<p>My childhood friend owned a salon and he told me that you do not tip the owner of the salon. That was supposed to be standard industry practice.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this is a new trend for tipping , but I have used this system for charging on my iphone for the last two years. Your hairdresser must have set it up this way , probably as suggested by the rep that sold the service to her / him.
It works like a charm and yes, mucg less expensive in fees .
Anything to NOT have to deal with First Data :)</p>
<p>" I personally am not interested in sharing my email with more than absolutely necessary. It feels invasive to me & makes me hesitate to use anything that requires me to disclose my email OR my cell phone #. Too much info I don’t want to share. I guess it would be good for them if that made me use cash instead, which is harder to trace, but I might also decide not to use them at all & find alternative methods like mass transit, competitor taxi, or a shuttle that doesn’t require me to disclose this info to charge. "</p>
<p>The purpose of taking an email address is only to send the customer a receipt , not to share it with anyone…I can barely handle my own emails and have no time or interest in collecting customer’s emails for anything at all</p>
<p>nj2011mom, I was always told you don’t tip the owner, but if you’ve been tipping her all along she’d probably wonder how she’s failed you if you stopped now.</p>
<p>“My hairdresser doesn’t take CC, only cash or check. She owns the place and I still tip her. Some of my friends tell me that since she’s the owner, I shouldn’t tip her. What do you think? She’s been cutting my hair for 25+ years and has owned the place for 20 years.”</p>
<p>At the salon I go to all the hair dressers are independent operators who set their own prices. I do not tip.</p>
<p>My stylist and several other stylists recently left their salon and setup in a new locations as independents. She also uses a device that attaches on her iPhone for CC billing. She tells me how much the days services total and I tell her to add $xx for a tip, she slides my card through the device, I sign on the screen and receive a text message receipt on my phone. She said it will calculate a % tip but I just tell her the amount of tip I want to pay.</p>
<p>He would not accept cash? Interesting, I thought everybody appreciates cash as it allow to report whatever…I always pay cash to my hairdresser and cleanning lady, they like it. In first case my tip is always 25%, but he did not raise the price for decades. In second case, there is no tip, just a small additional amount for Christmas present, but cleanning lady can raise her price any time she wishes, I would pay whatever she charges, I love her work.</p>
<p>Always the technology! But eventually we’ll get used to it, I always tip at least 20% in all situations and more if it is earned. Don’t have a problem with the square app, but it is nice to have cash on hand to help in some of these situations.</p>
<p>I still say that everybody love cash and no trace whatsoever.</p>
<p>I love that my hair salon does not allow tipping. I struggle with tipping a person charging me large amounts. My friend gets frequent pedicures, $25 for less than 30 minutes and massages that are a deal at $1 per minute. Why should someone being paid $1 a minute be tipped?</p>
<p>This tipping thing probably is served to confuse people. Yesterday I gave 10% tip at a place that is like a take out, the servers brought our food period. After the meal, I then realized it’s a take out kind of service, but I ate in, but I the tip line confused me. I served myself on everything, sauces, drinks, etc…</p>
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<p>I don’t know any nail salon that is paying their employees $1/minute. If the woman who does my pedicures was being paid anywhere close to that salary, I wouldn’t tip her.</p>
<p>p.s. Tell your friend that she should find a new salon. Less than 30 minutes for a pedicure is not the norm.</p>