Hey, $5 Starbucks gift cards only buys a certain level of quality audience.

What can you get at Starbucks for $5 anyways? A venti wave as you drive by the window?

If you’re going to be a cheapskate and not tip, sure.

As someone from a country where hospitality workers are paid appropriately by law, is there a benefit to continue supporting the tipping culture? From afar, seems like a win-win for owners. Patrons pay more to scrape from, workers cost less. Is that something you support so much you put your money into it voluntarily or am I missing something?

Every time I consider not tipping I just feel bad cause I know the workers are going to suffer for as long as it takes to make the restaurant or whatever to start paying properly.

But all the new places that now have a tip option but has never been customary to tip in the past can fuck off, don’t want to normalize that shit.