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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
You clearly think about tipping far more than just when you’re active in this thread.
There’s no reason to get offended by the comment. I couldn’t tell you what range of numbers the last 20 tipping prompts, or which places had prompts that were deserving vs not deserving. I don’t read anything into it. A place that has 15, 18, 20% options vs a place that has 20, 25, 30% options are viewed no differently to me and I have trouble imagining why they would be. We’re just different folks.
Just because I tip 20% and don’t feel the need to pinch pennies around it doesn’t mean you should feel bad about 12% or need to justify it. I just don’t really care to math it out and make a dining experience an evaluation of someone’s performance. A flat 20 solves the “just make it part of the cost” issue because I know everything is just 20% more than what it says.
I get it though. My partner always asks me what to tip. They put thought into it literally every single time that machine is in their hands. I just think it’s silly.
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I'm not at all offended at what was kind of a ridiculous throwaway thing to say in a thread dedicated to the subject, it is what it is.
It's not one of those things you consciously dedicate much time to thinking about in any one lump of time
except when one finds themselves in a thread like this. It was a really slow series of realizations every time a PIN pad was presented to me, while at the same time noticing my bills for my favourite restaurants started to get significantly higher for the exact same meal I'd been having before.
Then one day, the PIN pad prompts for a tip and literally all of the values are more than what would be reasonable for the level of service you just received, your muscle memory goes "duhhhhh wut" and you actually have to think about what you're gonna put in.
Again, when I'm spending hundreds of dollars, they're not starving on 15%-18%.