Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Chicago's Radical Solution For Broken Tipping Culture" video.

  1. People are still doing the work. There's not much difference between tipping for a person to take down the order and tipping just for the food preparation.Tipping at a self-order kiosk isn't any more ridiculous than tipping at most fastfood joints.
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  2. It's not about whether they deserve it or not, the pay often does not cover the cost of living without the tips. Tips are generally a situation of the employer handing off responsibility for paying the workers directly to random strangers that are not required to tip employees.
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  3. Tip inflation is a real thing. It's good for waitstaff,but sucks for most other folks Few people want to think that they're cheap, so there's a ratcheting effect. It used to be that 15% was considered a good tip and there'd be guides like rounding taxi far up to the next dollar. Some of those rules, like rounding in that fashion, were always going to go away eventually. But, the peer pressure that comes from the minimum wage not keeping up is real and will continue until the issue is resolved.
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  4. As long as tipping is essential to these workers making a decent wage, the standard tip will be a necessary evil.
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  5. Usually when I see that on receipts, you're not expected to tip more.
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  6.  @Ravi-qg1so  The issue there is that it depends on the service. If it's UPS, Fed Ex or USPS, then why is anybody tipping them? They make more than I do and it's literally their job to deliver things. OTOH, if it's something like door dash or the like, then what we really need are laws protecting the drivers. A bit of tipping isn't going to change the exploitative nature of the business model.
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  7.  @imonbanerjee2997  That's a major issue. The delivery fee may or may not be used to pay for delivery drivers. I personally think that that should be regarded as fraud to call it a delivery fee and not use it to fund the drivers, but that's not currently how that works.
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  8. Yes, I was expecting this to be a bit more revolutionary. Tips have been on top of minimum wage here in Washington for quite a while, but the same basic BS tipping culture exists. Nothing short of banning tips from being considered a portion of wages is going to end the issues.
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