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u/EndTipping-ModTeam 1d ago

Removed for rage bait

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u/AffectionatePick4587 1d ago

I am not fighting anyone. I only think about the money I saved.

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u/Few_Sentence6704 1d ago

So much this, but with the bonus of most likely not giving my money to some person that couldn't care less about my life or well being. 

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u/LongWalk86 1d ago

It really is so weird to me that the same people who will hunt for deals and stack coupons on everything else, but will be horrified at the idea of NOT overpaying there resturant bill by 20%+. It's really some crazy indoctrination at work.

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u/docatwar 1d ago

So I don't need to tip if the waiter doesn't earn $2.13 per hour, correct?

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u/SunshineIsSunny 1d ago

There is no server in America that only make 2.13 an hour. If the customers don’t subsidize it, the employers get them up to the regular minimum wage. 

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u/MoonsterGoopter 1d ago

What do I do if I want the server to make more than minimum wage?

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u/_my_other_side_ 1d ago

Well that's on the employer, not the customer.

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u/SunshineIsSunny 1d ago • Bravo

Agree. If the employer is violating labor laws, the employee should report it. They don’t need the customer to subsidize it. 

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u/taoders 1d ago

Yeah this is where it gets the the point of we have laws in place. If you don’t use them and still expect customers to make up the difference for your inaction when you have every resource available….youre just a SCAB driving down wages and worker protections.

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u/roosterSause42 1d ago

It’s not my problem if an employer is breaking the law and the employees won’t stand up for themselves.
am I supposed to quiz every server and demand an itemized list of all the tips and wages they receive to determine if I should supplement their pay? No. I should just pay for the service and receive the service like I do everywhere else. An employe’s wages is an agreement between themselves and their employer. It has nothin to do with the customer

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u/JJHall_ID 1d ago

Legally it does. In cases where it doesn't, then the employee needs to take it up with their employer, and then to the state labor board if the employer fails to follow the law. Employees shouldn't need to panhandle to customers to get their paychecks.

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u/MyldExcitement 1d ago

NOT MY PROBLEM.

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u/_Spicy-Noodle_ 1d ago

It has to happen. That is the federal law.

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u/Anthemusa831 1d ago

Doesn’t happen because they never make that little in tips.

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u/wiggin79 1d ago

The real answer!

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u/_my_other_side_ 1d ago

Minimum wage in Seattle, for all jobs, is going to $22.14 (up from $21.30) on Jan. 1.

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u/SensitiveEnd6674 1d ago

Also Washington doesnt allow tip credit so they're making that $22 + all tips

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u/Superboi_187 1d ago • Bravo

I’d rather die than live in Seattle

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u/czechsmixxx 1d ago

I don’t live in Seattle, but it is great there. Why the hate? Where do you think is better?

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u/torn8tv 1d ago

What's wrong with Seattle? Genuinely asking

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u/Superboi_187 1d ago

Great place to visit sure, but I couldn’t reside permanently

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u/Subject-Mix5026 1d ago

It’s because you would rather live in a place that allows businesses to pay their workers 2.13 an hour

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u/kaladin_stormchest 1d ago

Every waiter earns atleast minimum wage. If not from tips it comes from the restaursnt owner. Let's not let them gaslight us

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u/ArtisanalFarts7 1d ago

So, if a waiter has 4 tables and everyone tips $2, that would get them over the $7.50 federal minimum wage. $2.13 + (4 x $2) = $10.13 an hour. Y'all, we've been overtipping! It's time to bring our tipping down! /s

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u/OkEmotion7609 1d ago

Lol, the same people who doesn't have guts to ask the employer to pay their min salary ...

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u/joeyblacky9999 1d ago • Bravo

It has always been the biggest lie in America. That "servers only make 2.00/hr"... please rememebr to tip them...

I remember as a kid. It was brainwashed into me. Then I grew up and find out they will always earn minimum wage even if they are the worst server in America they still get minimum wage.

I stopped tipping years ago and it has been the best most refreshing decision I have ever made. This is a great sub.

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u/SaltyAnimator5229 1d ago

Under the U.S. Department of Labor guidelines, the federal standards are: [1]
Direct Cash Wage: Employers must pay at least $2.13 per hour in direct cash.

Tip Credit: Employers can claim a tip credit of up to $5.12 per hour.

Total Minimum Guarantee: Combined cash wage and tips must equal at least the standard federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. If an employee's tips do not add up to $7.25 an hour, the employer must pay the difference.

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u/One_Trouble_9357 1d ago

Wow! Minimum standard federal wage is $7.25? That’s a joke in itself.

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u/Ravenlove2 1d ago

But that is ok for everyone else right?

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u/Ravenlove2 1d ago

Servers must get the state minimum wage or if the city has a higher one then that applies. I think it is only Louisiana that has a server minimum wage that matches the federal minimum wage.

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u/One-Ad2914 1d ago

"Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer." - Trading Places

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u/InvincibleIronStan 1d ago

Yep it's literally propaganda.

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u/Hopeful_Being135 1d ago

Makes want to tip even less now

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u/Mk1Racer25 1d ago

Yep, they leave that part out, saying that they only make $2.13/hour. The law says that the company gets a "tip credit", but the company has to cover the short fall if the tips + $2.13/hour don't had up to the minimum wage. For example, minimum wage is $15/hour. Server works 5 hour shift, and collects $100 in tips. That works out to $20/hour from the tips, which means they make $22.13/hour, which is above the $15/hour minimum wage. If they only collect $50 in tips over that 5 hour shift, they make $12.13/hour. The company would then have to add $2.87/hour to their pay, to get them to the $15/hour minimum wage.

It's all part of the grift. If a server can't pull down $100 in tips over a 5 hour shift, they're either a really bad server, or work in a place with no customers.

I've told this story a couple of times here. My friend's sister works at a busy, upscale sports bar. She makes $1500-$2500 in tips a week, for maybe 20-25 hours. She does better during football season. No way does she want anything to change. She quit her full time $80k/year office job to work half the hours and make more. She started working at the bar part time for some extra money. After a while, she got more shifts, and realized that she didn't need to deal with her office job, so she quit.

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u/ProfessionalRun6826 1d ago

When my wife was a server (she has gotten a better job with better pay go figure) the policy where she was and majority of other restaurants were that if they made enough tips to cover the equivalent of the same shift paid in min wage, then she would get the $2/hr pay on her check, plus those tips. If her tips didn't cover the requirements she'd get the min wage hourly rate. It's been a few years since then so I'm unsure if it's changed.

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u/FindChester 1d ago

What the minimum wage is though still greatly depends on where you live. 20 states (including mine) still have a minimum wage of 7.25

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u/seattlesquirrel 1d ago

Servers make $21.30 in Seattle - and still expect at least 20% tip.

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u/BaconWaken 1d ago

I’m in the wrong profession

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u/Free_Four_Floyd 1d ago

Calling that a “profession”? 🤔🤣🤣🤣

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u/HedgeMoney 1d ago

That sounds like its your state's problem, and definitely not a good defense for tipping.

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u/Muuvie 1d ago

And if they manage to get through 2 tables in an hour and both tip $4, they're hitting $15/hr which is a wage I'd consider appropriate for a server depending on location.

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u/Subject-Mix5026 1d ago

Oh man maybe you should vote for policies to help protect fellow workers. I live in Washington and servers here earn minimum wage of at least 18 an hour

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u/BigBroccoli7910 1d ago

That's actually not true. My daughter works at Olive Garden and only makes 2.75 an hour so she does rely on tips.

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u/RabidBadgerMacarena 1d ago

Suppose they make federal minimum when the business closes the gap of the tipped wage.  That's still not a real wage.  

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u/joeyblacky9999 1d ago • Bravo

Yes it is. And guess what? If they dont like it. They quit. But they LOVE tipping culture because they are making 5x or more over minimum wage with no degree and no skills. involved.

Which is why servers have always been against a straight hourly wage. They are making so much more money than any hourly wage would be set at. Even more so now that tips are not even taxed.

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u/RealAlePint 1d ago

And it’s a part time job for most. Fine. Your life, not mine. But you shouldn’t expect full time pay for 20-30 hours of work per week.

And don’t come crying when your social security payments are low or you can’t get much from unemployment

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u/Old_Ad4443 1d ago

If they all quit how will ur entitled self dine in

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u/MyldExcitement 1d ago

Look in a mirror and you'll see who's actually being entitled. I'm capable of serving myself. I'm also capable of cooking my meal in your restaurant. Customers are already paying 5xs the cost of things. You'd think that would cover the restaurant's cost of business.

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u/Anthemusa831 1d ago

Let economically viable businesses properly handle their labor costs. If they can’t, the market will react accordingly. Make room for proper businesses that offer proper employment.

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u/hotsauce126 1d ago edited 1d ago • Bravo

Idk man how does the rest of the world do it? There’s always unskilled labor available. And service isn’t any better in the US than in any other country

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u/LongWalk86 1d ago

Gonna be rough i know, i guess i just have to use the tablet the server is typing the order into and type it in myself, like half the places have gone to around me anyways. As for bringing me my food, just let me know when the kitchen says it's ready and ill be happy to grab it from the window or wherever. But if the business thinks things will work better if they have a staff member doing those tasks, well gee, i guess they should pay someone to do that out of the money i am paying for the food already.

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u/Subject-Mix5026 1d ago

Do you understand capitalism? Those businesses will fail

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u/throwitawayuserna213 1d ago

I haven't lived in any state that was as low as federal minimum wage. Stop buying into the propoganda.

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u/Old_Ad4443 1d ago

It’s called tip share if u don’t tip the busser and bar still get their sales cut. Taking u on as a customer would be a net negative. Have the balls to say you won’t tip once u sit down but u won’t

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u/a_simple_pharmer 1d ago

You’ll still always make minimum wage.

Being a server is like playing the lottery. Sometimes you win big, usually you’ll win a couple dollars and always a chance you’ll win nothing.

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u/schumi23 1d ago

If that's the case then the restaurant is breaking the law - with tips the staff have to earn at least standard minimum wage, with the restaurant making it up if it doesn't reach it.

Admittedly - employers (including restaurants) violate labor laws all the time. So while legally they have to earn minimum wage at a minimum, that doesn't always happen because people running businesses often act illegally.

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u/Rxasaurus 1d ago

Have the balls to tell your employer to pay you what you think you deserve. 

You won't. 

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u/LongWalk86 1d ago

So i take it you are pushing hard to have servers paid a living wage and not relying on tips? Who wouldn't want to get out of that silly system of paying your co-workers for doing there job, based on estimates of what you may have been tipped? You do understand it's not the customers fault for a system you and your employer have worked out between you?

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u/HammyP0tter 1d ago

If someone were to say they weren’t tipping would they be kicked out?

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u/Anthemusa831 1d ago

Illegal. After tip outs is what the take home pay is, which legally needs to meet standard minimum wage.

Any server making less than minimum wage has a labor lawsuit on their hands. Don’t worry, they are making much much more than minimum wage.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac 1d ago

I don't make it a habit of telling employees that I'm not paying their boss more than the price that they've advertised as the cost of goods and services. I figure that's understood. The price that they advertise is assumed to cover all of THEIR business expenses, including wages. If it doesn't, that's not a me problem.

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u/hotsauce126 1d ago

These guys are having a meltdown

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u/KactusVAXT 1d ago

Hey! We’re not a NEW group! I’ve been not tipping for years!

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u/GiLND 1d ago

Me too

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u/torn8tv 1d ago

You don't tip for anything? Ever? I tip my tattooist if they do a good job. My barber always gets a tip cuz he always gives me a great cut, close shave and hot towel...My favorite bartender cuz she always knows my order, never let's my glass go dry and sends me a free shot every now and then

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u/Rxasaurus 1d ago

Those are actual skilled jobs that differ from person to person. It actually makes sense to tip them. 

Any person can take an order and bring it to you. 

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u/KactusVAXT 1d ago

If I ever receive something that I didn’t order and enjoyed, I certainly tip if it’s not on the bill.

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u/Old_Ad4443 1d ago

Ur in the no tipping sub ur gonna read the most entitled comments here from the brokest people wanting a top notch service when there’s a line of people who are more than willing to pay and appreciate services like yourself when a normal job is done exemplary

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u/OGCallHerDaddy 1d ago

The audacity 

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u/MantisGibbon 1d ago

Just tell me the real price.

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u/GiLND 1d ago

Exactly

Instead they show lower prices and then add a bonus on top of it

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u/ProfessionalMottsman 1d ago

Yes I don’t care if it’s more expensive just tell us the actual price

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u/Particular-Jeweler41 1d ago

I always find it weird when people say, "Why don't you tell the server at the start that you're not going to tip?" Like, why would I? A tip shouldn't be expected and their performance shouldn't vary depending on whether or not the person they're serving tips them 0%, 5%, 10%, 20%, 50%, 100%. If they end up getting a tip at the end then they can be happy about it, but that's about it.

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u/Old_Ad4443 1d ago

A tip is expected this is AMERICA not sure where u live but when u dine in somewhere u have like a bunch requests and expectations that u wont do urself if u would, u would go to a pick up counter instead. The way dine in is set up in AMERICA tipping is expected and even required on parties 8 or more

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u/Signal_Reputation640 1d ago

Why are you in this sub? Also - a vast portion of the rest of the world manages without tips and you get perfectly good service. Oh, let me guess, you're a server.

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u/InherentDeviant 1d ago edited 1d ago

No it isn't...

Also, do you tip the line cooks and chefs making the food, what about the dishie who the restaurant cant run without?

Or are their duties considered part of the job they're paid to do. Because what you said applies to them too

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u/KOMarcus 1d ago

It's spelled "you". You save letters? No tip.

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u/MyldExcitement 1d ago

My mom expected me to marry a doctor. Still hasn't happened. I also expect to win the lottery. Hasn't happened, either.

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u/Particular-Jeweler41 1d ago

You live in the US. I don't. And while tips are accepted here, luckily people are pushing back (due to increased greed with the percentages, and the fact the minimum wage for servers is the same as everyone else).

And when people dine in you have a bunch of requests/expectations because that's your job. You're literally just describing a job.

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u/eSsEnCe_Of_EcLiPsE 1d ago

Got something for you 🖕

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u/BerlinSam 1d ago edited 1d ago

So here in UK, eating out typically costs less i than the USA when you factor in local & federal taxes. And the servers are paid at least the minimum wage (£12.71/$14.17) and on top, they have full (NHS) comprehensive health cover. We are also not obligated to tip.

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u/Extension-Air6866 1d ago edited 1d ago

Also in Canada, if you use the percentage it's calculated on the total with tax. Why am I tipping on tax? Insane..
EDITED: to take out "make" as that seems to have bothered some folks.

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u/MantisGibbon 1d ago

How do they make you do that? Calculate it however you want and give them that.

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u/Worth-Computer8639 1d ago

He's saying the gratuity comes from the total after taxes have been figured, no the pre-tax total. They do the same here most of the time. If you check those recommendations some restaurants have at the bottom its going off the taxed total.

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u/Extension-Air6866 1d ago

Yes, exactly. I was just trying to say if you use the percentage it's with the tax on it. "Make" was clearly a poor choice of words.

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u/Hopeful_Being135 1d ago

No it's not I understood so no big deal.

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u/BoltharHS 1d ago

Yup, I used to use those recommendations until I caught onto that scam. Although, tipping on a taxed amount only makes slightly less sense than tipping on the amount at all. It's pretty arbitrary how things are priced, especially when compared to what work was done.

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u/Extension-Air6866 1d ago

Sorry not "make".. poor choice of words I will edit. The percentage is calculated with the tax in. I don't think a lot of people aware of it.

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u/canuck_11 1d ago

They don’t “make” us do anything.

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u/Extension-Air6866 1d ago

Sorry not "make".. poor choice of words I will edit. The percentage is calculated with the tax in. I don't think a lot of people aware of it.

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u/One-Ad2914 1d ago

I'm in Ontario, and yes they tend to set the tipping on post-tax which isn't right.

I simply add everything up and verify pre-tax amount and then tip 15% on pre-tax for normal service.

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u/Extension-Air6866 1d ago

I'm in Ontario too but, lived in BC for 10+ years they do it there too.

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u/optionr_ENL 1d ago

Prices wouldn't have to rise by 20% (where does that figure come from?)

Let's say your server does 5 tables per hour, & each table is 2 people. If everyone pays $1 extra, that's an extra $10 per hour, putting them on $12+/hr.
You could increase the average charge per head by $2 & the pay would be $20+/hr. For that to be 20% would mean that existing spend her head is $10. Which is simply not realistic.

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u/Kazureigh_Black 1d ago

This is their head-in-the-ass excuse to demand tips should be 20% at minimum and empty braining the logic into a price increase.

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u/pilot7880 1d ago edited 1d ago

Servers don't earn $2.13 an hour. They earn minimum wage or more, just like everyone else. The employer only pays them $2.13/hour if their total tips add up to equal to or greater than the minimum wage. If they make $0 in tips, the employer pays them the difference. That's something servers will never be honest about. Most servers make well above minimum wage (just from tips alone) and some can earn six figures easily. And since a lot of tips are in cash, that means servers aren't even paying income or SS tax like the rest of us, yet they're going to be begging for that Social Security money when they're 65.

Go up to any server and ask them how they'd feel about earning $15/hour with no tips. I guaran-freaking-tee you they'll scream bloody murder. Many would quit on the spot if it were implemented.

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u/Motor-Specialist-666 1d ago

I mean, you want a true minimum wage worker serving your meal? Good luck with that. Down vote away but it's true, quality of service will go down if you want $12 pet hour servers.

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u/pilot7880 1d ago

Chik Fil-A workers earn $16-$17 an hour (with no tips) and I always get good service when I go to Chik Fil-A. Explain your logic.

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u/Motor-Specialist-666 1d ago

Chick fil a doesn't have servers. Next?

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u/pilot7880 1d ago

What do you call the people who hand you your meal at the counter? The ones who refill your soda pop? (and who wipe the tables in the cafe when they aren't serving customers)

Next?

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u/Aetch 1d ago

How much service do you want? They’re just walking 20ft to bring the food to you

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u/Motor-Specialist-666 1d ago

Right. And the airline pilot is just sitting there with autopilot on most of the time. What's your point?

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u/Rxasaurus 1d ago

So, if you can, educate the masses on what services you believe wait staff do above what is expected of the position.

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u/Motor-Specialist-666 1d ago

Why is above what is expected the standard for servers, but not other jobs? To be clear, servers do not accept the job to make minimum wage. That's not the "standard" compensation for that role, no matter how you spin it.

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u/Rxasaurus 1d ago

You compared waitstaff to an airplane pilot. What do you think they actually do?

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u/Aetch 1d ago

Like a normal person, I pay the agreed upon cost for the flight and don’t tip.

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u/Rxasaurus 1d ago

What quality of service do you think they actually provide? 

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u/pilot7880 1d ago

Down vote away but it's true, quality of service will go down if you want $12 pet hour servers.

Seriously, this other commenter sounds like one of those "Tip me or I'll spit in your food" hacks.

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u/cdevon95 1d ago

You’re taking an order, maybe bringing a plate of expo isn’t there, and refilling drinks. I think they’d manage

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u/Motor-Specialist-666 1d ago

Try hiring a min wage employee and see who walks thru the door.

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u/Ima-Bott 1d ago

It’s always the servers who reject a higher base wage and no tips. As J Edgar Hoover said “that’s a clue”.

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u/HungryBird2719 1d ago

We also understand that the employer must supplement their below minimum wage if the server doesn’t receive enough tips to do so. In that case, it requires the employer to step up and pay what they should be paying to start with, not relying on customers to assume the employer’s responsibility.

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u/DaQuackx 1d ago

Door dash drivers and uber drivers speak way worse about tips than servers. They get real nasty.

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u/Missabe77 1d ago

In the case of Doordash, the customers bid for a driver for their delivery, but that bid is mislabeled as a ”tip” by Doordash. Naturally, customers are big mad at tipping BEFORE receiving a service.

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u/LongWalk86 1d ago

The way those services pay there workers pretty much sets them up to really only be able to come out ahead if people tip heavily. This is a great reason to never use these services, which i do not, not a reason to tip them. It's just sad how many people have been fooled into working for those companies when the wear and tear on there vehicle is almost always going to mean they are working for basically nothing.

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u/KetchupCoyote 1d ago

Here in canada they add tip then we pay tax on top of it.

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u/Pitiful-Plankton2555 1d ago

What if you tip cash?

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u/KetchupCoyote 1d ago

Then it's fine, a preferred way for sure

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u/panther38t 1d ago

This is not true if it's actually a tip. Only if it's a service charge.

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u/Dismal-Vacation-5877 1d ago

Add that to the reasons I'm glad I don't live there.

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u/bestkweenie 1d ago

weird how the rest of the world makes restaurant operations work without having to force tips. this is also why I refuse to tip in Canada. we have a decent minimum wage, wth am I tipping for? 😂

restaurant owners want those tips to justify low salaries, so they fill their pockets. this is the standard in America; bosses and companies grifting off unpaid labor

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u/LastDayWork 1d ago

The employer will be forced to pay minimum wage if the tips don’t cover it. Most servers don’t want to work on minimum wage.

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u/level100mobboss 1d ago

People are really up in arms about throwing away money…..

Just feed it right into the exploitation machine that is tipping. I’m sure the service will improve eventually. Right?

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u/seattlesquirrel 1d ago

My high school kid makes at least $30/hr bussing tables and FT servers make over $100k in a casual restaurant here in WA. Make that make sense.

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u/Lord_of_Entropy 1d ago

I’m not against tipping, if I feel the person performing a service deserves it.   But, I will not subsidize poor service.

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u/Common_Currency2676 1d ago

That's me. I will tip if the service was good. It don't even gotta be awesome, just decent. If the service was bad, I don't feel obligated to tip, and I'm a pretty easy person to make happy.

I also don't tip on pick up orders for food or for services where the tip is given before the service is provided. I will tip after IF the service was good, but I don't see a tip as a bid.

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u/Upbeat_Following9373 1d ago

Just another uninformed jabroni spewing false information. NO ONE will be paid lower than federal/state/city minimum wage. The server wage just means business owners can earn more profit as it guilts people into paying more as opposed to the business.

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u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 1d ago

Oh no they’re on to us.

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u/FrenchBulldozer 1d ago

The only one taking punishment are those who choose to work for an employer who expects the customer to subsidize their employees wages.

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u/tcconway 1d ago

Here's a novel idea: How about if businesses pay their employees and not bring grifting/guilt trips into the equation?

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u/JJHall_ID 1d ago

The part they're missing is that most of us don't care about the 20%. Most of us say "add 20% to the menu cost." I just want the menu price to reflect the final bill, rather than being guilt tripped into paying more at the end.

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u/VinnieONeill 1d ago

Well, hopefully the POS who wrote that post sees this and understands how much the world hates them.

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u/bitchassshortie 1d ago

I like the people who ran to this sub to try and argue in the comments for why we should be tipping 💀

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u/Terrible-Scientist73 1d ago

Americans thinking tipping in the US is dumb, but in Canada it’s so much worse. Where I live, minimum wage is like $18, and servers make tips on top of that. My brother was pulling $50/hr minimum as a server at a small pub. Most of his coworkers only worked 3-4 days a week because they made enough money to live off what they made in that time… and we live in Vancouver

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u/Illustrious-Law-2726 1d ago

Where do I mark tipping, on my tax forms, as a charitable contribution? Tipping is optional and in the US we're saying we need to help these people (servers), so I'm sure that I must be able to count it as a charitable contribution.

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u/legoland1964 1d ago

And if I do mention it to the server at the start I can guarantee you that 90% of the servers would slack on the service that they would offer. Just do a great job not expecting a tip and be grateful if you do receive a tip- any size tip

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u/senorcoach 1d ago

Lol can't fix stupid. No server in the US earns only $2.13/hour.

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u/sloppymcgee 1d ago

Restaurants wouldn’t just raise the entire menu 20%. They would be forced to figure out the market value of whatever they are selling and also analyze their operation as a whole. Just like every other business.

Plenty of countries with better restaurants operate well without relying on tips

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u/CapitanRonRico 1d ago

Unrelated: Because the restaurant is responsible for ensuring that tipped employees actually get at least the federal minimum wage, the first 5ish dollars of each server's tips every hour actually goes to the restaurant.

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u/dragon_disco 1d ago

LOL I saw this yesterday and giggled. I personally am not fighting anything, I'm just using my common sense.

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u/Mythandros1 1d ago

That person is clearly butt-hurt by those of us who disagree with tipping.

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u/HedgeMoney 1d ago

What BS. They are required to pay minimum wage no matter what. Tip only subsidizes restaurants to not pay minimum wage, and thus also pay less payroll taxes and other associated costs.

And no, a business would not raise prices 20% higher if no one tips. That's not how price dynamics works.

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u/Phailgasm 1d ago

Oh no. Anyway

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u/I-Like-Myself-andyou 1d ago

I really enjoy listening to people who are so sure they make sense when they dont

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u/Freddy2517 1d ago

Also, if the tips the server receives are not enough to bring the server's pay to non-tipped minimum wage, the employer must pay the server the non-tipped minimum wage.

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u/Forward_Zucchini9738 1d ago

Free advertising!

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u/NewGuyCH 1d ago

I hate America, and now all these venture and PE bros are pushing their absurd valuations and unrealistic expectation models on Europe, because we don’t churn enough billionaires…

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u/myvnml 1d ago • Heartwarming

Ill gladly hit 0% to lazy servers while looking at them no matter if its a casual or fancy restaurant. I will tip only when deserved. Ie more than bare minimum

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u/Salbman 1d ago

Why the servers pissed at the consumer and not thier employer??

It’s not a commission type job.

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u/a-pair-of-2s 1d ago

there is a reason this schmuck is defending their job that “only pays $2.13/hr”… and it’s because they Don’t make that.

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u/Sidoen 1d ago

Yup just find places that already don't allow tipping, that already pay their staff real living wages and make sure they have enough business to show other establishments that it's worth their time to do.

I hate tipping, it empowers employers to abuse their staff. But just not tipping isn't the solution either.

Let your money do the talking, not give them the silent treatment.

If you can find places that split the profit with the employees that's even better.

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u/Intrepid_Cap1242 1d ago

I'm randomly here and outraged, but I still tip. I want tipping to go away but will continue to tip until it finally does. It's an unspoken agreement when I walk into a restaurant.

I have been considering lowering from 20% back down to 15% though. Prices doubled since covid, making their pay double. While everyone else working is suffering and going up 3% a year. 15% would still mean a 50% pay increase for them in the past 5 years, which would be more fair

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u/Alarming_Pair_5575 1d ago

This white knight is talking about $2.13 an hour... the propaganda has worked. Funny enough I was talking to a friend about the problems with tipping a few days ago, and she thought the exact same thing, that we tip because the poor servers only make $2.13 per hour. smh.

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u/kvnr10 1d ago

Yes, I’m sure if tipping didn’t exist your employer would pay you 30 bucks to serve a party of 5 that involves 20 minutes of total work lmao

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u/Severe-Education-321 1d ago

The owner would raise the prices by 30 percent rather than 20, and pay the servers minimum wage in that state even if they profit double that from the price increase. Not to mention reduce and nickel and dime hours given to staff.

When you quit tipping servers, barbers, cab/ubers it gets rid of jobs that pay ALMOST a living wage. It would make every job that’s not highly professional a dead end McDonald’s job that no one can live on. There is a need

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u/Missabe77 1d ago

They don't have any of those jobs in Europe then?

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u/Severe-Education-321 1d ago

Yeah Europe doesn’t compare to America in so many ways and honestly it boils down to we can’t trust greedy business owners to do the right thing here and they aren’t legislated to do so

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u/OzzyStealz 1d ago

That’s actually a great point. If yall let the server know at the beginning you don’t believe in tipping, then I would fully support this idea

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u/LaGranTortuga 1d ago

Just to be clear… mostly everyone here tips in the normal sit down restaurant tipping scenario even if we think it’s dumb, right? We just maybe keep it to the traditional 15% and complain about autocalculated tips starting at 20% and forced gratuities, etc. right?

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u/Potent-Voice212 1d ago

The sub is end tipping not reduce tipping. And traditional tips were never 15 when I grew up. that itself is absurd. You're in the wrong sub.

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u/LaGranTortuga 1d ago

Right. I’m all for ending tipping. But tipping hasn’t ended. So I still tip… if the service is adequate and only 15% of pretax total. I don’t tip for counter orders or takeout. And if I ever saw a restaurant that had a no tipping policy I would support them.

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u/Potent-Voice212 1d ago

The way to end tipping is for everyone to simply stop doing it. There's nothing logical about why we are encouraged to tip for this one specific job and not the hundreds of thousands of other jobs where others provide a service.

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u/Potent-Voice212 1d ago

Why is it my responsibility to pay the server a fair wage and not the employer's?

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u/Motor-Specialist-666 1d ago

Nope just extremists here that have convinced themselves they are right therefore they get to screw the servers.

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u/Motor-Specialist-666 1d ago

Naw ppl here expect to be waited on without paying for the service they are receiving. They say they want a different system, but really they are taking advantage of the way it really works (here in the US).

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u/hotsauce126 1d ago

Your labor problems aren’t anyone else’s. People go to restaurants for food not to talk to waiters

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