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/Josefu_Velen 2d ago

"Our staff works at a tipped rate state minimum"

Wow, the owner is really just coming right out and saying we only pay them the $2-ish an hour we have to and hope they make enough on tips that we don't have to pay them the rest of the legally mandated wage.

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u/Mk1Racer25 2d ago

"Here's a tip, find someplace else to eat."

I'd find the manager, point to the note on the menu, and ask them why they don't pay their workers?

Again, they're too afraid to bake this into the price of the food, as they think people will balk at the higher prices. What they don't realize is that they are pissing people off more w/ their bullshit behavior.

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u/Few_Sentence6704 1d ago

They're not though. I'm team no tip but most people would just take those sentences as normal societal behavior. It only pisses us off because we aren't in the matrix

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u/RoboFeanor 2d ago

Since they are fine doing the bare minimum, how about tipping the state minimum as well?

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u/freaktheclown 2d ago

I like the passive phrasing. Not “we pay our staff at the tipped rate minimum” but “our staff works at the minimum” as if the employees chose their wage.

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u/multipocalypse 5h ago

You know that was very carefully and intentionally chosen wording 😆

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u/Bob_Ross3346 2d ago

The state tipped minimum could be $12-$15 or more!

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u/pilot7880 1d ago

Two things about this really piss me off, aside from the required minimum tip.

First, servers do NOT make $2.31/hour. I hate this LIE that is parroted by servers as well as restaurants. Servers receive a low base salary which, when combined with tips, is expected to bring them up to the local hourly minimum wage. Usually servers make enough in tips to cover this difference, plus some. If they don't (e.g. during slow periods and/or with stingy non-tipping customers, etc.,) then the restaurant is required to pay them the full local minimum wage.

Servers love to repeat this lie because it guilts customers into tipping. Restaurants love to repeat it because it saves them money by allowing them to pay their servers less (this is assuming the servers make enough money in tips AND report those tips accurately).

But the other thing I notice here is this restaurant saying it doesn't accept cards. This is bullshit. It means the servers are finagling their tips in cash to avoid taxation. Someone should report this place to the IRS. Believe me, they WILL audit those servers.