Unless you work in a restaurant, you may not have noticed that many restaurants no longer include “automatic gratuities” on the checks of large groups. But if you do work in a restaurant, this little change may have left you financially destroyed.
It’s often said that you can’t pick your family, and the 2015 corollary is “and you can’t pick the insane bullshit they post on Facebook.” Like your idiot cousin’s receipt for $71 from Joe’s Crab Shack with the hilarious joke “find sour cream” scrawled in the tip line.
Yesterday, it was announced that New York state will raise its minimum wage for tipped workers by a hefty 50%, to $7.50 an hour. This is one small step toward ending the tyranny of tipping.
A new campaign launched by the hotel chain Marriott—a company that reported $13 billion in revenue last year—encourages customers to leave a tip for the maids who clean hotel rooms. What could possibly be objectionable about that?
Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy admitted Thursday that he left a 20 cent tip—not 20 percent, but twenty hundredths of one American dollar—on a $60 restaurant bill, but he did not apologize. In fact, he said he'd do the same thing again.
Kendall Jenner, professional Kardashian, passed the Turing Test this weekend by leaving a 30 percent tip on an expensive meal, proving herself indistinguishable from an actual human customer. Inexplicably, no one has presented her or her creator, artificial intelligence pioneer Kris Jenner, with a goddamn medal.
A waitress at a North Carolina Waffle House got the surprise of her life last month when a customer on her overnight shift left her a $1,000 tip, but her joy quickly turned to disappointment when Waffle House forced her to return the money.
The other night my roommate ordered pizza. She asked me to sign for her pizza, which she paid for by credit, while she went outside to smoke immediately before the it was scheduled to arrive. I didn't want to but said sure.
Abigail Sailors nearly missed out on the tip of a lifetime because she's simply too damn happy.
When she found $1,000 on a chair in her section, Florida waitress Samantha Knight knew the right thing to do would be to track its owner down and return it to him. There was no way she could have known the man she chased after and handed the wad of cash to was the wrong person.
An anonymous Good Samaritan has been traveling around the US since at least September leaving thousands of dollars worth of tips wherever they go.
Dayna Morales, the New Jersey waitress and former Marine who received a hateful note in lieu of a tip, has now received thousands of dollars in donations. But in order to "pay it forward," Morales has chosen to donate all of the money to the Wounded Warrior Project.
It takes a special kind of asshole to deny a server a tip, but the world is filled with special assholes, lacking brains and compassion but wielding credit cards, pens, and a holy sense of self-righteousness.
A server at a Carrabba's Italian Grill in Kansas was shocked to find a note left behind by a pair customers praising him for his excellent service, but denying him a tip due to his "homosexual lifestyle."
Getting lotto tickets in lieu of a tip is nothing like the movies — unless you take home the jackpot, that is.
Looking to get back on the Internet's good side after a couple of prank videos that were deemed a bit rapey, LAHWF and his buddy Stuart Edge armed themselves with a whole bunch of 20 dollar bills and went around to a few late-night diners in Orem, Utah, to leave behind some "record-setting" tips.
A waitress at a Red Lobster in Tennessee posted this photograph of a receipt left from her customers with a special, racist note written in the total portion.
It's been almost exactly one year since Seth Collins started his quest to honor his late brother Aaron's dying wish: "Leave an awesome tip (and I don’t mean 25%. I mean $500 on a fucking pizza) for a waiter or waitress."
The New York Times' "Room for Debate" online feature is grappling with the news that Sushi Yasada Yasuda—where lunch bills seem to run in the triple figures—has implemented a no-tipping policy, because it pays its staff full salary and benefits, as is the "custom in Japan."
Midtown Manhattan sushi joint Sushi Yasuda, acclaimed for its authentic Japanese dining experience, is taking its Far East ambiance a step further — by eliminating tips.
