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  • pressuring me THAT HARD to give you free money when i already bought your stuff is a sure way to make me cancel the purchase and never return.

  • Definitely hitting the alarm and walking out of there ... I'll let them deal with the noise

  • The lowest tip value should be higher to reflect current tip pressuring tactics.

  • The tipping system in America is so broken.... It's no more than “we don't pay our employees, feel bad for it”.

    Employees, on the other hand, should be upset at their employer for such practices, not at every customer who doesn't tip.

    • Restaurants that switch away from tips frequently switch back. There was a big push about 10 years ago, and most have closed or switched back.

      Customers, as a whole, just see menu prices go up and go someplace else; the customers who actually understand the trade-off are too few for that model to work most of the time. Additionally, the best staff jump ship to restaurants where they can maintain their income.

      Fine dining is really the only place you can get away with it regularly. The employers didn't really have a choice if they want to stay open. The system is what it is, every customer who doesn't tip is giving themselves a discount at the expense of the staff which is a reasonable thing to be upset about. The only way to change the system is through regulatory legislation.

  • Omg, so many opportunities for evil:

    • retrieve earplugs from purse, put them in, press the button, hand the staff a $5 cash tip and a pair of earplugs.
    • loiter outside offering pairs of earplugs to anyone entering the business
    • call the business, pose as a vendor so I get transferred to the manager, and play a recording of the sound.
    • leave fake reviews claiming the employees are on a covert malicious compliance strike and to show solidarity everyone should push no-tip.
    • before hitting the button ask to speak to the manager and push no tip while making eye contact with them.

    The real problem is the employee who didn't create the policy would generally be the person subjected to any mischief so it'd lose its fun about the time the manager barred me from coming back the fourth time I no-tip stared them down.

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