It isn’t awful.. it’s just gotten to be to much. You’re expected to tip for services that, in the past, you weren’t expected to tip out.

For example, I ate lunch in the mall the other day and the screen prompted for a 15%-30% tip. What am I tipping for? They preformed their job and I paid the business owner for it. That’s the end of the business transaction. Should we be tipping checkout clerks in grocery stores to?

If you can’t afford to tip wait staff when you eat at a sit down restaurant , yeah don’t eat out however the line has to be drawn somewhere. I don’t tip for takeaway, fast food, or whatever you call a place like subway.