{"id":404630,"date":"2026-01-12T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404630\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:10:08","slug":"how-tip-prompts-are-changing-consumer-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404630\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tip Prompts are Changing Consumer Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cash-Money-Wage-Bills-Coins.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"How Tip Prompts are Changing Consumer Habits\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Canadians are increasingly being prompted to provide a tip, oftentimes\u00a0at businesses where tips were never required \u2013 or expected \u2013 before.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant servers and those in food delivery have traditionally relied on tips to augment their earnings, but now tips are being prompted in a wide variety of businesses and sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Atlantic with Restaurants Canada, Janick Cormier, says that\u2019s leading to tipping fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTipping at a restaurant has always been part of our culture, but tipping a mechanic has not.\u201d She says \u201cCanadians are getting a bit tired of being asked to pay more than what they\u2019re used to paying and being prompted for a tip; they feel bad if they don\u2019t have to give a tip in certain situations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Canadians are increasingly being prompted to provide a tip, oftentimes\u00a0at businesses where tips were never required \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-404630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}