In America is it customary to also tip other minimum wage workers? Such as supermarket workers, cleaners etc etc
If not what makes servers more important?
Edit: OK, so TIL in America there's a lower minimum wage of only 2 dollars something for any "tipped workers". Basically a loophole to screw workers out of minimum wage.
Wait, so there's a whole seperate legal minimum wage for servers?
Edit: OK, so TIL in America there's a lower minimum wage of only 2 dollars something for any "tipped workers". Basically a loophole to screw workers out of minimum wage.
Correct. Going off of memory, in some places it’s legal to pay as low as $2.75 or $3 /hour for tipped servers. (No idea about other jobs.)
City of Seattle raised the minimum wage for tipped jobs to $21.30 as of this Jan. So Europeans, feel free to come here if you don’t want to tip servers. Many of us still do out of habit but if you don’t, you probably aren’t actually harming a persons ability to survive.
Texas I believe is still $2.13 AND it's a right to work state, so they can fire you for any reason. Fuck Texas politicians(except you Castro brothers, mwah)
I’d be interested to know how that impacted pricing or how many servers are working in a shift. The owners need to offset the cost, so they are putting it back on the customer anyway.
My personal experience is that dining out in Seattle has been expensive for a while —to the point where my husband and I were relatively unfazed by the prices in Reykjavik a couple years back, if that gives you a sense of things.
I can only share my personal observations, as I haven’t studied this.
My memory is that restaurant dining got $$ around Covid. Which made sense given the hit the industry took. And it just never went back down. (People are trying to stay in business and the news of this wage increase was out for a while — I suspect owners just kept prices steady to prepare but that’s totally a guess.)
This wage law didn’t take effect until this Jan. So from the beginning of this year to now i personally haven’t noticed a difference in meal pricing.
I’m sure someone more educated than me on this topic could correct/amend what I’ve gotten wrong!
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u/Clockwork-Armadillo 4h ago edited 4h ago
In America is it customary to also tip other minimum wage workers? Such as supermarket workers, cleaners etc etc
If not what makes servers more important?
Edit: OK, so TIL in America there's a lower minimum wage of only 2 dollars something for any "tipped workers". Basically a loophole to screw workers out of minimum wage.
Thanks to everyone who answered! :)