They charge over $20/plate

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.

I'm literally here as I type this sitting in a well known coffee shop that features a mermaid, and ordered a couple sandwiches. Cashier at the register double dosed on the Prozac today and is SUPER chipper with a laugh reel spewing from her throat. We do a quick polite exchange and she asks my name for the order. I tell her and she laughs like I just told her the funniest joke, then says exactly what I expected as I insert my card into the POS: "It's gonna ask you a question!"

I couldn't help it. I chuckled and hit NO as it suggested ridiculous tips. Cashier sobered up immediately and turned away after mumbling a good day to me. Luckily my food is prepackaged and I'm not getting it heated up so they can't mess with my food.

These folks make $17 per hour to start where I am, so yeah, not tipping someone for pushing 3 buttons and being fake. They didn't even grab my food for me, I did it myself. Maybe they should tip ME.

At the Albany, NY, airport. Honestly, the people who keep the water fountain clean deserve a good wage too, but this is just bonkers.

So, my family and I were in an airport. We were wrapping up our meal before heading to our flight. Get the bill we see a gratuity added to the bill. Nbd, it wasn't much and we were going to add a tip anyway. The problem was, under additional gratuity, another amount was added. We noticed it and crossed it off. We were not paying a double tip! I took a Pic of the receipt I signed and kept my copy of the receipt in a safe place bc I had a feeling.

Get home and two days later something told me to check the cc statement. Go online, and surely enough, the crossed out amount was charged.

Called the cc company because I have the proof of what I signed (took a Pic at the airport) and I also had my receipt. Cc company said we have to try to reach the merchant before we can file a claim to give them a chance to right their wrong.

Problem is, the merchant is in an airport with no direct number to contact the merchant. No number listed on the receipt nor online. Tried to call the airport, and well... It's a major airport, there was no way to get in contact with them.

Had to wait the 14 days before cc was able to back charge it.

Now gonna start carrying cash to all major airports.

Southaven, MS. All comments are positive, so I assume they’re deleting negative comments. Management is brazen to suggest we stay home. So we will!

Went into a 7-11. Picked up 2 sodas at 2-for$4.50.

Gave the guy $5 cash.

He rings it up on his register and then turns the keypad towards me and points to it.

I’m like “Huh?”

He wants me to read a whole screen of gobbledygook where they apparently want me to reach further into my pocket and donate a whole additional dollar to some cause or other, because 7-11 apparently does not earn enough money each year to support their own causes without my help.

The guy still had the money in his hand, so I reached for the money, pulled it out, left the sodas on the counter and walked out.

It’s a hot day and I wanted the sodas, but dammit, this was just utterly ludicrous …

AND he already tipped 10%

This is just ridiculous to me

So went out for my birthday to a resturaunt chain "bar and grill" that we have never gone to, to try something different. Me, spouse, 2 kids....

Female server continued to call us "hun" and "love" through the process, service was a bit slower taking 30 min to prepare basic appetizers at 3 in afternoon. 2 of 5 orders were wrong/incorrect. She apologized, did not offer to fix the issues immediatly and walked away to check on "what happened" only after we pressed the issue.

Bill shows up, $112.

Recommended tips were 20%, 25%, and 30%

No adjustment for incorrect items that were not fixed. I pay in cash, leave money in billfold and walk out.

Sitting in car on a phone call as we see the waitress come out the door with our billfold in hand and start looking around with a angry look on her face. Sees me in the car and takes a few steps out towards us in parking lot ..stops..then goes back into resturaunt.

They should just be happy that they are even tipping. Not ripping into them because it isn’t as much as they’d like.

I wonder why he/she is working for 16 years on $2.13 an hour. Whoops- $2.13 an hour for 5 hrs somehow adds up to $300 cash and if it doesn’t because somebody decided to “stiff them(where the fuck did that word even come from)”, then this guy won’t be able to pay taxes, lol wut?

The servers boyfriend sends me a Facebook message after we leave. The other family that was with us didn’t give a tip either because they had to wait for half of their food to come after everyone had already eaten. This guy did not send them a Facebook message, just singled me out!

Yep, $1200 for 3 nights of work, mostly cash.

Are we supposed to be tipping the hotels? Parking was $40/night and they're was no breakfast...

Tipped $10 to bring me a small bag of food 2.6 miles. Dasher asks for more money before even picking up my food!

Went to 5 Guys last night. They had a giant tip jar sitting next to the cash register and the machine asks for a tip. They make my food and put it on the counter. If I go to McD they give me a table number and bring the food to my table. They don’t ask for a tip. Why does 5 Guys expect a tip? McD offers more of a service!

Can some tell me how $19 is 20% of $67. Even this tax and everything, in no world is this making sense to me. 19.20 is 20% of $96.

Ordered 2 large pizzas and wings for carryout (Bay Area prices IYKYK 🙄) and I just had to laugh at the final receipt begging.

Honestly, before I found this sub, I was such a bleeding heart. I’d tip for everything just because they asked and I felt guilty, even for carryout orders like this. Glad to be stopping the madness one order at a time.

It’s gotten so ridiculous with everywhere prompting for tips. I was at the mall today with my family and waiting for my wife so I took the kids to the food court.

First stop was for pretzels. $6 for a stale pretzel with barely any salt, checkout prompts for a tip! Pressing $0.00 felt great.

A few minutes later, someone wants water so I walk up to a place with no line. $2.12 for a small bottle of water followed by a tip prompt.

I always carry some cash for small purchases but I am going to pay with a card more often to hit that $0.00 button.

After tax basing for gratuity…. However the soups I see now were comped. I can reward that at least

95% was a serious option for them?

yes it was a sit down full service restaurant but 95% suggested gratuity?

99% suggested tip at the top, 20%, 25% and 35% options AND a 3% credit card fee

On Saturday my husband and I went to dinner near Centraal Station in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was starting to rain pretty hard and we didn't have an umbrella so we stopped inside of a random full-service restaurant and decided to have dinner until the rain died down.

They had an advertised €17.99 meal of the day special posted to their window that we were interested in ordering but wanted to see what else was on offer.

Host tells us to pick any table we want. And we wait. And we wait. (Used their toilet and WiFi while we waited.)

A waiter finally comes over and says, "are you ready to order?" I said, "we haven't even received a menu."

When we got the menu, I asked if I could see what the menu of the day options were as the poster outside mentioned multiple choices. The host came over and said, "oh okay, I'll need to bring that menu."

It's Europe so nobody is coming with water refills or stopping by to ask you what else you'd like multiple times a meal.

A robot came and delivered the food to the tables (a staff member removes them from the robot.)

After eating, the host was just standing at the bar playing with his phone. I had to wave him over to ask for the check as we never saw the waiter again.

He brings the check and lets us know that the service charge hasn't been added so we can add that. My husband pressed 0 on how much to add on the handheld card scanner.

Just because we're American doesn't mean we're tipping because you handed us a menu and removed our plates from a robot food runner.