What Christians need to know and consider about eatery tipping.
There was never an issue in the past with tipping, but some new modern entitlement expectation of tips has arisen with the Z and Alpha generation. These folks were young when the 2020 riots and new looting culture began being encouraged among unsaved people.
Tipping was always voluntary and only if you wanted to, and only if someone went extremely above what you expected. It was rare to tip. And even if there was a tip $1 was normal, then $3 or so. It has gotten out of hand today with this entitlement generation thinking they are absolutely entitled to your money and demanding about it, (as well as how much). Their love of money is at the root of all sorts of evil thoughts, words and behaviors both to those who get food delivered or even for to go. It is the employers job to pay their salary, and it is the employee's job to understand the income they signed up for and that they took that job at that wage. They are free to leave and find a more appropriate living wage for themselves
I am not advocating for not tipping. But each can determine as their conscience leads them.
I recently ran into some people online complaining, both unsaved and saved, about a image of an old old tract that was used long ago, that is not used anymore today. It was brought up because today servers have incorrect understandings of tips and tips are in the news a lot these days. And it has caused all kinds of arguing and strife and hate.
Here are some regular questions and objections by both groups and some suggested recommendations and reminders. I hope it helps you think through this topic, and also consider using that article link when you have gospel convos online related to gospel tracts and tipping. It includes several calls to action to the gospel, and resources for both believers, and the unsaved. More people see these comments and links(1) than just the person you interact with, so on some platforms like fb try to engage in the "top comments" area first, before going to all comments to search out additional gospel opportunities, as those in the top group are the ones most people will see first.
Feel free to search up tip tract and similar wordings to locate more posts on social media platforms to engage in this topic and the helpful link to get people on both sides thinking, and it redirects to the gospel too.
Think of things you can say when you leave the link there.
Here are a few ideas.
- I saw this recently and it made me think about this, link.
- Christians need to use appropriate tracts based on where they are, this talks about that, link.
- This is an old image & is rarely if ever used today, but the general discussion is good - link.
- This person had something good to say about this very topic, link.
- 🤔 Have you see this yet? link.
- Have you had a chance to review this? link.
- There are a lot of things people haven't considered, link.
- 🤔 Some valid points made here, and here link.
- That question 😀 was actually answered here, link.
- That issue was actually disvussed here too, link.
- There was a good discussion going on here about it, link.
- other....
For those who say they dont trust offsite links, you can tell them:
- I completely understand. You can go to Norton link safety check to verify the link before visiting, your safety matters. https://safeweb.norton.com
Typically it isn't those who are worried about safety, it is usually those who dont want to continue the convo nor go see what the link says, but still want to debate you and get you to say things in comments that might get you flagged, or just to be a time waster, or arguer with you. This above response will either get them curious to just go look at the link, or for those genuinely concerned, they'll appreciate you tried to keep them safe, and when they read the gospel, will also see you are trying to help them with their eternal safety as well.
Direct link to the article
https://snsanswers.blogspot.com/2023/01/viral-tract.html
(1) Footnote:
32 people viewed the viral tract link today. Since it was originally posted 83 looked at it.
