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June 15, 2026 11 mins

To tip or not to tip. How much do you tip, and do certain purchases not require one. Also, should the restaurant be tipping for you?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get your hit us together and we're gonna stop and party.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm ready to party the.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Elvis Duran after party.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Were we getting forrid stocks?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It hurts? What's going on? What's going on? Who's doing that?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Do you do your issue?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's apparently we can't talk into our microphones and have
the monitors h up because when that happens.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Sorry, let's turn that down. Okay, okay, are we all okay?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Now?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Everybody? Everybody tucked in. I know I'm gonna start flopping
like a soccer player. Oh my god. Feedback? What were
we gonna talk about here? We had something ready to
get until the feedback happened. Instagram charging Okay, So what's
Instagram gonna charges for this? Or they're already doing it?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, they already. They're already doing it.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
It's called Instagram Plus and it's a monthly subscription where
you can improve your Instagram in like all kinds of
different ways allegedly improve it. I mean, I don't think
any of us really care. But there are things like
you can have your story last for forty eight hours
instead of twenty four hours. You can see how many
people rewatched something you don't see who rewatched a certain

(01:24):
amount of times, but you can see like twenty people
watched it twenty times. There are story previews where you
can like long press to preview somebody else somebody else's
story without showing up as though you've watched it.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
A little creepy, but I like it. Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
You can do super hard so you can do profile enhancements, customizations.
You can even now send your story to only certain
groups of people. Before you can only send to everybody
or close friends, but now you can customize it for business,
for friends, for whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Cool.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
Yeah, how much it's.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Three ninety nine a month, I'm not gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's just the intro price. You know, that's gonna go
up in Like, so, what they're gonna do is they're
gonna start that and then it will go to oh,
four ninety nine a month. Yeah, five, it'll start creeping
up in price.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Every single thing is about, you know, making money now
all of this. Of course, you can keep a story
up for twice as long if you pay us, and
then the clients that you're posting for will be twice
as happy.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Amazing, you know what.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
It seems like anywhere you go and everywhere you turn
someone has a handout looking for some king.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Truly, everywhere, man, It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Every single thing is a subscription. There are so many subscriptions.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Now on top of that. The other day I was
on Instagram or somewhere and I was I was looking
at it if it's a knife store, like they have
these big, great knives for the kitchen, and that's gonna
buy these knives. And it was a little confusing ad
I couldn't figure out which knife to get because the
layout was awful. And then at the end I was
about to check out, I found a knife and then

(02:54):
started saying, well, you can tip all of us here,
sin it's a tip.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yuck?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
What I'm not gonna pay the knife company a tip?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
No?

Speaker 7 (03:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Are you seeing tips every question? Everywhere?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Everywhere? Yes?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Look, I'm all for people making a great wage, your
great salary. If you're working hard, you should be paid.
But why do I have to pay a tip to
the knife company?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Even on Etsy?

Speaker 5 (03:18):
When you buy something on Etsy, they say do you
want to tip the seller? No, I just bought from you.
That was my tip.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Why do I say this?

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I was out a food court the other day they
turned a little thing around to tip them at the
food court. I'm like, you're not even bringing my food
to the table or cleaning it up. I'm doing both
of those things. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, so should we just remind people what the definition
of tip is?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Please?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, sure, a proper service, that's what they say. Then
then why don't we pay the tip at the end
of a meal. If we're trying to ensure proper service,
you pay that up front.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Oh maybe maybe the tip is like for the waiter
is to ensure proper service. So you're going to do
a good job because at the end, do you want
to get a good tip?

Speaker 6 (03:58):
Yeah, because if you give it in the beginning, they
already got it. So they're like, I already got the tip,
so it doesn't know how I act towards you.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Now, you know, I was doing something the other day. Oh,
FedEx came and they delivered a very important package to me,
and the guy you know, drove to my door and
he was nice. He brought it out and he was okay,
he's okay guy. But when he saw a gratuity I
gave him, he lit up like a Christmas tree.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Who it was even nicer?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Do people are people tipping delivery people like FedEx and
ups and stuff like that.

Speaker 7 (04:29):
It was kind of like a holiday thing, right, Like,
I know you're supposed to tip your mailman. But for
some people like Danielle, what the Amazon guy's there? What
every But it's.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
Never the same Amazon guy. There's so many different Amazons, Peach.
I don't think so, because some of them are an
Amazon truck and some of them are just someone who
drives up in their car.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
They're making extra money. He's serving for Amazon.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
So but I say, like, and I know Lisa does
this sometimes put out chips and water and stuff like that.
So if they're if they've had a hard day, can
grab something to drink.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
That's nice.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yes. My favorite is every once in a while, I'll
look at my echo, right, it'll have a little ring
going around. It means I have a notification. I'll go, hey,
you know who play notifications. They'll give me a weather
forecast or tell me something that's been delivered. And then
it'll come on and say, blah, was just delivered. If
you'd like to say thank you to your delivery person,
say say thank you. And so at the end of

(05:25):
the day, I've been working my ass off for for
a FedEx or for wherever I'm delivering Amazon packages rather Amazon.
Do I really want to go through recordings of people
saying thank you? I mean, do they do that? Has
it ever happened happened to you? Have you ever left
a thank you?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
No? I didn't even know that. Yeah, it's like our talkbacks.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, whoa, I'm the only one getting that a voice message.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
I tell you, the place that I will tip extra
is instacart or something like that. So if somebody is
delivering my groceries, you set the tip ahead of time.
But if they go above and beyond and they call
me and they say or they text me and they go, hey,
they don't have this, but I'm gonna get you this.
I've had people go to another store to try and
find the idea that I wanted. If you're gonna do that,

(06:13):
I'm gonna give you an extra tip.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
On the extra mile. Absolutely, of course always.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
I had the craziest thing happened the other day, which
we sort of talked about for a second ofvis I
don't know if you heard it.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
I went to a restaurant.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
The gratuity was not included, which is fine, and when
the waiter took my credit card, he tipped himself.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
He did not have me sign it.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
He tipped himself twenty two percent, and all of us
were like, are you insane? That is crazy?

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Did you tell him to pull it off?

Speaker 6 (06:39):
No?

Speaker 4 (06:40):
I didn't tell him to pull it off.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
I was gonna tip him twenty two percent anyway, but
he didn't even ask me, And I said, hey, don't
I need to sign something? No, all the signatures are
the same. I said, what does that even mean?

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Can I did you? How do I tip you? Oh?
I just included it at the standard twenty two percent.
I was like, okay, this is nuts.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's bad.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, that is no bold bolt.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
I would have said something.

Speaker 7 (07:00):
Well.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
I did reach out to the restaurant after the facts,
because I was like, am I crazy or was that absolutely?

Speaker 2 (07:04):
How did they respond?

Speaker 5 (07:05):
They said, they actually sent me a long message and
said this is not standard practice. We're going to have
a conversation with our staff because that's actually wildly inappropriate
and we're so sorry if it made you uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
So I was like, okay, good, okay, just making sure
you know. Here in New York City there was one
restaurant company in particular and I don't know if they're
still doing it. They were saying, Okay, no tipping at all,
I wish, and yeah, we want. We're paying our people
great salaries, great wages, so we want to go with
this no tipping thing. It never really caught on. Oh

(07:37):
what a bummer, because I got to tell you, I
still feel the need to tip. I know, scary and
I are like tipoholics. Yeah good, that's them beyond.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
In fact, I try and tip in cash these days
because yeah, I feel like they don't have they.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Don't get charged to tax for it.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, well that's a sort of illegal.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Planets opposed to.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
They made idea no tax on dip. Well wait, I
thought the no tax on tips thing did go through.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I thin it went through by the President put that through.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
I thought I thought it did too.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, it went through.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Let's look this up.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
I thought it was part of that bill it was signed.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
So if that's let's let's all learn together. Yep, looking
it up. I thought that was just for strippers. Oh,
come my god, I heard it did go through that.
I heard it didn't. I'm confused, or is it now
a state thing?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Don't I'm not even sure how this works. It says
eligible workers can deduct up to twenty five thousand dollars
of qualified tip income from their income tax. This applies
from twenty twenty five through twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, that's what. Up up to a certain point, you
can not pay tax on certain tips.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, yeah, okay, up to a certain point. I will
tell you. Speaking of the cash versus charge thing, it
was when I moved from the South to New York
where I learned there is a world where they prefer cash. Yeah,
I mean, isn't funny how culturally just in my in
my circles anyway, in the South, I never really did

(09:05):
business with anyone that said, hey, if you pay us cash,
we'll give you a discount. Well, here, it's a whole
different ball game.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I just played my dad's eightieth birthday party, and there
was a lot of vendors and a lot of moving parts,
and I gotta.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Tell you, you paid the people some cash, and I got
a couple.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Of bucks off the planet. That happens.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
So you know, I had a guy do some work
on my house not long ago, and he quoted me
a price and then he said, but if you pay cash,
it's a whole lot cheaper.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Okay, yep, huh, all right, well that's the world.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
I didn't ask why, but I knew credit.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Card fees that they charge four percent extra because the
credit cards pass that along to them. So if you
want to save the four percent, you save that right
away with cash, and.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Then when you pay cash there's a chance they're not
reporting that. Probably I'm assuming that. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
There's another thing that restaurants have been doing that's really
bizarre too.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
I don't know if you guys have seen this, but
it's some.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Of the like you know, farm to table, hoity toity
whatever places, they have a little charge line where it
says insurance for our staff and it's like three or
four dollars where it says that this money is going
to help their staff get health insurance because that's typically
not something they do. You don't have to pay it,
but if you don't want to pay it, you have

(10:21):
to tell the staff that you don't want to pay it.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
So you're telling the people.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Insurance.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
That's terrible.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
It makes you feel like they're.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Gonna pay in my coffee.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
So fairness, So what the hell is oh my god? Everywhere?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, you know what a lot of people just get
the bill, they see a number, they tip on the number,
and they leave. They never stop to read the lines.
There are a lot of lines in a lot of
these checks.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
So many.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah. Anyway, So have a happy tipping day, everybody.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
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