Dunkin Donuts, Tip or No?

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If I got pennies maybe other then that no.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: BUTCH1

Originally posted by: Leros
A tip at local coffee shops. Often gets me a free refill or something.

Bingo!!, winner, tell the el-cheapos in this thread that tightwads get the slowest service and the coldest pizza every time, once your made as someone who is to cheap to tip that's what's gonna happen..

If I sit at a table and they bring the food to me, or if they deliver my food to my house/hotel/apartment/whatever then yes, I tip. But when all they do is pour a cup of coffee and hand it to me over a counter that doesn't deserve a tip.

Also, amazingly, I don't have service problems at places where I don't tip when I pick my orders up in person. In fact, the local pizza parlor near my current client sees me about twice a week and my orders are always both fast and hot with very friendly service.

ZV

 

[Turbonium]

All the Tim Hortons in Canada have charity donation boxes. I sometimes throw some change in there. Never seen a cup set up for tips though. Would seem unprofessional tbh.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: BUTCH1

Originally posted by: Leros
A tip at local coffee shops. Often gets me a free refill or something.

Bingo!!, winner, tell the el-cheapos in this thread that tightwads get the slowest service and the coldest pizza every time, once your made as someone who is to cheap to tip that's what's gonna happen..

The only people that deserve tips are the ones that give the best service at all times. Ones that give you shitty service because you don't tip don't deserve it. I'm sorry you feel like you have to pay people extra to get the basic service they get paid minimum wage to do.

You seem like one of those people that tip just to tip and that's not the reason you are supposed to tip. You are supposed to tip when someone does something extra that goes beyond their job description. Just tipping and wasting your money and calling others tightwads cus they don't feel like they have to tip to get basic service is just stupid to me.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: BUTCH1

Originally posted by: Leros
A tip at local coffee shops. Often gets me a free refill or something.

Bingo!!, winner, tell the el-cheapos in this thread that tightwads get the slowest service and the coldest pizza every time, once your made as someone who is to cheap to tip that's what's gonna happen..

The only people that deserve tips are the ones that give the best service at all times. Ones that give you shitty service because you don't tip don't deserve it. I'm sorry you feel like you have to pay people extra to get the basic service they get paid minimum wage to do.

You seem like one of those people that tip just to tip and that's not the reason you are supposed to tip. You are supposed to tip when someone does something extra that goes beyond their job description. Just tipping and wasting your money and calling others tightwads cus they don't feel like they have to tip to get basic service is just stupid to me.

Hmm, you seem to have a fixation on how much $$$ these employees earn... you make reference to that in all 3 of your posts in this thread.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Dunkin Donuts, as well as a few other counter serve businesses leave cups out for tips. Do any of you leave a tip in this case? I usually do, but I'm slightly resentful of it. Traditionally that isn't a tipping situation, but it seems like some people are trying to change that.

resentful? Not a tipping situation?

Hate to break it to you but people have tipped for their coffee since coffee's been served. The cups were originally put out in coffee places to remind the riffraff of the custom.

Not being Dunkin is paying more than a waiter's wage then tipping isn't so needed for them to make fair wages...

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: BUTCH1

Originally posted by: Leros
A tip at local coffee shops. Often gets me a free refill or something.

Bingo!!, winner, tell the el-cheapos in this thread that tightwads get the slowest service and the coldest pizza every time, once your made as someone who is to cheap to tip that's what's gonna happen..

The only people that deserve tips are the ones that give the best service at all times. Ones that give you shitty service because you don't tip don't deserve it. I'm sorry you feel like you have to pay people extra to get the basic service they get paid minimum wage to do.

You seem like one of those people that tip just to tip and that's not the reason you are supposed to tip. You are supposed to tip when someone does something extra that goes beyond their job description. Just tipping and wasting your money and calling others tightwads cus they don't feel like they have to tip to get basic service is just stupid to me.

Hmm, you seem to have a fixation on how much $$$ these employees earn... you make reference to that in all 3 of your posts in this thread.

Because people say that are servers don't even make minimum wage and need the tips to even live and in many states they do make minimum wage and if they don't their boss is supposed to cover it so they do.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Dunkin Donuts, as well as a few other counter serve businesses leave cups out for tips. Do any of you leave a tip in this case? I usually do, but I'm slightly resentful of it. Traditionally that isn't a tipping situation, but it seems like some people are trying to change that.

resentful? Not a tipping situation?

Hate to break it to you but people have tipped for their coffee since coffee's been served. The cups were originally put out in coffee places to remind the riffraff of the custom.

Not being Dunkin is paying more than a waiter's wage then tipping isn't so needed for them to make fair wages...

I have no idea what you just said. Grammar please?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I find putting out tip jars is kinda bold as it's like saying "oh and can you please tip me?", but every now and then I might put money in there anyway. More often though I put money in those donation jars or boxes that are sometimes out. At the Tim Hortons in the hospital where I work I will usually put my change in the foundation donation box as the money goes towards the hospital.

 

[BUTCH1]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: BUTCH1

Originally posted by: Leros
A tip at local coffee shops. Often gets me a free refill or something.

Bingo!!, winner, tell the el-cheapos in this thread that tightwads get the slowest service and the coldest pizza every time, once your made as someone who is to cheap to tip that's what's gonna happen..

If I sit at a table and they bring the food to me, or if they deliver my food to my house/hotel/apartment/whatever then yes, I tip. But when all they do is pour a cup of coffee and hand it to me over a counter that doesn't deserve a tip.

Also, amazingly, I don't have service problems at places where I don't tip when I pick my orders up in person. In fact, the local pizza parlor near my current client sees me about twice a week and my orders are always both fast and hot with very friendly service.

ZV

That's fair, if your driving over to pick up pizza I don't tip anyone either. As for Dunkin D I might leave an extra $.50 or so if I already have it on me in change, if not I don't worry about it at all.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Perknose
n/m

Should have quoted you.

 

[Sentrosi2121]

A couple of weeks ago I put a cup outside of my little cubicle at work. Just a simple cup and I wrote "Tips accepted". I have helped countless co-workers over the past weeks. Guess what I got? Nothing except a few paper clips and someone's balled up chewing gum.

Why would I expect someone to tip me for doing my job? Well, that's what Dunkin' Donuts and Starbuck's wants me to do. The next time I tip a barista or a counter person at a franchise will be the first time.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Leros
A tip at local coffee shops. Often gets me a free refill or something.

hmm... all the local coffee shops i go to have 'bottomless cups of coffee' ... tip or no tip, i get free refills before i even get my check.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: Leros
A tip at local coffee shops. Often gets me a free refill or something.

hmm... all the local coffee shops i go to have 'bottomless cups of coffee' ... tip or no tip, i get free refills before i even get my check.

If you are sitting and drinking thus having someone bring you coffee, this is entirely different than counter service. You should be tipping regardless of what the person is getting paid.

Table service in the US = tipping.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
A couple of weeks ago I put a cup outside of my little cubicle at work. Just a simple cup and I wrote "Tips accepted". I have helped countless co-workers over the past weeks. Guess what I got? Nothing except a few paper clips and someone's balled up chewing gum.

Why would I expect someone to tip me for doing my job? Well, that's what Dunkin' Donuts and Starbuck's wants me to do. The next time I tip a barista or a counter person at a franchise will be the first time.

Your argument makes no sense. Are you saying there should be no tipping of anyone?

You may want to rethink that.

 

[waffleironhead]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
A couple of weeks ago I put a cup outside of my little cubicle at work. Just a simple cup and I wrote "Tips accepted". I have helped countless co-workers over the past weeks. Guess what I got? Nothing except a few paper clips and someone's balled up chewing gum.

Why would I expect someone to tip me for doing my job? Well, that's what Dunkin' Donuts and Starbuck's wants me to do. The next time I tip a barista or a counter person at a franchise will be the first time.

Your argument makes no sense. Are you saying there should be no tipping of anyone?

You may want to rethink that.

I look forward to a world with no tipping. It was refreshing to be in a country where tipping is considered rude.

 

[zinfamous]

where is the option for "Fuck NO?"

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
A couple of weeks ago I put a cup outside of my little cubicle at work. Just a simple cup and I wrote "Tips accepted". I have helped countless co-workers over the past weeks. Guess what I got? Nothing except a few paper clips and someone's balled up chewing gum.

Why would I expect someone to tip me for doing my job? Well, that's what Dunkin' Donuts and Starbuck's wants me to do. The next time I tip a barista or a counter person at a franchise will be the first time.

Your argument makes no sense. Are you saying there should be no tipping of anyone?

You may want to rethink that.

I look forward to a world with no tipping. It was refreshing to be in a country where tipping is considered rude.

well, that's because they make real money. The industry is a completely different model. Also, the service sucks balls (compared to what we expect from service in American restaurants) where you don't tip.

I prefer the European model, but there is indeed a serious lack of service; and the argument isn't as simple as "they consider it rude when you tip, therefore it's awesomer."

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
A couple of weeks ago I put a cup outside of my little cubicle at work. Just a simple cup and I wrote "Tips accepted". I have helped countless co-workers over the past weeks. Guess what I got? Nothing except a few paper clips and someone's balled up chewing gum.

Why would I expect someone to tip me for doing my job? Well, that's what Dunkin' Donuts and Starbuck's wants me to do. The next time I tip a barista or a counter person at a franchise will be the first time.

Your argument makes no sense. Are you saying there should be no tipping of anyone?

You may want to rethink that.

I look forward to a world with no tipping. It was refreshing to be in a country where tipping is considered rude.

And servers were paid a higher wage which dictated higher costs for equal levels of food / service.

The only time people can argue against this is in the ass of the world where restaurant property and licenses are cheap. In the US, setting up a shop is an expensive proposition. We stopped by a Japanese Buffet opening in our area to see the construction. Their permit/license totalled $35,000. (water and sewer setup were the two largest costs)...they didn't have an alcohol license listed yet. Even a beer/wine add on is steep here. In some countries a restaurant can serve without licenses and the like.

Our tipping system (and other countries that follow) allow for the service to be billed separately. Great service not only is shown in tips, but in repeat business. Poor service often has a place failing.

The main problem is many eat outside their means and feel entitled too. It's pretty disgusting to me to be in a high end restaurant where the staff waits head over heels on some group of hoodrats sporting counterfeit designer items that then insist that the 18% gratuity gets removed as the food was 'too damn expensive' for a tip.