From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Dec 26, 2025 at 11:10:15 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""    
   wrote:   
      
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Went to pick up a friend at the airport yesterday. Got there early, so I   
   >> parked and went into the terminal for a bite to eat. I ended up getting a   
   >> sandwich and a soda at a completely automated shop on the concourse. I took   
   >> my   
   >> items to the scanner to pay and was presented with a tip screen: 30% 40% and   
   >> 50% were the options with no "no tip" option or ability to skip the screen.   
   >   
   >> For a store WITH NO EMPLOYEES.   
   >   
   >> Who am I tipping in that scenario? Myself?   
   >   
   >> I'm certainly not tipping for any kind of service. It's basically just the   
   >> corporation saying, "Hey, I know we priced the sandwich at $8.00, but we'd   
   >> really like it if you paid between $10.50 - $12.00 for it instead. We just   
   >> don't want to look like gigantic cockbags with our prices and push people to   
   >> eat elsewhere."   
   >   
   >> There was a "custom tip" option, so I chose that and entered $0.00, which it   
   >> rejected as invalid. So I entered $0.01 and it went through, but I was still   
   >> enraged at having to pay even a penny for this kind of nonsense.   
   >   
   > I would have cancelled the order the moment I saw the tip screen, given   
   > that there were no human beings to tip.   
   >   
   > Did your state make the minimum wage for tipped and non-tipped wage   
   > earners the same? I think that's a hint not to tip your waitress.   
      
   No, they did a carve out for fast food restaurants which mandated they be paid   
   $18/hr starting 2019 and rising each year until it hits $25/hour.   
      
   But it's only for fast food restaurants, not sit-down restaurants. And Gavin   
   had them put a special carve-out in the statutory definition of "fast food"   
   that exempted any fast food restaurant that baked its own bread fresh on the   
   premises so that his buddy who owns Panera wouldn't be hit with skyrocketing   
   labor costs. When that hit the media, Gavvy hastily retracted the carve-out.   
      
   Still, it seems like Subway would have met that bread criteria as well. I   
   wonder how they managed to exempt Panera and not Subway (or Firehouse Subs or   
   any other sandwich shop that bakes its own bread)?   
      
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