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Americans are tipping less than they have in years
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I mean this is the better way to do it honestly. People generally tipping less means those positions basically pay less. The whole reason people work those jobs is because with good tips you can make some serious bank. Stop making bank, people will move elsewhere, can't hire servers because tips don't pay well enough? Then start paying them. If the alternative is everyone just stops tipping tomorrow then people would really be screwed, because they wouldn't have time to transition.
Sure it sucks they're getting paid less, but if the alternative is this "you better pay our workers so they can eat because we ain't gonna do it" then I'd say it's a pretty welcome change.
It's also not like the tip amount dropped to 5% or something. Prices have been going nuts lately, so the tips are probably about the same cash amount as they have been, which is just a smaller percent of the now larger bill.
It's not. The better way is for people who don't want to tip to stop going out to places or using services where tipping is customary. That way nobody is increasingly encouraged to perform labor for less than they're work is worth. If there are not enough customer's because of this then the businesses will change or perish. All of this anti-tipping sentiment leads me to believe is that if these customers were to trade places with the owners then they'd pay their laborer's just as little.
You negotiated what your labor is worth when you took the serving job; below minimum wage. Don’t like it? Go find a non tipped job that doesn’t rely on patrons subsidizing your wages.
What other industry relies on paying for something and then having to pay more after you’ve already paid the agreed upon price?
there are no "below minimum wage jobs". Minimum is minimum. If you don't tip, the employer has to pay the full minimum wage. If you end up with less than minimum wige, then you were stolen from by your employer. The proper response to which is to go to the authorities, which take this kind of thing quite seriously, not guilt tripping the clients
http://archive.today/J4ltA
https://www.reddit.com/r/restaurant/comments/1hr91nl/abolish_the_213_hourly_wage_for_servers_we_cant/
yeah those are both ignorant of the law. No, the job pays minimum wage. If you don't tip, the employer must.
Wage theft is what's going on. Which is a different problem. And if that is solved and minimum wage isn't enough, then that's a minimum wage problem. Which affects everyone. Servers aren't special. Neither require tipping.
You agree to tipping by using services and patronising businesses where tipping is customary. Let's not act like you don't understand this ahead of time. People only argue against tipping in these fields to this degree because they want to virtue signal as a cope for making waiters, bartenders, porters, delivery drivers, etc just as poor as they are. -Which is too poor to use or patronize these businesses in the first place.
--They could also simply be astroturfing to sow discord.
If you really care about the businesses paying their staff the full wages then you understand that either way the cost will still be passed onto the patrons, regardless, and the people that claim to be upset are arguing over a pedantic order of operations in the finances.
I do not agree but am forced into this crap system like shitty “healthcare” or Papa John’s pizza.
When all servers claim 100% of their tipped wages on their taxes then we’ll talk. Until then STFU. And this.
So I take it you see yourself as a guy in the top-hat? Customers encouraging other customers to betray workers by refusing to pay for services rendered is a perfect example of a class-traitor.