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johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah, if you’re not tipping, you’re not fucking over the owner. You’re not railing against the tipping system. You’re just fucking over your server. Which makes you a dick.

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TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If everyone stopped tipping, the wait staff would demand more money, or leave. The owner would have to pay more to employees.

So yeah, not tipping is fucking over the waiter, unless everyone stopped tipping. Then that would fuck over the owner.

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- johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And then you would pay more for your meal, bringing it up to the same price as you paid before with the tip. Except probably the servers would make less money. People seem to overlook the fact that servers actually tend to make pretty good money in comparison to jobs with similar qualifications (although there’s a bunch of caveats on that).
  
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  - TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And then there would be fewer patrons because the higher price is not optional. Staff would be cut, and eventually the restaurant would downsize or close. Servers that make good money are the exception, and that is due to tips.
    
    If tips weren’t an issue. The meme would be irrelevant and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
    
    Let’s no go halfway; have customers pay the full salaries of all employees, including benefits. See how ridiculous that sounds.
    
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Contend6248@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If tipping is mandatory, it isn’t tipping anymore.

Enjoy what you get and get lost.

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- johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean, in a practical sense, tipping is not optional in the US, at least in the context of sit down restaurants with a server. This is pretty well understood by the vast majority of Americans no matter how loudly people on the internet complain about it.
  
  A lot of the noise as of late has been because as services like Square have become more common for POS payments, they default to including a tip screen. And so people are upset about the view that they’re being “forced” to give tips to types of jobs that have never traditionally been tipped (and apparently they’re too weak willed to just press “no tip”).
  
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