guillavoie

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That's exactly my point, not tipping is certainly not the 'good' solution as it is. You either go along with it and make tipping wages living wages, or you advocate for laws that will actually change the financial structure of these tipping jobs to normal wage jobs. But, of course, you'll understand that it is not my personal battle as I'm not a waiter (or anything that would make me an expert on wage laws) so I'm not going to pour my personal time into changing the system and instead I'll just leave 15% tip in restaurants when service is not a disaster, which is such a scarce issue that people actually complaining about this are the joke at this point. You also need to realize that tipping jobs in US and Canada (like waiter in a restaurant) are not bottom of society jobs, not at all. Waiters in good to excellent restaurants are making a very good living out of their tipping + hourly wages, and the resentment of the people not tipping often come from the idea that these waiters don't deserve more money as they make enough as it is for their 'unskilled job' (which is a false notion in many cases). The very thing that can make their wages insufficient is that every clients stop tipping altogether, which is why I'm pointing out the contradiction in your position of championing living wage jobs while applauding people not tipping in restaurants in countries where it is the norm. This said, I also agree that there is a lot of problems that go with such tipping wages (and gloves actually raised good arguments on the matter in this thread) and there are valid reasons to contest this practice. But again, whenever tips is no longer required in restaurants also means that upfront cost of menu items will be raised to match the gain in hourly wages of waiters. Also, if tips are no longer at the discretion of the customers, it will mean that you can no longer challenge a poor service with leaving a very low percentage tip, which is ironically what the people not tipping are the most pleased of doing, and to me this illustrates that what many of them really want is to 'have one's cake and eat it too'. Note : I'm not talking about the Uber drivers subject as I do not personally have enough knowledge about it.

You can be against the tipping culture and still participating in it cause you understand that it is an important part of the wages of waiters etc. Don't get deluded, most people not tipping in US/Canada are doing it mainly for selfish reasons, not because they advocate for changes in society for the betterment of everyone.

You waited 10 minutes for 0,50$? At this hourly rate you should have got tipped.

I don't know for sure what anyone takeout of the discussion, but personally, what is amazing to me is that whenever a thread about tipping comes up (and NintendoAgers can attest of this), those threads never fail to deliver!

I think I can still count on my fingers the times I used these services, so it is a very uncommon thing for me as I usually cook like 95%+ of the meals we eat at home. But, when we were in vacation (renting a Airbnb place), I found it useful to use these kind of services a couple times to eat restaurants' meals (planning time is sometimes hard on vacation schedule) while saving on drinks, sides, kid's plates, desserts AND waiter tips. Plus, there's always a bunch of promos on these apps, so you definitely can get good prices on some selected items. This said, it is true that you can get pretty overcharged on these platforms, especially if you order stuff from big fast food franchises like gloves' Burger King example. Not worth it for a lot of stuff! And, I think it is worth mentioning that most of the times, if you can drive yourself to pick the order on spot, it is worth doing it instead of getting a delivery.

I would be totally turned off by such price too, it is just a Burger King trio ffs, lol! All the surplus getting over each other from the already puffed up starting price doesn't make it worthwhile. With Uber eats, what I found that work out for me and the family (and we did it a lot in our summer vacation this year), you find an actually good restaurant that offers Uber delivery, you pick just enough plates to feed everyone conveniently and you take care of the rest of the meal from home (drinks, salads, desserts, etc.). The problem in restaurants is that everybody order their plates and drinks and then the bill get really salty. I have two young kids and it just isn't worth it to get them their plates most of the time, even with kid's menu. They want an apple juice and it's like $6, lol. Cut all the drinks in restaurants, the kid's plates that they never eat more than a third of it, the desserts, and suddenly the bill is affordable. As for the Uber driver tip, that's very hard question honestly. Delivery is usually a standard cost, so I don't think a $36 tip on $200 bill is at play because the default setting on uber is 18%. This said, $1,80 on a $10 bill might be ridiculously low as well...

Indeed, the best way to handle this would be to have it all factored in the menu price so tipping is no longer 'required'. But let's not kid ourselves, restaurants is a very hard business and the competition is keeping things in a very tight check and balance. You can't rip off people with low quality shit and expect being successful when there's plenty of restaurants doing things right at every corner. If the tipping custom is thrown out the window, owners will have to raise wages of waiters accordingly and in the end it will still be reflected on the cost charged to clients.

To the people not tipping in countries where it is customary, remember that the day that tip is no longer left at the discretion of customers, every item on the menu are going to be priced up by 15-20%. So, enjoy your special personal discounts while it last!

My friends working in restaurants told me that tipping 18% when you appreciated the service is enough to express gratitude and that otherwise 15% is the standard. So I go by these rules because that's how it is set in our customs in Quebec and I consider it expensive enough to eat in restaurants to not blow money over on it. This said, I really wish that ''services was included'' in restaurants' price like it is in most european countries. Then you don't need to do any mental gymnastics about the quality of the service and if you ever feel generous enough to leave something, the people actually earning it are GENUINELY happy of the gesture, instead of expecting it. Once I left like 15 euros on a €200 bill (service was absolutely amazing, and we even got 2 free sparkling wine glasses before desserts), and the chef himself went to the table to thank us for leaving tip, lol. Another time, it was €5 on a €60ish bill, and when we left the restaurant, the waitress ran like half a mile to catch us outside to thank us, and gave us back a scarf we forgot at the table. That is appreciation!

And how much is a « little extra »?

Hey man! Nice to see you finding your way over here.

General D-pad reference + mild sexual innuendo, of course.

The grey cart, to my experience, shows up way more often than the black one. This was one of my favourite multi-cart back in the days, played a ton of it and it has a lot of uncommon games to find in a multicart (Son Son, Astro Robot Sasa, Moai-Kun, Lot Lot, Cat Town, Spelunker, Track n' Field, Gyruss, etc.). As for the 40 in 1, if it is made like the 190 in 1 (which must be), the repetition of the games (Ultra) must be about selecting the level to start at and choosing between 1-30 lives, which one or both options might not even work on certain games even if they are proposed.

All my money is on your second guess.