The Off Topic Topic

[Jacob]

Fairly entertaining series of Japanese gummy candy commercials: https://youtu.be/sZsJyCyGBSI

[Jacob]

[Josquius]

Fairly entertaining series of Japanese gum commercials: https://youtu.be/sZsJyCyGBSI

Yes, its rather great, nice ending too.

[Ed Anger]

Bored out of my fucking mind.

[Barrister]

Fairly entertaining series of Japanese gummy candy commercials: https://youtu.be/sZsJyCyGBSI

OK, that was kind of amusing. 

[merithyn]

I tip 10% on take out. In this case, I'd have tipped 12-15%.

Why do you tip on take-out?  Tips are for service - you don't get any service on take out.

Spoken like a man who has never done the job. It requires time and effort to pull the to-go order together, and generally it's a server, which means that's time they aren't spending on their tables.

They may not refill your water, but they definitely give service.

[Barrister]

I tip 10% on take out. In this case, I'd have tipped 12-15%.

Why do you tip on take-out?  Tips are for service - you don't get any service on take out.

Spoken like a man who has never done the job. It requires time and effort to pull the to-go order together, and generally it's a server, which means that's time they aren't spending on their tables.

They may not refill your water, but they definitely give service.

Perhaps I'm thinking of my local Papa John's, where we regularly order take-out.  It's a take-out/delivery only place - no seats.  I get annoyed however that when I go to pay by debit card it immediately asks me how much I want to tip.  I have to hit about three buttons (pay by $, amount 0, OK) to enter no tip.

If we get delivery I have no problem with a tip.

[Josquius]

Card machines that ask you to tip are horrid.
At least with a cash tip you can kind of believe it's going to the person who served you. Voluntarily paying more by card though... Nope.

[The Brain]

Card machines that ask you to tip are horrid.
At least with a cash tip you can kind of believe it's going to the person who served you. Voluntarily paying more by card though... Nope.

[Admiral Yi]

Card machines that ask you to tip are horrid.

The ones that read your mind are much better.

[Habbaku]

Card machines that ask you to tip are horrid.
At least with a cash tip you can kind of believe it's going to the person who served you. Voluntarily paying more by card though... Nope.

Service workers still get the tips that are given by card readers.

[derspiess]

But they have to wait two weeks or more to get them, and they are taxed.  Cash tips are taxed of course, but the gubmint never knows how much-- it can only guess.

I hate carrying cash, but I always make sure to have cash when I go out anywhere that I will need to tip.  Some taprooms I visit have bartenders that only work for cash tips-- they get no hourly wage and share 0% of the electronic tips.

[garbon]

Okay but Tyr's world doesn't involve the US. So he's mostly encountering wait staff who are actually paid living wages.

[Josquius]

I'm sure the tip that goes through those machines is fully accounted for and if the company tried anything funny with the tips it would be caught (though there have been cases of companies mishandling tips in the past...).

Nonetheless actually telling a guy I've interacted with to keep my change vs. an extra £3 going off into the aether feels a lot more direct and secure.

I hate carrying cash, but I always make sure to have cash when I go out anywhere that I will need to tip.  Some taprooms I visit have bartenders that only work for cash tips-- they get no hourly wage and share 0% of the electronic tips.

Fucking hell. That's horrendous.
I hope next decade the push for a living wage goes through over there and such exploits of the minimum wage rules are done away with alongside.

[The Brain]

Since no one sane carries cash in this day and age it doesn't really matter. Non-cash stores and restaurants are constantly increasing in number in Sweden.