• @Nurse_Robot
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    13 days ago

    Fuck anon.

    Edit: and fuck your downvotes. If you’re not willing to make food yourself then tip your servers.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 days ago

      If you believe no tipping will leave waiters to starve with no money, that’s not true. The very reason they are so severely underpaid is that restaurants know they’ll get their income from tips.

      The less tips there are, the more your employer will have to pay you - in a form of salary that is way more predictable and reliable than tips.

      Customers, on their end, will know price in the menu is final, and they won’t add crazy extra just so that they won’t feel like worst people on Earth.

      In my country, tips do exist, but you are not expected to leave them by default and it’s totally fine and common not to. The result? Waiters get livable wage and can last a month without ever receiving a single tip (which they actually have, too, from time to time).

      • @[email protected]
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        -111 days ago

        In my country

        yeah this is how we know it’s okay to ignore the rest of your comment. really rich of you to preach virtue on the actions of alienated individuals under a system far more oppressive and antagonistic than your own. really makes a powerful argument.

      • The Assman
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        -213 days ago

        Pretty sure they’re only guaranteed minimum wage if they don’t receive tips. So yeah if you’re cool with your waiter making $7 per hour instead of $3, don’t tip.

        • @[email protected]
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          113 days ago

          Now you’re raising two different issues. The first is a truly abysmal minimum wage. The second is a lack of effort on the part of both the staff and the employer to negotiate an acceptable minimum wage, whether it includes tips or not, enabled by the reliance on tipping to provide an acceptable wage.

        • @[email protected]
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          013 days ago

          I’m not aware of how things are on the ground in the US; it’s more of a general perspective not tied to any specific country (which is my separate “meh” about strongly America-centric Lemmy, but it’s very tangential)

          But seeing people actually hit the absolute mandated minimum is indeed depressing. I might expect that waiter’s income with tips is normally greater than the federal minimum, so maybe there’s a chance not all waiters will agree to work for that, which should balance it a bit?