What do you think of the tip jars at places like Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts?

Maybe its like a bonus for the employs to give better service.

I never tip like that unless I go there all the time. I mean, you did pay for your coffee or take-out, right?

I think of it is what @Samurai said. If they are kind and give me good service then I give a tip. I want people to be kind servers so it is an incentive for them to do so.

I think it is a little tacky to see a jar on the counter. I can certainly understand that everyone enjoys a little bonus, but to see it sitting there, staring you in the face, is overkill. It’s not as if they necessarily went above and beyond to make your coffee any better then the person before.

Extortionate self-indulgence of the working poor. They are lucky we let them serve us at all. Next thing you know they will be wanting health insurance and paid vacations.

I think it’s a cop out for [whoever pays the employees] to pay less since that’s how it works for waitresses and such.

if i where on franchise level wages i would want tips too. if they give a good service then i see no problem with it, and to hell with franchise rules.

If they’re exceptionally friendly I drop my change in the jar.

I don’t know about Dunkin Donuts, but Starbucks pays decently and gives good benefits.

i rarely use them.

I work at a pizza place. When people who order takeout tip me, I’m going to make damn sure that the next time they order, their order is made completely correctly, is complete when they arrive, and is hot for them. I won’t care too much about your order if you never tip me. You’re just another order.
If you’re a regular, tip. It will pay off.

I never use them, I plan to use them, but then realize its too far away, and far to troublesome to even think of handing in those remaining coins.

Tip your servers if you can.

“I’m pullin’ for ya. We’re all in this together.”
—Red Green

I’ve worked both jobs. At a coffee place, the workers usually get paid about eight to ten bucks an hour. It’s not awesome, but at least they’re getting an hourly wage, and it’s a pretty unskilled job. Most people don’t tip based on service- they just throw in some extra change if they pay cash. At the end of the week, it makes the difference of one or two dollars an hour- the difference between a really crappy wage and a kind of decent one. You don’t have to feel bad about not tipping these people, because they already get paid hourly, but it is a good thing to do. If they’re nice to me, I pretty much always tip something. When I was working at this place, we usually started giving free drinks to regular customers, especially if they tip. Restaurant workers get paid usually two or three dollars an hour, mostly for tax purposes, and the rest comes from tips. So yeah… always tip your waiter.

If you have to ask you can get your coffee and related service at home instead.

I re read the question. News flash: Just because you’re taking the food home it didn’t magically and effortlessly appear before you.

Tip you cheap bastard or make a grilled cheese sandwich at home.

If you can hear your tip hit the bottom of the jar it isn’t enough.

…....the minimum wage for waitresses and others likely to receive tips remains at $2.13 an hour. If wages and tips do not total $7.25 an hour(min wage for other salaried employees), employers must make up the difference.

I’m a freak….... I tip them, smile at them and thank them…..... and feel great about it! It’s really not funny .

I always give them the coin change. I like to take care of the people that take care of me. If they’re extra nice I’ll throw in a buck. It means very little yo me, but at the end of the day I’m sure it adds up for them.

I don’t tip into tip jars unless my server was just excruciatingly friendly, helpful, quick, etc. I don’t tip for average work… that’s what their hourly wage is for. I always tip waitresses unless I have absolutely horrible service- like so bad I have to call the manager over.

I don’t put into tip jars either. The people there, even if they are friendly, are simply doing their jobs. I’ve had jobs just these and we never had a tip jar and I never ever thought that was a problem. I get paid to do my job so I do it. I don’t need extra incentive. What else would the coffee shop employees be doing? It isn’t like we are distracting them from something else and taking up their time and need to compensate for that in some way.

Some people just don’t appreciate what a beautiful invention service is.

The farm I work at has a no tip policy. Cashiers carry bags in the rain, firewood loaded in your car, mulch delivered to your house – no tips accepted. The owners feel they are paying the employees to not only do their job, but do it well for all customers.

Now I don’t deal with customers directly (I’m in advertising), but I get free stuff offered to me all the time from radio stations (concert and event tickets mostly) – I have to turn them all down.

As for tip jars: Ill toss extra change in if they are exceptionally helpful. Mostly I don’t, because the service is generally mediocre.

Nope. I’m old-school. That’s the job and that’s what it pays, take it or leave it. My first job was as counter help and as a scooper for Haagen-Dazs. The businesses should pay their counter help more or those kids need to find a better-paying job.

@proXXi I appreciate what a beautiful invention service is, but I personally don’t need any more motivation to do my job correctly and be quite pleasant and not an asshole. The person I’m waiting on is paying for what I’m doing for them, and the company I work for is paying me for what I do, that’s enough. Right?

When they do their job they earn their paycheck. IFF they excel they might receive a tip.

It’s not my problem they are not happy with their wages.

I think tip jars should have to have the name of the person who is expecting you to tip on it. The fact of the matter is, business owners lobbied our government for a law which allows them to pay a worker $2.13 an hour if the employee receives tips. If there is no name on the tip jar, I am inclined to believe that the employer is simply putting out the jar so he can distribute the tips to all his workers and pay them $2.13 an hour instead of minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.

While I have no problem with an employee putting out a tip jar to solicit additional income, I have a poblem with employers putting out a tip jar to solicit additional income. If an employer needs more income, they can simply increase his prices.

Tip jars should allow customer’s to choose who they want to tip so that customers are assured that the business is not simply seeking additional revenues to pay their employees.

If an employee puts out a tip jar and his employer decreases his hourly wages to $2.13 an hour, the employee should have the option of taking down the tip jar which would force his employer to pay him $7.25 an hour. If an employer puts out a tip jar so that he can lower his employee’s hourly wages to $2.13 an hour, the employees are unable to take down the tip jar even if it’s doing them no good.

To insure that employers are not simply using a tip jar to lower their employee’s wages, it must be insured that the tip jar is initiated and controlled by an employee. A tip jar should have a name on it so that we know that an employee is receiving it.

od service, then do we get to take some of those ‘tips’ out of the jar, for bad service ?