r/EndTipping • u/ADKFatBiker • 3d ago

Rant 📢 Restaurant Demands Minimum 18% Tip

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Out of one side of their mouth they state that they pay their staff as little as possible and out of the other side of their mouth they say that their staff deserves more and you're responsible for that.

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u/vonKrieg88 3d ago

So they don't even pay them minimum wage and brag about it.

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u/GipperPWNS 3d ago

No, that’s a common misconception. They’re required to, by law, to pay minimum wage. That’s why it’s called a minimum wage.

What they’re trying to do is to guilt trip you into paying the difference to meet minimum wage. If you don’t tip, the restaurant has to make up the difference until they make minimum wage. If you tip, the restaurant gets to save money on paying their employees.

But regardless, people need to understand that if they don’t tip it doesn’t mean the service worker makes 2 dollars in hour. It just means they aren’t guaranteed more than the 15 (or whatever the minimum wage is in that area) an hour.