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, it'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
(00:46):
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. How was it
for a reach around huhneon 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.
(01:12):
It's a forty eight hour Capitol one card holder pre
sale for our iHeartRadio Music Festival tomorrow one o'clock. And
it's a great opportunity 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 Urban, New Kids on the Block, Paramore, Shaboozy, The
(01:33):
Black Crows, Thomas Rhet, 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 Capitol 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?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Are you meditating with scary? 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
(02:22):
tomorrow one o'clock East Coast card holders cap of one.
You win tipping. Let's talk about it. You've seen it
in the news, right A Gonda reads 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 it'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 1 (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 6 (03:27):
Flip the screen around.
Speaker 1 (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 7 (03:38):
Though?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I mean if.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, yeah, let's stop burning down the castle here. I'm
just asking a questions, like, Daniel Elliott, what do you
not want to tip?
Speaker 1 (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 1 (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?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You don't.
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.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Take a penny that was there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But you know, when it comes to great service at
a restaurant, you know what, absolutely I overtip.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Sometimes we went to a restaurants 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, I'm
tired of it.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yep, what up?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Frog?
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Like the further with Gandhi said, you go to a restaurant,
I'm just scary as 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 just tip on the numbers. Let's say you
(05:25):
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):
If 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 pay the salary for the people in the.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Back, right.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, 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. We do.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But everyone has to agree, even those working in that situation.
I'm assuming they mistagree that, yeah, this is a newer
thing and it is kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, it's a big question mark floating around like why
are we doing this?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
It's correct, don't even give me started on delivery services.
Oh my god, gosh, they charge them 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.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
On Instacart, there's also a heavy order fee.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
So like if I an order of water.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Bottles or like something like that, I gotta pay extra
oh 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 7 (06:56):
It's not worth it anymore? But I still look for orders.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yes, Okay, back, Why is it not worth it anymore?
What happened?
Speaker 7 (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 3 (07:13):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
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 7 (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 is for me. You be paid more
to carry? Well, okay should you?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And all Instacart delivery people get paid more to deliver
heavy items?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Absolutely right now?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yes, because what my Amazon guy doesn't get paid any
more to deliver a heavy box than he doesn't get
it paid to deliver small box.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
A good point, Danielle, you preach.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
I mean, look, it's more trips from the car to
the house. You gotta go back and he gets six
cases of water?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Is it from the house to the car the time?
Speaker 7 (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 fade. I live in an apartment building so they're
pulling up on a bike or however I have to
bring it in.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I think it's to be a case by case scenario.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
But the thing. 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 1 (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 6 (08:34):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Fine, well, look again.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
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 they expect a gratuity. I
(08:59):
don't understand that, but I'm hoping and wishing someone would
explain that to me from their point of view.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Is there in that position.
Speaker 1 (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 other 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 6 (09:17):
It kind of is the same thing.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
At least tip 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.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
The way, they still don't do that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
They don't even clean your room.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
They can you towel that.
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 3 (09:45):
I'm not gonna say chargience. Leprosy. It's leprosy.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well anyway, So look, I know we're bitching a moment
about it, but This has been a big story of
late and people are getting tired of being expected to
cover expenses that maybe someone else should be paying.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You know, if you don't love.
Speaker 1 (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 2 (10:27):
Exactly. 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. Still, I don't know a
whole line. Carry Online twenty has something to say. Uh,
let's do it. Hello, Carry, what's.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Going on any guys?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know what just talking about?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We're bitching and moaning about tipping, 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 10 (10:52):
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 Uber 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.
Speaker 10 (11:08):
So really just about a year ago.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
And one of my first orders was somebody with a
bunch of cases of water, A bunch of cases of water,
and then additional watermelon, multiple watermelons.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
My god, watermelons and water.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
That's a lot of water, 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. Tip, No, No,
(11:41):
it's not a great tip. I mean, like Scotty said,
you do 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 you just described Danielle's house.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
No, I don't see that many steps. But what I'm
saying is like a cage like that.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Then I would say they should definitely add that heavy tax.
But if it's a simple way, yeah, yeah, just a
regular or No.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
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 6 (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 3 (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 3 (12:40):
To this text, they don't ask for tips now.
Speaker 6 (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 if
you ask.
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 1 (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.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
It is, what are you going to tippet. You can't
just not tip. You look like a dumbass in your face.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
You feel obligated, all right, Kerrie, thank you so much
for your call. Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
If you were here, I would give you a shiny
dollar bill.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
He's the best, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Take care.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
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 10 (13:33):
Yes, like the merchant is expensive and anosice 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 6 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well maybe it was like a part of the the
programming of that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That cash register or whatever. 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 4 (14:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Can we start that here?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
If we have an exceptionally funny show.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Show, we can give out our venmo Yeah, oh my gosh,
that'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
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 6 (14:31):
I did?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I was gilted.
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?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It was very nice, but yeah, we're already charging you
what we're charging you. You don't need to add extra.
Speaker 6 (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 artists and just
charge more if that's what they want.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
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 beers here or whatever?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
It is?
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Hot people?
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Okay at the game, Yeah, it's really funny. Has we
each have our own filter we use who gets a tip?
Who does it?
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And I get that. But anyway, what's going on? No,
why that's so important? It is, it's the most important.
But do they take gratuities? Is not jar? Is there
a jar in the operating room?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Can you if you tip me MORELD, your sutures.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Will look much better than obligated to them.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
That's what we're gonna do, and we're gonna you're gonna
be out of it. But we like bee, 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, it'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
(00:46):
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. How was it
for a reach around huhneon 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.
(01:12):
It's a forty eight hour Capitol one card holder pre
sale for our iHeartRadio Music Festival tomorrow one o'clock. And
it's a great opportunity 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 Urban, New Kids on the Block, Paramore, Shaboozy, The
(01:33):
Black Crows, Thomas Rhet, 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 Capitol 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?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Are you meditating with scary? 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
(02:22):
tomorrow one o'clock East Coast card holders cap of one.
You win tipping. Let's talk about it. You've seen it
in the news, right A Gonda reads 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 it'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 1 (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 6 (03:27):
Flip the screen around.
Speaker 1 (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 7 (03:38):
Though?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I mean if.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, yeah, let's stop burning down the castle here. I'm
just asking a questions, like, Daniel Elliott, what do you
not want to tip?
Speaker 1 (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 1 (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?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You don't.
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.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Take a penny that was there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But you know, when it comes to great service at
a restaurant, you know what, absolutely I overtip.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Sometimes we went to a restaurants 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, I'm
tired of it.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yep, what up?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Frog?
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Like the further with Gandhi said, you go to a restaurant,
I'm just scary as 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 just tip on the numbers. Let's say you
(05:25):
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):
If 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 pay the salary for the people in the.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Back, right.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, 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. We do.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But everyone has to agree, even those working in that situation.
I'm assuming they mistagree that, yeah, this is a newer
thing and it is kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, it's a big question mark floating around like why
are we doing this?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
It's correct, don't even give me started on delivery services.
Oh my god, gosh, they charge them 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.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
On Instacart, there's also a heavy order fee.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
So like if I an order of water.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Bottles or like something like that, I gotta pay extra
oh 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 7 (06:56):
It's not worth it anymore? But I still look for orders.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yes, Okay, back, Why is it not worth it anymore?
What happened?
Speaker 7 (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 3 (07:13):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
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 7 (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 is for me. You be paid more
to carry? Well, okay should you?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And all Instacart delivery people get paid more to deliver
heavy items?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Absolutely right now?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yes, because what my Amazon guy doesn't get paid any
more to deliver a heavy box than he doesn't get
it paid to deliver small box.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
A good point, Danielle, you preach.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
I mean, look, it's more trips from the car to
the house. You gotta go back and he gets six
cases of water?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Is it from the house to the car the time?
Speaker 7 (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 fade. I live in an apartment building so they're
pulling up on a bike or however I have to
bring it in.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I think it's to be a case by case scenario.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
But the thing. 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 1 (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 6 (08:34):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Fine, well, look again.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
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 they expect a gratuity. I
(08:59):
don't understand that, but I'm hoping and wishing someone would
explain that to me from their point of view.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Is there in that position.
Speaker 1 (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 other 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 6 (09:17):
It kind of is the same thing.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
At least tip 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.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
The way, they still don't do that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
They don't even clean your room.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
They can you towel that.
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 3 (09:45):
I'm not gonna say chargience. Leprosy. It's leprosy.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well anyway, So look, I know we're bitching a moment
about it, but This has been a big story of
late and people are getting tired of being expected to
cover expenses that maybe someone else should be paying.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You know, if you don't love.
Speaker 1 (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 2 (10:27):
Exactly. 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. Still, I don't know a
whole line. Carry Online twenty has something to say. Uh,
let's do it. Hello, Carry, what's.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Going on any guys?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know what just talking about?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We're bitching and moaning about tipping, 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 10 (10:52):
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 Uber 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.
Speaker 10 (11:08):
So really just about a year ago.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
And one of my first orders was somebody with a
bunch of cases of water, A bunch of cases of water,
and then additional watermelon, multiple watermelons.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
My god, watermelons and water.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
That's a lot of water, 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. Tip, No, No,
(11:41):
it's not a great tip. I mean, like Scotty said,
you do 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 you just described Danielle's house.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
No, I don't see that many steps. But what I'm
saying is like a cage like that.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Then I would say they should definitely add that heavy tax.
But if it's a simple way, yeah, yeah, just a
regular or No.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
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 6 (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 3 (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 3 (12:40):
To this text, they don't ask for tips now.
Speaker 6 (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 if
you ask.
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 1 (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.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
It is, what are you going to tippet. You can't
just not tip. You look like a dumbass in your face.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
You feel obligated, all right, Kerrie, thank you so much
for your call. Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
If you were here, I would give you a shiny
dollar bill.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
He's the best, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Take care.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
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 10 (13:33):
Yes, like the merchant is expensive and anosice 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 6 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well maybe it was like a part of the the
programming of that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That cash register or whatever. 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 4 (14:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Can we start that here?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
If we have an exceptionally funny show.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Show, we can give out our venmo Yeah, oh my gosh,
that'd be awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
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 6 (14:31):
I did?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I was gilted.
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?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It was very nice, but yeah, we're already charging you
what we're charging you. You don't need to add extra.
Speaker 6 (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 artists and just
charge more if that's what they want.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
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 beers here or whatever?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
It is?
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Hot people?
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Okay at the game, Yeah, it's really funny. Has we
each have our own filter we use who gets a tip?
Who does it?
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And I get that. But anyway, what's going on? No,
why that's so important? It is, it's the most important.
But do they take gratuities? Is not jar? Is there
a jar in the operating room?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Can you if you tip me MORELD, your sutures.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Will look much better than obligated to them.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
That's what we're gonna do, and we're gonna you're gonna
be out of it. But we like bee, you have
an envelope. An envelope on the stretcher. Next year, we'll
just take that
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