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To tip or not to tip, that is the question.
Also, though, how much am I supposed to tip?
Is this 24% minimum tip im seeing on the screen?
Is that really the new minimum?
Is it okay to leave less?
Can I tip on my card or am I supposed to tip in cash?
Also, I didnt even know I was supposed to leave a tip.
At this kind of a business, where is my tip even going?
Does it go to the person who's actually helping me or does it go somewhere else?
Tipping it is complicated.
I'm Stacey Vanek Smith.
Infamriel Sagara and today on Life kit, we take a look at tipping.
The last couple years have seen a whole lot of talk and back and forth and emotion about tipping.
One of our wonderful producers, Audrey Nguyen, said at her local coffee shop, the tipping situation is especially intense.
I have a twelve ounce orange juice and eight ounce cortado.
It's called retrospect coffee bar in Houston, Texas.
And because of the way the coffee bar is physically set up, they can't turn the screen around and have a customer punch in a tip.
So they have to ask.
$9.20, please.