{"id":2405,"date":"2025-07-17T18:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:42:33","slug":"tipping-counter-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/tipping-counter-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipping for counter service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the States, which already had a large and diverse (some would say\u00a0<em>annoying<\/em>) set of interactions which <em>de facto <\/em>required substantial tips (e.g., 15 to 20% of the purchase price), tips are now also requested (though not yet required) for food and\/or drinks purchased at the counter. Hip cafes have long had tip jars (with no particular expectation that one uses them), and one is expected to tip the bartender at least a dollar for an alcoholic drink purchased, but the new thing is that anywhere with an iPad-based payment system also requests a percentage tip.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people are dismayed by this. I for one select &#8220;no tip&#8221; or &#8220;0%&#8221; or whatever the majority of the time. But the new &#8220;turning around the iPad&#8221; normal doesn&#8217;t bother me either; at worst it&#8217;s a small, progressive tax transferring money from easily-influenced (rule-following? introverted?) consumers making luxury food purchases to counter-service employees who probably need the money more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the States, which already had a large and diverse (some would say\u00a0annoying) set of interactions which de facto required substantial tips (e.g., 15 to 20% of the purchase price), tips are now also requested (though not yet required) for food and\/or drinks purchased at the counter. Hip cafes have long had tip jars (with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/tipping-counter-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tipping for counter service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-language","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}