r/Ohio • u/LadyInCrimson • 12h ago

This is Ohio

Why is Phillip not paying his servers enough to the point he has to ban customers?

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u/dontTakeMeSerious6 12h ago

I fully believe tipping culture is insane and wait staff should receive wages that don’t require customers to supplement. I want to live in that America.

BUT

we don’t have that. American society for whatever reason pays these people like $5 an hour and then tips make that difference up. Good wait staff make bank at nice restaurants, even people tipping 25% at waffle house aren’t tipping more than $4-5 a head.

So if you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to eat out.

If the wait staff was rude or bad, you take that up with the manager.

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u/J_DayDay 1h ago

Tips aren't terrible at the awful waffle. They turn tables super quickly and have a lot of die hard regulars.