Tip Jars and Coffee Shops

Jeff Nolan: What exactly is the tip jar at the local coffee place supposed to recognize, excellent cash register operation, and at Starbucks is it for excellent button pushing? How about the car wash, am I supposed to drop a dollar in the tip box because they dried my car really well… how about when they do a crappy job, should I pluck a dollar out of the tip box as a penalty?

Maybe it’s just me, but those tip jars mostly say “hey, we know you don’t care enough about that change to want to carry it around, we’ll take it!”

And honestly — I do tend to use it for that some of the time….

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  • flip

    Based on the workers I see at Starbucks and Cold Stone, the tips are clearly to buying tattoos and weed.

  • http://www.jeffnolan.com jnolan

    I think you are right, and this is where McDonalds should be held up as a role model by collecting spare change at the POS for a good cause.

  • flip

    Based on the workers I see at Starbucks and Cold Stone, the tips are clearly to buying tattoos and weed.

  • http://www.jeffnolan.com jnolan

    I think you are right, and this is where McDonalds should be held up as a role model by collecting spare change at the POS for a good cause.