There are laws in place for service workers related to minimum wage. The employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t meet the rate for hours worked. It seems to me that’s not sufficient for the times.

Hypothetically, if everyone were to stop tipping in the U.S. would things be better or worse for workers? Would employers start paying workers more?

  • @[email protected]
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    -1310 months ago

    Considering I didn’t say that, not sure how it’s relevant to the topic.

    American service expectations are overinflated, and those expectations are propped up by tip culture. You can certainly change it, the change will just come with the bursting of the service-expectation bubble.

    • LanternEverywhere
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      1410 months ago

      What are you talking about? I’ve eaten at restaurants in other countries and the service has always been great.

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        -210 months ago

        Maybe by your standards, probably by mine, but I’m assuming we’re both fairly reasonable people. When you serve tens of thousands of people, you find out that there is a significant portion of the American public with unreasonable expectations of service. That’s the service expectation I’m talking about.

        • @Mr_Blott
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          That’s a societal problem, absolutely nothing to do with the tipping culture

          Try being a dick like that in another country and you’ll get turfed out the restaurant like the cunt you are

          This, by the way, is why yanks think Parisians are extra rude, because they’re extra rude to cunts lol