Canadians think tipping is ‘getting out of control,’ new poll suggest
It&#x27;s getting out of control in the US.  Tips are supposed to be for service workers, not for anyone who you interact with in any way while conducting a basic business transaction.  People who are performing a direct personal service for you.  In the US now, businesses expect you to tip on take-out orders, at drive through windows, at every form of eatery, there&#x27;s even tips expected now at some retailers.<p>The roles that are appropriate to tip didn&#x27;t change just because everyone felt like it was okay to ask for a tip.  You tip barbers, doormen, bellhops, shoe shines, wait staff, delivery drivers, and bartenders.  That&#x27;s basically it.  If a worker is not rendering you a direct personal service, they should not be tipped and their employer being passive-aggressive about it is hoping enough of their staff get tipped they can start paying the tipped minimum wage instead of paying a normal wage for their job role.<p>What a lot of people don&#x27;t get is that opposing the expansion of tipping isn&#x27;t a negative for the workers, it&#x27;s a negative for the business owners.  The business owners &#x2F;want&#x2F; society to expect to tip workers, because they can pay them $2.15&#x2F;hr instead of $17&#x2F;hr in a major metro as long as they clear federal minimum wage after tips.  Stop the madness, and stop tipping people who are not in direct service roles.<p>What&#x27;s super fucked is that in SF I am seeing most businesses just add it on the check as a mandatory service charge and require you to argue with them.  Like, why the fuck am I paying you a 15% service charge for me to walk to your restaurant and pick up my order off a shelf and walk back to where I&#x27;m staying after I ordered online.  We both know that money isn&#x27;t going to the kitchen staff, it&#x27;s lining the business owner&#x27;s pocket and is a fraudulent way for them to raise prices by forcing a fee on you that you have to argue about.  If I&#x27;m ordering on the web and picking up, and not even speaking to anybody in the process, what &quot;service&quot; did I receive?