• Squorlple@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Can someone more tech-savvy than me make a smartphone app for customers to request tips from servers? i.e., the customer inputs their own bill total and the app presents a 10%, 20%, custom, and no tip option and asks for the server’s payment details and then would forward money from the server’s bank account/credit card/PayPal to the customer’s bank account/credit card/PayPal. If enough customers swarm tip-screen stores with this as a response, the stores may find their tip-screens no longer worth the time to deal with.

    We fight obnoxious tipping culture by showing it a mirror.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      You expect bosses to care if their employees have to put up with shit from customers for decisions the employees didn’t make?

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      While the servers are the ones getting most of the tips, they have no control over this. Its entirely the point of sale processor (clover, square, etc.) who push it. They get a ~3% cut of the total transaction; if you tip then it’s a bigger transaction and their cut is a little bigger too.

      This plan makes servers lives worse but doesn’t incentivise the people actually in charge to change anything.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      Well sometimes there are tip pools. The server gets a large percent but the host and the other support staff get a little as well.