anonyme
I agree with you. I also find it uncomfortable to have to enter the tip while the waitperson stands there watching. In some cases, you’re asked to enter a tip while you order and pay at a counter where not only is there no table service, but the food hasn’t even arrived yet. If the purpose of a tip is to reward good food and service, how does this make sense? In some restaurants, patrons seat themselves and are then required to order via an app connected to a QR code at the table, and the “waitstaff” essentially operate as table runners. And yet they still expect a full tip. A former Junction fave of mine adopted this model, and I haven’t been back since (they also then served burned fish & chips cooked in dirty oil, so…) We definitely need some new rules around tipping.