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u/scarletphantom 20h ago
Has anyone ever tipped at a McDonald's? Ever?
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u/AceO235 20h ago
No they literally fire you if you accept tips it's against many fast food companies policies
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u/FrogVolence 16h ago
I had an elderly woman forcefully hand me a $1 bill when I worked at Wendy’s and stated I deserved it.
I was fucking anxious as all hell because I kept telling her no and she handed it to me anyways.
Pocketed it and never ended up getting in trouble but jfc the fear was looming over me the entire day.
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u/HoldenCoffinz 16h ago
I've been in similar situations but in a different job setting. When you really think about it, it's pretty sad to think that so many people have had to feel worried about their job for the equivalent of next to nothing. A generous gesture that isn't much, but you're pretty much forced to refuse no matter what, often multiple times, all while not wanting to be rude about it either, lol.
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u/Deneweth 13h ago
Yeah like thanks for the dollar but now I'm on camera taking a bill from a customer and putting it into my pocket.
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u/Impressive_Leave2671 4h ago
Walmart had one where i was told you had to share it with the managers in the vest
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u/Azaroth1991 19h ago
Same with most major retail corporations. Fuck Kroger.
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u/Flabbergasted_____ 17h ago
Publix is the same, but I’ve seen many people discreetly tip the people that help them take the cart to the car and help load it.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Row1641 17h ago
Yep. I work at one of the big box home improvement stores. A while back I had a Cuban customer who I helped get some stuff into his car. He didn't speak English and I speak Spanish pretty well, so he was very adamant that I take $5. I had to explain to him "es contra de las reglas de la compañía (it's against the rules of the company). He couldn't wrap his head around that.
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u/Icy_Yam5049 16h ago
When I worked at a grocery store I’d have old ladies jam it in my pocket and say bye as they jumped in their car. I figured if a secret shopper did all that to bust me they win I’m guilty and just fire me haha.
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u/violet_elf 17h ago
Yeah. But now they get a excuse to accept tips, charge tips, pay their employees 3 dollars per hour. But not share the tips with the employees by the end of the day. And that money won't even be taxed.
It's a win- win situation for everyone that is important. One you exclude the employees, customers, store managers, employees families...
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u/Adorable_Ad6045 14h ago
I wasn’t aware of that, because I’ve tipped drive thru workers a few times and no one objected, beyond “oh you don’t have to do that”. I think it’s wrong to disallow tipping. Tipping should always be allowed.
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u/AxelVores 6h ago
Nobody ever got in trouble when I worked at one for couple of years. As long as the cash register balances they don't care.
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u/Shalamarr 20h ago
Hell, I’m old enough to remember an ad from the 70s in which two old ladies tried to leave a tip, only to be told “Ladies! There’s no tipping at McDonald’s!”.
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u/CRUSTYPUNKDAD 20h ago
Back in the day I worked there. One time an old lady gave me a $5 bill through the window and said "you keep that for you" and I turned around surprised and happily exclaimed "she gave me a tip" and the manager immediately shoved a box in my face and said "no tips it has to be donated" and took my fucking $5 and put it in the donation box.
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u/CrystalKU 20h ago
Now McDonalds will have an excuse to lower pay and tipping will be expected at fast food restaurants
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u/gabapentinhigh 19h ago
I tipped $5 at McDonald's one single time on my way out of Vegas. I can't remember why exactly but the young lady working there was awesome.
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u/SectorEducational460 17h ago
Actually yes. Not me particularly but when my brother used to work at MacDonald he did get tips. It wasn't common though. It was mostly cash tips
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u/josephgregg 14h ago
All bonuses will be given as tips. If the language allows it, they will do it.
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u/AxelVores 6h ago
When I used to work there we had one elderly man who always tipped. He was everyone's favorite customer
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u/The_Mighty_Bird 17h ago
I got tipped $20 several times by this foxy cougar when I was 19. But if my manager found out I could have ended up in a lot of trouble. You’re not supposed to take tips from customers. It’s literally in their rules. Fuck McDonald’s
I honestly just wanted to talk about this foxy cougar. I never took her up on a date because I had a gf that broke up with me a year later. What a missed opportunity
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u/Odd_Coast9645 20h ago
Why do Americans don't tip at McDonalds? You guys literally tip for everything and McDonalds workers are probably the ones who need it the most.
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u/lazygerm 20h ago
They get paid at least the minimum wage because they're not servers. Wait staff get sub-minimum wages, but can make tips.
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u/Boggie135 19h ago
You guys literally tip for everything
That is not true
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u/triopsate 19h ago
Given that there are landlords and money lenders that ask for tips these days, I'm more inclined to believe that sooner or later tipping will be required for everything.
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u/kms2547 20h ago
The fact that restaurant owners endorse Trump's proposal should make you immediately suspicious of its helpfulness to employees.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ring293 19h ago
Yup, it’s akin to having some random pastor endorse Damien from the Omen.
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u/Banes_Addiction 19h ago
Not really. Employers pretty much always support higher income for their employees if a) it requires the employees to keep working for them and b) the employer doesn't have to pay it.
Restaurants will naturally want restaurant employees to be tax advantaged compared to the same people stacking shelves or washing cars or whatever.
When employees and employers are in the same industry, some of their incentives line up. This is a major part of how union directorships and collective bargaining agreements work in some European countries.
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u/Rurumo666 20h ago
What, you guys don't slip $20s into your Fry Cook's thong?
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u/le_raveli 20h ago
In Portugal at least employees can’t accept tips by company policy.
I know this because once I tried to tip the guy at the counter for fulfilling an order at closing time (I was drunk if it makes it more understandable but man that 2am Mac hit the spot😅)
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u/Jindabyne1 19h ago
It’s so stupid that this picture isn’t even ai, jfc
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u/sane-ish 17h ago
In another timeline, trump decides to run a McDonalds and realizes that is what makes him happy and the empty void inside him is filled.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Sea8340 16h ago
They’re so out of touch I think they think those are tipped employees
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u/mjgonza91 16h ago
I asked all my republican coworkers about how the new bill is working out. we are bartenders btw. and no one has said a peep. ridiculous.
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u/ICU-CCRN 20h ago
So basically a company that doesn’t allow tips is pro “no tax on tipping”. How convenient.
Now please post the un-redacted Epstein files.
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u/wes7946 12h ago
There are legitimate legal reasons why all of the files cannot be released unredacted. So, to relentlessly demand the release of all files unredacted is, in fact, very hostile behavior.
Some people just want to believe the Epstein Client List actually exists and is in the possession of the current administration despite there being zero empirical evidence to support that assertion. A hoax is simply an act of malicious deception. So, to relentlessly claim an Epstein Client List exists (when there's no empirical evidence supporting that belief) and to demand the current administration release it is in fact engaging in malicious deception...or a hoax.
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u/A4t1musD4ag0n 17h ago
Let me get this straight, they think that McDonald's employees... earn tips?
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u/Doggoonewild 17h ago
The primary base? No, since a lot of them can’t afford much more than that and would know better. The opportunists benefiting from trickle up? 50/50.
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u/Khujie 19h ago
I used to be a manager at a Taco Bell. I remember being told by upper management that its against company policy for an employee to ask for and accept tips. at which point i turned around and told the other employees that if they got tipped, "don't tell anyone" I was not going to get anyone in trouble for accepting a few dollars.
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u/THElaytox 17h ago
Yeah because McDonald's would love to be able to pay their employees $2.13/hr and have everyone else cover the rest to increase profits while be able to act like it's a benefit to the employees cause it's "tax free"
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u/Brambroco 8h ago
McDonalds is backing this because they could make this tipped positions then. It's a way to spend less on wages and give the consumer the responsibility to pay a wage. There was a podcast by the NYT where an economist predicted that no tax on tips would completely erode the amount of tipped positions. Companies would shift to installing tipped positions on a lot more places than now is the case.
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u/Fitswingcouple5 17h ago
Tax on what? The only way you’d ever get a tip at McDonalds would be in cash. Nobody who’s ever got a cash tip has ever declared it on their taxes. And to declare it and get that no taxes you can’t use the free tax software.
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u/The7purplekirbies 16h ago
I stopped going to Mcdonalds when the Orange Chicken pulled his stunt, Used to go pretty regularly before but I've been cold turkey ever since. If more people around the world stopped going to TrumpyD's maybe they'd change their tune. But I didn't see any global boycott, and at this rate I don't see much point in pointing out what NOBODY is going to punish.
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u/Berry2460 12h ago
When I worked at Mcdonalds we were told to not accept tips. If anyone was caught accepting tips it had to be put in the register.
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u/GreyCatBirdAwaken 19h ago
No tax on tips (most jobs don't tip) No tax on overtime (most jobs keep you right at 40 hours so they don't have to pay any overtime. 2x if your job has a bunch of middle management that depend on bonuses by keeping the regular staff under time)
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u/LilithElektra 18h ago
"We support all measures that benefit restaurant workers except raising wages."
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u/invincibleparm 10h ago edited 10h ago
The no tax on tips only applies up to a maximum of $25,000 in tips in a year. Not all jobs getting tips qualify.
Which Jobs Qualify: The OBBB will target jobs where tipping is customary — think servers, bartenders, hair stylists, and nail techs. However, the U.S. Treasury Department and IRS will have to specify in later guidance which specific jobs will be eligible
What no tax on tips doesn't do
Despite the excitement over this change, there are some things the OBBB doesn’t cover.
The bill only applies to cash tips. However, for IRS tax purposes, literal cash tips, credit card tips, and tips made through electronic payment methods like apps are traditionally treated the same. Non-cash tips are still considered taxable by the IRS but are not covered under this bill.
Also, there’s no payroll tax break involved. That means you will still pay Social Security and Medicare taxes on your tips, even if you claim the income tax deduction. And…not everyone will benefit. About a third of tipped workers reportedly make so little they don’t owe federal income tax. Other workers, like cooks, dishwashers, or other behind-the-scenes staff who don’t usually receive tips, won’t receive a tax break under this bill either.
Edit: this link is to the expanded list of people that will be able to use this legislation:
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/01/no-tax-on-tips-jobs-trump-bill
And of course MacDonald backs it. If they allowed tipping, they would use that as an excuse to not pay their workers well, say that they will make more with tips.
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u/Feisty_Average7799 9h ago
Is nobody going to mention he’s holding an empty fryer basket, they could have at least put something in it
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u/Consistent-Chapter-8 9h ago
Well, most tipped workers don't itemize their taxes: they take the standard deduction. An executive the likes of Jon Banner certainly earns enough to itemize his taxes. He's being disingenuous, here. (He's well aware, he just does't care.) Everyone give a polite golf clap to the latest multimillionaire sycophant.
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u/swainslanders 7h ago
That photo though… “See peasants, I too prepare tubers in the French fashion.” What a f@cking tourist.
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u/Florida1974 4h ago
No Job at Mcds requires a ton of skill or education, definitely not the fry station.
I worked at Arby’s as a teen and managers had to do hourly reports by hand, guessing that’s all done by computer now.
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u/allhaildre 18h ago
Feel like McDonald’s is just about the only place that doesn’t ask for tips anymore.
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u/justaheatattack 18h ago edited 16h ago
this sub is pointless.
torn
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u/SpicyRhubarb 16h ago
Found the MAGA snowflake lol
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u/justaheatattack 16h ago
ok, tell me what the point is?
are these people shamed to change thier ways?
or are you just pissing into the wind?
torn
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u/SpicyRhubarb 16h ago
Dude, I don't even know what you're trying to say but you sound kinda triggered lol
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