Crazy idea: pay them both more so the public doesn't have to

Abolish tipping. Living wages for all, no exceptions.

There's a separate level of unfairness here:

Right side is making $16-$25 per hour.

Left side has an hourly rate that's almost always less than minimum wage. This is allowed because of the assumed tip income.

Is this a USA-thing? In Europe tips are most usually split between front and back of the house.

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>:-(

I see the corollary to this as the actual injustice, i.e. “the dish was bad so you get a low tip”, because the server can’t control the quality of the cooking and yet depends on the tip, whereas the cook actually gets a full wage no matter what.

Every reputable place I ever served at had front of house tip out the service staff.

Can we leave these shit memes by people who've never worked in the food industry (but get butthurt social conventions suggest you tip) and the resulting awful cavalcade of tired, predictable responses back on reddit?

I don't get this meme. The phone has a back light and the book doesn't.

The jobs we tip and the jobs we don't really don't make a whole lot of sense, honestly.

Fifteen years ago, working master control at a small local television station, someone called in just furious that a baseball game their TV schedule said would be on was not on. It was a TV station, ads paid the bills, but the person felt really entitled to baseball over free over-the-air television. This wasn't the only time this happened, but this has always been the one I've remembered most vividly, because the guy was just so angry, like he'd had his whole day planned around this.

I remember thinking about tipping jobs at the time, and how I was earning federal minimum wage to do this relatively skilled job (edit: not saying waiting/chefing are unskilled), and people were harassing me because the wrong thing was on the TV. With all due respect, I was master control, I literally had the finalized schedule in front of me. Nobody was tipping me when the thing they wanted on TV was on. I mean, I didn't expect it since ads paid for everything, but the entitlement of some people for something they essentially didn't pay for was so weird to me, and made me think of the disparity.

Agreed. Tipping is stupid. Abolish it and charge what the service costs.

The restraunt my friends used to work at did tip pooling. The workers made sure the cooks and the hosts got paid what their work was worth and would work with servers whose sections were underperforming to see what they could do to close the gap. The cook friend I had in that group had dreams of being a chef and opening a restaraunt as a co-op

Correction: Left guy is the boss because most food service companies will (usually illegally) skim tips. Tipping culture is fucking awful.

Hm. I see what this is pointing at, but I find it odd that the guy in the shade has a phone, not a paper book. He doesn't need the light to begin with.

Cooking is long hours for low pay doing something you love. Serving is whoring yourself out for money. If the money isn't there I won't whore myself out but i can fall back on cooking at any time and it's hard thankless work, but we love it...