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While Americans love to reward good service, many are having second thoughts about the barrage of tip requests on practically everything.
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It seems that tipping screen pops up in just about every sale.
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Are we tipping every single time that we go to a coffee shop?
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I have become so good at pressing that no tip button.
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I'm paying 50 bucks for two drinks at a Phillies game.
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I'm not tipping you.
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Shoppers are being nudged to tip when ordering a sandwich, a single cup of coffee, even for things like tires.
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I went to go get new tires on my truck
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and they literally had the screen turn around and had the audacity to say, would you like to tip?
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I said no. So it's tipping out of control.
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A little bit.
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Yeah.
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Although it's a custom that isn't going anywhere, people are pulling back on where, when and how much to tip.
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Restaurant technology platform PopMenu says 40% of consumers are tipping less this year than last year because of tipping fatigue,
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tighter budgets and rising prices with 3.4% inflation over the past year.
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If you go to an establishment and every other month the price for
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that same item or service goes up and you start to get fatigued there and you have to make up for that.
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You can't just eat that all yourself.
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There is also the anxious, somewhat guilty feeling as you stare at the large tip screen that appears before the required customer signature.
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Do you feel like you're seeing like the tip screen more than you used to?
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Yeah, definitely within the last two years, I'm seeing a lot more like iPad.
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Would you like to tip?
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As people cut back on tips, some consider the cost of the item.
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When do you say no?
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When it's about like less than $20.
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For others, it's about the service.
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If it's somebody working in like a sandwich shop and they make me a nice sandwich, then I might lay them a tip.
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But if I'm just buying something like from a corner store, absolutely not.
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It's not always comfortable to hit no tip, especially when an employee is watching and waiting for the sale to be completed.
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Does it make you feel guilty not to give the tip?
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Sometimes, yeah.
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Pop menu says more than 56% of people don't typically tip at fast food spots and 44% don't tip for fast casual.
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But most are tipping at sit down restaurants, carry out counters and coffee shops.
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I think about the people that rely on tips as the primary source of income
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but also the more personalized I get for example your hair stylist or people
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that you see on a more frequent basis you start to develop a more personal relationship to me
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that is where I put the extra dollar.
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All right so
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if you do decide to tip is like 20% still the standard 15 to 20% you just heard
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that guy talk about
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if it's somebody you're going to see again somebody you have
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a relationship with you need to tip you want to tip for good service especially
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if it's something that's part of their pay
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and their salary a candy bar at the corner store i'm hitting no tip
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and i don't feel badly about it
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and we talked to a lot of men on the street
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and also a lot of experts who told us you don't have to feel guilty
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if you skip the tip if it's just a kiosk
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or just the screen the ipad screen in many cases it's
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just built into their payment software it's not maybe even necessarily
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that the company's asking you to tip it's just how that's
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been presented just hit note i wish i was curated a
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little bit better like business to business you know like
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so it's not in front of me you know that's not
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to be embarrassed you know i mean there's still our tip jars out there too
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and sometimes i feel like i'll put a few dollars in a tip jar
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because i feel like hey
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that person making my sandwich they're they're splitting it i can see who's going to get uh get
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that money but you can really tell from those pop menu numbers
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that people are they have inflation fatigue they have you know their budgets are stretched
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and they feel like they're being asked to tip for things
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they weren't asked to tip on a few years ago tires for example
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or just a pre-made sandwich you know behind the counter yeah why are you tipping for
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that they're already resentful they're paying eight dollars for coffee exactly
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like those airport stores you go get a bottle of water
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sporting events like you get a beer it's like 15 bucks yeah
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but to be clear and roker makes this point a lot like
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if you can afford to tip you should be tipping
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and what we don't want to see is depending on like
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swing back you remember during the pandemic we were all tipping for just about everything absolutely
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but i will say for restaurants and for hairstylists and things like
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that people are tipping people are still generous that has not changed pop man you said that most people are tipping,
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they're tipping well at a restaurant where they see your server and they see your server hustling.
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And that's important.
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All right.
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Christy, that was great.
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It was great.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 78 frases y 916 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:33. El hablante habla rápido, unas 201 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| tire verbo | /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ | cansar, cansarse |
| fatigue sustantivo | /fəˈtiːɡ/ | fatiga, fatigación |
| server sustantivo | /ˈsɝvɚ/ | servidor |
| menu sustantivo | /ˈmɛn.juː/ | menú, carta |
| inflation sustantivo | /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ | inflación |
| buck sustantivo | /ˈbʌk/ | buco, gamo |
| necessarily adverbio | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | necesariamente |
| badly adverbio | /ˈbæd.li/ | malamente, mal |
| custom sustantivo | /ˈkʌstəm/ | costumbre, usanza |
| establishment sustantivo | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/ | establecimiento |
| salary sustantivo | /ˈsæləɹi/ | salario, sueldo |
| stretch verbo | /stɹɛt͡ʃ/ | estirar |
| swing verbo | /ˈswɪŋ/ | balancear, mecerse |
| reward sustantivo | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | recompensa |
| candy sustantivo | /ˈkæn.di/ | caramelo, dulce |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| carry out verbo | /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/ | llevar a cabo, llevar al cabo |
| go up verbo | subir | |
| sit down verbo | sentarse | |
| turn around verbo | darle una vuelta, dar(se) una vuelta |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 22 contracciones y formas reducidas, como they're, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, barrage /bəˈɹɑʒ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/, audacity /ɔˈdæ.sɪ.ti/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como tire, fatigue, server.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | being nudged · be completed · been presented |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have become · has not changed |
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.