A new trend in tipping emerges

Striker@lemmy.worldmod to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 744 points –
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Fuck tipping culture. Rather than begging tips from customers, DEMAND it from your employer.

Yes, but sadly the contrary is happening. Restaurant owners now have a sneaky trick to increase tips in order to lower wages: you know those receipts & terminals that have a “suggested tip”? Yeah, those things.. they keep increasing. I was handed a PoS terminal in Netherlands (where tipping norms are like a couple euro), and the terminal asked me to tap for how much I want to tip which suggested as much as 25%.

It’s working, too. A recent article described how this trick is causing average tips to increase. So the #warOnCash is part of the problem.

I agree with the sentiment, but I think it's important to remember that it's the employers we should be mad at, not the employees.