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Tipping culture in U.S.
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Employers would ultimately see it as not their mess, not their problem. They already pay the minimum wage they legally can, if they wanred to pay their employees a living wage then they would already be doing so. They know that they will lose their current experienced servers, but they also know that there will always be desperate workers who have no choice but to accept the crumbs that are offered.
If tip wage doesn’t meet regular minimum wage then employers are required to pay the difference
The real irritation is that British Columbia has a tipping culture where pretty much everywhere is asking for 10-25% tip.
Restaurant staff aren't exempted from minimum wage here like in the US, so its pure greed on the owners part.
BC budtender. My managers are out-of-touch crazies that enabled tipping (5%/10%/25%) because, 'they feel bad we don't make much money', paraphrased.
That's great, love hearing that from my lake-house owning mega-rich hippie manager, but I've already posted a rant here about how my month's wage of part-time work is easily paid in a day of work with their ludicrous profit margins. 50% on cannabis where I saw 30% in the liquor industry. They can pay me a livable wage, they choose not to.
I have compounding evidence that they're shitty people wearing masks of integrity and compassion and I hate it.
Greed sucks :(
When I tip I prefer to do so in cash so they can just pocket it. When I was a dishwasher I remember the good, hardworking servers walking out every night with huge roll of bills, and they would go buy groceries without paying taxes on it.
Enabling tax evasion doesn't sound like a good thing to me!
I also do this most of the time.
Cash is also much less likely to go anywhere but where you want it to go.
I hate that many places "split tips* because I want to tip my waiter. Not that fuck stain across the room hitting on his table.
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It would be terrible for servers. Every server will report different incomes, but when I served tables I was paid way above a fair wage. I could never imagine an employer matching the $40+/hr I made bringing food to tables on the weekend.
The minimum wage for servers is around $2 an hour. If we stop tipping, our servers won't make enough money to survive. Restaurants claim that they can't afford to pay a living wage and offer prices people are willing to pay. Yay capitalism.
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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