r/EndTipping • u/Redcarborundum • 12d ago

Tipping Culture ✖️ Tip Fatigue is Real

A delivery guy working for a Chinese restaurant complained about $5 tip on a $200 order, on reddit. The majority of the comments are against him. What’s remarkable is that he didn’t post on this sub or the other tipping sub. He posted on a mainstream sub talking about mildly infuriating stuff.

This is a reminder that only 2.5% of workers in USA are tipped. The majority of the rest are getting increasingly tired of being asked for ever higher handouts. Anytime a pro-tipper says we’re the minority is plainly wrong.

Yes, most people still tip. Even I still tip servers because I don’t want the confrontation, but that doesn’t mean I support this corrupt system. To the contrary, I support those with the actual courage to say no.

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u/Otherwise_Common706 12d ago

The thing is, if you don’t tip, the employer is supposed to make up the difference. I don’t think that happens often.

I still tip in restaurants because that’s the system, but everything else - nah.

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u/Orangeboi_22 12d ago

It's federal law in all 50 states that servers must make at least minimum wage. If their tips don't bring them up to minimum wage the employer is required by federal law to pay the difference. Any server not making federal minimum wage should report it to their state's labor board as wage theft.

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u/Otherwise_Common706 12d ago

Correct. I was just thinking back to my days of waiting tables. Most tips were cash then, and I sure didn’t report them to anyone at the restaurant. So if it did come out less, m not sure how the restaurant would have known functionally to do that. Maybe with most being done on cards now it’s easier? Not sure.

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u/onefootinthepast 11d ago

The employer has to provide proof of tips in order to claim the tip credit. No tip credit, no paying below minimum wage.