Food Culture
Confessions of a Tip Screen Survivor: How Buying a Scone Became the Moral Trial of My Adult Life
The tip screen used to live at the end of a meal you'd chosen to have, at a table you'd chosen to sit at, served by a human being you'd watched carry things. Now it lives everywhere — at the coffee counter, at the self-checkout kiosk, at a vending machine in Tempe, Arizona that a source claims asked for 18% before dispensing a bag of Fritos. We are all being tried, and none of us consented to jury duty.
