, and then also tip for the right to do so.
Not all people going to eat out have deep pockets, and trying to squeeze money because you feel entitled to it will only create antigonisem.
Take the fight against your employers and who ever owns them, instead of your fellow working class. The rest of us will probably be happy to join you and help you fight the good fight.
Otherwise, you are just helping the problem become entrenched deeper.
One last thing, what's so special about the driver, waiter and bartender that puts them in the tip-getting status? What about the cooks, busboys, cleaning, host/hostess etcetc
If the owner cannot pull in customers using the real price, which covers livable and decent and fair wages for all staff, they should not be in business, period.
Let's finish what I said:
I'm not saying to never ever point your frustration at proletarians. Sometimes we are assholes. I am absolutely frustrated at proletarians who deliberately make both of two choices: (1) get food from restaurants, which is an unnecessary luxury one can choose to live without, and (2) choose not to subsidize the delivery driver's wage, which is unfortunately the social contract which has been imposed upon us. If you did only one of these things, I wouldn't care.
When I worked in food service, I worked there because it was literally all I could get. Most of us, for practical purposes, do not choose food service, because the other "choices" are misery and poverty (more than food service already entails). Hence why I said "don't point your frustration at the proletarians who rely on your tips to survive," because we lack the freedom to choose a better line of work. If you can afford to go out to eat, you can afford to tip; you have the freedom to not be a part of the situation. Even though we are both proletarians, within our class, there exist various economic disparities and other social hierarchies which we must be careful not to reinforce.
No, patrons literally do not have to go to restaurants.
Not trying to be contentious but I have to say it: this is capitalist brainworms. This is how capitalists want us to think. This is their narrative, but it's not what is enshrined in law. What's enshrined in law is that you can legally refuse to pay a driver for a portion of their services.
Yeah I do not agree with the existence of tipping culture. It should be abolished. Unfortunately, tipping culture is legally enshrined in
, so ignoring it before it is abolished is tantamount to withholding a driver's pay. Where I worked, drivers were paid less than inside staff to account for the fact that we got tips. This is an unacceptable practice, but it is enshrined in law. Everyone on this godforsaken planet deserves equal access to the fruits of labor.