Yes we get tips. It adds an extra few dollars an hour. Why wouldn't we get tips? We provide a service.

I provide the service of bagging the customer's items as a cashier but I don't get tips!

Yeah you provide a service, but you do make minimum wage, and on top of that there's no table service. Tipping is mostly a system for people who don't make minimum wage. I seriously don't mind there being a tip jar on a Starbucks counter, but you shouldn't expect tips because you take an order and make a drink for someone.

Hairdressers, that own their own salon, make their own wage, and still expect a tip. Explain that one to me.

why would a tip be expected. yes a service is done but then that is like saying we should tip walmartcfor ringing us up

Who doesn't provide some type of service. It's fine to have a tip jar and hope for tips. It's not ok to expect them.

Just because a service is provided doesn't mean you should get a tip. that's what your wage is for. ydi.

I work at Starbucks also :) and no we don't expect tips, but we do really appreciate it. most people who work in the service industry do make at least minimum wage these days but living on minimum wage is pretty hard. I imagine the OP would not have been annoyed about not getting a tip. its just pretty lame to put an empty gift card in the tip jar..

Shame on all of you, I too work at Starbucks, tips are not expected but they definitely help us out, we make such shitty pay there that the tips help me make it to my next paycheck. Also we work our asses off for you people, try working at a Starbucks, it's a lot more complicated than you think, on top of that, when you work there for as long as I have you start to memorize people's drink orders which help them get in and out quicker, not only do we provide a service we help make a community, we are their friends, oh and ps if you came to my store I do provide table service whenever I can.

Exactly. I never expect tips. I would just prefer that people not put trash in our tip jar. Thanks for understanding #74!

Thank you so much for your kind words. You are wonderful 76!

I get tipped sometimes, for carrying out groceries.

I like how u curse but I got a 30 day ban for it

Exactly! Name one job where some kind of service isn't being done! Even carpentry is some kind of service, do they deserve tips? I had been a waitress for several years and lived off my tips because I didn't make Minimum wage. I'm sorry because you did your job and poured some liquid in a cup doesn't mean you deserve a tip!

they don't get paid salary, depending on where they work. People do it out of kindness.

76, the job isn't much harder than working at any other fast food place. You're trying to make it sound a lot more complicated than it is.

Shitty pay? Working your asses off? You're making people a DRINK. It takes a couple minutes, at most? Im a waitress and I make $2.33 an hour. Thats a fraction of what you make per hour for 200 times the amount of work.

#92: Personally, I think that working at Starbucks is a little more complicated then just "making a drink." Mind you, baristas have to memorize all, if not most, of the recipes on the Starbucks menu to cater to all their different customers' wants at a fast pace.

@96, do you really call fast food cook a chef, and damn expensive coffee shop worker a barista? I am sorry but I don't think they deserve to call them that.

Are you a member of a union? Because if so, that's why you aren't allowed to take tips.

I have had the experience of working as both a waiter and a barista. Waiters make FAR more money on tips than baristas do. What you probably make in one night in tips, takes 2 weeks for a barista to earn. Also, baristas have to be up before dawn to make coffee for grumpy pretentious jerks. On a side note, check how much you earn. Although they only pay you 2.33 an hour, if your tips for that shift don't make you pass minimum wage, the business has to compensate the difference so that the least you earn the federal minimum wage of 7.25.

#103: The definition of "barista" is a person whose job involves preparing and serving different types of coffee. So therefore, the people who work at Starbucks are baristas.

That's not the same kind of service... You didn't make the products people are buying.

OP: T.I.P.S To Inspire Prompt Service.

I've worked at a restaurant and a coffee shop. It is definitely much harder making drinks, and I've noticed that people who have never had to work at a place like Starbucks seem to think it's incredibly easy. I just hope they never have to work there and see what it's really like. The tips are, in fact, very appreciated, but not expected. "But I do this job and don't get tips!" That's nice, but irrelevant.

We don't have a starbucks

We don't have starbucks in our region as far as I know.

We don't have a country in our Starbucks.

Tips are meant for those who don't make minimum wage. The idea is to make up the difference. A lot of people have trouble making their minimum wage stretch but have to anyway. Why don't they get tips then?

Starbucks baristas provide the same service as McDonald's employees. Take order, make order, hand order over counter, all for minimum wage. Tips are for people who wait on customers and take their food/drinks to them.

"it's a lot harder than it looks" No it's not. I've worked at an ACTUAL coffee shop and even there it's not hard to make a simple mocha. It took maybe a minute to prepare everything and then another 30 seconds to brew the cup. the only thing that's actually hard is not sitting down for awhile.

#70 You have no idea what you are talking about

When you have a line of drinks wrapped, customers out the door, and only a total of 3 people on the floor.. It is hard. Most coffee shops aren't as busy as Starbucks gets during the rush hours. You literally have to run around in order to make the drinks in the appropriate time.

#63, how are your tips "claimed and taxed" even if you don't receive them? Do you understand how taxes work? You have to report how much you made. So if you only made $X... Why the hell would you be reporting $X + some undetermined amount of tips that you may have made IF someone left you that? Most Starbucks I've been in have cash-only tips, too, so it's entirely up to you to record and report how much you made in tips. Frankly if you're as strapped for cash as you're making out I don't know why you're reporting any cash tips at all.

The managers report the average tip amount to the government BEFORE we even get the tips. They normally write $2 an hour that gets taxed even if we don't make that. I do know how taxes work, and I also know how Starbucks works. You don't have to be so rude, we don't get to decide if it gets reported.. Our managers do that.