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ProllyInfamouslast Tuesday at 8:47 PM1 replyview on HN

When COVID started my wealthiest elders decided to start eating out for every meal in order "to support local businesses." Ironically, they did not leave any tips because "you don't tip unless you sit down in the restaurant." You're not helping in the way you think you are, Gramps.


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mrguyoramayesterday at 6:58 PM

>You're not helping in the way you think you are, Gramps.

Why do you believe this? Tips cannot go to the business, and businesses were closing during covid because they weren't making any revenue.

The tips helped servers sure, but so did buying food from their place of work such that they can continue to have a job, unless that job literally paid less than minimum wage or unemployment, which is its own atrocity.