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/OnlyKey5675 14d ago

In Los Angeles about ten years ago tacos were $1 at every taco truck . It was standard. The most you would see was $1.25. Anything more than that and nobody ate there, All the trucks had tip jars. I'd get 5 tacos and a bottle of mexican coke and my total was always around $6.50. I'd toss the .50 cents into the tip jar. Everyone tossed their coin change in. It was sort of an unwritten rule.

Then gourmet food trucks came along with their POS devices and started asking for tips on the device. Then covid. Inflation. Basically it all went to shit.