'Here's your 16 cents': 'Notorious' non-tipper humiliated in front of her friend group

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 9, 2024 3:00 PM EST

This customer still hasn't learned proper tipping etiquette. Even after numerous orders from the same pizza place, she still thinks it's cool not to tip the pizza delivery dude. 

Tipping culture has never been more hotly contested, as more and more places have added tipping options to every order. It's especially awkward when you're buying something at a store or restaurant where you're just being handed an item. If the person behind the counter just rings you up your order, why should you have to tip on that interaction? If you're feeling generous, I'm sure a tip would make an employee's day. 

However, it's a longstanding tradition to tip your pizza delivery person. They're driving your food out to you, and (hopefully) keeping it warm in a hot bag. It makes sense to give them a few bucks for the trouble of delivering food to you so you don't have to go out and get it. You get to lounge around in your sweatpants, and the driver gets a few dollars extra. That's a win-win!

In their story, u/Issued4Approval shared what happened when a longtime low-tipper finally faced some consequences. Then, these expecting parents were trying to plan a baby shower, but their MIL decided to take over the whole party and make it about herself. 

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    Homm '[] exposed a constant stiffer in front of her friends'
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    Exposed a constant stiffer in front of her friends
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    This notorious stiffer lives in a nice gated apartment complex. She either writes a line thru the credit card receipt tip line or on cash order will give us $28 on a $27.XX order. She always writes instructions on the receipt to call her when at the gate so she can buzz us in and meet us outside her door when we get to her unit.
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    Sometimes she won't answer her phone and we wait at the gate entrance for 5-10 minutes before she buzzes us in.. Well, this last time she ordered $57.84 worth of food, cash. I get to the gate and was able to piggyback behind another car then drive to her apartment unit. I put $0.16 in my pocket cause I knew she was
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    going to give me $58. I knock on her door and somebody else answers, one of her several guests. Nice guy told me to come inside and put the 5 pizzas on the table, then offered me a beer. This was during NFL game cause maybe 12 or 13 people were there, most of them wearing jerseys watching the Cowboys v
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    Falcons game. I spot the stiffer girl at the table. She gets up and starts escorting me out the door, then gives me the money. I count it before stepping outside...and of course, it's just $58. So I get the coins from my pocket and
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    give it to her saying "Here's your 16 cents change." I say it loud enough so everyone inside can hear.. Then I step outside and leave.. Haha, cheapskate..
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    I just finished reading a negative review that she wrote online. It was written same day as NFL game and I noticed it was her by the avatar Facebook picture. She says we always get the toppings wrong and take forever to deliver her food.. Which is completely false. Why would she keep ordering from us for the past year.. I guess I Accomplished! her off.. Mission
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    irunxcforfun Lol, we have somebody who does that to and last time I went there I gave my typical "Here's your receipt you can leave a tip at the top if you want and I need your signature at the bottom" then threw on an extra "But I don't even know why I bothered saying something about the tip line."
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    + [deleted] Except how she's going to get some free pizzas and you won't even get that .16 cent tip :(
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    ord knightni73 Is there no way to have her put on a do not deliver list as a troublemaker?
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    Issued4Approval OP. She's not a troublemaker though. Our only valid gripe with her is that she sometimes makes us wait at the gate for 5-10 minues..
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    GlitterFrozenStars. I mean I know some managers won't care about the non-tipping part (which ;), but she has been ordering pizza from there for a year and is just now making a complaint about everything being wrong? And her first step was to go to the internet about it?
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    Obviously we can't do things the way you like, so unforunately you are gonna have to find a new pizza place. Good luck.
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    bkdlays I'd ban her for false online reviews.
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    ImaginarySpider I work at a restaurant and the worst are the people who insist on buying their friend or family members food, or fight or who gets to pay then don't tip. I want to call them out so bad. Oh you are such a baller that you can buy everyone's food but you can't tip. I've called out my own (former) friends for doing this.
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    Charles Martel_732 · Her reaction means she clearly understands the concept of tipping and knows she's a cheapskate. Can't stand these types!
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