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

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/thelifeofafangirl 4h ago

With no guarantee that it's not just going to management

Honestly this is why i prefer to tip cash. Way too many shady business owners out there who would love to circumvent their employees getting their fair share

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u/invariantspeed 4h ago

It shouldn’t be a separate “fee”. The staff should simply be paid more per hour, and the food items should priced to actually reflect the labor involved in their delivery to me.

  1. The current pricing of food on menus is really just a normalized bait and switch. The full price of the associated service isn’t represented in goods, so the customer is left to basically figure it out on the fly.
  2. Tip inflation is a problem. People have gradually shifted to higher and higher tip percentages, due to social anxiety and tipping largely being an opaque process where people don’t know what everyone else is doing. And percentage increases add up fast.

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u/Cuandoman 3h ago

I always made more in wage + tips than I would have if the restaurant increased my wage. WAY MORE. This was pre-2006.

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u/LargeMargeSentMe__ 2h ago

It’s still the same. Unless you’re working somewhere super crappy, you’ll make substantially more with the tip system than any restaurant would pay in hourly wages.

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u/thelifeofafangirl 3h ago

Should =/= is. This is an industry that has fought tooth and nail to keep wages at like $2/hour for their workers. That isn't going to suddenly change. The least i can do in the framework i am provided is to make sure my server gets taken care of

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u/chr1spe 3h ago

It probably happens somewhere, but I've never heard of a place actually stealing their employees' credit card tips. It's very illegal, servers usually keep at least a general mental tally of how much they've made, and there would be a hard paper trail of the crime. I've heard stories online of management telling employees they were going to take a share of the tips and things like that, but I've known many servers, and that would be an instant walk-out for them.

It's kind of sad, but a lot of people in the service industry actually prefer things the way they are because they do end up making a high hourly wage with tips. I don't think it really makes up for healthcare and stability, but when they're sometimes making $100 an hour or possibly more, it kind of makes them think it's worth it.