June 11, 2024 • 16 mins
How often do you tip? Do you feel tip culture has gotten out of hand?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Tipping is something we've just been doing all these years.
It was around long before us. They'll be here long
after we leave. But for some reason, tipping has been
in the news. People are talking about it. As a
matter of fact. New info is out saying a lot
of waiters, servers at restaurants say tipping is down lower
(00:26):
than it used to be, and also in other sectors,
I mean people who cut your hair, people who wait
on you at the coffee place. They're saying that overall,
tipping is about the same or lower. For some reason,
people are getting fed up with all the signs that say, hey,
tip here, tip there, Yeah, tip us. Now I'm going
(00:47):
to get into that in a second. Okay, hey, don't
forget to tip your blackjack dealer when you go to
Las Vegas for our iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
How is it for a reach around?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Our iHeartRadio Music Festival, of course, presented by Capitol One.
It's very important to remember that because if you have
a Capital one card, your pre sale tickets go on
sale tomorrow at one pm Eastern. It's a forty eight
hour Capital One card holder pre sale for our iHeartRadio
Music Festival tomorrow one o'clock. And it's a great opportunity
(01:21):
to save money and take advantage of the fact that
you have a Capital one card with Big Sean, Camila
Cabello and Dojakat, Gwen Stefani, Hosier, Keith urb and New
Kids on the Block, Paramore, Shaboozy, The Black Crows, Thomas
Rhett Victoria, Money and more to be added as we
gather in Vegas for the weekend of September twentieth.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's going to be an amazing weekend at timobil Arena.
Want to go.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Keep listening for your chance to win your trip including
airfare and hotel and a thousand dollars spending cash. Just
keep listening for that again in Capital one cardholders pre
sale begainst tomorrow one o'clock East Coast time. And how
do they take advantage of that? At iHeartRadio dot Com,
I guess Nate?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Are you there? Nate? Are you? Are you meditating with scary?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Are you looking it up? Okay, we're looking it up.
We'll let you know asap. You're okay, right, Hold hold
up both hands, hold up both arms. Okay, okay, just
making sure you smile. One pupil is larger than the other.
But I think you're okay anyway. So that's tomorrow one
o'clock East Coast card holders, Capitol one. You win tipping.
(02:26):
Let's talk about it. You've seen it in the news,
right A Gonda read the news like me, everybody. I mean,
it's like it's a conversation. Why is that all of
a sudden? Is it going on?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I think one, because now everybody asks you to tip
for everything, even when you order something online, there's a
place at a tip. Why would I ever do that?
But also, the cost of everything is going up in general,
which means you're paying more than you're expected to tip
a percentage on the cost that's going up. So everything's
just so much more expensive, and people are I think
(02:56):
everyone's getting fatigued of doing this.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Is this where?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And a lot of people say that this is what
it could be because there's no cost of living increase
with wages. Therefore, owners of these businesses, when I make
up the difference by making us pay in gratuity.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Exactly, And a lot of the big corporations have plenty
of money to pay their employees more, but they want
us to pay them and everyone's managed to struggle out here.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
You know what the worst part is when you get
to the register and you know it's in there for
you to tip, like if you want to give extra,
and they.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Flip the screen around.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
And they're like looking directly at you, and you feel
like an ass if you don't put a tip in.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know, well, don't you want a tip?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Though?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean if.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, yeah, let's stop burning down the castle here. I'm
just asking a question.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
It depends by Daniel Elliott.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
What do you not want to tip?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
So like, if I'm at this convenience store and I'm
just buying something at the convenience store that I would
always buy and they flip around the registered thing to
show me that you can add a tip, I'm like, well.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Why am I?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
I went into the store and picked out the item.
You're ringing it up just like you always did. Like,
why am I all of a sudden tipping you. You're
not going above and beyond to help me out with anything.
You don't even give anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I wouldn't mind hearing from someone who works at a
convenience store or a grocery store where there's tipping available, Like,
what do you think about that? If we don't tip you,
is there an issue? Because this is a relatively new
thing tipping in those places. I mean usually the only
extra money that's left at a convenience stor is like
give a penny to take a penny that was there.
But you know, when it comes to great service at
(04:34):
a restaurant, you know what, absolutely overtip. As a matter
of fact, sometimes we went to a restaurant the other night.
They still haven't put the charge through because they don't
believe I tipped that much.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Quite a nice but it's go ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
It seems like we're just getting got from every angle
we possibly can. Like you use a credit card, there's
a fee. You take a step outside your house and
breathe air, there's a fee. You want to pay a bill,
there's a service charge to pay the bill, Like, oh,
I'm tired of it.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yep, what up?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Frog?
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Like to further with Gandhi said, you go to a restaurant,
I'm the scariess brought this up before. You look on
the bottom of the bill, and now there's a kitchen
appreciation fee, Like what is that? And if it's almost
like you're paying the salary of the people in the kitchen,
not the employer, and then they want you to tip
on top of that. It's like, there's just a lot
and chances are a lot of times some people will
(05:24):
just tip on the numbers. Let's say you get your
bill and it's eighty dollars. You just double it your
tip twenty percent. So now you're sipping into you're tipping
sixteen dollars. But if you double, now you're tipping on
the kitchen appreciation fee as well.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
You're paying your salary. At some point you have to
it crosses a line. It's like, wait a second, the
manager and the people who run this place are supposed to.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Pay the salary for the people in the back.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Right, We're okay.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The thing is is, I don't want us not tipping
the kitchen appreciation fee to make it seem like we
don't appreciate the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
We do.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We do, but everyone has to agree, even though who
working in that situation, I'm assuming they mist agree that, yeah,
this is a newer thing and it is kind of well,
it's a big question mark floating around like why are
we doing this correct?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Don't even get me started. On delivery services. Oh my gosh,
they charge them to what you're ordering.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, talk about it. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So if I mean, like Danielle and I, there's a
place that we will get breakfast if they deliver it
to us. It was about twenty five dollars a person.
When I went to the actual restaurant and got that
food myself, I got like four meals for that price,
So you're already charging me more. Then there's whatever service
fee is involved. Then there's like a delivery fee on
top of it, and then they want you to tip
on top of that. I will always tip, but man, on.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Instacart, there's also a heavy order fee, so.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Like if I an order of water bottles or like
something like that, I gotta pay extra heavy.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, hold on, Scotty is in the middle of chewing
a banana, as he always said, Yeah, Scotty, you you
actually do you still do instacar?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Do you still deliver?
Speaker 10 (06:56):
It's not worth it anymore? But I still look for orders. Yes, Okay, back,
Why is it not worth it anymore?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
What happened?
Speaker 10 (07:02):
Well, for one thing, they pay a lot less now
it was so much money during COVID. It's a lot
less now, like they want you to go shopping for
fifty items and drive twelve miles and they pay you
like eleven dollars.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So what about this heavy grocery fee? Do you do
you find that justified because you're the one has to
carry those heavy water bottles?
Speaker 10 (07:20):
Yes, and I look for those orders because if they
order four cases of water, they charge the customer more
and they pay me more because it's a heavy item.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, I know, but do you think it's worth it?
I mean it for me? You be paid more to carry?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, okay, should you and all Instacart delivery people get
paid more to deliver heavy items?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Absolutely? No, yes, because what.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
My Amazon guy doesn't get paid anymore to deliver a
heavy box than he doesn't get it paid to deliver
small box.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
A good point, Danielle, you preach.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Look, it's more trips from the car to the house.
You gotta go back and he gets six cases of water?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Is it from the house to the car the time?
Speaker 10 (07:54):
If you've got six cases of water, you got to
make six or seven trips.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I agree with the heavy I actually grew with the
heavy fat. I live in an apartment building, so they're
pulling up on a bike or however I have to
bring it in.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I think it's to be a case by case scenario.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
But the thing.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
The thing with instacart is as a shopper you can
see what the tip is going to be before you
take the order. So if it's a cheap ass, you
just don't take it.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
And I always tip well for the instacar drivers. And
my favorite is when it's a bad weather day and
it'll come up, Hey, bad weather in your neighborhood. Tip
more so that they come out and they take care
of you, and you know it's bad weather, so they
you know, they're out there in this weather and they're
getting rained on. Like all these things come up, like okay,
guilt me into more money.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Fine, Well, look again, you know when I think of tipping,
the first place I think of is a restaurant, right
for sure? And again I will And you know what,
I always was a great tipper, but during pandemic, I
became a bigger tipper, you know. But it's subsided a
little bit, but it's still good. But there's all these
other things like tipping online. I order something online and
(08:57):
they expect a gratuity I don't understand that, but I'm
hoping and wishing someone would explain that to me from
their point of view. Is there in that position?
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I feel like though at this point, if we're going
to tip, certain people like that are in the back
preparing things or this, that and the thing, why not
tip when you order because they have to prepare that
order and put it in the box and ship it out.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
At least it kind of is the same thing.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
At least though it's optional and you could like erase
it and change it. But some of these fees that
are tacked on you have no choice in the matter.
Like what these hotels that still charge COVID convenience fees
COVID clean fee, by the way, they still don't do that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They don't even clean your room. They can you towel.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I don't want to pay a COVID convenience anymore. I
don't want to clean your room. You may have COVID.
Wait a minute, I'm gonna charge you a COVID convenience.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Nience leprosy. It's rosy.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well anyway, So well, look, I know we're bitch in
a moment about it, but this has been a big
story of late and people are getting tired of being
expected to cover.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Expenses that maybe someone else should be paying. You know,
if you don't love.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
And beyond for certain things, I have no problem giving
you extra money at all, because you want to take
care of those people. But if you're just like at
the convenience store and you're just ringing up my item,
I don't understand that. I don't understand that you don't
even give me a bag, like I'm saying anymore, you
don't even put it in a bag.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You can't have a bag because that cost another fee.
And if you haven't, then if you do have a bag,
it's going to kill wildlife. So I don't know a
whole line. Carry Online twenty has something to say. Uh,
let's do it. Hello, Carry, what's going.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
On any guys? What's up?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know what just talking about? We're bitching and moaning
about tipping.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Even though you do agree carry there are some people
who deserve gratuity, without doubt, we're not arguing that.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But what did you want to talk about?
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Totally?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
No, I'm with you, guys, because I'm on both sides
of it. So I like to be a great tipper,
but I also deliver for like Instacart and huber Eat.
So I live in North Jersey and I was doing
Uber East for a bunch of years. Last year, I
started doing Instacart right before the summer, so really just
about a year ago. And one of my first orders
was somebody with a bunch of cases of water, A
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bunch of cases of water, and then additional watermelon, multiple watermelons.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh my god, watermelons and water. That's a lot of water.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yes, and regular groceries. So I get to the house
and I'm not kidding you. I'm in North Jersey on
the side of a mountain, so it's about thirty steps
from where your car is to the front door, like
steps like stairs, not steps. Yeah, no, No, it wasn't
a great tip. I mean, like Scotty said, you do
(11:43):
get to look and see before you take it. So
I mean you kind of know what you're getting into.
And if it's something like that, you know, sometimes into
the car or Uber they're making up the uh you know,
the other end of it, so they're paying a little
more when they know that.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
But I mean, it sounds like you just sounds like
you just described you just described Danielle's house.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, I don't have that many steps.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
But what I'm saying is like a cage like that,
then I would say they should definitely add that heavy tax.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But if it's a simple way.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, yeah, just a regular or No. I'm just saying
if I lived in that house and I knew somebody
was going to carry all of that up thirty stairs
to my front door, I feel like I'd be very,
very generous with my tip.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Scary. What was the text about Panera?
Speaker 9 (12:31):
They say that Panera cashiers are now vocalizing would you
like to tip?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Apparently?
Speaker 9 (12:36):
I mean, I don't know what if it's going on
around the country, but according.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
To this texture, they don't ask for tips now.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But that would make me feel guilty if I did.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Yes, of course I'm gonna give you a tip.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Wait, you should give a tip. You should give a
tip without being asked. You give a tip because you
wish to give a tip.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Yeah, But if you're if like we said, if it's
right in your face and they're like, can you give
me a tip? Or they flip that thing around and
it's like here it is.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
What are you gonna tippet?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You can't just not tip.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You look like a dumbass in your face. You feel
obligat me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
All right, Kerrie, thank you so much for your call.
Have a great day. If you were here, I would
give you a shinied dollar bill.
Speaker 11 (13:16):
Here's the best.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Take care line. Nineteen is Stella. She gets asked to
tip for buying merch at concerts. Really, so you go
to a concert, Stella, and they want to charge you
fifty five dollars for a T shirt and they want
you to tip them as well.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
Yes, Like the merchant is expensive and anos it's so ridiculous.
I'll buy a hat for thirty dollars a T shirt
for forty fifty dollars, and like you said, they flip
the iPad around and there's fortuity there.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well maybe it was like a part of the programming
of that that cash register or whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Here's the thing I think, you know, Stella, I do
believe that as more and more places and people are
asking for gratuity, more and more people are seeing that
and then asking for gratuity. I think it's like, well,
they're asking for tips at the T shirt counter at
the concert, why don't I ask for tips from whatever
I'm doing?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Oh, can we start that here?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
If we have an exceptionally funny show, we did give
out our venmo Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh my gosh, that'd be awesome. What Yeah, we got
to figure that out. I stella, thank you? And did
you pay the tip at the did you pay the tip?
Speaker 11 (14:31):
I did?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I was guilted.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's a lot for those T shirts are expensive. All right,
thank you very much, Stella. Have a great days.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
There have been a couple of people who ordered art
from us and when they paid, they tipped us on
the art and I actually sent it back because I
was like, oh, you overpaid?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
What is that that? It was very nice, but.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, we're already charging you what we're charging you. You don't
need to add extra.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
And then when I see that stuff on at sea
where it's like tip the artist, why the artists to
just charge more if that's what they want.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I get that, Well, Etsy is expensive, I think to
post on. But but you don't have the ice cream.
Have you ever tipped the ice cream person on the beach?
Like when we're down the shore in the summer, there's
the there's this dueling sister and brother act and they
both have carts and they both have a tip jar,
and it says we're competing to see who can get
more tips during the summer. So for that, I'm like, oh, yeah,
(15:24):
I'm gonna definitely give you, you know, a better tip
so you can beat your brother.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Do you guys tip the get your beers here or
whatever it is?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Hot people?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Absolutely, Okay at the game, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It's really funny. Has we each have our own filter
we use who gets a tip?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Who does it?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And I get that. But anyway, that's what's going on. No,
why that's so important?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It is, it's the most important. But do they take
gratuities that is not jar? Is there a jar in
the operating room?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Can you if you tip me moreld, your sutures.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Will look much better than obligated to tip them.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Tells what we're gonna do, and we're gonna you're gonna
be out of it. But we like, you have an envelope,
an envelope on the stretcher. Next year, we'll just take
that
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Tipping is something we've just been doing all these years.
It was around long before us. They'll be here long
after we leave. But for some reason, tipping has been
in the news. People are talking about it. As a
matter of fact. New info is out saying a lot
of waiters, servers at restaurants say tipping is down lower
(00:26):
than it used to be, and also in other sectors,
I mean people who cut your hair, people who wait
on you at the coffee place. They're saying that overall,
tipping is about the same or lower. For some reason,
people are getting fed up with all the signs that say, hey,
tip here, tip there, Yeah, tip us. Now I'm going
(00:47):
to get into that in a second. Okay, hey, don't
forget to tip your blackjack dealer when you go to
Las Vegas for our iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
How is it for a reach around?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Our iHeartRadio Music Festival, of course, presented by Capitol One.
It's very important to remember that because if you have
a Capital one card, your pre sale tickets go on
sale tomorrow at one pm Eastern. It's a forty eight
hour Capital One card holder pre sale for our iHeartRadio
Music Festival tomorrow one o'clock. And it's a great opportunity
(01:21):
to save money and take advantage of the fact that
you have a Capital one card with Big Sean, Camila
Cabello and Dojakat, Gwen Stefani, Hosier, Keith urb and New
Kids on the Block, Paramore, Shaboozy, The Black Crows, Thomas
Rhett Victoria, Money and more to be added as we
gather in Vegas for the weekend of September twentieth.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's going to be an amazing weekend at timobil Arena.
Want to go.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Keep listening for your chance to win your trip including
airfare and hotel and a thousand dollars spending cash. Just
keep listening for that again in Capital one cardholders pre
sale begainst tomorrow one o'clock East Coast time. And how
do they take advantage of that? At iHeartRadio dot Com,
I guess Nate?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Are you there? Nate? Are you? Are you meditating with scary?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Are you looking it up? Okay, we're looking it up.
We'll let you know asap. You're okay, right, Hold hold
up both hands, hold up both arms. Okay, okay, just
making sure you smile. One pupil is larger than the other.
But I think you're okay anyway. So that's tomorrow one
o'clock East Coast card holders, Capitol one. You win tipping.
(02:26):
Let's talk about it. You've seen it in the news,
right A Gonda read the news like me, everybody. I mean,
it's like it's a conversation. Why is that all of
a sudden? Is it going on?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I think one, because now everybody asks you to tip
for everything, even when you order something online, there's a
place at a tip. Why would I ever do that?
But also, the cost of everything is going up in general,
which means you're paying more than you're expected to tip
a percentage on the cost that's going up. So everything's
just so much more expensive, and people are I think
(02:56):
everyone's getting fatigued of doing this.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Is this where?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And a lot of people say that this is what
it could be because there's no cost of living increase
with wages. Therefore, owners of these businesses, when I make
up the difference by making us pay in gratuity.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Exactly, And a lot of the big corporations have plenty
of money to pay their employees more, but they want
us to pay them and everyone's managed to struggle out here.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
You know what the worst part is when you get
to the register and you know it's in there for
you to tip, like if you want to give extra,
and they.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Flip the screen around.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
And they're like looking directly at you, and you feel
like an ass if you don't put a tip in.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know, well, don't you want a tip?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Though?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean if.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, yeah, let's stop burning down the castle here. I'm
just asking a question.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
It depends by Daniel Elliott.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
What do you not want to tip?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
So like, if I'm at this convenience store and I'm
just buying something at the convenience store that I would
always buy and they flip around the registered thing to
show me that you can add a tip, I'm like, well.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Why am I?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
I went into the store and picked out the item.
You're ringing it up just like you always did. Like,
why am I all of a sudden tipping you. You're
not going above and beyond to help me out with anything.
You don't even give anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I wouldn't mind hearing from someone who works at a
convenience store or a grocery store where there's tipping available, Like,
what do you think about that? If we don't tip you,
is there an issue? Because this is a relatively new
thing tipping in those places. I mean usually the only
extra money that's left at a convenience stor is like
give a penny to take a penny that was there.
But you know, when it comes to great service at
(04:34):
a restaurant, you know what, absolutely overtip. As a matter
of fact, sometimes we went to a restaurant the other night.
They still haven't put the charge through because they don't
believe I tipped that much.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Quite a nice but it's go ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
It seems like we're just getting got from every angle
we possibly can. Like you use a credit card, there's
a fee. You take a step outside your house and
breathe air, there's a fee. You want to pay a bill,
there's a service charge to pay the bill, Like, oh,
I'm tired of it.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yep, what up?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Frog?
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Like to further with Gandhi said, you go to a restaurant,
I'm the scariess brought this up before. You look on
the bottom of the bill, and now there's a kitchen
appreciation fee, Like what is that? And if it's almost
like you're paying the salary of the people in the kitchen,
not the employer, and then they want you to tip
on top of that. It's like, there's just a lot
and chances are a lot of times some people will
(05:24):
just tip on the numbers. Let's say you get your
bill and it's eighty dollars. You just double it your
tip twenty percent. So now you're sipping into you're tipping
sixteen dollars. But if you double, now you're tipping on
the kitchen appreciation fee as well.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
You're paying your salary. At some point you have to
it crosses a line. It's like, wait a second, the
manager and the people who run this place are supposed to.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Pay the salary for the people in the back.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Right, We're okay.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The thing is is, I don't want us not tipping
the kitchen appreciation fee to make it seem like we
don't appreciate the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
We do.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We do, but everyone has to agree, even though who
working in that situation, I'm assuming they mist agree that, yeah,
this is a newer thing and it is kind of well,
it's a big question mark floating around like why are
we doing this correct?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Don't even get me started. On delivery services. Oh my gosh,
they charge them to what you're ordering.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, talk about it. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So if I mean, like Danielle and I, there's a
place that we will get breakfast if they deliver it
to us. It was about twenty five dollars a person.
When I went to the actual restaurant and got that
food myself, I got like four meals for that price,
So you're already charging me more. Then there's whatever service
fee is involved. Then there's like a delivery fee on
top of it, and then they want you to tip
on top of that. I will always tip, but man, on.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Instacart, there's also a heavy order fee, so.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Like if I an order of water bottles or like
something like that, I gotta pay extra heavy.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, hold on, Scotty is in the middle of chewing
a banana, as he always said, Yeah, Scotty, you you
actually do you still do instacar?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Do you still deliver?
Speaker 10 (06:56):
It's not worth it anymore? But I still look for orders. Yes, Okay, back,
Why is it not worth it anymore?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
What happened?
Speaker 10 (07:02):
Well, for one thing, they pay a lot less now
it was so much money during COVID. It's a lot
less now, like they want you to go shopping for
fifty items and drive twelve miles and they pay you
like eleven dollars.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So what about this heavy grocery fee? Do you do
you find that justified because you're the one has to
carry those heavy water bottles?
Speaker 10 (07:20):
Yes, and I look for those orders because if they
order four cases of water, they charge the customer more
and they pay me more because it's a heavy item.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, I know, but do you think it's worth it?
I mean it for me? You be paid more to carry?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, okay, should you and all Instacart delivery people get
paid more to deliver heavy items?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Absolutely? No, yes, because what.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
My Amazon guy doesn't get paid anymore to deliver a
heavy box than he doesn't get it paid to deliver
small box.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
A good point, Danielle, you preach.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Look, it's more trips from the car to the house.
You gotta go back and he gets six cases of water?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Is it from the house to the car the time?
Speaker 10 (07:54):
If you've got six cases of water, you got to
make six or seven trips.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I agree with the heavy I actually grew with the
heavy fat. I live in an apartment building, so they're
pulling up on a bike or however I have to
bring it in.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I think it's to be a case by case scenario.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
But the thing.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
The thing with instacart is as a shopper you can
see what the tip is going to be before you
take the order. So if it's a cheap ass, you
just don't take it.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
And I always tip well for the instacar drivers. And
my favorite is when it's a bad weather day and
it'll come up, Hey, bad weather in your neighborhood. Tip
more so that they come out and they take care
of you, and you know it's bad weather, so they
you know, they're out there in this weather and they're
getting rained on. Like all these things come up, like okay,
guilt me into more money.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Fine, Well, look again, you know when I think of tipping,
the first place I think of is a restaurant, right
for sure? And again I will And you know what,
I always was a great tipper, but during pandemic, I
became a bigger tipper, you know. But it's subsided a
little bit, but it's still good. But there's all these
other things like tipping online. I order something online and
(08:57):
they expect a gratuity I don't understand that, but I'm
hoping and wishing someone would explain that to me from
their point of view. Is there in that position?
Speaker 6 (09:05):
I feel like though at this point, if we're going
to tip, certain people like that are in the back
preparing things or this, that and the thing, why not
tip when you order because they have to prepare that
order and put it in the box and ship it out.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
At least it kind of is the same thing.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
At least though it's optional and you could like erase
it and change it. But some of these fees that
are tacked on you have no choice in the matter.
Like what these hotels that still charge COVID convenience fees
COVID clean fee, by the way, they still don't do that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They don't even clean your room. They can you towel.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I don't want to pay a COVID convenience anymore. I
don't want to clean your room. You may have COVID.
Wait a minute, I'm gonna charge you a COVID convenience.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Nience leprosy. It's rosy.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well anyway, So well, look, I know we're bitch in
a moment about it, but this has been a big
story of late and people are getting tired of being
expected to cover.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Expenses that maybe someone else should be paying. You know,
if you don't love.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
And beyond for certain things, I have no problem giving
you extra money at all, because you want to take
care of those people. But if you're just like at
the convenience store and you're just ringing up my item,
I don't understand that. I don't understand that you don't
even give me a bag, like I'm saying anymore, you
don't even put it in a bag.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You can't have a bag because that cost another fee.
And if you haven't, then if you do have a bag,
it's going to kill wildlife. So I don't know a
whole line. Carry Online twenty has something to say. Uh,
let's do it. Hello, Carry, what's going.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
On any guys? What's up?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know what just talking about? We're bitching and moaning
about tipping.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Even though you do agree carry there are some people
who deserve gratuity, without doubt, we're not arguing that.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But what did you want to talk about?
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Totally?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
No, I'm with you, guys, because I'm on both sides
of it. So I like to be a great tipper,
but I also deliver for like Instacart and huber Eat.
So I live in North Jersey and I was doing
Uber East for a bunch of years. Last year, I
started doing Instacart right before the summer, so really just
about a year ago. And one of my first orders
was somebody with a bunch of cases of water, A
(11:14):
bunch of cases of water, and then additional watermelon, multiple watermelons.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh my god, watermelons and water. That's a lot of water.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yes, and regular groceries. So I get to the house
and I'm not kidding you. I'm in North Jersey on
the side of a mountain, so it's about thirty steps
from where your car is to the front door, like
steps like stairs, not steps. Yeah, no, No, it wasn't
a great tip. I mean, like Scotty said, you do
(11:43):
get to look and see before you take it. So
I mean you kind of know what you're getting into.
And if it's something like that, you know, sometimes into
the car or Uber they're making up the uh you know,
the other end of it, so they're paying a little
more when they know that.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
But I mean, it sounds like you just sounds like
you just described you just described Danielle's house.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, I don't have that many steps.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
But what I'm saying is like a cage like that,
then I would say they should definitely add that heavy tax.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But if it's a simple way.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, yeah, just a regular or No. I'm just saying
if I lived in that house and I knew somebody
was going to carry all of that up thirty stairs
to my front door, I feel like I'd be very,
very generous with my tip.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Scary. What was the text about Panera?
Speaker 9 (12:31):
They say that Panera cashiers are now vocalizing would you
like to tip?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Apparently?
Speaker 9 (12:36):
I mean, I don't know what if it's going on
around the country, but according.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
To this texture, they don't ask for tips now.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But that would make me feel guilty if I did.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Yes, of course I'm gonna give you a tip.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Wait, you should give a tip. You should give a
tip without being asked. You give a tip because you
wish to give a tip.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Yeah, But if you're if like we said, if it's
right in your face and they're like, can you give
me a tip? Or they flip that thing around and
it's like here it is.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
What are you gonna tippet?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You can't just not tip.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You look like a dumbass in your face. You feel
obligat me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
All right, Kerrie, thank you so much for your call.
Have a great day. If you were here, I would
give you a shinied dollar bill.
Speaker 11 (13:16):
Here's the best.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Take care line. Nineteen is Stella. She gets asked to
tip for buying merch at concerts. Really, so you go
to a concert, Stella, and they want to charge you
fifty five dollars for a T shirt and they want
you to tip them as well.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
Yes, Like the merchant is expensive and anos it's so ridiculous.
I'll buy a hat for thirty dollars a T shirt
for forty fifty dollars, and like you said, they flip
the iPad around and there's fortuity there.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well maybe it was like a part of the programming
of that that cash register or whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Here's the thing I think, you know, Stella, I do
believe that as more and more places and people are
asking for gratuity, more and more people are seeing that
and then asking for gratuity. I think it's like, well,
they're asking for tips at the T shirt counter at
the concert, why don't I ask for tips from whatever
I'm doing?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Oh, can we start that here?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
If we have an exceptionally funny show, we did give
out our venmo Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh my gosh, that'd be awesome. What Yeah, we got
to figure that out. I stella, thank you? And did
you pay the tip at the did you pay the tip?
Speaker 11 (14:31):
I did?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I was guilted.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's a lot for those T shirts are expensive. All right,
thank you very much, Stella. Have a great days.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
There have been a couple of people who ordered art
from us and when they paid, they tipped us on
the art and I actually sent it back because I
was like, oh, you overpaid?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
What is that that? It was very nice, but.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, we're already charging you what we're charging you. You don't
need to add extra.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
And then when I see that stuff on at sea
where it's like tip the artist, why the artists to
just charge more if that's what they want.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I get that, Well, Etsy is expensive, I think to
post on. But but you don't have the ice cream.
Have you ever tipped the ice cream person on the beach?
Like when we're down the shore in the summer, there's
the there's this dueling sister and brother act and they
both have carts and they both have a tip jar,
and it says we're competing to see who can get
more tips during the summer. So for that, I'm like, oh, yeah,
(15:24):
I'm gonna definitely give you, you know, a better tip
so you can beat your brother.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Do you guys tip the get your beers here or
whatever it is?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Hot people?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Absolutely, Okay at the game, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It's really funny. Has we each have our own filter
we use who gets a tip?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Who does it?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And I get that. But anyway, that's what's going on. No,
why that's so important?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It is, it's the most important. But do they take
gratuities that is not jar? Is there a jar in
the operating room?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Can you if you tip me moreld, your sutures.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Will look much better than obligated to tip them.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Tells what we're gonna do, and we're gonna you're gonna
be out of it. But we like, you have an envelope,
an envelope on the stretcher. Next year, we'll just take
that
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