From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:01:26 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Dec 26, 2025 at 11:25:36 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >> BTR1701   wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> Wow   
   >>   
   >>> 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)?   
   >>   
   >> I try to avoid Subway. I don't care if they bake it in the restaurant --   
   >> pre-rolled dough from the freezer. It's lousy bread that tastes mass   
   >> produced.   
   >   
   >Coincidentally, the cutest conservative commentator, Angela Rose,   
   >coincidentally posted  a video about this just today. There's even an example   
   >of my airport fiasco featured in it.   
   >   
   >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wmd9EvqUNo   
   >   
      
   I don't know about the "cutest" part but she looks watchable.   
      
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