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(Some Guy)   "I normally wouldn't mind an automatic 10% tip for making my drink but you're a robot"   (intheknow.com) divider line
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4228 clicks; posted to Main » on 29 Jan 2023 at 5:38 PM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Mugato [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 2:32:58 PM  
You just know the staff is farking that thing after hours.
 
NeoCortex42 [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 2:53:19 PM  

Mugato: You just know the staff is farking that thing after hours.


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abb3w [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 4:07:46 PM  
Maybe if all other maintenance and operations cost for the robot is kept at the federal minimum wage for tipped employees plus the tips?
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 4:15:21 PM  
it must have a good union
 
johnphantom
2023-01-29 5:39:12 PM  
Yeah, no. That is payment to a worker, not a company owned machine.
 
Oneiros [OhFark]
2023-01-29 5:40:57 PM  
Do we know what country this is in?

Because I think there are laws about tip pooling in the US, and who they're allowed to be split with.  (Which usually screw overs the people who actually cook the delicious food)
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-01-29 5:41:03 PM  
You want some more?
 
InfoFreako
2023-01-29 5:41:11 PM  
So the owner buys the robot to avoid paying workers, and they think I'm going to give the owner more money?  Nah.
 
genner
2023-01-29 5:41:58 PM  
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Somaticasual [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:42:08 PM  
Now I'm just picturing a mix-a-matic returning to its 1bd/1ba near the railroad tracks, sighing as it puts away its utensils and cleans up for the night.

"How did I get all mixed up in this?"
 
johnphantom
2023-01-29 5:42:19 PM  

Oneiros: Do we know what country this is in?

Because I think there are laws about tip pooling in the US, and who they're allowed to be split with.  (Which usually screw overs the people who actually cook the delicious food)


No, the people that get $2.10 an hour (or whatever it is) vs the minimum $7.50 an hour a cook do not owe the cooks anything.

//cooked and waited
 
HoratioGates
2023-01-29 5:42:29 PM  
I guess it depends on who is getting the tip... if the restaurant ownership keeps the tip, yeah, that's part of the price and they need to include it in the price.  If it's being shared with the human wait staff, I've got no problem with this (I mean, other than the ridiculously low wages wait staff make without tips).  If the wait staff is still clearing your table, handling complaints and all that, then charging a tip isn't a problem.
 
a_room_with_a_moose
2023-01-29 5:42:29 PM  

johnphantom: Yeah, no. That is payment to a worker, not a company owned machine.


Never been to Applebees, have you.
 
foo monkey
2023-01-29 5:42:38 PM  
F*ck no.  I bought drinks all night and it wouldn't give me its phone number.  When I talked about how much money I make and how nice my car is, all it said was, "Uh huh.  That's nice.  Would you like another drink?"
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-29 5:42:41 PM  

Oneiros: Do we know what country this is in?

Because I think there are laws about tip pooling in the US, and who they're allowed to be split with.  (Which usually screw overs the people who actually cook the delicious food)


Made good money as a busser as a freshman in college.

Then I was told I was a prep cook. Then I got screwed.

Then I went to manufacturing!
 
foo monkey
2023-01-29 5:43:19 PM  
If you do tip the bartender machine, always tip cash so it won't have to declare the income on its taxes.
 
cosmiquemuffin [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:45:46 PM  
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johnphantom
2023-01-29 5:47:20 PM  

a_room_with_a_moose: johnphantom: Yeah, no. That is payment to a worker, not a company owned machine.

Never been to Applebees, have you.


Nope. I try to avoid the white trash places.
 
Stud Gerbil
2023-01-29 5:47:24 PM  

a_room_with_a_moose: johnphantom: Yeah, no. That is payment to a worker, not a company owned machine.

Never been to Applebees, have you.


aren't we all company-owned machines at some point in our lives?
 
FarkaDark
2023-01-29 5:47:36 PM  
Consider it a convenience fee and facility surcharge.
/Works for ticket master
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:48:33 PM  
Listen, VIC-20. Make with the food or you get the magnet. There's your tip
 
tricycleracer
2023-01-29 5:50:44 PM  
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flucto
2023-01-29 5:51:10 PM  
No you don't tip the cocksucking, motherfarking, assfilching, dogblowing, rhinoporking, goatblowing, trumplicking, microsofthumping, dickshining, twatsanding, turdsniffing, chicagopizzaloving, buttsluping, anusscented, toejamflavored, cesspoolflavored, rottenchickenslupee, catboxfragranced, dickecheesesmoothie, monkeydouching, congressgobbling robot. fark. Why would we have to ask this?
 
My Sober Alt
2023-01-29 5:55:03 PM  

NeoCortex42: Mugato: You just know the staff is farking that thing after hours.

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Gloria: That was incredible. I have never felt anything like it.

Robot (John Candy): I am programmed to be proficient in sexual activities. Want to go steady?

I do not know.  I already have a boyfriend.

What he does not know will not hurt him.

But I would feel guilty.

Of course. Women who obtain sexual ecstasy with mechanical assistance - always tend to feel guilty.

Really?

I do not get it. We laugh.  We care for each other. We have great sex - Why can we not get married?

We are different, okay?

What do you mean "different"?

Mixed marriages do not work.  I am afraid one day I will find you screwing the toaster.

You will have to trust me.


All right, I will marry you.  But I want a Jewish wedding.


A Jewish wedding? Okay!


I forgot. Are you circumcised?
 
cyberspacedout
2023-01-29 5:55:39 PM  
They don't all get paid.

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BigNumber12
2023-01-29 5:56:39 PM  
"A touch screen showed a 10% "service charge" added to the cost in addition to 8.4% tax. Over behind the bar, a robot arm could be seen mixing the drink. He also added that the ice machine was broken and none of the drinks at the restaurant contained ice."


So walk away. Jesus, people have become children these days, complaining loudly about their perceived victimhood instead of just making adult decisions.
 
Biscuit Tin [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:57:19 PM  

Ragin' Asian: Listen, VIC-20. Make with the food or you get the magnet. There's your tip


Do you have a newsletter?
 
dyhchong
2023-01-29 5:57:38 PM  
Absolutely*

*Conditional on the robot being sentient and paid a wage that it then goes on to split up against rent, oil changes and robot hookers
 
johnphantom
2023-01-29 5:58:49 PM  

dyhchong: Absolutely*

*Conditional on the robot being sentient and paid a wage that it then goes on to split up against rent, oil changes and robot hookers


Yeah just wait 'till they snort up all the ether in the ethernet.
 
Axeofjudgement
2023-01-29 5:58:59 PM  

Ragin' Asian: Listen, VIC-20. Make with the food or you get the magnet. There's your tip


I don't the magnet in my hand is strong enough to fark it up...

Guess I could always implant more to fark with asshole robotic bartenders of the future 🤔
 
gunther_bumpass
2023-01-29 6:00:40 PM  

Somaticasual: Now I'm just picturing a mix-a-matic Robot Coupe returning to its 1bd/1ba near the railroad tracks, sighing as it puts away its utensils and cleans up for the night.

"How did I get all mixed up in this?"


Great joke, but I have to edit because I'm a dick.
 
dionysusaur [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:01:59 PM  
If it's compulsory, it's not a tip, it's a fee.
Fark that noise.
 
trialpha
2023-01-29 6:03:13 PM  
It's kind of sad that tipping is so ingrained into American culture that this question would even be seriously asked, or anything but "no, of course not. What the hell is wrong with you" be considered for the answer.
 
Aquapope
2023-01-29 6:03:55 PM  
Are you planning on paying the robot an insufficient salary so they'll need tips?  No, you're not planning on paying the robot anything, which is why you have a robot instead of a human in the first place, so tips don't figure into it, do they?
 
T Baggins
2023-01-29 6:05:26 PM  

Oneiros: Do we know what country this is in?

Because I think there are laws about tip pooling in the US, and who they're allowed to be split with.  (Which usually screw overs the people who actually cook the delicious food)


There are several rules on tip pool participation in the US's Fair Labor Standards Act, and state and local laws can add more restrictions. A change from the Trump admin that went into effect beginning in 2021 allowed "back of house" workers (cooks, dishwashers, etc.) to participate in tip pools if everyone in the tip pool is paid at least full minimum wage ($7.25 under federal law). But if servers are paid tipped minimum, $2.13 an hour, then a restaurant can only give their tips to other "front of house" workers (hosts, bussers, runners, other servers). And owners/managers/supervisors can't receive any portion of a tip pool.

But service fees are not tips. If a mandatory fee is added to the bill, even if the restaurant calls it an "18% automatic gratuity" for large parties, it is treated as regular income to the restaurant, just like menu prices, and the restaurant can keep it if they want. Though that wouldn't sit well with servers unless they received unusually good wages/benefits.
 
Ed Grubermann [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:06:58 PM  

Oneiros: Do we know what country this is in?

Because I think there are laws about tip pooling in the US, and who they're allowed to be split with.  (Which usually screw overs the people who actually cook the delicious food)


When I was a busboy way back in the day I made more an hour than the servers did, not counting tips. On bad days the servers got royally screwed. The Sunday brunch shift was the worst. That was the "we're not going to fire you, but you're fired" shift for servers.
 
johnphantom
2023-01-29 6:07:13 PM  

T Baggins: Oneiros: Do we know what country this is in?

Because I think there are laws about tip pooling in the US, and who they're allowed to be split with.  (Which usually screw overs the people who actually cook the delicious food)

There are several rules on tip pool participation in the US's Fair Labor Standards Act, and state and local laws can add more restrictions. A change from the Trump admin that went into effect beginning in 2021 allowed "back of house" workers (cooks, dishwashers, etc.) to participate in tip pools if everyone in the tip pool is paid at least full minimum wage ($7.25 under federal law). But if servers are paid tipped minimum, $2.13 an hour, then a restaurant can only give their tips to other "front of house" workers (hosts, bussers, runners, other servers). And owners/managers/supervisors can't receive any portion of a tip pool.

But service fees are not tips. If a mandatory fee is added to the bill, even if the restaurant calls it an "18% automatic gratuity" for large parties, it is treated as regular income to the restaurant, just like menu prices, and the restaurant can keep it if they want. Though that wouldn't sit well with servers unless they received unusually good wages/benefits.


In other words, our food industry is f*cked up from the growing to eating.
 
austerity101 [BareFark]
2023-01-29 6:07:33 PM  
What if the robots are giving tips back?

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MiamiChef
2023-01-29 6:11:19 PM  
There was an episode of X-Files in the last season where Moulder refuses to tip the "server" at an unmanned sushi restaurant and the machines and drones started messing with Moulder & Scully at home and all over until he finally added a tip on the app for them.
 
vilesithknight
2023-01-29 6:11:56 PM  
I had this dilemma, but it wasnt forced on me. there is a gimmicky ramen place that recently opened near me, and they have this bulky square robots roll up to your table, take your order, and bring you your food. If you need a drink refill you hit a button on the table & it brings you a one. Its clever and fun, but the only time I saw a human employee was the host at the door, & the busboys who scurry to clean up when you leave. So when I looked at the bill & it had a tip line, I really contemplated who the heck actually gets the tip? I doubt they are giving it to the busboys, so what, is it just going to margin as bonus funds? I dunno, & there was nobody to ask. So its the only time in my life I did not leave a tip at all. I reckon I'll never go back.
 
T Baggins
2023-01-29 6:12:46 PM  

HoratioGates: I guess it depends on who is getting the tip... if the restaurant ownership keeps the tip, yeah, that's part of the price and they need to include it in the price.  If it's being shared with the human wait staff, I've got no problem with this (I mean, other than the ridiculously low wages wait staff make without tips).  If the wait staff is still clearing your table, handling complaints and all that, then charging a tip isn't a problem.


I agree that fees that always apply should be included in the menu price, but legally it seems left to states to legislate. I've heard random surcharges are common in California, and this article says the National Restaurant Association reported 16% of US restaurants tacked on surcharges last year.
 
NevynFox
2023-01-29 6:14:32 PM  

flucto: No you don't tip the cocksucking, motherfarking, assfilching, dogblowing, rhinoporking, goatblowing, trumplicking, microsofthumping, dickshining, twatsanding, turdsniffing, chicagopizzaloving, buttsluping, anusscented, toejamflavored, cesspoolflavored, rottenchickenslupee, catboxfragranced, dickecheesesmoothie, monkeydouching, congressgobbling robot. fark. Why would we have to ask this?


Did you say goatblowing?
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:16:31 PM  
HOW THE fark IS THIS EVEN A farkING DEBATE.  fark YOU. NO. TIP.
THIS IS WHY YOU DID THIS TO BEGIN WITH. GO fark YOUR MOTHER MISTER BUSINESS OWNER CUCK fark. JFC. AND fark YOU IF U DISAGREE
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:17:13 PM  

trialpha: It's kind of sad that tipping is so ingrained into American culture that this question would even be seriously asked, or anything but "no, of course not. What the hell is wrong with you" be considered for the answer.


Yeah, tipping shouldn't exist, but tipping machines really shouldn't exist.
 
anuran
2023-01-29 6:18:38 PM  

flucto: No you don't tip the cocksucking, motherfarking, assfilching, dogblowing, rhinoporking, goatblowing, trumplicking, microsofthumping, dickshining, twatsanding, turdsniffing, chicagopizzaloving, buttsluping, anusscented, toejamflavored, cesspoolflavored, rottenchickenslupee, catboxfragranced, dickecheesesmoothie, monkeydouching, congressgobbling robot. fark. Why would we have to ask this?


I regret that I have but one smunny to give
 
FormlessOne
2023-01-29 6:21:07 PM  
...why is this a "debate?"

I tip people. I don't tip robots. I don't tip my lawn mower. I don't tip my toaster. Why would I tip a drink dispenser?

flucto: No you don't tip the cocksucking, motherfarking, assfilching, dogblowing, rhinoporking, goatblowing, trumplicking, microsofthumping, dickshining, twatsanding, turdsniffing, chicagopizzaloving, buttsluping, anusscented, toejamflavored, cesspoolflavored, rottenchickenslupee, catboxfragranced, dickecheesesmoothie, monkeydouching, congressgobbling robot. fark. Why would we have to ask this?


This, expletives included.
 
baron von doodle [OhFark]
2023-01-29 6:26:42 PM  

MiamiChef: There was an episode of X-Files in the last season where Moulder refuses to tip the "server" at an unmanned sushi restaurant and the machines and drones started messing with Moulder & Scully at home and all over until he finally added a tip on the app for them.


No.
 
iron_city_ap
2023-01-29 6:30:09 PM  
No. Next question.
 
FormlessOne
2023-01-29 6:31:54 PM  
For fun, I forwarded the article link to my district's Congressperson. A compulsory "service charge," "tip," or "recovery fee" - all meant to offset or compensate individual workers - should not apply to non-human labor, and it'd be nice if state law made that clear.
 
FormlessOne
2023-01-29 6:40:49 PM  

FarkaDark: Consider it a convenience fee and facility surcharge.
/Works for ticket master


Not a chance - there are legal considerations. In Washington, tips and service charges aren't the same thing. Tips must go to the employees. Service charges must be explicitly called out, including how much (if any) of a service charge goes to employees; otherwise, the whole service charge must be paid to the employee (it's a tip at that point.) Automatic service charges must be identified in advance to customers.

That charge likely would've been illegal here. No employee provided the service, but there's no breakdown of the service charge, and no indication of the service charge was provided in advance (at least, that's implied; who knows if the person actually saw it...)
 
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