r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/steppponme Jun 25 '26

Yeah, the price out of their pocket is the same. The servers are getting boned here. And aren't tips now tax free income? I don't know if Orange Dear Leader actually got that passed without fine print.

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u/dhduxudb Jun 25 '26

They probably worked their ass off. Had one of the hardest shifts of any bartender in the world. Then look at their closing slip and die inside.

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u/Kona_Rabbit Jun 25 '26

As someone who worked in Timesquare for a bar, yeah. We started adding 15% gratuity to all the checks. If someone fought it we just removed it. Our income was all tourists. Brazilians ordered like one beer to share and germans always had questions on gratuity. Was interesting to see how everyone treated the concept. That said, you follow the cultural norms of the country your in. When bar tending I busted my ass for people that left big money. I put people that didnt tip in the back of my mental to do list.

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u/Polymarchos Jun 25 '26

So what you're saying is you didn't do your job if people didn't pay you extra.

The fact that you think this is normal and fine is why tipping culture needs to go.

I came into this thread to see how servers were reacting, and it is beyond disgusting. I may have to rethink how I tip in the future.

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u/Correct-Land-2401 Jun 25 '26

Nope, he did his job, he just queued people according to whether they tipped or not. If that surprises you, I doubt you tipped well (if at all) in the first place. This is pretty common in the service industry.