Holy fuck at the comments. Just a bunch of Gen X and Boomers making safe space jokes/SJW jokes or libertarians saying it's not difficult to make more money than your parents.
I did. Yes, millennials don’t tip because they have empathy for servers and want them to be paid a non tip wage is in the lede and is in the article. As are the stats I posted above. Millenials love to sit around and wish for things to happen. And then complain when they don’t, and blame everybody else. I have been tipping 20-25% since my millenial bracket days, and I didn’t sit on my Ass and stroke my neck beard on election days. And I didn’t constantly bitch about my parents and grandparents.
Millenials don’t tip because it isn’t customary to tip at fast casual restaurants that we frequent when the person doesn’t even leave from behind the counter. Do you tip on carry out pizzas? The place I eat at most often uses the square equipment and always asks for a tip, but I pretty much always press no tip unless it’s a holiday or something because all the person do s is take my order and give me a drink cup.
Yes, I usually tip at carry out places, and almost always where square is used, including food trucks. I worked for years in food and service jobs and am happy to pass a few bucks along to people making shit wages. To each their own.
I usually tip 20%, whether my waiter was good or bad, for two primary reasons: 1) I don’t want to be thought of as a cheapskate by a stranger, and 2) I’m bad at mental math and don’t want to be caught using my phone to calculate 18%. When prompted to tip at the register by someone who just took my order, I usually tip $1 for every $10 spent for similar reasons. So I’m a good tipper (in my opinion) for entirely selfish reasons. But at least I’m not constantly complaining about “the service” like practically ever boomer I know.
Poor service is rarely the fault of the server- generally a slow kitchen, a manager who did not staff accordingly to the shift, or that one fucking table that runs you like crazy because they never seem to have everything they need. That being said- people who don’t tip are the worst.
For most i would agree- for the elderly i think thats a different story but thats just from my personal experience.
I tip equal to the bill anything under $20 if I’m sitting down to eat... mostly greasy spoons. 20-33% rest of the time.
Same. I usually feel bad. Sometimes if I’m feeling slighted they’ll get 15%. I’ve only had one time in my life where I didn’t tip and it was because the service was so terrible.
Yes but you also said millennials just want to complain but never do anything to try to change it. This is a pretty clear attempt to change it.
I normally go 20%, rounding to nearest whole soar, for the simplicity of the math in my head. Though the place I sometimes go to for lunch on Monday's does half price lunch and my tip of $1 ends up being around 25%.
the author of that piece has a creative writing degree from SUNY-Binghampton, and has never held a financial-related job in their life. which mainly says something about the trustworthiness of Motley Fool and/or CNN
I carry around a wad of 100s and peel one off for not only my server but the hostess, the bus boy, the cook and I slide one under the table leg for the cleaning crew to find every time I go out to eat. I am a millennial, case closed, we are great tippers.
I don't tip on simple counter service where they're just the end of the assembly line. That doesn't make any sense to me. If you're a food truck, you get my drinks, etc then sure. But the last person on tbe assembly line at the fast casual Mexican place? Nah
Agreed. I generally tip at least $5 at least in any situation and generally 25-30% otherwise. But I'm not tipping for fast food from an assembly line, there is no service.
No, a tip of $1 on half-priced Mondays is about 25% of the pre-tax check. Their half-price menu is only something like $4 a meal if you get water since they don't charge for water.
Is there a difference in the food quantity or service on Monday's? The point is even though it is now half priced, it is still the same service. Feel like it is roughly the same concept on tipping while using a gift card.
They have started getting skimpy on the quantity of fries. I don't know if that's because it's half priced lunch or just in general since I only go there for half priced lunch.
Had something happen to me on Saturday morning for the first time. Drove thru a local coffee joint and paid $4 cash for my $3.47 item. Girl at the window handed me my coffee and then held my change in her hand and said, “Do you want this?” It caught me off guard somewhat, and I pulled away while saying no. Tricky girl.
Either a nice move on her part or she just deals with people telling her they don't want it every time she trys to give it to them
This is me normally. I always tip when I'm sitting down and at take out places unless they just read my card and say your good. I'm no boomer or anything but I've known a lot of friends in food service and those tips mean a lot to them.