Starbucks has said that you can now pay for coffee with a phone app. They have added, in a helpful tone, that you can tip your barista at the same time.
Has everyone but me been tipping generously the people who stand behind the counter and put your coffee into the cup? I have not been tipping. I did not know that this was a tip-needing activity. I tip: waiters, cab drivers, and the men who deliver my groceries. My mom used to tip the mailman, but he was married to our plumber and they had a lot to put up with from us!
I usually figure if someone is behind a counter and you take the thing from them and carry it away, then you are not required to tip. I used not to tip the grocery guy. I did not know how to ask if I should. I thought he might be offended. But he got really surly, so then I began tipping him and he is much nicer now. (He puts the food over the threshold, instead of hurling it against my door.)
I do not actually go to Starbucks very much at all. But there is a really good independent place down the street from us. If I am going to tip coffee pourers I will do it there.
Has everyone but me been tipping generously the people who stand behind the counter and put your coffee into the cup? I have not been tipping. I did not know that this was a tip-needing activity. I tip: waiters, cab drivers, and the men who deliver my groceries. My mom used to tip the mailman, but he was married to our plumber and they had a lot to put up with from us!
I usually figure if someone is behind a counter and you take the thing from them and carry it away, then you are not required to tip. I used not to tip the grocery guy. I did not know how to ask if I should. I thought he might be offended. But he got really surly, so then I began tipping him and he is much nicer now. (He puts the food over the threshold, instead of hurling it against my door.)
I do not actually go to Starbucks very much at all. But there is a really good independent place down the street from us. If I am going to tip coffee pourers I will do it there.
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Just as a side note, it is usually expected that bartenders get a tip, at least where I've lived in the US.
I don't really approve of tipping, and generally only do it when tips are considered a measurable part of their wages, someone has really gone out of the way for me, or I suspect folks are not being paid well even if technically they're not on the "tips" rate. I try not to patronize businesses that don't pay their people appropriately, though. Starbucks seems to pay its people well, and that's enough for me.
I always feel awkward when I travel, because I come up against tipping situations and expectations I don't face at home. I probably undertip and fail to tip all the time, just out of ignorance. It took years for someone to clue me in to tipping the hotel cleaning folks, for example.
I started tipping after that.
Personally if I never put a foot in Starbucks it will be too soon. Had an 'expresso' there once - a large goblet of....well it was coffee but it was NOT an expresso!
Why in the world are people getting tipped for doing their jobs? Can I ask for a little extra money each time I help a customer over the phone or they use a document I wrote?
I would rather see everyone get paid what they really deserve.
Yes, then tips could really be for good service instead of expected.
broadly I agree that where there is a proper wage and people are doing their job there is no need -what I find scary and un just is that people are sometimes on tips alone and ones does not always know that