US Edition‘Tip-Flation’: As Suggested Tips Increase, Business Practices Under Scrutiny
- Suggested tip prompts have increased since restaurants and cafés reopened after the pandemic, causing growing irritation among Canadians.
- This trend reflects business practices that keep workers dependent on tips while maintaining low base wages, with only 5.8% of food service workers unionized in 2024.
- In British Columbia, employers must pay servers at least a $17.85 minimum wage, but servers still rely heavily on tips for additional income during short shifts.
- Ian Tostenson stated, "It shouldn't be contingent on service — if you do your job, you should get paid," while UBC sociologist Amy Hanser described tipping as shifting wage burdens to customers.
- The rise of suggested tips raises questions about fair pay and business ethics, yet Hanser believes Canadians are not ready to abandon tipping practices.
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Texas Man Declines Tipping His Starbucks Barista After She Makes This Error. Then She Calls Him Out For It
As any frequent diner will eagerly tell you, tipping has taken over the dining experience. One generally used to only expect to tip at a sit-down restaurant. Now, people find themselves being prompted for tips in more places—and in higher amounts—than they ever have before. Experts call this growth in tipping culture “tipflation,” and one can find evidence of it across social media. No matter what platform one is on, there are stories of people …
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The moments after a server or barista hands over a credit card reader can be awkward. Will it offer tip options starting at 20 per cent? Will the server stare daggers at me if I don't tip? Tips used to be more private. Dropped in a cup, or calculated after the bill came. Now suggested tips are on th...
Tipping is becoming more and more of a science these days. While just a few years ago satisfied customers would tip waiters or bartenders in cash, today it is increasingly being asked for by the touchscreen at a self-service kiosk. Thanks to technological advances, tipping has become a chaotic mix of unspoken rules.
‘Tipflation:’ The increasing errors of applicable tipping– DW– 07/05/2025
Frank Sinatra was understood for providing providing crew crunchy $100-bill pointers. That was an extended time period in the past when 100 bucks truly implied one thing. What are the rules for tipping at this time, and why are shoppers puzzled? Many people wouldn’t hesitate about tipping a steward in an ideal eating institution, the beautician, a superb bartender or the doorperson lugging hefty baggage with a busy resort. These are eventualitie…
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