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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
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Dave Ramsey Says He Tips Well, But Draws The Line At The iPad Spin. He Calls It A Guilt Trip That's 'Nickel-And-Diming You To Death'
Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey says he's generous with tipping, but there's one thing he won't do: tip when an iPad screen is flipped at him. 'You can flip that screen at me all you want. I'm not tipping,' Ramsey said in a recent episode of 'The Ramsey Show.' However, the hosts went into the nitty-gritty. Tipping Expectations Vs. Guilt Trips The discussion started with a listener's question about when tipping is appropriate in today's world, especially for people who aren't yet financially secure. Co-host Jade Warshaw chimed in first, saying tipping has changed a lot since the pandemic. 'I definitely feel like since the pandemic, tipping has kind of gone into the stratosphere,' Warshaw said, adding that people now face tipping fatigue. Don't Miss: Be part of the breakthrough that could replace plastic as we know it—invest in Timeplast before the July 31st deadline and help revolutionize a $1.3T industry. $100k+ in investable assets? – no cost, no obligation. Ramsey agreed, emphasizing the difference between genuine service and what he views as passive attempts to squeeze out extra money. 'This spin the iPad around is not an exchange,' he said. 'It's a manipulation. I got zero obligations.' Both Warshaw and Ramsey agreed that restaurant servers, hair stylists, and other hands-on service workers deserve tips—and good ones. 'Whenever you're in a restaurant situation where you're sitting down, you're placing an order, there's somebody attending to your table, you should always tip,' Warshaw said. She personally tips 22% and suggests at least 18% as a baseline. Ramsey added, 'Tipping falls in the bucket with generosity. I overdo it to the point that my wife cringes.' Trending: This AI-Powered Trading Platform Has 5,000+ Users, 27 Pending Patents, and a $43.97M Valuation — When Tipping Isn't Required But for counter service, the expectations change. Ramsey said he doesn't tip at places like Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) or Chick-fil-A. 'I'm driving through, you're handing me the Jesus chicken out and I'm gone,' he said. And when he picks up food himself? Still no tip. 'I drove. I walked in the rain, got the queso, got in the truck, went to the house. No, we don't tip that,' he said. He also criticized guilt-based donation requests at checkout lines. 'Do you want to give to the wounded pet association or something? No. If I wanted to give to the wounded pet association, I would have already given them money.' Ramsey said he refuses to tack it onto his grocery total just so the store can claim the charitable Generosity Still Matters Despite drawing hard lines, Ramsey emphasized kindness toward workers who are actually providing a service. He tips hotel housekeeping $20 per day, not just at the end of a stay. He tips valets up front and sometimes again when picking the car back up. And he encourages people to tip delivery drivers well, especially if they say they're working to get out of debt. 'They're bringing you food in the rain while you're sitting on your butt. So double their tip, man,' he said. Warshaw agreed. 'When you go to actual restaurants, I feel like, if you can't afford to leave a nice tip, you shouldn't go,' she said. 'No, that's for sure. Because those people are working for tips,' Ramsey added. In the end, Ramsey says tipping should be based on real service and not social pressure. 'It's nickel-and-diming you to death,' he said of the guilt-based tactics. Read Next: Here's what Americans think you need to be considered Next: Transform your trading with Benzinga Edge's one-of-a-kind market trade ideas and tools. Click now to access unique insights that can set you ahead in today's competitive market. Get the latest stock analysis from Benzinga? STARBUCKS (SBUX): Free Stock Analysis Report This article Dave Ramsey Says He Tips Well, But Draws The Line At The iPad Spin. He Calls It A Guilt Trip That's 'Nickel-And-Diming You To Death' originally appeared on © 2025 Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved. Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
CTV News
15-07-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Montreal diners more demanding but better tippers than most of Canada: poll
A poll found that Montreal diners are most demanding in the country, but also that they tip the most. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press) A Montreal-based commerce software company wanted to better understand what people who go to restaurants expect and how that affects the tip they leave. In Montreal, expectations are high, and they hate rude service, but restaurant-goers from the island out-tip those from other provinces in Canada, according to Lightspeed Commerce's poll. 'Lightspeed's latest poll clearly shows that for Montreal diners, the experience is paramount,' said Lightspeed president J.D. Saint-Martin. 'They're not just looking for a meal; they're expecting professional, fast service in a clean environment. Restaurants that fail to deliver on these fundamental aspects risk losing a significant portion of their clientele.' Lightspeed's poll of around 7,000 diners found that Montrealers want fast and civil service in a clean spot. What bothers them most? Rude service: 37 per cent. Cold food: 29 per cent. Long wait for service: 27 per cent. Sticky tables or menus: 22 per cent. Lightspeed said it polled seven countries and five cities, and found that Montrealers were at the top of the list of those who said rude service was the most unbearable, so much so that nearly half will not return if service is not up to par. 'Rude servers took the lead in the reason for Montrealers to not return to a restaurant, with 48 per cent saying they would never return due to this,' the company said in a news release. 'Twenty-nine per cent said they have left a restaurant before being served due to slow service.' More demands, more tips However, for those servers that meet demanding Montreal diners' standards, they get rewarded, according to the poll. Over a third (35 per cent) of those polled said they are willing to tip between 15 and 20 per cent, compared with 29 per cent for the rest of the country. The majority of Canadians, the poll found, go between 10 and 15 per cent. Natacha Bianchet is a server at Brutopia Brewpub on Crescent Street in downtown Montreal. She serves a lot of tourists and does not agree that Montreal patrons out-tip other Canadians. 'I personally think that maybe Quebec doesn't have that big of a tipping culture, perhaps more of the European influence,' she said. 'When we get European tourists, they're not used to tipping, and I think that reflects in Quebec as well. For sure, Americans tip very well. It's ingrained that most of them would be an automatic 20 per cent.' Bianchet agrees that service should be fast and efficient and knows that to do the job well means more gratuity. However, this is not always the case. 'I do think it makes the job more stressful,' she said. 'For example, I know my service is good, and I know the people that I work with, all the service is great. I think also tipping comes down to personal preference, too, and at the end of the day, someone can tell you that your service was amazing and that they're coming back, but then still not tip well... You don't know what you're going to make at the end of the day. You don't know what you're going to make per month, but that's also part of the territory.' It should be noted that the minimum wage for servers in Quebec is $12.90, while it's $16.10 for non-tipped jobs. Bianchet hopes clientele realize that tipping is more complicated than just giving extra cash to a server who does a good job. 'If there's a $15 tip, not all $15 is going to me,' she said. 'It's much more nuanced than that, and I'm only getting a small percentage at the end of the day of that $15, and every bar and restaurant works differently. It's more complicated than they think it is, and it's not free money being handed to me, for sure. We're being taxed on it. Some places we share it, we split the tip, so yeah, at the end of the day, it's much less that the server is walking home with than they think we are.' The poll also found that 33 per cent of Montrealers are willing to pay more for their meal if tips are eliminated. The national average for that was 30 per cent. 'While Montrealers may be demanding in their attention to service, cleanliness and speed, they are clearly willing to reward the efforts of those that deliver,' said Saint-Martin. 'This suggests a genuine appreciation for excellent service, which is a powerful incentive for restaurants to invest in technology to empower their staff, giving them more time to focus on the customer experience.' Lightspeed's poll also found that half of diners are going solo (up from 43 per cent a year prior). The reason? Self care (47 per cent), enjoyment (43 per cent) and work lunches (24 per cent). 'Solo diners enjoy people watching (34 per cent) and finding a moment for some peace and quiet (34 per cent) equally. Thirty per cent are also interested in solo dining so they can try new menu items,' the company said.
Fox News
15-07-2025
- Fox News
Man takes tip back after being publicly 'scolded and humiliated' by waitress
A waitress at an Italian restaurant apparently humiliated a customer in front of a full dining room, prompting him to take his tip back, according to an online forum. The 32-year-old man shared the story on Reddit, asking if he was wrong about retrieving the cash after a dinner date went sideways. "This occurred a few nights ago, and I just can't believe it happened the way it did," he wrote in his post last week. He and his 29-year-old girlfriend had dined at the restaurant before, he said. It wasn't fancy but was good for a "relaxed evening" over a glass of wine, he said. But on this particular night, the service was poor, he said. The waitress allegedly "lost" his drink twice, brought him and his girlfriend the wrong appetizer and "vanished for what seemed like an eternity" when they wanted to order dessert. He paid and left a 10% cash tip, which he felt was "reasonable given the circumstances," he said. "We were just standing up to leave when [the waitress] came over, took the cash and said, 'Seriously? This is it?'" he continued. "She had said it audibly. A few people at some nearby tables turned around and stared." He said he was dumbfounded. "Then she muttered, 'Whatever, cheapskates.'" "Then she added, 'You know, servers can't pay their rent because of people like you … If you can't tip properly, don't dine out.'" The man said that others in the restaurant fell silent as his girlfriend recoiled in embarrassment, but he remained calm and told the waitress, "Sorry you feel that way." But then she muttered, "Whatever, cheapskates." That was the last straw for the baffled boyfriend. He went back to the table, pocketed his cash tip and "left without another word." "I feel like [being] scolded and humiliated on account of a 10% tip that I actually did leave is way out of bounds," he said. His girlfriend later told him his reaction was "fine," but a friend said he went too far. So he took to Reddit, asking others if he was wrong "for retrieving the tip after she yelled at us in front of everyone in the restaurant." "She expected and then demanded a good tip for a crappy job." Many users sided with him and said they wouldn't have left a tip either. "She expected and then demanded a good tip for a crappy job," one person wrote. "You were nice enough to leave her something, but she wanted to be ungrateful." Said another person, "The whole point of a tip is to be an incentive for the server to do good work." Others shared how they would have handled the situation. "I would've told her, 'Tip reflects your service,'" one commenter said. "I would probably have pointed out why the tip was not higher," said another. "And I would also contact the restaurant to speak to a manager because that server was way out of line." But not everyone agreed. "Tipping 10% is insane," commented one person. "You are cheap." Another Redditor said the "petty" move might have punished co-workers pooling tips with her. "The server could've been having a rough shift and having her manager speak to her might have helped her," the person added. Nick Leighton, host of the podcast "Were You Raised By Wolves?" and a New York-based etiquette expert, agreed a manager should be brought in. "When service issues are so egregious they warrant leaving a less-than-standard tip amount, it's ideal to loop in a manager first before exacting revenge on the server," Leighton told Fox News Digital. "Simply walking away would have been the move." "There are, many times, issues [that] are actually beyond the control of the server," Leighton said. So "the manager can help provide a more fair resolution for everyone involved." While calling the customer a "cheapskate" wasn't warranted, taking back the tip "certainly escalated the situation," Leighton added. "Simply walking away would have been the move," he advised. Fox News Digital reached out to the original poster for comment.
Times of Oman
06-07-2025
- Business
- Times of Oman
'Tipflation:' The growing pitfalls of proper tipping
Berlin: Frank Sinatra was known for giving serving staff crispy $100-bill tips. That was a long time ago when a hundred dollars really meant something. What are the rules for tipping today, and why are customers confused? Many people wouldn't think twice about tipping a waiter in a nice restaurant, the hairdresser, a good bartender or the porter carrying heavy luggage through a busy hotel. These are situations with clear, long-standing norms in many countries. But what about the barista at Starbucks? Or the person taking your order at a fast-food takeaway window? What about a self-service kiosk? To tip or not to tip? Most historians agree that tipping started in medieval Europe with aristocrats handing out gratuities to servants or those who worked their land. By the 19th century, the idea was disappearing in Europe but had arrived in the US. Later, it was re-exported around the world. Today, people tip for any number of reasons: To feel better about themselves, to impress others, to help make up for paltry service-staff pay or because they are asked to. Tipping is primarily driven by motivations to help servers or reward good service, says Michael Lynn, a professor of services marketing at Cornell University in the United States, who studies tipping. Others tip to fulfill a perceived obligation to tip, Lynn told DW. Still others are more self-interested. These people tip to gain or maintain future preferential service or social approval, said Lynn, who is currently writing a book on the subject slated to be called "The Psychology of Tipping: Insights for Service Workers, Managers and Customers." Digital tipping: How did we get here? Now new technology is changing how and where tips are expected. In the past, a few dollars were left on the restaurant table or small change was put in the tip jar next to the cash register. Increased card use, apps and touch-screen payment systems have added tipping options — and more confusion for customers. "We have seen an explosion in tip requests, though the tip amounts have not changed drastically," says Ismail Karabas, an associate professor of marketing at Kentucky's Murray State University. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses moved further away from cash and switched to contactless and online payments, and the point-of-sales companies that provide these digital devices decided to include a tip request. "The tip request is already embedded in the process, so the businesses have to opt out of this option. Many did not, for various reasons, and then we started experiencing tip request inflation across the board," Karabas, who specializes in services marketing, tipping and advertising, told DW. The design of not opting out When customers are presented with pre-calculated tips of 15%, 20% or 25% what should they do? Just hit one of the buttons and get it over with, take the time to add in their own amount or leave nothing while looking directly at the cashier? Customers often just choose a pre-set tip option instead of holding up the line. This gives tech designers a lot of influence over tipping. Lynn argues that the question of how the design of interfaces affects tipping is a "hot new area of research." "Increasing the ask size of tip options increases the amount given — even though it can decrease the proportion of people leaving a tips," he said. Designers have an incentive to make tipping the default option and make it harder to opt out of tipping. Anyone who wants to opt out is forced to fumble around or ask how to do it. "More tips mean better income for employees, but also for the tech designers because they charge a fee per transaction that goes through their systems," Karabas added. What do tippers actually think? A survey by YouGov done in May 2023 in the US, UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and Italy showed that the overwhelming majority of restaurant tippers in these countries would tip 5-10% and not much more. The US was an outlier with two-thirds of tippers adding 15% or more. The survey also found that many Americans would leave a tip at a restaurant despite poor or terrible service. Another survey on American tipping culture by the Pew Research Center published in November 2023 looked into tipping and so-called tipflation in the US. The Pew report found that 72% of adults say tipping service workers is indeed expected more often than compared to five years ago. Additionally, only 34% of the adults polled said it is extremely or very easy to know when it is actually appropriate to tip. A few tips for tricky situations How to deal with this new tipping culture? First, know where you are. What is the local situation and how are staff paid. Are they earning a minimum wage where a tip is a gratuity on top? Or do they get a much smaller sub-minimum wage and therefore rely on tips to subsidize their take-home pay? In some places in the US, this sub-minimum wage for tipped workers can mean earning just $2.13 (€1.84) an hour. Knowing how much people earn can help when deciding if and how much of a tip to leave. Second, take time to understand the system. Once you know the local norms and wage situation, then you can deal with the actual tipping technology, like calculating what that 25% button really means in dollars and cents. Don't be pressured by the line behind you or the group sitting at the table with you — though admittedly this is probably the hardest part, especially if it is a date. Don't tip out of guilt either. "Guilt tipping leaves a bad impression on customers, makes them irritated about the request, and less likely to return to the same establishment," said Karabas.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Server admits to shameless ‘single mom' lie for bigger tips — and other bizarre fibs frequently told
Show her the money! Aislin Parker, a waitress in San Diego, recently revealed the hack that helps her rake in some extra cash during her shifts. She posted a video to her TikTok, @aislinmarie, where she told viewers that she added a baby photo to her server book in the hopes that restaurant patrons would assume the child is her daughter — boasting that they repeatedly fall for the ruse, hook, line and sinker. 'She's six, I had her when I was 19,' she tells her clientele, inventing a full narrative, 'and her dad didn't want to stay.' According to Parker, her hack is working. Naturally, her guests assume that she's working hard for the child in the picture — technically, she is, seeing as it's her as a child — and offer up extra cash. Parker feels no reservations about her 'server hack.' In a follow-up video, she said: 'Yeah, I'm totally lying, but you gotta do what you gotta do.' 'I love to go into work and be a different person, and make something up,' she added. 'Sometimes I'll go in and have a southern drawl, like 'Hey y'all…' that's what makes work go by fast and makes it enjoyable.' Parker's whole routine may come as a shock to diners, but the biggest surprise comes in the comments. She's far from the only waitress who relies on white lies to pay her bills, especially as America seems to be growing weary of the whole concept of tipping culture, with the average gratuity left at restaurants across the country in 2024 coming in at 18.8%, per Toast data. 'I lied to a table the other day that I had to pick my kid up from school so they would leave (I don't have a kid),' revealed one like-minded server. 'Did I draw myself a 'best mom ever' card on Mother's Day with a crayon in my left hand and a backwards R and tape it to the outside of my server book so it was visible while taking orders? I can neither confirm nor deny…' a particularly crafty confessor said. Kids aren't the only thing servers lie about for pity pennies, though. 'I had earrings of Robert Patterson, and I would tell old ladies he was my husband off at war,' read one bizarre submission. Some said they reverted to classic, tried-and-true tales to swindle their tables. 'When I would mess up, I used to always say I was new there.. I was 'new' for like 6 months straight,' admitted another. 'As a high school senior waiting tables, I'd drop the check with a college-branded pen so they'd ask if I was going there, and give them a sob story about student loans, LOL worked every time,' a bright young mind shared. Others in the comments wondered whether or not customers realized their servers were lying, while some simply didn't care. 'There's a thing called free will and a thing called a choice, and they don't have to tip if they don't want to,' one supporter wrote, clapping back at haters. Tipping has always been a hot-button issue for Americans, especially as new rules and regulations surrounding the topic, like mandatory gratuity and 'living wage fees,' have been unveiled, but as it stands right now, servers maintain that 'they gotta do what they gotta do,' as Parker said.
