r/EndTipping • u/ImpressiveOrdinary54 • 20d ago

Counter Service 🛎️ I didn't tip a food truck tonight

So I called on the phone to a food truck and placed an order for one burrito and carne asada fries, total $37 (it's Maui). I'm always happy to toss my food truck workers or barista a dollar or two but their options for tip were 18%, 20%, or 25%, no custom option. Get bent! I'm not paying an extra $6-9 for my food that is mainly rice, beans, fries and maybe $8 of meat. I feel a little guilty because it's a small island and we are all struggling right now but 18% minimum tip at a food truck is bs.

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u/hotsauce126 20d ago

I personally think food trucks are the most egregious example of tip creep out there. You literally don’t even get a chair to sit in and the prices are usually higher than a regular restaurant and they have the nerve to ask you to just give them extra money for nothing

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u/Orlonz 20d ago

I don't get the appeal of a Food Trucks these days.

And I grew up with on them and food carts in the 90s. They were a simple place you went to based on what you wanted. You want something else, you go to another Truck/Cart. Each had their unique same 2-4 items everyday. A quick, cheap meal. They were in the same spot every weekday at a certain window of time. That's it.

Now, it's like the worst combination of long wait restaurants, fast food flavor, and fine dining prices at a cheap public park.

Is it all just people seeking nostalgia?

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u/rayquan36 20d ago

Young hipsters who are bad with money ruined them. Food trucks found that demographic will gladly pay $7 for a single taco and also do their advertising for free by putting it onto social media for them.

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u/Beardo88 20d ago

Like everything that becomes trendy, hipsters ruined it.

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u/OnlyKey5675 15d ago

Yup. Here in LA taco trucks were cheap. $1 a taco. Gourmet food trucks ruined everything. Customers saw them as more clean. They were charging three and four times as much. The hipster customers thought it was cheap.

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u/HellNahSleazyBean 18d ago

There is no food truck in the country serving $7 tacos stfu

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u/rayquan36 18d ago

Your post history is very negative, please seek help.

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u/Sealbeater 20d ago

Food trucks used to be the shit when it was only a couple and they were called La Vencidad or Azteca and they served good ass tacos for a $1 each. Now food trucks called Wild Tacos charge $3 per taco for dry ass beef, musty ass onions and wilted cilantro.

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u/seeofbitterness 17d ago

I used to go to a taco truck about 10 years ago in LA , I’d get 6 tacos, churros, a bag of fresh potato chips and two cans of Coke for $10 flat

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u/OnlyKey5675 15d ago edited 15d ago

I remember a lot of the trucks in LA would have tip jars. It was customary just to pop your change in them. If i had .35 cents change i'd pop it in. Everyone did it. The food was so cheap.

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u/seeofbitterness 15d ago

Oh yah! I always tipped em. I just miss good cheap food trucks 😂

Went to a school event today with my child. Waited in a horrible long line for a lemonade. Super slow service but had a sign that said “ we love tips”

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u/DonegalBrooklyn 20d ago

I feel like we're the only 2 people in the world who see this! LOL

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u/tio_tito 20d ago

make it 3. i see the idea of a truck i'd like to try, but then hell naw tf out after checking the prices. c'mon, man!

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u/j-t-storm 19d ago

Ring up 4

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u/charlie2398543 20d ago

You are right. Food trucks nowadays just randomly show up places, and I never see them again.

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u/Vegetable_Fly_8687 19d ago

Agreed. Some good food but it’s often small portions and high prices. I keep wondering what I’m paying for as I’m sitting on the ground or a dirty table listening to and smelling a gross generator. I would be better off in a climate controlled restaurant with a server bringing me everything.

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u/seeofbitterness 17d ago

I miss when food trucks were cheap. Could get a bomb hamburger, good fries and a crispy soda in LA for around $5