Comment on Tipping culture npcs
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months agoIn many places including Washington state servers are actually paid minimum wage of a bit over $16 an hour. We also have pervasive tip requests. I have gone to a restaurant where ordering and drinks was self serve, the employee makes you a hot sandwich which you take to go and the robot which takes your order requests a default 20% tip.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If that’s a the party tablet that covers with the software pre-installed they ask for tips by default because it makes more money for the software company.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s highly unlikely that a POS terminal software directs tip money directly to the software company. Hopefully tips are shared by staff. Pessemistically they could be stolen by the company. In either case it doesn’t match the normal expectation of tipped service.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those terminals take a percentage of everything that goes through them.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They don’t collect tips for the terminal holder