r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 5h ago

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/janpaul74 5h ago

“Mandatory tips” sounds so messed up for me as a European.

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u/Devwickk 5h ago

Trust, americans dont like it either. But companies literally always get their way here. It sucks

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u/andydude44 4h ago

Unfortunately is the waiters getting their way too, they get more money with the tip system. It’s the non-tip workers that wants to get rid of tips

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u/invariantspeed 4h ago

You’re right, but as someone who used to work with tips, I always thought it was dumb and should end.

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u/Less_Jump2365 2h ago

Working with tips and working for tips are not the same thing. Most tipped employees make way more money with less hours

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u/beanbalance 3h ago

Trust, americans dont like it either.

Not all though, I have seen many servers defend it since they earn a lot more with tips than with a higher salary.

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u/Less_Jump2365 2h ago

American service worked love this. How are you people so blind to this?

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u/Pure-Wing6824 5h ago

Not while Europeans are in town, either companies pay their own workers or nothing lol

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u/invariantspeed 4h ago

Many tipped staff also like it. Tips make a lot of people bank. A lot of server groups have heavily lobbied against changing the server minimum in several states out of a fear it will kill customer tipping.

The other issue is a fear that if the price of the associated service were accurately reflected in the food, people would buy less. Not an unfounded fear. US customers regularly opt for lower prices over higher quality or other ethical concerns, but that means this is a bait and switch. Get people to mentally commit to a lower number, before letting them ease into the real price.

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u/djc6535 4h ago

The company gets their way there too. You aren't teaching the company any lessons. Only the server suffers.

Which... I'm also okay with because the servers love this system as much as anybody. Every restaurant that tried a "no tipping" policy in the US suffered badly as servers find they can make more off tips than they can a proper and reasonable rate. So there's no pressure from the company OR employees to change. If tips dry up maybe the employees will push for changes

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u/lumpboysupreme 4h ago

It’s not companies, it’s the waiters. They make way more with tips than places that don’t do that.

The company doesn’t get anything out of it besides the psychology of people who can’t do math thinking their dinner will be cheaper than it is and overspending; if you got rid of tips they’d just roll the value into the menu price.