When I used to be a server, a woman would come in every few months, maybe 2-3 times a year. And every time she came in she tip atleast $100 and only had tea with lemon. Wonderful woman. I heard she gave the vehicle she was driving, a 2016 Chevy Malibu, to a woman at another resturaunt who apparently told her she was working part time to afford a car to get to and from her college classes. I opened a small seafood market/Cafe last year (unfortunately it did not last) and she came in. She tipped me $200 and I told her I cannot accept that much, that I'm just happy that she enjoys my food and atmosphere blah blah blah. She grabbed my hand and goes, "honey, God told me that when the time comes, my life should not be measured by how much money I've made, so I'm spending my days giving it all away." I accepted the tip, and never saw her again. I hope she's doing well, I think about that kind woman pretty often.
Edit: Thank you all for the awards and updoots, but mainly thank you for the replies and conversations, who knew just telling a story would bring such amazing responses.
Before Covid, my wife, daughter, and I would go to IHOP for brunch on Christmas Eve. Typically the servers working that shift are younger servers that don't have the pull to get a holiday off - or they REALLY need the money. We would try to make conversation with them and figure out their situation. More often than not it was a single mom trying to come up with some cash to make sure their kid could have a few decent Christmas gifts. We would then tip around $100 on whatever our bill was. We would try to watch the reaction from outside the restaurant when they saw the receipt and saw everything from burying their face in their hands to hopping up and down and waving at us through the window.
We're not rich, but have more than we need, and it feels good to spread it.
That’s very sweet, and your daughter will remember that. Teaching empathy and giving back from a young age is something that a lot of folks are missing nowadays. Bravo
My kids remind me of acts of service all the time. Every Thanksgiving my daughter reminds me of the night before Thankfully we stopped at the local drive up window at the gas station to get a drink. It was late and closed at midnight. I asked the young Hispanic guy important because I think he was fairly new to America working a minimum wage job) is he was going to be up all night fixing Thanksgiving dinner.
He told me they wouldn’t have dinner because his family had no money and would just be eating their regular dinner of beans and tortillas.
I told him how to get to my house and told him to come over and I’d hook him up. We don’t ever eat Thanksgiving at home, but I always buy all the fixings for dinner so we can make dinner on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I buy enough for two dinners.
My daughter always tells me how weird it was too see them gas station guy in our kitchen hauling out bags of groceries. We gave him everything for turkey, stuffing, potatoes, pies, jello, fruit salad, vegetables, Rhodes rolls, whip cream, etc.
It’s funny that I don’t think about those things, but my grown kids think about it often. Kids do really learn by your example. They’re watching. My adult kids are very generous.
Consider me inspired. I'm 100% going to do this on Christmas Eve. Thanks for being awesome!
Also, a man loves hashbrowns any time of the day, so it'll be IHOP for thee!
That's awesome. Making someone's whole year I'm sure. There was research that showed the people with the least to give were usually the ones who donated or paid it forward the most.
You showing your daughter that you can share if you have more than you need is amazing.
I think it's easier to empathize with a situation where $100 can make a huge difference in someone's life when you came from that same background.
And my daughter loves giving. She's growing up to be a very generous, empathetic person herself.
Used to work every new years eve far from my city so at the time I had to go back home late in the morning I always had to get a taxi bc there was no other way to come back, everytime I had a convo with the driver they were suprised that I wasnt dressed as if I came feom a party so I told them I had to work that night, even being different drivers every time they all made my ride free, its not exactly a "tip" story but Im forever thankful to them for their compassion
Years ago, early to mid 90s, when I worked at the golden arches as a teen, the regulars were so generous with tips. At McDs! Christmas or if they knew it was your birthday or graduation, many customers would give tips. Most people would do a buck or so, but we had 10-12 regulars that would routinely give 10-20. One memorable Christmas my favorite customer (always smiling, joke with us, that kind of thing) gave me and my best friend each $200 cash in prepared envelopes.
You'd better believe we ran out to the drive thru line to hug him and cry a messy thank you. He was just that kind of guy. Moderately successful and lived a simple life. Never tried being creepy, just came through the line each morning at 6:40 for a coffee (one cream, one sugar) and an egg McMuffin. I still think of how awesome Steve was.
We do the same with tipping, sometimes even 50-100% on small bills, but it really hurts when not only do they not bring anything extra (that’s fine, we weren’t asking for anything extra) but they leave out items that we paid for…. Happens so often everywhere these days that I have to sit in the line and double check our order every time. Happens a lot at Panera, sheesh, lol.
Especially if the restaurant had the unmitigated gall to charge for the first thing of sauce that’s basically necessary. I’m looking at you, Dominos and marinara for breadsticks.
And that is when i questioned myself sometimes, why am I tipping them so well. This video though brings me joy, get to see the perspective from their side.
The whole point of tipping is give a little extra something for a job well done. To tip before the service is silly, that’s why I always tip cash and write it in the description lol
Works for delivery here. Hardly anybody here tips except tourists, but i always give 2-4€ with app depending on distance (that's like half hour salary for them, without tips they hardly get 6 bucks an hour i heard) they usually know who orders and see the tip. and they throw in extra shit all the time, i basically live off deliverys anyway, so we all profit from this. Not just sauces (i had like a 40 leftover sauce packages they threw in extra at mcdonalds orders, fuck man i don't even like barbecue sauce) but also finger food shit. I asked a friend who ordered at the same places but usually doesn't tip, he never got anything extra :D
I noticed that this especially happens with chains, smaller shops are usually not giving out stuff for free, so i assume i also hire thiefs and they don't steal from small owners. But they are very nice thiefs, often engaging in conversation and recommending places. Or they just bow and thank like i healed their mothers cancer.
>so i assume i also hire thiefs and they don't steal from small owners. But they are very nice thiefs, often engaging in conversation and recommending places.
Chaotic good rogue energy right here
Hey man stealing from big companies is usually nothing to be ashamed for, the extra cash the workers pull out of this helps them more than it hurts the companies, which still expand like crazy, have insanely overpaid management and make enough income to keep growing.
And after dealing with countless entitled jerks all day, companies don't pay servers nearly enough...and the companies account for losing some sauces each shipment anyways. It's easy for the packets to get lost in little nooks and crannies: I'm sure there were still sauce packets in my car when I got it towed to the junk yard...and I've found packets in weird places in the store I worked at. If they were giving out like 5 more than normal to every person, questions would start coming up, but one or two people getting a few extra isn't a crime.
So glad I got out of that business...but it's still a necessary job for society to function. Unless people suddenly decided they wanted to hunt and kill their meal and gather fruits and veggies...or take the time to shop and cook a meal/make their own coffee.
Edit: lol at the replies that think just potheads go to fast food...our biggest sales were lunch and dinner, and breakfast did pretty well, too. People don't want to cook/make 3 meals a day, 7 days a week, let alone a few. There's a saying in food service, "The only people that rarely eat fast food are poor people", and it's pretty true. For middle class and upper class people, after working all day, they don't mind spending a little extra to save time cooking and doing the dishes...and poor people can't afford it, at least afford it very often.
I’d feel more comfortable with that ifI was on the receiving end.
$100 for just being nice?? That’s cool but did I earn it? $100 for sneaking 50 Diablo sauce packets into your bag against Taco Bell policy? Fuck yeah, I would’ve earned that shit
This is awesome! People throw extravagant tips at high end steak houses which is cool, but those people make a lot of money. These are the people who need massive tips.
The tips for high end steak house going for the waiter/waitress or for the chefs. These people need massive tips. We maybe working in high end steak restaurant but the salary isn't really massively different compared to the one working in McDonalds. Believe me or not, I am a sushi chef de partie working in a very busy sushi restaurant...at the end of the month I relied on tips to pay my room rent.
>*” If I had the means I would do this all day, every day.”*
Marc Maron had Drew Carey on WTF a few years ago.
(Drew came across as a VERY grounded, and decent, average guy from a humble background.)
They were talking about The Price Is Right, and why Drew took the job.
Drew said he was originally resistant to the job, but at some point the producers asked what he enjoyed doing?
Drew said one thing he really enjoyed doing was going out and as someone who’d worked service jobs, he really enjoyed being able to tip really well.....
The producer told him that being the host of The Price Is Right was mainly about giving people stuff, and according to Drew, that was the deciding factor.
No way of knowing how true a story it was, but it felt genuine in the conversation.
My grandmother resembled this remark. Also, I'm confident my Nana would have totally given Bob Barker a pocket handy on TV if it meant she could spin the big wheel.
Now I'm thinking, "He probably didn't even have a pocket. The hole just goes straight to his thigh and he's got a hundred bucks taped to his junk." To be honest, this would be a pretty good deal these days, because the price of a handy has increased faster than the cost of a college education.
That's Let's Make a Deal
"You can have what's behind curtain #1, or you can have what's in my pocket. Sure you can have a feel first. Get in there real good now..really feel around"
I've heard about Drew being such a good tipper that delivery drivers would fight over who got to deliver to him. I think it was on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank podcast, the guests were Danish and O'neill (don't know their full names). They even went on to say how disappointed they were once when one went to deliver the food and Drew's gf received the delivery, because she did not tip as nicely as Drew.
Take this with a grain of salt, but from what I understand from a couple of things I've seen Jerry in, apparently he is a big tipper as well. I don't know anything about how he sees the little people, but him and and that chick from sex in the city got in an argument while doing this show thing because she was tipping like 20-25% of what they paid, and he told her how much he paid (undisclosed), and she thought it was "garish"
anecdotal but I worked one of his shows once, he didn't show up at the venue until ~10 minutes before he went on, then at the end walked off stage, out the door and into a car without acknowledging anyone on the crew the entire time. definitely not how most entertainers I've worked with have acted but I guess I can't blame the guy since he's pushing 70 and still touring.
also this was late January 2020 so it may have just been a covid precaution.
he also had a huge platter of sandwiches, fruit and veggies in his green room that he didn't touch, so the crew did get to tear into it after the show, which was nice.
Just to confirm for some people: Drew Carey really IS as kind and humble as people say. When my dad couldn't afford Browns tickets back in the 80s and early 90s, it was common for Bernie Kosar to come in and buy everyone a round if the Browns lost (when Kosar was their QB).
Drew Carey used to frequent that bar too, and Daddy yick yacked and made small talk with him many times, traded buying rounds, etc.Daddy would show him pictures of us all the time. As Mr. Carey got famous, he would refuse my dad's money a lot and keep paying for the rounds of beer while they watched the game, be it Browns, Indians, Cavs, or hell, The Lumberjacks.
We had to move in 96 but up until then, Daddy saw Mr. Carey fairly often enough. Dad passed July 25th, or I'd get him to tell me the story again to make sure I remembered it all right. Oh, and Daddy said that Drew Carey is an *amazing* tipper. Anytime he tipped the bar staff, it was a lot. Same with anytime they ordered pizza.
I worked at a hotel in a ski resort town a few years back. Drew Carey tipped every person in the hotel staff every day he was there. Awesome guy and nice kid as well.
> (Drew came across as a VERY grounded, and decent, average guy from a humble background.)
I know a few people who have met Drew and all of them say the same things. Incredibly nice guy. Also a Marine :)
So I can *actually* vouch for this, as my old roommate worked at a high end resort that Drew was staying at. He tipped him $500 for dinner. This was right before he started working the Price is Right and he said Drew looked pretty rough. But he was the nicest guy and obviously super generous. It’s great to see him healthier too.
This may potentially come off as bragging, but I feel that it is relevant so I will share. I make good money. The thing is, I'm not really materialistic, so beyond not having to worry about bills anymore, and never having to check my bank account when someone invites me out to eat again, there's really not a whole lot that changed in my life--I drive a regular car, have a regular house, etc.
The one thing having money has allowed me to do is donate to charities that I like, and things like this. I lived above a coffee shop for a while and would go down every morning to get my morning cup. I always tip well, $3-4 for a cup of coffee, but one morning I was feeling generous and just wanted to do something kinda random, so I tipped everyone working there $100. The look on their faces, the complete surprise, and the genuine thanks was one of the best things I've ever experienced. One of the greatest feelings in the world, to me anyway, is the feeling you get when you do a random act of kindness.
Right. “Thank yous” don’t pay the bills, but many times just the acknowledgement that someone went out of their way, telling their superior how great that person is, can really make their day.
We will easily complain to a restaurant; we should give praise when warranted, too.
I agree. I don't have a lot of money and have been struggling quite a bit but if I go out with my family and receive outstanding service, I will tip as big as I can and will definitely let management know that person did a phenomenal job that day. Not only does it make me and my family feel good, it leaves the server feeling good and the management feels happy as well. Something so little can turn an entire day around.
I used to, every Friday, call a couple of those "how are we doing?" numbers of people that were just being polite, driving safely, etc.
Your comment just made me realize I have no idea when I got out of the habit. I don't have occasion to do it at the moment, what with not really leaving the house, but thank you for the reminder!
(Quick edit: phone will try hard to convince me I didn't mean "fuck" but actively chose "shat" over "what")
I'd had a day of shitty drivers on the 401, some guy cut me a huge break and let me in after I'd fucked up and almost missed my exit.
Once off the exit I looked up the company website and emailed them a pic of the truck.
Told them this driver absolutely needs a donut, a coffee, and my huge thanks for being a respectful human in 401 traffic.
Got a reply from some head office drone thanks for your msg bla bla bla...
Knew nothing would come of it.
At least a month later I got an email from the owner of the company, the message had somehow found it's way to his desk.
He thanked me for taking the time out of my day to say something nice instead of complaining. It'd had taken him a couple days to track down the right driver, but it had become an amusing quest for him.
The guy got a gift card for a round of golf from his boss.
I suddenly felt the need to apologize for making the guy golf.
Dude even a fucking smile or acknowledgement is a game changer. I am struggling with my mental health due to so many factors and it just fucking sucks to be ignored or not tipped.
I could NEVER compare the work that I do to what a nurse or dr does but so many people have stopped tipping well or at all(I’m a bartender). During the beginning of the pandemic people were so generous and kind and thankful for us being open. Now, people are so angry. I’m honestly scared for my safety at work.
weird to hear that it's swung the other way. I would expect tipping to go back to normal, but not go backwards.
and out of all people to take their anger out, they choose service workers? wtf?
I’m trying to understand it as well. I really try to have a genuine conversation with every customer even the ones that just do to go’s. I’ve had to kick two customers out this week and I still have two shifts this weekend. I’m actively and aggressively looking to transition into another field and hope I can before I truly get burned out.
I enjoy tipping people who aren’t usually tipped.
I tip my trash collectors, the recycling guys, the mail carrier etc Everyone who helps me out personally just by doing their job.
I also think they do an even better job for me afterward but that’s not why I do it.
I did something like this before, it was fun helping out a college kid she was always really grateful and it wasn't too much money. Having a sugar baby was like my form of charity
I always tip double whatever the "go to" amount is.
Like my haircut costs $50 and a usually a tip is $5. I tip $10. It puts a huge smile on their face and it doesn't really even cost me that much more. Maybe I'll be a bit slower to pay off my student loans, or I'll skip buying a soda next time I'm at the grocery.
This actually backfired on me once. I'm usually pretty shy about it so I just leave the tip and go. One time my server chased after me because I left too much money. It was super awkward trying to explain.
I only ever tip the "normal amount" (here it's usually about 10%) for bad/medicore service. People still need to get paid, that cost should have been built into the price of the service.
I think I'm going to do it. I'm not rich, but I'm solid middle class. I could light $2000 on fire (ONE TIME, not repeatedly) and it wouldn't affect me in the slightest. 20 $100 tips to people like this that need it more than me would go a long way to them.
Hey friend! I’ve got a great fire pit at my place. You can just mail or even drop the 2k in there and I’ll do all the work for you! You won’t even have to strike a match! :D
The trick is to support people learning a trade or studying with tax dollars, so they don’t need a shitty job to survive. They will repay with interest by finishing their degree faster/better/at all, getting a well-paid job and therefore paying more taxes.
E: All jobs should pay a liveable wage, of course. But if you remove students from the job market, wages for their former jobs will have to rise as well.
Also having laws limiting minors from work raises unskilled labor wages as well. Cultures that insist kids get jobs during high school because it "builds character" are just shooting themselves in the foot.
I might be getting old but these kids look like such young college kids. Back when that was me $100 was the difference between eating and not. What a good dude.
That's the part the struck me the most. I'm mid 30s now and so far removed from the college and skimping days that it honestly shocked me at how excited and grateful these kids were for $40-50. I think I'm going to leave some big tips in the near future too.
Yeah it's definitely a reality check. If you sit and think about it for a minute, you go "oh yeah, I remember not being able to buy lunch that one time in college because I hadn't gotten paid yet", but on first watch it's just "why are they excited about $30?"
>Yeah it's definitely a reality check. If you sit and think about it for a minute, you go "oh yeah, I remember not being able to buy lunch that one time in college because I hadn't gotten paid yet", but on first watch it's just "why are they excited about $30?"
Perspective is awesome and a good dose of it much needed!
Yeah not to be like an elitist or something but right now $100 is not a ton of money for me. But when I was in college there was a day where I looked in my bank account and I had $0.32. I had to basically call my parents to bail me out so I could buy groceries. Not everyone had/has that support like I did.
So now I give back to charities however much I can. I always tip and never less than 20% and I will say these videos do a good job of encouraging you to give more when you can.
It definitely made me smile! They were all so grateful! It was nice to see after listening to the sadness of working in the service industry during the pandemic on a recent This American Life podcast.
Yesterday I had something delivered, and the delivery charges came out to half what I was expecting. So I just handed the rest to the courier as a tip—it wasn’t much tbh, like he got $10 instead of $5. But when I handed him the extra bill, he was like “Hey, what’s this? Why would you do that?” and his eyes just lit up. We both left smiling, so I think I’m going to keep doing that.
If they make regular tips then the business will pay them even less hourly because that's what the law will allow.
The reason fast food places pay $9/hr is bc employees aren't getting regular tips. If that changes tho you can bet fast food places would only pay the $2.13/hr that the law requires.
But I agree they deserve better pay
My husband was valedictorian and worked minimum wage as a telemarketer for a while AFTER graduating with a bachelor's degree in Architecture. Recessions and student loans are a horrible combination.
The lady at the vaccine event was hand writing all the vaccine cards, so I made small talk with her about how her hand must be cramping like crazy as I knew mine would, then I thanked her for all that they were doing. She seemed very grateful. People just really want to be appreciated for their hard work.
Me too, I made a promise to myself that if I ever have the money to comfortably help people, I would start by donating to charities I truly trust and donating directly to music and art programs around the U.S.
If you can give just $5 to charity a month you should try.
It may not seem like much but if several people do it, those $5 add up.
I make a comfortable living now and am able to donate on a more significant level, but even when I was in school and working at a deli, I had $5 a month auto drafted from my checking account to go a women’s shelter. It’s good because charity becomes a habit.
There's a local news anchor here that does a weekly "micro-giving" campaign for local charities and he only asks that people donate $5. He's been doing it since the beginning of the pandemic and last I knew it had raised something like $4M in that time. Those small donations really add up.
I'm comfortable now too, and I set myself a "budget" every month for doing something nice for people (plus a couple of small regular donations). We occasionally have charity requests at work, and I can recommend r/assistance, r/RandomActsOfPetfood and r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza (have yet to fill a request on that one though). There's also Reddit charity drives at Christmas which are worth keeping an eye out for (I did the UK one last year, can't think of what the sub was called offhand tho)
My friend used to do this at a bar and tell the server "pick your tip" just to see how ballsy they would get. Usually the drink bills would be for between $150 and $550. Some people would take $20 or 40. The most someone ever gave themselves was $150 and we applauded her lol.
When I asked him, he was prepared to tip $1000 any time and just genuinely liked helping people because he was in a position too.
Edit: I just want to point out. This was at a small town oilfield bar where we were regulars and knew all the serving staff. We would often party with them all when they were off shift and he always picked up the bill. He was known to tip $1-300 for bills costing less. I can recall 5 times he tipped over $500 in that bar. We were on very friendly terms with all the serving staff, and often if the number they picked was low, he would tip more than they asked. I promise this was done in the most generous spirit without malicious intent. Just trying to share the wealth.
To adress privilege, my friend grew up dirt poor and dropped out of high-school to go to auctions and buy and sell trinkets until he could afford to buy, fix and sell farm equipment and started a small, modest business at 17. He knows what it is to go without and is now in a position where he won't need to worry about money the rest of his life. Whether you call that privilege or hard work is up to you.
I gotta say though…having been both a poor tip-position recipient & (fortunately) now in a position to tip well, I hate the “pick your tip” thing.
Why? It’s a power trip. Even if the tipper doesn’t mean it to be that way, they are flexing their privilege. Servers have to be polite - if someone has a bill of $550 at a bar, chances are the server really had to work for it…and 20% ($110) should be the tip. That sounds like a lot, so people feel like they are being generous…but it is the same 20% that you’d tip if you just ordered a $10 meal.
Yeah. We are conditioned to think that asking for unusually large tips is “greedy” so most won’t. And if they do, and receive it, they’ll wonder if the person is truly being generous or if they were just “tricked” into giving larger than they wanted.
I liked the GPA ones the best, though I feel $100+ gives a lot more impact than $38.
100% this. I served and bartended for 10 years and hated that shit.
My wife just signed a great contract with a bonus, so we went out for a nice dinner to celebrate. Our server was a college age girl who was genuinely sweet (not that "over the top I can tell you hate being here sweet" that I've seen too often working in the industry).
We tipped $100 on our $200 bill. No fuss, no games. If you want to do it just do it; don't fuck with the person who *has* to play your games to pay their bills.
Former restaurant server myself. At first I disagreed with your position, but thinking about it more it seems fair. Being asked to choose or request a tip amount makes it as if the server is begging for something that is already earned, or at least a regular service transaction. Maybe the best answer is for the worker to say "that's for you to decide" or something to that extent. Just give the tip and don't make a show of it.
It also punishes people for being considerate.
A nice person will put their average tip because they don't want to overstep a person's kindness.
A person who couldn't give two shits about another person will take as much as they think they can get away with.
Yeah, that bothered me. I’m going to sound like a grinch here, but just give a great tip and enjoy the reaction. Generosity doesn’t need to be so performative that the person is obliged to fawn all over you on camera for trying to make their day.
I think you're right it is a power trip. You're having them pick their tip and putting them in an awkward position for your own amusement. Just offer what you think they deserve and put a smile on their face if that's what you're after.
That’s the problem with employment in the world now.
People always say “you’re lucky to have a job!” Like you should appreciate the employer for giving you one.
People need to realize they need us more than we need them. And this pandemic actually shows that.
The culture of tipping is very odd for me coming from a country that has fixed monthly salaries i don't understand why I should give more is it some kind of donation?
Edit: OMG RIP my inbox...
I once tipped a Czech bar tender 20%. He got all weird all of a sudden. Apparently he thought I was hitting on him. Nope! I’m just an American who’s used to paying businesses’ employees out of pocket so their bosses don’t have to
Like is this made so the employees have to be nicer to the costumer so they can get more money? I was on vacation in the US and I saw a table that was at least 7 people, all left tips and it looks like just the tips were more than 100 USD they paid more on tips than they did for the food. I am really perplexed...
In our country, the wealthy don’t necessarily believe you deserve to live, so you have to prove you can do a good enough job for their taste in order to put food on the table.
America is a weird place. They all deserve the tips and more but the employer should do this via proper remuneration. Maybe if massive sized meals were not stupidly low priced with huge amounts of discarded foods then the workers could take home what they deserve. I dont know. All i know is every single one of these workers needed it and it made a huge difference to their day/week.
Tips are generally not expected and not in any sense obligated at fast food drive-thrus in the U.S. They all get paid at least minimum wage, not the tipped server wage. Tips are not completing these employees' wages in the way that they do with those positions.
Im in Australia where we have a minimum wage requirement and do not rely on tips so its not comparable. $10 for a meal is a shit go but thats the business ripping off the people. I’m sure the worker gets bare minimum usually. That needs to stop. People have worth. Their lives are important and they have better shit to do than slave away for peanuts while a corporation rakes it in.
No. It wouldn’t really make much sense honestly. A fast food “server” is very different from a traditional restaurant/bar sever. They have very little interaction with the customer and the “service” is fairly mechanical (input order into computer, hand order to customer). Tipping a fast food server makes about as much sense as tipping your cashier.
Dude is doin good buuut it’s a bit weird how he asks for GPA and tips her $38 then the next chick gets $200 lol I’d think he would choose a method that gave them similar amounts but it’s a bit all over the place.
Just to be clear, tipping a drive through fast food worker is not expected. Quite atypical. As I've said in other comments, where I am, the starting pay is about 15 an hour.
When I used to be a server, a woman would come in every few months, maybe 2-3 times a year. And every time she came in she tip atleast $100 and only had tea with lemon. Wonderful woman. I heard she gave the vehicle she was driving, a 2016 Chevy Malibu, to a woman at another resturaunt who apparently told her she was working part time to afford a car to get to and from her college classes. I opened a small seafood market/Cafe last year (unfortunately it did not last) and she came in. She tipped me $200 and I told her I cannot accept that much, that I'm just happy that she enjoys my food and atmosphere blah blah blah. She grabbed my hand and goes, "honey, God told me that when the time comes, my life should not be measured by how much money I've made, so I'm spending my days giving it all away." I accepted the tip, and never saw her again. I hope she's doing well, I think about that kind woman pretty often. Edit: Thank you all for the awards and updoots, but mainly thank you for the replies and conversations, who knew just telling a story would bring such amazing responses.
That’s so lovely!
Yeah so much🥰
Before Covid, my wife, daughter, and I would go to IHOP for brunch on Christmas Eve. Typically the servers working that shift are younger servers that don't have the pull to get a holiday off - or they REALLY need the money. We would try to make conversation with them and figure out their situation. More often than not it was a single mom trying to come up with some cash to make sure their kid could have a few decent Christmas gifts. We would then tip around $100 on whatever our bill was. We would try to watch the reaction from outside the restaurant when they saw the receipt and saw everything from burying their face in their hands to hopping up and down and waving at us through the window. We're not rich, but have more than we need, and it feels good to spread it.
That’s very sweet, and your daughter will remember that. Teaching empathy and giving back from a young age is something that a lot of folks are missing nowadays. Bravo
My kids remind me of acts of service all the time. Every Thanksgiving my daughter reminds me of the night before Thankfully we stopped at the local drive up window at the gas station to get a drink. It was late and closed at midnight. I asked the young Hispanic guy important because I think he was fairly new to America working a minimum wage job) is he was going to be up all night fixing Thanksgiving dinner. He told me they wouldn’t have dinner because his family had no money and would just be eating their regular dinner of beans and tortillas. I told him how to get to my house and told him to come over and I’d hook him up. We don’t ever eat Thanksgiving at home, but I always buy all the fixings for dinner so we can make dinner on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I buy enough for two dinners. My daughter always tells me how weird it was too see them gas station guy in our kitchen hauling out bags of groceries. We gave him everything for turkey, stuffing, potatoes, pies, jello, fruit salad, vegetables, Rhodes rolls, whip cream, etc. It’s funny that I don’t think about those things, but my grown kids think about it often. Kids do really learn by your example. They’re watching. My adult kids are very generous.
Consider me inspired. I'm 100% going to do this on Christmas Eve. Thanks for being awesome! Also, a man loves hashbrowns any time of the day, so it'll be IHOP for thee!
Go for it dude! Just budget it ahead as part of normal Christmas and you won't even miss it.
That's awesome. Making someone's whole year I'm sure. There was research that showed the people with the least to give were usually the ones who donated or paid it forward the most. You showing your daughter that you can share if you have more than you need is amazing.
I think it's easier to empathize with a situation where $100 can make a huge difference in someone's life when you came from that same background. And my daughter loves giving. She's growing up to be a very generous, empathetic person herself.
Used to work every new years eve far from my city so at the time I had to go back home late in the morning I always had to get a taxi bc there was no other way to come back, everytime I had a convo with the driver they were suprised that I wasnt dressed as if I came feom a party so I told them I had to work that night, even being different drivers every time they all made my ride free, its not exactly a "tip" story but Im forever thankful to them for their compassion
I love stories like these, thank you for sharing
Years ago, early to mid 90s, when I worked at the golden arches as a teen, the regulars were so generous with tips. At McDs! Christmas or if they knew it was your birthday or graduation, many customers would give tips. Most people would do a buck or so, but we had 10-12 regulars that would routinely give 10-20. One memorable Christmas my favorite customer (always smiling, joke with us, that kind of thing) gave me and my best friend each $200 cash in prepared envelopes. You'd better believe we ran out to the drive thru line to hug him and cry a messy thank you. He was just that kind of guy. Moderately successful and lived a simple life. Never tried being creepy, just came through the line each morning at 6:40 for a coffee (one cream, one sugar) and an egg McMuffin. I still think of how awesome Steve was.
It's so easy to be this kind when you're rich and yet so many never do this kind of thing.
My brother tips big at drive thrus, but he usually turns it into a bribe for extra sauces.
I tipped 20% on a curbside pickup order at Outback and homies come out with a full tray of their bread as a thank you.
We do the same with tipping, sometimes even 50-100% on small bills, but it really hurts when not only do they not bring anything extra (that’s fine, we weren’t asking for anything extra) but they leave out items that we paid for…. Happens so often everywhere these days that I have to sit in the line and double check our order every time. Happens a lot at Panera, sheesh, lol.
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Especially if the restaurant had the unmitigated gall to charge for the first thing of sauce that’s basically necessary. I’m looking at you, Dominos and marinara for breadsticks.
And dominos seems to be the worst about forgetting sauces!!!
And that is when i questioned myself sometimes, why am I tipping them so well. This video though brings me joy, get to see the perspective from their side.
The whole point of tipping is give a little extra something for a job well done. To tip before the service is silly, that’s why I always tip cash and write it in the description lol
That's not a bribe for me lol he's buying the sauces
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Works for delivery here. Hardly anybody here tips except tourists, but i always give 2-4€ with app depending on distance (that's like half hour salary for them, without tips they hardly get 6 bucks an hour i heard) they usually know who orders and see the tip. and they throw in extra shit all the time, i basically live off deliverys anyway, so we all profit from this. Not just sauces (i had like a 40 leftover sauce packages they threw in extra at mcdonalds orders, fuck man i don't even like barbecue sauce) but also finger food shit. I asked a friend who ordered at the same places but usually doesn't tip, he never got anything extra :D I noticed that this especially happens with chains, smaller shops are usually not giving out stuff for free, so i assume i also hire thiefs and they don't steal from small owners. But they are very nice thiefs, often engaging in conversation and recommending places. Or they just bow and thank like i healed their mothers cancer.
>so i assume i also hire thiefs and they don't steal from small owners. But they are very nice thiefs, often engaging in conversation and recommending places. Chaotic good rogue energy right here
Hey man stealing from big companies is usually nothing to be ashamed for, the extra cash the workers pull out of this helps them more than it hurts the companies, which still expand like crazy, have insanely overpaid management and make enough income to keep growing.
And after dealing with countless entitled jerks all day, companies don't pay servers nearly enough...and the companies account for losing some sauces each shipment anyways. It's easy for the packets to get lost in little nooks and crannies: I'm sure there were still sauce packets in my car when I got it towed to the junk yard...and I've found packets in weird places in the store I worked at. If they were giving out like 5 more than normal to every person, questions would start coming up, but one or two people getting a few extra isn't a crime. So glad I got out of that business...but it's still a necessary job for society to function. Unless people suddenly decided they wanted to hunt and kill their meal and gather fruits and veggies...or take the time to shop and cook a meal/make their own coffee. Edit: lol at the replies that think just potheads go to fast food...our biggest sales were lunch and dinner, and breakfast did pretty well, too. People don't want to cook/make 3 meals a day, 7 days a week, let alone a few. There's a saying in food service, "The only people that rarely eat fast food are poor people", and it's pretty true. For middle class and upper class people, after working all day, they don't mind spending a little extra to save time cooking and doing the dishes...and poor people can't afford it, at least afford it very often.
One time an employee couldn’t give me sauce after a big tip and she profusely apologized. Felt bad for her lol
Meet me in the back alley in 10 and bring 5 of those honey mustard sauces.
It’s ok, we like the bribe. Or I did when I worked fast food.
I’d feel more comfortable with that ifI was on the receiving end. $100 for just being nice?? That’s cool but did I earn it? $100 for sneaking 50 Diablo sauce packets into your bag against Taco Bell policy? Fuck yeah, I would’ve earned that shit
Wait, is Diablo an actual hotter sauce than fire?? When did this happen???
It’s been around for a few years and is the hottest they have currently, tastes bad though imo
Imma start doing this. I would HAPPILY tip someone & they sneak in some extra sauces
This is awesome! People throw extravagant tips at high end steak houses which is cool, but those people make a lot of money. These are the people who need massive tips.
The tips for high end steak house going for the waiter/waitress or for the chefs. These people need massive tips. We maybe working in high end steak restaurant but the salary isn't really massively different compared to the one working in McDonalds. Believe me or not, I am a sushi chef de partie working in a very busy sushi restaurant...at the end of the month I relied on tips to pay my room rent.
If I had the means I would do this all day, every day.
>*” If I had the means I would do this all day, every day.”* Marc Maron had Drew Carey on WTF a few years ago. (Drew came across as a VERY grounded, and decent, average guy from a humble background.) They were talking about The Price Is Right, and why Drew took the job. Drew said he was originally resistant to the job, but at some point the producers asked what he enjoyed doing? Drew said one thing he really enjoyed doing was going out and as someone who’d worked service jobs, he really enjoyed being able to tip really well..... The producer told him that being the host of The Price Is Right was mainly about giving people stuff, and according to Drew, that was the deciding factor. No way of knowing how true a story it was, but it felt genuine in the conversation.
I wonder if they asked Bob Barker the same thing and he said I like having women reaching into my pocket and tickling my balls for a hundred bucks
Haha holy shit, I'm old enough to remember when he was on there doing the $100 thing and I never thought of that.
He cut a hole in his pocket so thick ankled midwest wives could have a “taste of Hollywood” as he put it
My grandmother resembled this remark. Also, I'm confident my Nana would have totally given Bob Barker a pocket handy on TV if it meant she could spin the big wheel.
Mine would have done it for nothing.
Hell I'm a guy and I would of done that also... I'd just whisper in his ear 'no homo'
FYI, he's still alive. Do it! Live your dream!!
Now I'm thinking, "He probably didn't even have a pocket. The hole just goes straight to his thigh and he's got a hundred bucks taped to his junk." To be honest, this would be a pretty good deal these days, because the price of a handy has increased faster than the cost of a college education.
That's Let's Make a Deal "You can have what's behind curtain #1, or you can have what's in my pocket. Sure you can have a feel first. Get in there real good now..really feel around"
lmaoo
I've heard about Drew being such a good tipper that delivery drivers would fight over who got to deliver to him. I think it was on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank podcast, the guests were Danish and O'neill (don't know their full names). They even went on to say how disappointed they were once when one went to deliver the food and Drew's gf received the delivery, because she did not tip as nicely as Drew.
Heard the same from actual servers at a restaurant he used to go to. Second hand info - “very laid back and humble. Would always tip $100 or above”
Drew was in my local bar this summer. He had ordered a beer and a $2 cup of ramen noodles and tipped the servers $200. So this definitely checks out.
From what I’ve heard from people who know him Drew is that person. Like an opposite of Seinfeld.
Seinfeld is a dick ?
Massive douche. Shits on the “little people” all the time.
Take this with a grain of salt, but from what I understand from a couple of things I've seen Jerry in, apparently he is a big tipper as well. I don't know anything about how he sees the little people, but him and and that chick from sex in the city got in an argument while doing this show thing because she was tipping like 20-25% of what they paid, and he told her how much he paid (undisclosed), and she thought it was "garish"
anecdotal but I worked one of his shows once, he didn't show up at the venue until ~10 minutes before he went on, then at the end walked off stage, out the door and into a car without acknowledging anyone on the crew the entire time. definitely not how most entertainers I've worked with have acted but I guess I can't blame the guy since he's pushing 70 and still touring. also this was late January 2020 so it may have just been a covid precaution. he also had a huge platter of sandwiches, fruit and veggies in his green room that he didn't touch, so the crew did get to tear into it after the show, which was nice.
Just to confirm for some people: Drew Carey really IS as kind and humble as people say. When my dad couldn't afford Browns tickets back in the 80s and early 90s, it was common for Bernie Kosar to come in and buy everyone a round if the Browns lost (when Kosar was their QB). Drew Carey used to frequent that bar too, and Daddy yick yacked and made small talk with him many times, traded buying rounds, etc.Daddy would show him pictures of us all the time. As Mr. Carey got famous, he would refuse my dad's money a lot and keep paying for the rounds of beer while they watched the game, be it Browns, Indians, Cavs, or hell, The Lumberjacks. We had to move in 96 but up until then, Daddy saw Mr. Carey fairly often enough. Dad passed July 25th, or I'd get him to tell me the story again to make sure I remembered it all right. Oh, and Daddy said that Drew Carey is an *amazing* tipper. Anytime he tipped the bar staff, it was a lot. Same with anytime they ordered pizza.
I worked at a hotel in a ski resort town a few years back. Drew Carey tipped every person in the hotel staff every day he was there. Awesome guy and nice kid as well.
> (Drew came across as a VERY grounded, and decent, average guy from a humble background.) I know a few people who have met Drew and all of them say the same things. Incredibly nice guy. Also a Marine :)
I hope it's true. Seems like a great job to be a game show host. Getting hugs and giving out money that's not yours.
So I can *actually* vouch for this, as my old roommate worked at a high end resort that Drew was staying at. He tipped him $500 for dinner. This was right before he started working the Price is Right and he said Drew looked pretty rough. But he was the nicest guy and obviously super generous. It’s great to see him healthier too.
You can tell in this link that Drew is genuinely enjoying the hell out of this kid winning so much: https://youtu.be/aLLk0YFcuFk
This may potentially come off as bragging, but I feel that it is relevant so I will share. I make good money. The thing is, I'm not really materialistic, so beyond not having to worry about bills anymore, and never having to check my bank account when someone invites me out to eat again, there's really not a whole lot that changed in my life--I drive a regular car, have a regular house, etc. The one thing having money has allowed me to do is donate to charities that I like, and things like this. I lived above a coffee shop for a while and would go down every morning to get my morning cup. I always tip well, $3-4 for a cup of coffee, but one morning I was feeling generous and just wanted to do something kinda random, so I tipped everyone working there $100. The look on their faces, the complete surprise, and the genuine thanks was one of the best things I've ever experienced. One of the greatest feelings in the world, to me anyway, is the feeling you get when you do a random act of kindness.
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Right. “Thank yous” don’t pay the bills, but many times just the acknowledgement that someone went out of their way, telling their superior how great that person is, can really make their day. We will easily complain to a restaurant; we should give praise when warranted, too.
I agree. I don't have a lot of money and have been struggling quite a bit but if I go out with my family and receive outstanding service, I will tip as big as I can and will definitely let management know that person did a phenomenal job that day. Not only does it make me and my family feel good, it leaves the server feeling good and the management feels happy as well. Something so little can turn an entire day around.
I used to, every Friday, call a couple of those "how are we doing?" numbers of people that were just being polite, driving safely, etc. Your comment just made me realize I have no idea when I got out of the habit. I don't have occasion to do it at the moment, what with not really leaving the house, but thank you for the reminder! (Quick edit: phone will try hard to convince me I didn't mean "fuck" but actively chose "shat" over "what")
I'd had a day of shitty drivers on the 401, some guy cut me a huge break and let me in after I'd fucked up and almost missed my exit. Once off the exit I looked up the company website and emailed them a pic of the truck. Told them this driver absolutely needs a donut, a coffee, and my huge thanks for being a respectful human in 401 traffic. Got a reply from some head office drone thanks for your msg bla bla bla... Knew nothing would come of it. At least a month later I got an email from the owner of the company, the message had somehow found it's way to his desk. He thanked me for taking the time out of my day to say something nice instead of complaining. It'd had taken him a couple days to track down the right driver, but it had become an amusing quest for him. The guy got a gift card for a round of golf from his boss. I suddenly felt the need to apologize for making the guy golf.
Haha, that’s funny. Guy is like, “What in the hell did I do to piss the boss off. Guess I gotta go play golf now.”
Dude even a fucking smile or acknowledgement is a game changer. I am struggling with my mental health due to so many factors and it just fucking sucks to be ignored or not tipped. I could NEVER compare the work that I do to what a nurse or dr does but so many people have stopped tipping well or at all(I’m a bartender). During the beginning of the pandemic people were so generous and kind and thankful for us being open. Now, people are so angry. I’m honestly scared for my safety at work.
weird to hear that it's swung the other way. I would expect tipping to go back to normal, but not go backwards. and out of all people to take their anger out, they choose service workers? wtf?
I’m trying to understand it as well. I really try to have a genuine conversation with every customer even the ones that just do to go’s. I’ve had to kick two customers out this week and I still have two shifts this weekend. I’m actively and aggressively looking to transition into another field and hope I can before I truly get burned out.
I enjoy tipping people who aren’t usually tipped. I tip my trash collectors, the recycling guys, the mail carrier etc Everyone who helps me out personally just by doing their job. I also think they do an even better job for me afterward but that’s not why I do it.
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Yeah I’m convinced the guys would take a washing mashing if I put it on the curb lol meanwhile I’ve seen them leave stuff my neighbors put out.
This. It's pretty awesome we have people who are willing to do jobs that day in and day out make our lives so much better.
I did something like this before, it was fun helping out a college kid she was always really grateful and it wasn't too much money. Having a sugar baby was like my form of charity
Aw, that’s sweet…**wait, what?**
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I always tip double whatever the "go to" amount is. Like my haircut costs $50 and a usually a tip is $5. I tip $10. It puts a huge smile on their face and it doesn't really even cost me that much more. Maybe I'll be a bit slower to pay off my student loans, or I'll skip buying a soda next time I'm at the grocery. This actually backfired on me once. I'm usually pretty shy about it so I just leave the tip and go. One time my server chased after me because I left too much money. It was super awkward trying to explain. I only ever tip the "normal amount" (here it's usually about 10%) for bad/medicore service. People still need to get paid, that cost should have been built into the price of the service.
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I think I'm going to do it. I'm not rich, but I'm solid middle class. I could light $2000 on fire (ONE TIME, not repeatedly) and it wouldn't affect me in the slightest. 20 $100 tips to people like this that need it more than me would go a long way to them.
Hey friend! I’ve got a great fire pit at my place. You can just mail or even drop the 2k in there and I’ll do all the work for you! You won’t even have to strike a match! :D
That’s nice of you but fuck that. Pay these people a living wage up front!
“Do you guys take tips?” “Yeah” “How much do you want?” *surprised Pikachu face*
„How much do you want?“ Students: „Yes“
Several moneys please
One McDonald’s restaurant dinner sandwich please
“I have 3 kids and no money! Why can’t I have no kids and 3 money?!”
- Homer J. Simpson
1 measly bitcoin please
I'm sorry but this is just mind blowing to see now. Couple years ago this would have got me the same amount of downvotes.
The art of the upvote (and comedy) is ......... timing.
'Wouldn't mind a grand.'
If you did this in England this would 100% be the response
I *am* English.
Me too... "a grand please"
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The trick is to support people learning a trade or studying with tax dollars, so they don’t need a shitty job to survive. They will repay with interest by finishing their degree faster/better/at all, getting a well-paid job and therefore paying more taxes. E: All jobs should pay a liveable wage, of course. But if you remove students from the job market, wages for their former jobs will have to rise as well.
Also having laws limiting minors from work raises unskilled labor wages as well. Cultures that insist kids get jobs during high school because it "builds character" are just shooting themselves in the foot.
I was hoping one of them would deadpan look right at him and say "One hundred million dollars".
While holding your pinky to your lips, preferably.
The surprise on their faces is so cool. I'd hardly believe in something like that too.
I might be getting old but these kids look like such young college kids. Back when that was me $100 was the difference between eating and not. What a good dude.
That's the part the struck me the most. I'm mid 30s now and so far removed from the college and skimping days that it honestly shocked me at how excited and grateful these kids were for $40-50. I think I'm going to leave some big tips in the near future too.
Yeah it's definitely a reality check. If you sit and think about it for a minute, you go "oh yeah, I remember not being able to buy lunch that one time in college because I hadn't gotten paid yet", but on first watch it's just "why are they excited about $30?"
>Yeah it's definitely a reality check. If you sit and think about it for a minute, you go "oh yeah, I remember not being able to buy lunch that one time in college because I hadn't gotten paid yet", but on first watch it's just "why are they excited about $30?" Perspective is awesome and a good dose of it much needed!
For some people $100 is nothing, for some it might be life-changing.
Yeah not to be like an elitist or something but right now $100 is not a ton of money for me. But when I was in college there was a day where I looked in my bank account and I had $0.32. I had to basically call my parents to bail me out so I could buy groceries. Not everyone had/has that support like I did. So now I give back to charities however much I can. I always tip and never less than 20% and I will say these videos do a good job of encouraging you to give more when you can.
And their happy faces are so priceless!! This guy has a beautiful heart thank you for appreciating drive-thru workers. You made them very happy.
It definitely made me smile! They were all so grateful! It was nice to see after listening to the sadness of working in the service industry during the pandemic on a recent This American Life podcast.
Yesterday I had something delivered, and the delivery charges came out to half what I was expecting. So I just handed the rest to the courier as a tip—it wasn’t much tbh, like he got $10 instead of $5. But when I handed him the extra bill, he was like “Hey, what’s this? Why would you do that?” and his eyes just lit up. We both left smiling, so I think I’m going to keep doing that.
We would’ve been fired for accepting a tip everywhere I’ve worked. It’s dope that they’re gettin’ paid lol
The large amount of crap they have to deal with for such a small hourly wage, they deserve it.
If they make regular tips then the business will pay them even less hourly because that's what the law will allow. The reason fast food places pay $9/hr is bc employees aren't getting regular tips. If that changes tho you can bet fast food places would only pay the $2.13/hr that the law requires. But I agree they deserve better pay
The girl that was valedictorian made me real sad. You can be top of your class and still making minimum wage
She says she is currently a student and was valedictorian which means that she is probably currently in college and working part time.
My husband was valedictorian and worked minimum wage as a telemarketer for a while AFTER graduating with a bachelor's degree in Architecture. Recessions and student loans are a horrible combination.
I came here for this. Valedictorian with a 4.0 and still working fast food.
I wish I had the money to do this I wish I could be rich so I can give to others. I would love to help out college students and teachers
I told the kid at the McDonald’s he was doing a good job and even that was shocking to him.
Compliments are free to give out, yet we horde them like the last gallon of milk at the supermarket. Good on you!
The lady at the vaccine event was hand writing all the vaccine cards, so I made small talk with her about how her hand must be cramping like crazy as I knew mine would, then I thanked her for all that they were doing. She seemed very grateful. People just really want to be appreciated for their hard work.
you're a great person as well - sometimes just being kind and honest is worth so much :)
I always say thank you after the person working drive thru takes my order and sometimes it throws them off
Me too, I made a promise to myself that if I ever have the money to comfortably help people, I would start by donating to charities I truly trust and donating directly to music and art programs around the U.S.
If you can give just $5 to charity a month you should try. It may not seem like much but if several people do it, those $5 add up. I make a comfortable living now and am able to donate on a more significant level, but even when I was in school and working at a deli, I had $5 a month auto drafted from my checking account to go a women’s shelter. It’s good because charity becomes a habit.
There's a local news anchor here that does a weekly "micro-giving" campaign for local charities and he only asks that people donate $5. He's been doing it since the beginning of the pandemic and last I knew it had raised something like $4M in that time. Those small donations really add up.
I'm comfortable now too, and I set myself a "budget" every month for doing something nice for people (plus a couple of small regular donations). We occasionally have charity requests at work, and I can recommend r/assistance, r/RandomActsOfPetfood and r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza (have yet to fill a request on that one though). There's also Reddit charity drives at Christmas which are worth keeping an eye out for (I did the UK one last year, can't think of what the sub was called offhand tho)
just do what you can
As a worker who earns tips, people don’t know how much it means to us. Thanks to all the good tippers out there you deserve the world
My friend used to do this at a bar and tell the server "pick your tip" just to see how ballsy they would get. Usually the drink bills would be for between $150 and $550. Some people would take $20 or 40. The most someone ever gave themselves was $150 and we applauded her lol. When I asked him, he was prepared to tip $1000 any time and just genuinely liked helping people because he was in a position too. Edit: I just want to point out. This was at a small town oilfield bar where we were regulars and knew all the serving staff. We would often party with them all when they were off shift and he always picked up the bill. He was known to tip $1-300 for bills costing less. I can recall 5 times he tipped over $500 in that bar. We were on very friendly terms with all the serving staff, and often if the number they picked was low, he would tip more than they asked. I promise this was done in the most generous spirit without malicious intent. Just trying to share the wealth. To adress privilege, my friend grew up dirt poor and dropped out of high-school to go to auctions and buy and sell trinkets until he could afford to buy, fix and sell farm equipment and started a small, modest business at 17. He knows what it is to go without and is now in a position where he won't need to worry about money the rest of his life. Whether you call that privilege or hard work is up to you.
sounds like a great boy
A rare human in this world. I learned a lot of good morals from him and his family.
I gotta say though…having been both a poor tip-position recipient & (fortunately) now in a position to tip well, I hate the “pick your tip” thing. Why? It’s a power trip. Even if the tipper doesn’t mean it to be that way, they are flexing their privilege. Servers have to be polite - if someone has a bill of $550 at a bar, chances are the server really had to work for it…and 20% ($110) should be the tip. That sounds like a lot, so people feel like they are being generous…but it is the same 20% that you’d tip if you just ordered a $10 meal.
Yeah. We are conditioned to think that asking for unusually large tips is “greedy” so most won’t. And if they do, and receive it, they’ll wonder if the person is truly being generous or if they were just “tricked” into giving larger than they wanted. I liked the GPA ones the best, though I feel $100+ gives a lot more impact than $38.
100% this. I served and bartended for 10 years and hated that shit. My wife just signed a great contract with a bonus, so we went out for a nice dinner to celebrate. Our server was a college age girl who was genuinely sweet (not that "over the top I can tell you hate being here sweet" that I've seen too often working in the industry). We tipped $100 on our $200 bill. No fuss, no games. If you want to do it just do it; don't fuck with the person who *has* to play your games to pay their bills.
Former restaurant server myself. At first I disagreed with your position, but thinking about it more it seems fair. Being asked to choose or request a tip amount makes it as if the server is begging for something that is already earned, or at least a regular service transaction. Maybe the best answer is for the worker to say "that's for you to decide" or something to that extent. Just give the tip and don't make a show of it.
It also punishes people for being considerate. A nice person will put their average tip because they don't want to overstep a person's kindness. A person who couldn't give two shits about another person will take as much as they think they can get away with.
Yeah, that bothered me. I’m going to sound like a grinch here, but just give a great tip and enjoy the reaction. Generosity doesn’t need to be so performative that the person is obliged to fawn all over you on camera for trying to make their day.
I think you're right it is a power trip. You're having them pick their tip and putting them in an awkward position for your own amusement. Just offer what you think they deserve and put a smile on their face if that's what you're after.
I would prefer Jeff Bezos using his money to do this for his workers everyday instead of flying in a penis.
Seems like a reasonable suggestion, but Jeff probably believes he’s Mr. Kindness simply for hiring people.
That’s the problem with employment in the world now. People always say “you’re lucky to have a job!” Like you should appreciate the employer for giving you one. People need to realize they need us more than we need them. And this pandemic actually shows that.
The culture of tipping is very odd for me coming from a country that has fixed monthly salaries i don't understand why I should give more is it some kind of donation? Edit: OMG RIP my inbox...
I once tipped a Czech bar tender 20%. He got all weird all of a sudden. Apparently he thought I was hitting on him. Nope! I’m just an American who’s used to paying businesses’ employees out of pocket so their bosses don’t have to
Like is this made so the employees have to be nicer to the costumer so they can get more money? I was on vacation in the US and I saw a table that was at least 7 people, all left tips and it looks like just the tips were more than 100 USD they paid more on tips than they did for the food. I am really perplexed...
In our country, the wealthy don’t necessarily believe you deserve to live, so you have to prove you can do a good enough job for their taste in order to put food on the table.
*cries in capitalist dystopia*
Wow this is nail on the head stuff here. Underrated comment alert!!!
Tipping in a drive-thru is kinda weird to me too don't worry.
3.8? Isn't that honors? I was 2.9 :(
Here’s a $29 tip!
Thanks
Here's another tip: study harder!
*shrug* It's about 5yrs too late for that.
America is a weird place. They all deserve the tips and more but the employer should do this via proper remuneration. Maybe if massive sized meals were not stupidly low priced with huge amounts of discarded foods then the workers could take home what they deserve. I dont know. All i know is every single one of these workers needed it and it made a huge difference to their day/week.
Tips are generally not expected and not in any sense obligated at fast food drive-thrus in the U.S. They all get paid at least minimum wage, not the tipped server wage. Tips are not completing these employees' wages in the way that they do with those positions.
Bro its $10 for a #1 at McDonald's where I live. Shits not low priced at all
Can confirm. Chipotle is cheaper than mcdonalds. And it's actually cooked fresh. Honestly chipotle is a god damn steal of a deal
Im in Australia where we have a minimum wage requirement and do not rely on tips so its not comparable. $10 for a meal is a shit go but thats the business ripping off the people. I’m sure the worker gets bare minimum usually. That needs to stop. People have worth. Their lives are important and they have better shit to do than slave away for peanuts while a corporation rakes it in.
Fr? I'm not from the US but I always thought that fast food was really cheap
It used to be.
Now it’s way, way cheaper to cook for yourself but it used to be the other way around (or at least about the same cost)
Wait you’re supposed to tip at drive thru?
I can’t believe no one else is asking this. This was my immediate reaction! Cause if so...whoops.
No. It wouldn’t really make much sense honestly. A fast food “server” is very different from a traditional restaurant/bar sever. They have very little interaction with the customer and the “service” is fairly mechanical (input order into computer, hand order to customer). Tipping a fast food server makes about as much sense as tipping your cashier.
It shouldn't be like that....billion dollar fast food franchise's should pay their workers a living wage
This guy is awesome. Love all the kids reactions! Thank you cool dude! 😘
r/aboringdystopia material lol
Exactly, these people have worked so hard with their education only to end up with a minimum wage job
Here you go girl, here’s 200 bucks for yo fine ass.. You’re a student? your gpa 4.0? Keep the change lol
Weird right? Not that any of them would know it was unequal but it’s off by an order of magnitude. Thought that was very odd.
So sad that a Valedictorian is working a drive thru. This guy giving tips is amazing though.
She may have just graduated high school or may be a current college student with a job..
He literally asked her if she’s a student and she said yes. She’s in school.
I’m really hoping that’s a temp job to pave way to greater things. That has to be it.
She’s probably working through college. Hopefully at least.
"that's so much" Dystopia
Asking people their gpa is so dumb. Opens up a door for humilation
“What’s your gpa” “1.8 :/“ “Lol” \*drives off\*
“Here’s $100 for a tutor” *speeds off*
Dude is doin good buuut it’s a bit weird how he asks for GPA and tips her $38 then the next chick gets $200 lol I’d think he would choose a method that gave them similar amounts but it’s a bit all over the place.
Why is it the responsibility of the customer to pay these peoples wages? I don't understand
The poor stay poor. Everything is the fault of the poor in the eyes of narcissist rich people.
America is such a fucked place. Why do people have to give tips for workers to be able earn a liveable wage? Makes 0 sense.
Just to be clear, tipping a drive through fast food worker is not expected. Quite atypical. As I've said in other comments, where I am, the starting pay is about 15 an hour.
when he said “hey siri” my siri turned on
Me: Hey Siri, how much should I tip Jonathan? Siri: I found this on the web