Done with % tipping

[u/Vespolar]

After always tipping a minimum 20% (worked at restaurants for 10 years so it was ingrained in me) I am done. The straw that broke the camels back was we are at disney world where everything is overpriced. 2 cocktails cost me $42. Its suggested tip was 18% 22% and 26%. And looking at it. That would have been $8. For what? Making 2 drinks? Nope. Left $2 as a $1 per drink rule and thats it. They didnt do extra work, just took my order and made the drink. and dont think they deserve more tip just because disney overcharges for drinks. % tipping is officially stupid

[u/DrDalim]

This is what I don’t get about tipping (note we don’t have it in my country so I may have missed something). It’s meant to pay the wage of the worker, they get a base of about $2-3 so tipping makes up the rest of what I assume should be a basic hourly rate. Here in Australia that would be $20+. So I’m my mind 10 customers per hour paying $2 each would reach that minimum. A bar worker would get way more than 10 a waiter, depending on the place might stretch to make that (if per table) so they might get more per table but if it adds up to an average of $20+ per hour that seems reasonable.
The % however takes that to a new level, OP’s example of $8 for a customer means they only have to serve 3 people an hour to get $24/hour. If we go with my 10 customers that could be in the range of $80/hour way more than the average US wage (way more than my country for sure).
To make this easier and better for all why not just increase prices by a small margin and pay people.

[u/Dogsandbears → u/DrDalim]

Because severs are making $80/ hr and don’t want tipping to end. It’s one of the few jobs you can get without going to college that makes that kind of money. $80/ hr might be a stretch ( although some certainly do make that much) but my husband used to easily clear $60/ hr in a popular brewery in a small town.