Mr. Goodcents is about as good of a sub as you can buy for the money. It puts Subway to shame. If you don’t have one in your city, I pity you. That being said, Mr. Goodcents puts a tip line on your credit card receipt, hoping to guilt you into poneying up a tip for someone who prepared your food. Fancy restaurants don’t offer a chef tip line on the receipt, so why would a sandwich shop? Asinine.
Meanwhile, the Red Balloon karaoke bar has a tip jar for the DJ. During karaoke Wednesday night, the bar’s other DJ got up to sing a song, and scolded the crowd for scant tipping. First off, don’t you tip at the end of “service?” Shouldn’t you tip when you leave, if you were to believe a karaoke DJ does anything to justify a tip? I’m fine with someone bribing their way to the front of the karaoke list, but the dude is still just changing out CDs.
The tipping culture in this country needs a serious readjustment.
The tip line for Goodcents is for the drivers. They bring you the same receipt to your door as you get at the counter. Drivers who work at places w/o that option often get screwed out of tips.
Karaoke, that’s a different story, and just plain dumb.
Ah, I hadn’t thought about the delivery aspect. Good call. Thanks for restoring my faith in the perfection of Goodcents.
You know what I think of tipping…especially to people who are in the service industry and believe that they will get a tip no matter the quality of service. They have yet to wait on me….