Bonus #265 - Tipping Culture is Getting Worse (Extra Dose)
Added 2025-02-18 17:00:10 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/avQFmpQ5x3w
Hey everyone, it's Bonus Dose Day, and I feel like I've made you wait so long for this video, if it was your meal at a restaurant, I'm DEFINITELY not getting a tip. Yes, it's finally the video following up on my "Tipping Culture" video that I've been teasing now for like a month. Enjoy!
Buckley follows up on a video from about two years ago, in which wait staff at restaurants were claiming that patrons were too poor to eat if they refused to leave any less than a 20% tip. 2 years later, and inflation has turned that into... 30%?! A look at numerous new angry comments from servers... OR, are they from ACTUAL servers? Buckley puts on his tinfoil hat and wonders if this is actually an online CONSPIRACY?!
Comments
Wtf did I just read has actually got me howling
Meg Budgen
2025-04-01 13:20:29 +0000 UTCI’m not tipping more than $10 on a $100 bill. I’m not the employer. I don’t pay wages.
Kittythejackson
2025-02-26 15:29:41 +0000 UTCThey can get another job if they have to rely on tips so badly. Why work for someone who can’t pay you properly? I wouldn’t want to rely on tips, and people are struggling in this economy. We shouldn’t have to pay 30%. 20% is good enough and if it’s not good enough, find a new employer.
Jen Lorden
2025-02-23 17:32:59 +0000 UTCThat kinda makes sense on Twitter where you can make money, but on Facebook there's no payouts for posting. I'm sure there's some way to make money, people will scam commenters by DMing them and saying they've won a prize and they just need their credit card info or some personal data to send it to them, or companies buy popular pages and turn them into ads for some product, but it's not like Twitter where they directly pay people for engagement.
Adam Buckley
2025-02-22 13:42:35 +0000 UTCThe reposting happens because these sites see the post does well and just recycles it to cash in on the interactions money
Samantha Lind
2025-02-22 01:16:24 +0000 UTCAs a long time fan, I think you should do something on the origins of modern American tipping. It is very interesting, although extremely dark and very coded in explicit racism.
Notthat Guypal
2025-02-22 00:27:05 +0000 UTCFacking hell? 30%? They can go get bent. The whole point of raising the tipping percent from 10% to 15% and then to 20% was precisely because inflation was low, and meals weren't increasing in cost relative to the overall cost of living. When inflation is high, and eating out costs more than it used to, we don't need to increase the percentage. The server automatically gets paid more since the overall bill is already higher.
Snooder87
2025-02-20 19:19:34 +0000 UTCI was thinking more along the lines it goes in here Finland, servers are paid a living wage which does affect the cost of eating in restaurant, thoiugh with how much of anything is taxes persons salary costs probably not that high of a % of the total costs.
Tomi Tuomisto
2025-02-20 16:09:32 +0000 UTCI don't eat out much these days, it's just too expensive already. But there is one Italian restaurant I do like, called Carboni's Italian Kitchen. Their food is pretty expensive, for 2 people we paid around $150 for a 3 course meal. But the food was DAMN GOOD! We gave a 10% tip as well. Tipping isn't as big in Australia. I'd rather eat out at a nice restaurant every now and again as opposed to eating junk food all the time. The more expensive going out becomes the more I just stay in and cook for myself.
A. Nonymouse
2025-02-20 07:16:23 +0000 UTCIronic since you’re A Dose Of Buckley
Jay Wilson
2025-02-20 05:33:03 +0000 UTCHaha I'm afraid I don't know anything about that. I'm not cool enough.
Adam Buckley
2025-02-20 00:42:02 +0000 UTCNgl I thought this said Trippin Culture Just Got Worse. That would be an interesting video
Jay Wilson
2025-02-19 22:21:22 +0000 UTCIn some cases, they do. A lot of restaurants have a "mandatory gratuity" for larger groups, like if you have a group of 6 or more, they automatically add... I don't know, 15%, 18%, whatever to the bill, as the tip. So yeah, I mean they could just raise all of their prices 15% and then say "no tipping is required" and then they can pay the staff a commission based on how much is sold each day, the servers become salespeople instead, trying to get tables to buy the most expensive food. Wouldn't that make their jobs so much more fun?!
Adam Buckley
2025-02-19 14:58:41 +0000 UTCIf tipping should be mandatory, why not just put it in the price already and pa ythe staff accordingly, or is this same as USA aparently does with sales tax that gets added after the purchase instead of being open about it and it being already in the pricetag. For such advanced nation sure liek to make life needlessly hard for it's own people.
Tomi Tuomisto
2025-02-19 14:29:03 +0000 UTCI once tried to tip an excellent italian restaurant in Vienna. It confused the waiter as they don't really do tips there. After a short discussion with him I asked politely to be brought to the kitchen, I personally thanked the cook for delicious meal, thanked the waiter for excellent service, took a photo outside the restaurant and left a 5 star review on google maps. Since then that's the way I tip when it's not specified in the menu about the tipping policy in a restaurant. And trust me the kitchen staff is gonna have a much brighter day after they hear some kind words from a customer.
Michał Michalski
2025-02-18 22:39:18 +0000 UTCTipping has gotten ridiculous, and the servers entitled - you don’t get to tell us how much to tip, or whether we come out to eat and pay your salary. Improve your service and earn your tip. You can stick your 30% where even God can’t find it.
Ash Archer
2025-02-18 20:23:53 +0000 UTCUS tipping culture is idiotic. I',m so glad I'm in Europe. Was in LA back in November for a few days, and we were four who went out for a nice meal. Total bill about 690.XX$. We tipped 75$. Then our waitress comes in, takes the tip and starts complaining about the amount. Not even talking about a percentage minimum, just bitching about the fact that we should be able to tip high due to what we had spent on food and drink. Mind you, she was slow, disinterested and definitely not an actual trained waitress. We asked what she thought would be appropriate to which she replied, between 150 and 200 dollars, Needles to say I almost spit out my water from laughing. Here in Europe we would not even tip that at a three star Michelin restaurant normally. Why? Because when you pay 1200+$ per person, you expect the damn owner to pay his or her staff. When she works in a restaurant in LA which is fairly upscale such as the one we were in, where a table of four will typically run a bill of 400-600$, then ask your slimeball boss for a fucking raise.
AB-80X
2025-02-18 18:40:39 +0000 UTCAnd there’s no way to combat it without either the customer or wait staff getting shit on before either the gov or owners.
Grant Potter
2025-02-18 18:27:15 +0000 UTCHaha maybe an occasional one then. I can't believe it's his natural voice sometimes 😅
Elizabeth Coates
2025-02-18 18:25:08 +0000 UTCOh definitely. On both sides of it. Wait staff getting mad at customers, customers getting mad at wait staff... restaurant owners all claiming there's just simply no way the industry would function without this system in place... and the government allowing things like a lower minimum wage for tipped staff.
Adam Buckley
2025-02-18 18:21:12 +0000 UTCIt's kind of a "Will Sasso's impression of Alex Jones' impression", but it's fun to do (except for the part where it kinda hurts, haha)
Adam Buckley
2025-02-18 18:18:54 +0000 UTCYeah that's never made much sense to me either. Theoretically, if the bill is more, there was more involved (like you ordered a 5 course meal and several drinks vs just a burger and coke), but certainly some restaurants are just more expensive for one drink and an entree. So yes, maybe that's how tipping should really be set up, $x per item the wait staff brought to you.
Adam Buckley
2025-02-18 18:18:25 +0000 UTCI don't get the whole "If your bill is high, the tip should be high". Whether I'm getting a $15 burger or a $75 steak, the amount of work to bring it out to me is the same. Now, if part of the tip goes to the chef, I might throw in a few bucks more.
Shaka, When the Walls Fell
2025-02-18 18:12:28 +0000 UTCThe Alex Jones impression 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Elizabeth Coates
2025-02-18 17:48:20 +0000 UTCI hate tipping culture because people are mad at the wrong people. No way around that logically.
Grant Potter
2025-02-18 17:25:45 +0000 UTC
