dept. of insider reports
Today’s Starbucks Gossip weblog raises the question of how much someone should tip their Starbucks Barista. [stbksblg]
The hilarity of people’s extreme emotional response to tipping, corporate coffeee, and use of Italianesque sizie names ensues.
Luckily, the most useful comment is at the top [likely posted before the post was gawked.] — tips are pooled by the week and split among employees according to hours worked. This fact, though unsubstantiated, lets me feel better about my own irregular tipping at my office’s Starbucks.
Still, I admit to being one of those people who feels more compelled to tip generously at indie places. For instance, the giant glass vase full of dollar bills at Vivace is rather intimidating.
As a former barista, I can tell you that all tips are pooled from the week and divided by hours worked. Unfair but that’s how it is done.