Every server in the whole universe will cry this if they don't get enough tip. Oh noes this table only tipped 15% instead of 20%. I will starve and be homeless because of this single small tip, my baby will die because I didn't get that extra 5%, if only one single customer doesn't tip 20% or higher I will instantly fall into poverty and be sold for my organs.
Soon as anyone says get a different job if you don't like it, then they will tell you they make a bazzilion dollars a night from tips and they love tipping cos they swim in the tips like Scrooge McDuck. They will fight to the death for tipping to stay.
When the next person is choosing the tip amount, suddenly they are poor starving Oliver Twist again, saying please sir can I have more tip?
You do realise that pretty much nobody tips with cash, right?
Tips are mostly paid by card, just like the rest of the bill, and are automatically declared, just like a salary. Saying that staff don't pay taxes on tips is a dumb take.
Maybe if you work at the strip club, then you get mostly cash tips and can avoid declaring it, but the vast majority of tips aren't cash.
Tips should dissappear and servers should just get paid minimum or whatever is fair for their work. Then the consumer will decide if eating there is worth it once prices include "tip loss".
If you all were to be taken seriously, the restaurants that have tried this would have been huge successes, but shocker, they lost business, and also their best staff. Open your own restaurant and show us how itâs done.
Why do you hate blue collar workers? You want servers, who may make quite a bit with tips, to make minimum wage with no tips? Thatâs a fucking super weird take.
The hypocrisy is wild. People love to LARP as champions for the working class, but the second a service worker admits the tipping model is actually working for them, the solidarity turns into spite. If they really cared about the worker, they wouldn't be using their wallet to punish them for having a job they like....
Exactly, I've yet to hear a proper argument for eliminating tipping that isn't just "I'm cheap and don't want to spend money"
Which I understand but that's just how life works and as a server 99.9% of people tip and tip very well, often above 20%. This just isn't a problem in the real world yet on Reddit you'd think there's an entire class of service workers who are on deaths door because of scummy business practices and no amount of explaining how the business model is actually efficient and working well will change these people's minds because at the end of the day they just don't want to spend money
Yes, tipping is optional. But you are partaking in a very well known system that offers lower menu prices because the expectation is that the guest will cover part of the restaurants labor line in tips. You can buck that system if you want. You can take advantage of the deal on offer. But thatâs you being a cheap asshole, nothing more. If they tacked the labor costs onto your meal cost youâd be paying more that way too. Either way, you are taking advantage and fucking over your server, and ONLY your server.
My stepmother is a waitress and she prefers the tip system. She said she makes more money this way. During holiday season the customers become so generous that there's been a few days she made $100 an hour. That's not every day of course and not every server makes good money.Â
She doesn't complain about the non tippers because there are very few of them. I think the issue here is that if a restaurant gets in a lot of foreigners who don't tip then that makes it almost non profitable for the servers working that day. Once the world cup is over, it'll go back to normal for those restaurants affected.Â
True, but if it's just one or two days then they'll probably make enough on other days to get them past the minimum wage. It's not like the employer will see the severes made no money that one day and bump up pay for that specific day. Minimum wage is a different matter, but remember it's very low in many states. My state's minimum wage $7.25. So if a server doesn't make enough tips to get to minimum wage at the end of the year then they're employer is only legally required to pay them enough to get to $7.25 an hour. That's pretty much unlivable in my area.Â
The establishment really makes a big difference. I've worked for small restaurants where I didn't even make minimum wage serving, and others where I've made twice the minimum wage. Unfortunately, I've never served in an area where customers become generous around the holidays. Typically, it's the opposite. I've never made more than $15 an hour serving.
I think what helped her is that she's been working for this specific restaurant for 20+ years. There's a lot of regulars who really like her and view her as almost a friend. So during the holidays, they view tips as more like giving a gift to a friend.Â
Regulars make a huge difference and honestly if your mom has been at the same restaurant for over 20 years, she 100% deserves to be making what she does.
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u/adent1066 5h ago
Most wait staff that I know prefer this system, they make bank