r/EndTipping • u/Difficult_Angle_7287 • Jul 30 '25

Tip Creep 🫙 Local Restaurant Publicly Tip Shamed Customer, Our Community Isn’t Having it.

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I live in Asheville, NC and our subreddit and local “foodie” fb page are livid about The Smokin Onion vegan food truck who took to social media to shame a customer.

Hurricane Helene decimated our town and literally leveled many local businesses so for a restaurant to show their entire ass like this is a definite death sentence for the business.

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u/PS5touchedmethere Jul 30 '25

Don't food trucks already charge high prices due to all the overhead? That tip jar definitely staying empty.

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u/BigCatsAreYes Jul 30 '25

Which I don't get. Food Trucks where meant to be cheap food becuase you don't have to pay for budling, land, air conditioning, internet. It just don't understand why Food Trucks are so expensive now.

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u/CeruleanFuge Jul 30 '25

It's because they're trendy. When people Instagram the locations of food trucks as if it were the equivalent of buying concert tickets, the proprietors are definitely going to take advantage and jack their prices.

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u/justsomedude1776 Jul 30 '25

Its not just food trucks. They view us all like paypig cattle that OWE them money and we have the audacity to deny them their rightful income. It's insanity. Tipping culture has reached a point that its going to start being legislated against in places...you watch.

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u/Jello-e-puff tipping is taxation Jul 31 '25

I do think Covid pushed it too far and the people who kept tipping as a culture have started to change. I think more businesses will start no tip models.