Internet is divided over tipping culture in popular fried chicken restaurant - what would YOU do?

A triggered TikTok user claimed a Bojangles drive-thru worker asked her for a extremity aft she purchased nutrient from nan fried chickenhearted fast-food joint.

The woman, named Arie, asked if societal media users agreed pinch her successful not tipping labor for drive-thru and to-go orders successful a video she posted earlier this month.

She besides stated that customers should not extremity accelerated nutrient workers who only return nan orders.

'I conscionable want to make judge we each are connected 1 accord. I consciousness bad sometimes, but it conscionable doesn't make consciousness to extremity them,' Arie wrote successful nan video description.

Tipping civilization has been a increasing topic, particularly successful nan nutrient industry.

Around 48 percent of edifice chains that see Starbucks, McDonald's, and KFC person begun giving customers an action to extremity drive-thru and to-go bid employees, according to 2023 information compiled by Toast.

It has besides spawned a number of videos from societal media users who are upset by what tipping civilization has become.

'We cognize that tipping has been a basking topic,' Van Darden, caput of media relations astatine Talker Research, told USA TODAY.

'It's trended connected TikTok, there's each kinds of online speech astir it, it's been successful nan news arsenic group transitioned retired of nan precocious peaks of COVID and transportation services.'

Tipping civilization has besides angered thousands of accelerated nutrient concatenation customers connected Reddit connected a post made by personification who thought it was 'getting retired of hand.' 

'This thought that nan user should beryllium connected nan hook for supplementing nan net of each low-wage worker they mightiness brushwood regular is insane,' a Reddit personification wrote past year. 

'It’s excessively much. And wherever does it end? You can’t perchance extremity each of nan low-wage workers into prosperity. And really do you warrant tipping definite low-wage workers and not others.'

This year, Americans person not changed their mind, retired of complete 1,199 Americans who participated successful a CouponBirds survey, complete 76 percent believed tipping civilization has go excessively overmuch for them to handle.

It's continued to get truthful bad that customers person begun to extremity giving tips to anyone, including edifice servers.

'Asking your customers to salary your labor straight is obnoxious and not very cool,' Sandberg told Business Insider this month.

'If I person to guidelines up to bid my nutrient aliases to bargain my product, you're not getting a tip.' 

TikTok users who watched Arie's video revealed their opinions connected nan matter. 

'I tipped my sonic personification $10 during a hurricane. The measurement they were sprinting done that large wind to present people's food... I felt horrible for them having to do each that,' wrote a TikTok user.

One personification admitted that they extremity connected to-go orders, but chiefly because nan money will spell to nan edifice servers.

'I extremity to-go. I do to-go orders, and I make bully tips. We do nan most, particularly erstwhile they're immense orders,' a commenter wrote.

Arie responded to what that commenter wrote and admitted that she would only springiness a extremity if it was brought to her car aliases if it was a 'big order' aliases 'busy day.'

Other commenters had nan aforesaid opinions arsenic Sandberg, and opt to not extremity labor erstwhile ordering nutrient without sitting down.

'Someone astatine activity told maine nan different time they don’t extremity anyplace they bid opinionated up. I felt for illustration that was a bully statement to draw,' wrote a TikToker.