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[–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Having worked in food service, and having many friends who do, I don't know a single person who would rather keep tips. The majority have openly talked shit about tipping. Everyone I know hates tipping except the management that benefits from it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    I live in a very HCOL area and that probably has more to do with attitudes on tipping anything. Wait staff in this area can easily earn wages that are much, much higher than minimum wage with tips.

    For example, the state in the US I live in does not have a lower base pay for wait staff. They're making at minimum $17.13 an hour before tips.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    And that's why. For a lot of states they're making like $2.75 before tips.

    Plus, it's also very relative to what exactly you are doing. A decent bartender can pull like $200+ a night on a weekend in tips.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yep which complicates the conversation because all wait staff aren’t the same.

    So you have bartenders in big cities scoffing at the idea of eliminating tips while there’s waiters in small diners barely surviving on minimum wage.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Plus then there's the variance of the individual. If you're naturally good with people, you're likely to get tipped better. If you're a pretty young girl, you'll probably make decent money even if you're not good with people, etc.

    It's such a complicated situation to talk about.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Which is why I think tipping should be eliminated.

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  • Hard agree. It's a shitty practice with shitty origins that allows companies to pay incredibly low wages and justify it with the idea that the employees should make up the difference with a nebulous performance-based appeal to customers' sense of charity.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Holy fuck I've got a friend that will die on the hill that you (customer) should tip, and generously every time. Given his experience with it, I agree to a point, but only because he willingly chose to dig heels into that job for better or for worse. I do tip because I feel it's earned in most cases. I just don't agree with being over the top about it for sure. Part of that is his personality too... And the more I think about it; fuck that guy.

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