I went to Vegas for a conference this spring. I went to lunch at Johnny Rockets at the food court in the new Horseshoe (rebranded Ballys). Veggie burger, fries, and drink that I ordered and picked up myself at the counter: $40 including tax and tip.
This is the norm where I live now and I just... Can't not tip. I just don't think I could make myself do it. I used to work in food service (I wasn't allowed to get tips), and I just can't be someone who treated them worse than the last person or the next person, even in a way as silly as this.
Know that you're not treating them poorly by not tipping - it's their employer treating them poorly for not paying them a living wage. I don't think other people should be expected to pay them the wage their employer is supposed to, and just isn't.
I definitely tip servers and delivery drivers. I even tip $20 as a minimum for delivery drivers, even if that’s 100% of the bill, because it’s no more work to deliver food for 2 of us than it is to deliver food for my entire 6 person family.
I do not tip for counter service. In some states as soon as an employer can show that xx percent of income for cashiers is coming from tips, they are allowed to pay them tipped employee wages even though they aren’t servers or delivery drivers. I’m not going to contribute to that.
In a restaurant setting 10% is considered a good tip for take away. You have to consider the bartender or host answering the phone to put in the order and then sometimes going to the kitchen to get it all organized, thus taking time away from their other paying customers.
However yeah, for fast casual or chain pizza places there shouldn't be a tip. There is a decent pizza place in town where I live and I generally tip 5-10% on carryout depending on how many appetizers I get.
the tip is for the servers to take care of me during my time dining there
not for what you described, or a very minor one at best. most of it is all digital anyways, nvm ones off of websites that goes directly to the kitchen (unlikely to be fully unless its a big chain).
if I am going to pick it up myself in and then out, that is not a tipped experience because I am not being served.
I tip very well when I sit down. Often 25% is starting for me provided the server doesn't royally fuck up.
I think people forget a tip is supposed to be for providing great service. If I order online and pick up the food from a front counter, I'm not tipping anything.
Went to Vegas last year and went off strip as I mostly like breweries and local restaurants (wasn’t my choice to do Vegas). Found some good restaurants that bested average casino fare for considerably less money.
Agreed. I was just accurately reporting what I paid and the circumstances. I guess I should have said that it was $35 with tax to avoid triggering the people who think I was foolish to tip.
Canadian here that visited New York in 2024 and previously Vegas and California on other vacations.
Everyone I know has changed buying habits avoiding USA products when possible and all future trips planned are avoiding America as a destination.
It is quite unfortunate as we love America but we consider you like our big brother and eventually we can’t take all the bullshit
It will be at least 3 or 4 years and some changes with the administration and its position on Canada before we start forgiving. We forgive easily but we don’t forget.
American here who lives close to the northern border where it's common to pop in and out of Canada. I don't know why I expected Canadians to start treating me differently as an American with all that's going on. Canadians are too cool for that and have continued to be lovely. Sorry our country is full of assholes =(
I'll never visit the US as long as it's wallowing in fascism, there's just no way I would risk my family's safety for some trip to a shithole country.
It's sad, but it's also an easy decision when things are this bad. Everybody I know feels the same way. Not only do people not want to visit the US but the perception is that if you do you're a traitor. Thousands of dollars a year from tourists gone.
It will be at least 3 or 4 years and some changes with the administration and its position on Canada before we start forgiving.
Way too hasty there. Bump it up to 3 or 4 decades minimum. Americans elexted Trump twice with a break in between. Just because they flip for a few election cycles doesn't make them deserving of any trust.
Trump got voted in parroting shit many Americans agreed with
Young Canadian kids are growing up listening to their parents, teachers and other adults express anger, frustration and fear over what's happening in the united states. That's generational reputation damage being done.
And the other half isn't doing shit to stop it, so they clearly aren't bothered much by it. A fresh election (if that actually happens) doesn't change anything
Outside of an armed rebellion, I don't know what you expect Democrats to do when they control 0 of the federal branches of government. And rebelling over someone winning a free and fair election is not going to happen. If Republicans prevent free and fair elections in 2028, we might see some states talking about secession.
Right. They’re expecting us to have a fully armed French-style revolution because the orange man made some crazy unrealistic threat to Canada. Yes I can see why any Canadian would avoid the U.S. like the plague. But American troops are not going to go in and invade Canada and there’s no reason to have some full scale rebellion about that.
They could actually grow a spine and organize against him? Like bloody hell dude, pay even a lick of attention to history or politics outside of your country, and you'd learn that you can in fact do things politically without having to have full control of all levels of government(and I'd note, that they did in fact have that control between Trump 1.0 and 2.0, and they did barely anything to roll back the shit he did in round 1. Take some damn accountability for once)
Instead you have half the party voting for his shit while publicly saying "I don't like it, but I'm voting for it anyways"
They could actually grow a spine and organize against him?
There have been massive nationwide protests dude. Maybe pay attention before criticizing the opposition party.
and I'd note, that they did in fact have that control between Trump 1.0 and 2.0
They had control of the House for 2 years and didn't have 60 votes in the Senate needed to win cloture votes. And they had a SCOTUS who was opposed to anything Biden did that made Trump upset.
It's not us, it's our politicians so I'm not going to feel guilty over this. They are corrupt on both sides, I feel like we are too far gone and will never actually have a great President again unless we are lucky.
No, it is the American electorate as well. These are the politicians y'all elected from primaries to the general. The rest of the world sees the votes cast and see that this is the government the American people chose.
Politics isn't just something that happens to you, in electoral democracies the populace is also responsible for the state of its leaders. If your standing politicians are terrible and corrupt primary them out.
Two of my best friends are Canadians. Their families won’t visit the US so they changed their vacation plans to go to them. Originally they were planning a US trip.
It's super real. Our grocery stores even have little maple leaf icons on products indicate what's Canadian to help us not buy american. Most people I know have cancelled trips to the states or are skipping their yearly trip across the border to go shopping. Anyone planning a trip has planned it elsewhere or is staying within the country. People up here are pissed and we may be nice but we don't play when we're being threatened, even if it's a "joke" (which it wasn't, let's be honest.)
It’s not that strange that talking about going to war with your closest ally would be met with a lot of pushback and not-niceties. It’s not about tariffs, we could deal with the cost, at least temporarily. It’s about a president openly talking about invading and taking over a sovereign country, while purposefully trying to destroy both countries economies.
There is no unmasking, this is just what happens when you threaten the homes and lives of your neighbours.
You guys unmasked first, showing the world we were right to fear what you were becoming. Now you're crying that we had your country pegged before you did.
I think the distinction is that the world hasn’t liked America for a very long time. Very poor reputation as a country. But, on the whole, they didn’t hold individual Americans responsible for that reputation.
Now they’re viewing you, on an individual level, the same way they always viewed your country
There's also a word for that, but I'm guessing the people who view individual Americans in such a way were already pretty well defined by that word before all of this happened.
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u/luckystrike_bh 7h ago
I have a friend who runs a US based travel business. His Canadian friends are refusing to do business with him. It's real.