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1. So many complete and total losers on that reddit thread virtue signaling about their putative tipping generosity

2. I have had “American” BBQ in a few spots in Europe and I would put it on par with some chain bbq like Dickey’s but neither are close to what I can make in my back yard pit. Not terrible, but far from amazing.

3. I am just here for the premium Delta tip card joke.

4. Remember when, tipping was for good serve, a thank you. Now, it’s so companies can pay less, and guilt you into paying a decent wage.

5. I actually got to enjoy a meal in Business Class on Delta for the first time in two years last week.

   The food was good, the service wonderful.

   Unbundling that meal would have meant I would not be making this comment, because I would have carried on a protein bar, and called it good.

6. @ Gary — No card + superior service = maybe tip; Hand me a card = no tip.

7. I’d email Delta and if possible also speak to a supervisor on premise to express my outrage that Delta is unwilling to pay anything resembling a fair wage, causing the servers to have to make tasteless gestures to survive.

8. Tipping is a standard expectation in the f&b service industry.

   If you don’t like it, don’t partake in the service.

   Period.

   Your refusal to tip hurts the individual(s) who served you, not The Man.

   This is SF levels of entitlement, where they go into a business, take what they want, and refuse to pay for it bc f- The Man and those big companies got $ and law enforcement can’t/won’t do anything about it.

   If you don’t like it, don’t engage in any of it. Simple.

   I find when posters feel the need to call others Virtue Signallerz they are defensive and feel the need to loudly obfuscate their own deficient behaviour.

9. @Gary, it is my understanding that d1 lounge staff are not Delta employees. Is LAX an exception? Thanks~

10. Not cool, Avelo… not cool.

11. Exactly @1990, A low cost airline doing deportation flights! Outrageous, Delta should be doing it. (In best Donald) “Only the best most premium deportation flight for the illegals”.

12. Pay your employees. No tipping

13. @Reagan – No

14. @Pilot93434 — Bah! Good impression.

    I believe fellow regular @Matt would suggest something like: ‘For a premium deportation flight experience, please consider Delta.’

    Then I would say: ‘Keep Climbing…’ from political persecution in Venezuela or elsewhere… through the deadly jungles of the Darién Gap… and the scorching heat of the Sonoran Desert… in hope of a better life for you and your family… only to wait years and years for your asylum case to never be heard… then to get swept up in an ICE raid… and sent without due process to a notorious El Salvadorian forever-gulag… but, at least your ‘last flight’ might be on Delta, rather than Avelo.

    Ya know, it’s the little things.

15. Similar in Minneapolis, the bartender had a QR code for Venmo to leave tips.

16. @Reagan

    As someone who works in the F/B industry and literally survives on tips I still would NEVER give someone a card with my P2P on it. That’s tasteless and tacky. If I provide good service I expect to be tipped in-kind.

    And as stated, It’s expected, it’s (never should be) not demanded. If this isn’t to your liking and lifestyle then this is the wrong industry to be apart of. You enter into this industry with that knowledge, it’s not a secret.

17. Ignore the restaurant’s tipping calculations.
    Use the calculator on your phone and do your own calculations.
    Correct tipping is based on the SUBTOTAL not tax.
    Tax stands alone.
    Yet half of the restaurants want to insult our intelligence and deceive us into paying a tip percentage based on the tax. Los Angeles now has a high 10.5% sales tax. What sucker wants to pay a 15 – 25% tip based on the subtotal and tax???
    I recently dined at a local restaurant that had tiered tipping calculations for up to 30%!
    30% is a joke!
    Their steak was so salty is was borderline inedible.
    I think I now have gallstones from eating it.