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June 5, 2025 9 mins
Cincinnatians are confused about tipping 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up with fire in the morning. Kiss one
good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fifty one percent of consumers in Fincy are confused about tipping,
and I'm one of them, and then any a certain
percentage of that also feels extremely guilty around tipping.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
So that's what we're going to talk about this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Where is the weirdest place that you've been asked to tip?
If you know what I'm saying, Like, there are a
certain service based things. I understand why we tip them
up service industry one hundred percent, Like food and beverage.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, like the.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Other day, I just went and got my nails done.
That's a tipping based industry. I understand. That takes me
a minute to figure out the math. I think that's
where a lot of my guilt and panic sets in
because I can't do quick math in my head and
I am one hundred percent out one hundred percent times
going to pull up Google and say what is twenty
percent of sixty seven dollars?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I have to do that, so I need time. I
missed the pen and paper.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I can't do the swivel iPad because I panic, and
then you end up getting fifty dollars from me.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Where's the weirdest place that you've been asked to tip?
You're on the air, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I had a weird encounter in California where I was
at the tip at a grocery store.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Was it a totally Was it there using the toast machine?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
It was it wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, it was just like, okay, here, she's fun around.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
You know how they say spin actual question and I'm like, wait, what.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
That iPad spin is like more than an Olympic figure skater.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
You know, when that thing spins around, You're like, oh god,
here we go. The panic sets in, like Donya Harding, Wait.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
A minute, you were true, he said, So they had
set it up. There's always the prompt of there's a
question for you, so why what?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I saw it happened to other people too, and under
like pure pressure, I did tip twenty percent on your
grocery store, on your air one smoothie, you tipped twenty percent.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, I was a little bit. You know, I didn't
know what the culture was.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
I was like, I'm just a Midwest lady.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
I don't know what I'm doing. The niceness of the Midwest.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
You know I've got that Bostonian streak in me, so
that niceness doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
What's your what's your name? When neighborhoody waking up with
me and.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's heard about energy and I'm in Westchester.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Thank you for the call. I appreciate you, gal.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
You know, let's do this five one, three seven, four
nine one O seph one, or you could talk back
with tif on iHeartRadio. Where is the weirdest place that
you've been asked to tip? Y?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
You are walking right into the middle of a conversation
about tipping. Fifty one percent of Cincinnatians are confused about tipping,
and a lot of that percentage also equates to people
being I feel am I okay, I am a professional.
Let me start over three two one. You're walking into

(03:04):
a conversation about tipping. People are confused on it, and
also people feel guilty about tipping. I've always grown up
and I don't want to be the loser girl from
kiss one oh seven to one that doesn't tip. But
I've always grown up tipping based off of service for
service based things. Where's the weirdest place that you've been
asked to tip? I had someone just calling from Westchester
and say that she was asked to tip at a

(03:25):
grocery store.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Everybody asking for tips is now hurting servers who actually
deserve to be kicked for the work that they do.
Going out to eat. You should be tipping. Everything else
I believe is optional.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
But tipping while eating definitely not option.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
You know what you're going there to do.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Thank you for the talk back with tip. It's just
an alternative way to contribute to my show. When you
listen to Kiss on iHeartRadio, microphone is in the top
right hand corner next to the play button. I feel
like a broken record sometimes because I say it every
single day. But you know, for those in the back
that are just getting organized with their day, there you go, good.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Morning till morning. I'm from Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I believe tip, and it should be based off of
your experience coming in a door, how to your waitress
or waiter treat you, how your food is presenting, and honestly,
I'm gonna put the other based off of how I

(04:33):
feel of the restaurant.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, thank you for contributing.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's very odd to hear myself in the background of
your talk back, but you know what, we all here
this morning. I appreciate your feedback to eat it. I agree,
and I kind of still stand by that, Like, I
know the automatic is twenty percent, but if it's a
service based industry.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
We're all less together.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
But can am I still allowed to tip based off
of the service that I get? Like where I would
love to hear from a server this morning that I
or a restaurant owner. That would make things a lot
easier five one three seven four nine one oh seven one.
We're still in the midst of asking where the weirdest
place you've been tipped is or you've been asked to tip,

(05:19):
But now we've kind of gotten onto this like where
do you tip?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Versus where do you not? As well?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Either one works. In the meantime, we're still commercial frea
good morning.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
You're waking up with tip in the morning on kiss
one oh seven to one, or in the midst of
having a conversation around tipping if you haven't left me
a talk back yet, that's what we're going to start.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm one thousand perst that with you tip. You're not wrong.
Tipping is for the service industry. If you're getting paid
an hourly wage, like it's your job to scoop ice cream.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to tip you for
that because that's literally your job. You're getting paid out
be for that. Well, I mean maybe if you give me.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Like exceptional service or something, maybe throw me intut just
the ice screen there.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Maybe all there, he was in thank you for your opinion.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
All are always welcomed on TIF in the morning, and
thank you for that talk back with TIF. It's just
an alternative way to contribute if you don't feel like calling.
Let me explain where she's coming from. On that earlier,
we were chit chatting about the weirdest places that you've
been asked to tip, and we had a caller from
Westchester that said, Hey, it was at the FCC game
on Saturday, and it asked me to tip for you know,

(06:24):
dippin' dots and I didn't.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I didn't. I chose not to.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I felt guilty about it, but I chose like the
lowest amount because it was there. But I didn't feel
the need to tip that person. That's their job, right.
There's like if you're getting if you're making me a
cosmo at a bar or serving me a meal, that's
a different type of tip structure than hey, let me
just flip flippy dip this iPad around. And that's why

(06:50):
I think fifty one percent of consumers in Sincy feel
confused about tipping and also guilty about it as well.
High you're on the air, Sorry y'all doing about the
tipping thing, Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Ours are so question. So if you go somewheres and
you go out the and your waitress only shows up
one time to fill up your drinks and then it's
going the entire time, do you still tip or do
you not?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's a great question too, because I fully believe in
service based tipping, although I understand that that's where your
money comes from, right, So I'm also a situational based
tipper as well, So I don't know I would take
into account is this place super busy, is she really overwhelmed,
Is she trying her best but it's just coming up short,
or is she just really bad at her job?

Speaker 4 (07:37):
You know, more of the lines of catching the person
outside smoking a cigarette, playing on their phone.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Then you know my answer is going to be no,
I'm probably not going to tip that person the full
twenty percent.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, And then you know, as like when you come
back the second time, you know, with your family. Again
you get someone else and then the person basically says that, well,
don't wait on this. They don't tip.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
So Nowloka, this is a come in head to head man.
You know, I get I know where you're coming from.
I do because as a consumer, when you bring your
family of let's say four out to dinner, you're spending
at least one hundred plus dollars to eat a meal
out the house these days.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
So if it's it should be an experience.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Sometimes we just take for granted even going out to eat,
but they're on your side of things. This is an
experience for your family. It costs a lot of money
to get out the house. You want it to be
a full circle moment. I get that. I get that
very much. So I could see where you're coming from
on the frustration and not tipping if the person wasn't
doing their job.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Very true.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
What's your name? What neighbor are you in?

Speaker 4 (08:45):
My name is Kevin and I am in Florence.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Kevin, thank you for waking up a tip in the morning.
My guys, I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
You know. I never know if guys listen to my
show because it leans a little on the girl's side
of conversation, obviously as a woman leading the show. But
I try my best to, you know, make sure everyone
feels included.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Well I believe or not. Every morning I get in
my word right, that's the only station that's on my
trucks though.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
That is so kind of you. What do you do
for a living?

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Uh? I work for Ana long Care.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, thank you for having us on while you're cutting
the grass.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
My man, all right, I'll you're still more than welcome
to contribute to the conversation. But coming up three or
so minutes from now, what is the number one trend
for summer that exists on your phone or maybe lack thereof.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Get to that next
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