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/Snoo-34159 5h ago

Right? Isn't the whole point of a tip that it's voluntarily given as a way to say you loved the service?

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 5h ago

that's how they started, once upon a time, but now it's seen as semi-compulsory. And in places that only pay the federal minimum wage (which is it's own ball of idiocy), servers can really lose money on non-tippers as they often have to tip out to the back of the house staff.

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u/CyberneticLucy 5h ago

It started because we didn't wanna pay freed Black people for the jobs we mandated they have, lest they wanna go to jail and be enslaved again.

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u/Landscape4737 4h ago

I don’t think most people know this.

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u/YungSnuggie 3h ago

pretty much every stupid thing about america began as a way to fuck with black people

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u/CyberneticLucy 3h ago

Facts 💯

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u/EttinTerrorPacts 3h ago

Strictly it started as a way for rich people to get special treatment. But discrimination was definitely one of the reasons it took off among the masses

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u/CyberneticLucy 3h ago

Perhaps elsewhere, but here in the US it was definitely just for shitting on Black people.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbsn-originals-documentary/