• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    the average wage with tips is like 20/hour, which is significantly more than minimum wage, and in some places more than double.

    hence why people who work in these jobs are against the removing of tipping, because they’d make less money.

    what’s hilarious is people on lemmy who probably have never worked as a server or bartender going on about tipping and restaurants like they know better than the people who work in them. because in their ignorant opinion they ‘know better’ than these folks.

    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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      19 hours ago

      Alternately: they could be paid a living wage with menu prices to support these higher wages. This allows for a more consistent (read: reliable) income. While I have not personally worked as a server, I know enough people who have. They have “good nights” and “bad nights.”

      Another affect of this is that it removes ambiguity regarding which places depend on tips and which don’t. This line has been muddied by places haphazardly adding tip prompts to their checkouts.

      There’s a theme here, and that theme is consistency.

      what’s hilarious is people on lemmy who probably have never worked as a server or bartender going on about tipping and restaurants like they know better than the people who work in them

      Consider that the comments on this are from the customer side. The increase in places asking for tips and inflation of “suggested” tip percentages hasn’t been helping.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        i consider that the comments are mostly from people outside the USA being whiny something exists here they don’t like or understand.

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          I consider you’d have to be a moron to think those of us who have worked in US restaurants would not see a problem with tipping culture.