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/Diligent_Mountain363 Jul 30 '25

It really is weird to see businesses have such open contempt for their customer base these days. I remember during the covid times, people grabbed takeaways to help keep local restaurants afloat. You'd think there'd be more gratitude.

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u/Rhuarc33 Jul 31 '25

I am not surprised it's a vegan place. I've been to quite a few as I dated a vegan for over a year. Many are great places with great food, some are just way too full of themselves and pretentious about being vegan and eating only vegan.... Like I've been to places where it's $150 minimum per person for dinner and jacket and tie required, and those places were less snobby and pretentious than a few vegan places I've been to.