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kleinbl00  ·  3537 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Julian Baggini: To tip or not to tip?

    One example is coffee shop / fast food workers, who rarely get equivalent of 20% in the tip jar (even adjusted for the many more customers they serve in an hour).

My ass. If you don't put a dollar in the tip jar for buying a $3 cup of coffee in Los Angeles you get a dirty look. McDonald's? Sure. But then, they don't have tip jars. They also aren't minimum-wage exempt - McDonald's has no servers, nor does Chipotle, nor does Burger King. Pizza Hut? Back when they still had wait staff, they got tipped.

The two most revered fast food franchises I know of are Dick's and In'n'Out. Both companies pay their employees very well. Neither allow tipping.